Ways to Fail at Sobriety

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Those who do not recover
are people who cannot or will not
COMPLETELY give themselves to THIS simple program

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If we are not sorry,
and our conduct continues to harm others,
WE ARE QUITE SURE TO DRINK.

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If we skip this vital step, we may not overcome drinking.

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Time after time newcomers have tried to keep to themselves certain facts about their lives.
Trying to avoid this humbling experience,
they have turned to easier methods.
Almost invariably THEY GOT DRUNK.
Having persevered with the rest of the program, they wondered why they fell.
We think the reason is that they never completed their housecleaning.
They took inventory all right, but hung on to some of the worst items in stock.
They only THOUGHT they had lost their egoism and fear;
they only THOUGHT they had humbled themselves.
But they had not learned enough of humility, fearlessness and honesty,
in the sense we find it necessary,
until they told someone else ALL their life story.

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We MUST be ENTIRELY honest with somebody
if we expect to live long or happily in this world.

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Resentment is the "number one" offender.
It DESTROYS more alcoholics than anything else.
From it stem ALL forms of spiritual disease

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If we were to live, we HAD to be free of anger.
The grouch and the brainstorm were not for us.
They may be the dubious luxury of normal men,
but for alcoholics these things are poison.

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this business of resentment is infinitely grave.
We found that it is fatal.
For when harboring such feeling
we shut ourselves off from the sunlight of the Spirit.
The insanity of alcohol returns
and we drink again.
And with us, to drink is to die.

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Faith without works is dead

Chapter 5. HOW IT WORKS page 64
Though our decision was vital and crucial step,
IT COULD HAVE LITTLE PERMANENT EFFECT
unless AT ONCE followed by