i am blessed today with the hard-won understandin that i no longer have to navigate the ravages of my alcoholism in solitary confinement. through the interventions of my HP, i have been ushered into a fellowship in which a tremendous fact has become unmistakably clear: i have discovered a common solution, a way out upon...
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the twelve spiritual principles of this thing we do, possess a balanced architecture so exactin that when i submit to them as i perceive my HPs will would have me, without reservation, the promises dispersed throughout the big book begin to manifest with an interior force that reorders my entire sensibility. their structure draws me...
workin and livin toward practicin the spiritual principles in all my affairs has demanded a sustained inward discipline, for ive learned that the truest measure of my recovery is revealed not in what i say in the rooms but in how i conduct myself when only my conscience and my HP observe me. what once...
in the days of doin my dirt i conceived love as a purely material acquisition, a commodity to be extracted rather than a virtue to be enacted. this thing we do dismantled that delusion and, through Service and surrender to my HP, revealed that authentic love arises only when self-interest is relinquished. when i began...
witnessin this thing we do reshape the lives of others has become one of the most meaningful experiences of my own spiritual growth and experience. seein others rise from the most fractured physical, mental, spiritual, and emotional states has shown me, with unmistakable clarity, the quiet but persistent movement of a HP. their transformations, sometimes...
in the days of doin my dirt, my ambitions operated as distorted substitutes for purpose, constructed from ego, fear, and an unrelentin need for approval. even when i achieved what i thought i wanted, the victory disintegrated almost immediately, revealin how little substance existed beneath my self-directed strivin. only after comin into this thing we...
as i grow spiritually movin forward through my recovery today, i get to perceive an interior equilibrium that emerges from a depth within i once believed inaccessible. i understand this spiritual experience is not contingent upon the shiftin temperaments of the external world but upon a steady inward orientation shaped by Service and the continual...
the spiritual awakenin that has unfolded throughout my recovery has revealed dimensions of existence i once believed inaccessible. in the days of doin my dirt, life felt remote, as though i inhabited it without any real participation, merely endurin its weight rather than engagin its substance. today, even though life remains an enigma shrouded in...
i have come to understand that the mere accumulation of knowledge, however intellectually satisfyin, possesses no real efficacy unless i translate that understandin into purposeful and sustained action. my earlier attempts to rely on insight alone, without embodyin it, proved barren, exposin how easily awareness can masquerade as growth. meaningful transformation began only when i...
the sensory system of Service in my recovery has evolved into a disciplined, almost ascetic practice through which i engage the directive to carry the message through my story to alcoholics and to embody these principles in all my affairs. when i disclose the trajectory of my own reconstruction, shaped by sustained surrender to my...