How Many Promises Are There?
1st Step Promise (Page 42)
* My alcoholic condition was relieved, as in fact it proved to be.
2nd Step Promises (Page 50)
* they found that a new power,
* peace,
* happiness, and
* sense of direction flowed into them.
4th Step Promises (Page 70)
* We have begun to learn tolerance,
* patience and
* good will toward all men, even our enemies, for
* we look on them as sick people.
* We have listed the people we have hurt by our conduct, and are willing to straighten out the past if we can.
5th Step Promises (Page 75)
* 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.
9th Step Promises (Page83),
* We will be amazed before we are halfway 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.
10th Step Promises (Page 84)
* 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.
* We react sanely and normally, and
* We will find that this has happened automatically.
* 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 feel as though we had been placed in a position of neutrality-safe and protected.
* 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.
* That is our experience.
* That is how we react so long as we keep in fit spiritual condition.
11th Step Promises (Page 86)
* We can employ our mental faculties with assurance
* God gave us brains to use.
* Our thought-life will be placed on a much higher plane
* Our thinking is cleared of wrong motives.
* We relax and take it easy.
* We don't struggle.
* We are often surprised how the right answers come
12th Step Promises (Page 132)
* We aren't a glum lot.
* We absolutely insist on enjoying life.
* nor do we carry the world's troubles on our shoulders.
* we think cheerfulness and laughter make for usefulness.
* we bust into merriment
* We have recovered, and
* have been given the power to help others.
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>>> If it makes sense - It ain't spiritual!
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