A Course In Miracles International
-AA Big Book, pg 94:
"It is important for him to realize that your attempt to pass this on to him plays a vital part in your own recovery. Actually, he may be helping you more than you are helping him."
 
A provision from the Big Book for Step Eight

ImageIf we haven't the will to do this, we ask until it comes. Remember it was agreed at the beginning we would go to any lengths for victory over alcohol.

So we clean house…, asking each morning in meditation that our Creator show us the way of patience, tolerance, kindliness and love. …The spiritual life is not a theory. We have to live it.p.83
 
Now we need more action, without which we find that "Faith without works is dead." …We have a list of all persons we have harmed and to whom we are willing to make amends. We made it when we took inventory. We subjected ourselves to a drastic self-appraisal. Now we go out to our fellows and repair the damage done in the past. We attempt to sweep away the debris which has accumulated out of our effort to live on self-will and run the show ourselves. If we haven't the will to do this, we ask until it comes. Remember it was agreed at the beginning we would go to any lengths for victory over alcohol.   p.76

Although these reparations take innumerable forms, there are some general principles which we find guiding. Reminding ourselves that we have decided to go to any lengths to find a spiritual experience, we ask that we be given strength and direction to do the right thing, no matter what the personal consequences may be.   p.79

 

 


  
 
   
 
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