Hallo allemaal,

Omdat ik door de verschillende verhalen van forumleden toch wel benieuwd was naar het Big Book van de AA, en het niet wilde kopen of het bij de bieb wilde halen was de volgende link een uitkomst:

">http://www.aa.org/bigbookonline


Helaas alleen in het Engels, Frans of Spaans, maar voor eenieder die er meer over wil weten zonder het meteen te hoeven hebben (zoals ikzelf) een uitkomst.

Groet,
Twan

Harstikke goed Twan....

Ik heb het boek maar besteld, was in totaal 16,15 kwijt. En dat is mijn gezondheid echt wel waard.

Ferko

Alcoholics especially should be able to see that instinct run wild in

themselves is the underlying cause of their destructive drinking.

We have drunk to drown feelings of fear, frustration, and depression.

We have drunk to escape the guilt of passions, and then have drunk

again to make more passions possible.

The difficulty is that man thinks that he is the doer. But it is a mistake.

It is the Higher Power that does everything and man is the tool. If he

accepts that position, he is free from troubles. Otherwise he courts

them.



-- Ramana Maharshi

My usual automatic responses tie me down and inhibit me from exploring new

areas of growth. I ask and pray for a greater sense of inner freedom and that I

might reach the fresh and challenging possibilities that God wishes me to realize.





-- Sacred Space

For Today --



The A.A. members who sponsored me told me in the beginning

that I would not only find a way to live without having a drink,

but that I would find a way to live without wanting to drink,

if I would do these simple things.



-- FREEDOM FROM BONDAGE, Alcoholics Anonymous

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't.

It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.



-- James Gordon, M.D.

For Today -



The closest the book Alcoholics Anonymous comes to defining alcoholism

is "an illness which only a spiritual experience will conquer." That, for most

members of Alcoholics Anonymous, says enough about the nature of their

"disease." And over time, despite occasional excursions into seemingly more

promising understandings, most members of Alcoholics Anonymous seem to

come back to their Big Book for their ultimate answers to daily living and

especially to understanding themselves.



-- Alcoholics Anonymous and the Disease Concept of Alcoholism

For Today --



So I'm better off if I don't give advise, don't figure I know what's best, and just

accept life on life's terms, as it is today - especially my own life, as it actually is.



-- DOCTOR, ALCOHOLIC, ADDICT, Alcoholic Anonymous - 3rd edition

-- ACCEPTANCE WAS THE ANSWER , Alcoholic Anonymous - 4th edition

We are not obliged to like anyone; but we are under a binding obligation to

love everyone, love, or charity as the Bible calls it, meaning a vivid sense of

impersonal good will. This has nothing directly to do with the feelings, though

it is always followed, sooner or later, by a wonderful feeling of peace and

happiness.



-- Sermon on the Mount, Emmet Fox

For Today --



There could be no such thing as a self-powered cure. Too many of

us had tried this and had failed repeatedly. It was not that our logic,

motives or intents were wrong. Rather, our very ability to see the

problem clearly, and our wishes to change ourselves, were

themselves systematically distorted by the addiction. That part of

our mind which at least intermittently recognized our sickness was

itself not immune, and could not be solely relied upon to guide us to

health.



-- Step 2, The Augustine Fellowship, S.L.A.A.

For Today -



The ego is not an intellectual concept, but a state of feeling

- a feeling of importance - of being 'special'. Few people can

recognize this need to be special in themselves.



-- Dr. Henry Tiebout

Obsessions are repetitive thoughts which resemble worry and are

accompanied by anxiety. Compulsions are behavioral acts designed

to eliminate the obsessions. And sometimes if your mind becomes so

cluttered with obsessions, and your day so filled with compulsions,

life as you know becomes completely taken over by anxiety and

counterproductive rituals.



-- Abby Aronowitz

For Today --



In the stark recognition of our profound frailty, we experienced the need

to find a Power greater than ourselves - something that would be at least

one step ahead of our diseased intentions, and give us the consistent

guidance we could not provide for ourselves. The possibility of finding

some form of faith, based not on any specific conception of "God" but

rather on a need to find such a faith, was the beginning of spiritual healing.



-- Step 2, The Augustine Fellowship, S.L.A.A.

For Today --



Suddenly I realized what the matter was. My basic flaw had always

been dependence -- almost absolute dependence -- on people or

circumstances to supply me prestige, security, and the like. Failing

to get these things according to my perfectionist dreams and

specifications, I had fought for them. And when defeat came, so did

my depression.



-- Bill W., The Language Of The Heart, page 237

Via onderstaande link in het nederlands te bestellen:

http://www.aa-nederland.nl/index19.php

For Today --



Obviously, he decides to take a drink again some time before he

actually takes it. He starts thinking wrong before he actually embarks

on the course that leads to a slip. There is no reason to charge the slip

to alcoholic behavior or a second heart attack to cardiac behavior. The

alcoholic slip is not a symptom of a psychotic condition. There's nothing

screwy about it at all. The patient simply didn't follow directions.



-- SLIPS AND HUMAN NATURE, William Duncan Silkworth, M.D.

For Today --



When we saw others solve their problems by a simple reliance

upon the Spirit of the Universe, we had to stop doubting the

power of God. Our ideas did not work. But the God idea did.



-- Alcoholics Anonymous, page 52

For Today --



If you are as seriously alcoholic as we were, we believe there is no

middle-of-the-road solution. We were in a position where life was

becoming impossible, and if we had passed into the region from

which there is no return through human aid, we had but two

alternatives: One was to go on to the bitter end, blotting out the

consciousness of our intolerable situation as best we could;

and the other, to accept spiritual help.



-- Alcoholics Anonymous, pages 25

For Today --



When you are not sure about bringing up an issue with someone,

before you speak, ask yourself:



1 - Is it the truth?

2 - Is it kind?

3 - Is it necessary?



-- An Oxford Group practice



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Honesty without compassion is abuse.



-- The Rox



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May I have the wisdom to know the fine-line difference between

tact and dishonesty.



-- A Day at a time