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СКАЧАТЬ What Used to Baffle Us

       Reality Can Be Uncomfortable July 1971

       The Great Art of Living June 1975

       Got a Pain in Your Feelings?March 1950

       Step Ten: Up Close and Personal October 2007

       Four Years December 2010

       Scream! April 1975

       The Fire Has Gone Out September 1997

       Gimme Shelter March 2010

      Section Four

       More Will Be Revealed

       Change to Spare February 2007

       Recovery is a Wonderland July 2010

       Stuck in a Funk December 2010

       Carrying the Message — Life! June 1966

       Mail Call for AAs at Home and Abroad March 1949

       God Didn't Follow Orders July 1984

       Powerful Simplicity March 1984

      Section Five

       Rooms of Our Own

       Consider the Old-Timers June 1949

       Continuance October 1998

       Not On Fire March 2010

       AA for Two December 1960

       Meetings in the Bank June 2009

      Section Six

       Steps to Serenity

       Gratitude Turns the Key April 2010

       A Bend in Recovery Road January 1986

       What of the Last Half? October 1949

       Confessions of a Reluctant Newcomer (Excerpt) March 2003

       Step Three: From Sight to Insight March 2007

       Self-Acceptance June 1975

      Section Seven

       Finding Our Inner Adult

       A Measure of Growth December 1975

       How It Feels to Join AA Long Before You Have To November 1944

       Grow Up! June 1999

       When I Was 15 September 2010

       THE TWELVE STEPS

       THE TWELVE TRADITIONS

       About AA and AA Grapevine

The Next Frontier—

       Emotional Sobriety

      I think that many oldsters who have put our AA “booze cure” to severe but successful tests still find they often lack emotional sobriety. Perhaps they will be the spearhead for the next major development in AA—the development of much more real maturity and balance (which is to say, humility) in our relations with ourselves, with our fellows, and with God.

      Those adolescent urges that so many of us have for top approval, perfect security, and perfect romance—urges quite appropriate to age seventeen—prove to be an impossible way of life when we are at age forty-seven or fifty-seven.

      Since AA began, I've taken immense wallops in all these areas because of my failure to grow up, emotionally and spiritually. My God, how painful it is to keep demanding the impossible, and how very painful to discover finally, that all along we have had the cart before the horse! Then comes the final agony of seeing how awfully wrong we have been, but still finding ourselves unable to get off the emotional merry-go-round.

      How to translate a right mental conviction into a right emotional result, and so into easy, happy and good living—well, that's not only the neurotic's problem, it's the problem of life itself for all of us who have got to the point of real willingness to hew to right principles in all our affairs.

      Even then, as we hew away, peace and joy may still elude us. That's the place so many of us AA oldsters have come to. And it's a hell of a spot, literally. How shall our unconscious—from which so many of our fears, compulsions and phony aspirations still stream—be brought into line with what we actually believe, know and want! How to convince our dumb, raging and hidden “Mr. Hyde” becomes our main task.

      I've recently come to believe that this can be achieved. I believe so because I begin to see many benighted ones—folks like you and me—commencing to get results. Last autumn [several years back—ed.], СКАЧАТЬ