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[PROMISES OF STEP TWO]
Big Book page #25
• There is a solution.
• We have found much of heaven and we have been rocketed into a fourth dimension
of existence of which we had not even dreamed.
• The great fact is just this, and nothing less: That we have had deep and
effective spiritual experiences which have revolutionized our whole attitude
toward life, toward our fellows and toward God's universe.
• The central fact of our lives today is the absolute certainty that our Creator
has entered into our hearts and lives in a way which is indeed miraculous.
• He has commenced to accomplish those things for us which we could never do by
ourselves.
Big Book page #28:
• A new life has been given us or, if you prefer, "a
design for living" that really works.
• We found that God does not make too hard terms with those who seek Him.
• To us, the Realm of Spirit is broad, roomy, all inclusive; never exclusive or
forbidding to those who earnestly seek. It is open, we believe, to all
men.
Big Book page #47:
• As soon as a man can say that he does believe, or is
willing to believe, we emphatically assure him that he is on his way.
• It has been repeatedly proven among us that upon this simple cornerstone a
wonderfully effective spiritual structure can be built.
Big Book page #50:
• In the face of collapse and despair, in the face of the
total failure of their human resources, they found that a new power, peace,
happiness, and sense of direction flowed into them.
Big Book page #55:
• Sometimes we had to search fearlessly, but He was there.
He was as much a fact as we were. We found the Great Reality deep down within
us.
Big Book page #57:
• Even so has God restored us all to our right minds.
• But He has come to all who have honestly sought Him.
• When we drew near to Him He disclosed Himself to us!
[PROMISES OF STEP THREE]
Big Book page #63.
• More and more we became interested in seeing what we
could contribute to life.
• As we felt new power flow in, as we enjoyed peace of mind, as we discovered we
could face life successfully, as we became conscious of His presence, we began
to lose our fear of today, tomorrow or the hereafter.
• We were reborn.
• an effect, sometimes a very great one, was felt at once.
Big Book page #68.
• At once, we commence to outgrow fear.
Big Book page #70.
• We have begun to learn tolerance, patience and good will
toward all men, even our enemies, for we look on the them as sick people.
[PROMISES OF STEP FIVE]
Big Book page #75:
• Once we have taken this step, withholding nothing, we
are delighted.
• We can look the world in the eye.
• We can be alone at perfect peace and ease.
• Our fears fall from us.
• We begin to feel the nearness of our Creator.
• We may have had certain spiritual beliefs, but now we begin to have a
spiritual experience.
• The feeling that the drink problem has disappeared will often come strongly.
• We feel we are on the Broad Highway, walking hand in hand with the Spirit of
the Universe.
[PROMISES OF STEP EIGHT]
Big Book page #78:
• If our manner is calm, frank, and open, we will be
gratified with the result.
• Rarely do we fail to make satisfactory progress..
[ PROMISES OF STEP NINE]
(The famous ones)
Big Book page #83-84:
• If we are painstaking about this phase of our
development, we will be amazed before we are half way through.
• We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness.
• We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it.
• We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know peace.
• No matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see how our experience
can benefit others.
• That feeling of uselessness and self-pity will disappear.
• We will lose interest in selfish things and gain interest in our fellows.
• Self-seeking will slip away.
• Our whole attitude and outlook upon life will change.
• Fear of people and of economic insecurity will leave us.
• We will intuitively know how to handle situations which used to baffle us.
• We will suddenly realize that God is doing for us what we could not do for
ourselves.
• Are these extravagant promises? We think not.
• They are being fulfilled among us-sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly.
• They will always materialize if we work for them.
[PROMISES OF STEP TEN]
Big Book page #84
• And we have ceased fighting anything or anyone -even
alcohol.
• For by this time sanity will have returned.
• We will seldom be interested in liquor.
• If tempted, we recoil from it as from a hot flame.
Big Book page #84-85
• We react sanely and normally, and we will find that this
has happened automatically.
Big Book page #85
• We will see that our new attitude toward liquor has been
given us without any thought or effort on our part. It just comes! That is the
miracle of it.
• We are not fighting it, neither are we avoiding temptation.
• We have not even sworn off. Instead, the problem has been removed. It does not
exist for us.
• We are neither cocky nor are we afraid.
[PROMISES OF STEP ELEVEN]
Big Book page #86:
• we can employ our mental faculties with assurance, for
after all God gave us brains to use.
• Our thought-life will be placed on a much higher plane when our thinking is
cleared of wrong motives.
Big Book page #87 :
• What used to be the hunch or the occasional inspiration
gradually becomes a working part of the mind.
• Nevertheless, we find that our thinking will, as time passes, be more and more
on the plane of inspiration. We come to rely upon it.
Big Book page #87-88 :
• We constantly remind ourselves we are no longer running
the show, humbly saying to ourselves many times each day "Thy will be done."
We are then in much less danger of excitement, fear, anger, worry, self-pity, or
foolish decisions.
• We become much more efficient.
• We do not tire so easily, for we are not burning up energy foolishly as
we did when we were trying to arrange life to suit ourselves.
[PROMISES OF STEP TWELVE]
Big Book page #89 :
• You can help when no one else can.
• You can secure their confidence when others fail.
• Life will take on new meaning.
Big Book page #100 :
• When we look back, we realize that the things which came
to us when we put ourselves in God's hands were better than anything we could
have planned.
• Follow the dictates of a Higher Power and you will presently live in a new and
wonderful world, no matter what your present circumstances!
• Assuming we are spiritually fit, we can do all sorts of things alcoholics are
not supposed to do.
Big Book page #102 :
• God will keep you unharmed.
Big Book with an open heart and mind.
with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.
