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We admitted we were powerless over nothing, that we could manage our lives perfectly and those of anyone else who would allow us.
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Came to believe there was no power greater than ourselves and that the rest of the world was insane.
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Made a decision to have our loved ones and friends turn their lives over to our care, even thought they didn’t understand us.
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Made a searching moral and immoral inventory of everyone we knew.
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Admitted to the whole word the exact nature of everyone else’s wrongs.
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Were entirely ready to make everyone else stand up and do right.
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Demanded that others shape up or ship out.
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Made a list of all personal who had harmed us, and become willing to any lengths to get even with them all.
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Took direct revenge on such people, whenever possible, except when to do so would cost us our lives, or at the very least, a jail sentence.
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Continued to take inventory of others and when they were wrong promptly and repeatedly told them about it.
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Sought through complaining and nagging to improve our relationships with others, as we couldn’t understand why everyone wouldn’t always do things our way.
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Having had a complete emotional, physical and spiritual breakdown as a result of these stumbles, we tried to blame it on others and to get sympathy and pity in all our affairs.
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“I’m Slipping!!!”
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When I beginning to dislike AA conversation or company… |
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When I willfully stay away from meetings…. |
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When I’m beginning to take another person’s inventory instead of my own… |
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When I’m more afraid of being known as an AA member than as a drunk… |
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When I begin to remember the Good Times I had drinking and overlook the bad times… |
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When I condemn in others, that which I tolerate in Myself… |
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When I say I forgive but I don’t forget… |
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When I shrink from Self-Examination… |
SLIP = Sobriety Lost Its Priority
Misery is optional
I am
not what I ought to be.
I am not what I want to be.
I am not what I hope to be.
But still, I am not what I used to be.
And by the grace of God,
I am what I am..
John Newton
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