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This is indeed the kind of giving that actually demands nothing. He does not expect his brother sufferer to pay him, or even to love him. And then he discovers that by the divine paradox of this kind of giving he has found his own reward, whether his brother has yet received anything or not.
When working with a man and his family, you should take care not to participate in their quarrels. You may spoil your chance of being helpful if you do.
The way our “worthy” alcoholics have sometimes tried to judge the “less worthy” is, as we look back on it, rather comical. Imagine, if you can, one alcoholic judging another!
Our Twelfth Step-carrying the message-is the basic service that AA’s Fellowship gives; this is our principal aim and the main reason for our existence.
. . . we ask God for inspiration, an intuitive thought or a decision. We relax and take it easy. We don’t struggle.
Those of us who have come to make regular use of prayer would no more do without it than we would refuse air, food, or sunshine. And for the same reason. When we refuse air, light, or food, the body suffers. And when we turn away from meditation and prayer, we likewise deprive our minds, our emotions, and our intuitions of vitally needed support.
What we really have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition.
Almost without exception, alcoholics are tortured by loneliness. Even before our drinking got bad and people began to cut us off, nearly all of us suffered the feeling that we didn’t quite belong.