Alcoholics Anonymous Pages 85-88

Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) Pages 84-85

• Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions - Page 83 to 87
• Alcoholics Anonymous "Big Book" - Page 77 and 83

• Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions - Page 77 to 82
• Alcoholics Anonymous "Big Book" - Page 79 and 83
• Michael Singer - The Untethered Soul, Living Untethered

• Twelve and Twelve - Page 72
• Divine Therapy & Addiction by Thomas Keating
• Alcoholics Anonymous - Page 76

Page 76 in the Big Book (Alcoholics Anonymous)

Page 64 and 108 in The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions

Page 28 in Drop the Rock...the ripple effect by Fred H.

We are promised a new attitude back in step 1 leading into step 2:

Page 25 - deep and effective spiritual experiences which have revolutionized our whole “attitude”... central fact which we could never do ourselves

Page 27 - ideas emotions and attitudes that were once the…”completely new set”...

Other mentions of attitude:

Page 55

1. Sweep away prejudice (intolerance)

2. Think honestly

3. Search diligently within yourself

Page 18

4. Sincere desire to be helpful - being helpful isn’t the same as having a sincere desire to be helpful

Page 19

5. Tolerance of other people’s shortcomings & viewpoints

6. Respect for others’ opinions

A New Pair of Glasses by Chuck C, Page 56

Pages 64 to 71 in Alcoholics Anonymous

Addition we spoke about in the 3rd column of adding HOW we are affected....getting deeper into the layers of the stories we tell.

• Self-esteem: I feel ____
• Pride: I think they think I ____
• Security: I need ____ to be okay
• Ambition: I want ______
• Personal relations: people should ______
• Sex relations: People should ______
• Pocketbook: I won’t have enough because _________

• There is a Solution - 26 - "Above all, he believed he had acquired such a profound knowledge of the inner workings of his mind..."
• There is a Solution - 27 - "Ideas, emotions, and attitudes which were once the guiding forces of the lives of these men..."
• There is a Solution - 25 - "We have found much of heaven and we have been rocketed into a fourth dimension of existence...." "Great Fact..." "He has commenced to accomplish those things for us which we could never do by ourselves."
• Appendix II Spiritual Experience - 567 - "Profound alteration in his reaction to life... tapped an unsuspected inner resource"
• We Agnostics - 45 - We had to find a power by which we could live... that's exactly what this book is about."
• We Agnostics - 53 - "Without knowing it, had we not been brought to where we stood by a certain kind of faith..." through 54 - "Did not these feelings, after all, determine the course of our existence?"
• We Agnostics - 55 - "Deep down in every man, woman, and child..."
• We Agnostics - 45 - Step 2 Meditation question: "Do I now believe or am I even willing to believe in a power greater than myself?"

Step One - Principle is Self-Honesty

• Doctor's Opinion: xxviii - we believe and so suggested a few years ago that action of alcohol never occurs in the average temperate drinker
• There is a Solution page 23 - Disease centers in the mind
• More About Alcoholism page 30 - "step one in recovery" ... "smashed"
• Doctor's Opinion xxx - all these have one symptom in common... sets them apart as a distinct entity
• More About Alcoholism (Jim) - page 35-37 - reasoning (mind) cannot hold me in check even if I know I'm alcoholic and don't want to drink
• More About Alcoholism (Fred) - page 39 - relapse could not happen after what he learned about himself, he was confident what he knew would keep him safe
• We Agnostics - Bedevilments - page 52 - unmanageability check for today
• Meditation question - derived from page 40 - can you control your thinking?