If you don’t have the faith, that God is everything, and without Him you have nothing (this is what the steps and the Bog Book teaches us) then you wil continue to hold on to your way, your thinking, and your ego, and you won’t get this. You will go back to you drama and chaos and live a life of futility and misery - ultimately getting dunk or blowing your brains out. This is not the fate that God wants for His child, He wants you to live, be happy, joyous and free, and experience all that He has made for you ioon this life.

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Good evening, everybody, this is the usual ________ night’s meeting of the _______ Men’s (and Women’s) Big Book Step Study Group and we will open the meeting in the usual manner with a moment of silence to do with as you wish.

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Living in the solution is the answer to all of your problems. Living in the Soltuion is simply doing the oposite of what you’ve been doing all of your life, living in the problem, suffering, obsessing, agonizing. Your reward for all of that unhealthy living was to have anxiety, anger and depression. Your reward for living in the solution is to have peace of mind, to feel healthy and vibrant, to be spiritually connected and wholly useful.

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Having no reservations or no lurking notions of any kind. The process that brings us to purpose of being free, the freedom from self, the bondage of self. The self is the selfish needs of a person living in fear, the fear of not getting what we want or what we think we need, a fear that a loving God won’t fulfill these needs if we were to have a faith that works in our life.

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The Noble Eightfold Path describes the way to the end of suffering, as it was laid out by Siddhartha Gautama. It is a practical guideline to ethical and mental development with the goal of freeing the individual from attachments and delusions; and it finally leads to understanding the truth about all things. Together with the Four Noble Truths it constitutes the gist of Buddhism.

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Buddhism taught similar characteristics and defines these qualities directly in the Four Noble Truths and within the Eightfold Path that it lays out the exact steps to take to “escape delussional thinking” and “corrective measures for attainment of a inner peace”.

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The very first step of Alcoholics Anonymous is the Amit Complete defeat. To admit that we are powerless over Alcohol and that are lives have become unmanagable.

Although we may be excellent and skilled at something like math, or building houses, but in eccense, job intailing these skill encompass much more than the basic skill on a daily basis. A daily basis for living. It would be foolhardy to assume that just cause I can building a house or swing a hammer, that I could run a construction company.

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Fear lays at the heart of every AA, in that they lived, breathed and consumed fear throughout their lives in every aspect of the word. Not having fear is impossible for an alcoholic because they do not believe they can survive without being false, and their falsehood begins within themselves. They do not trust themselves and therefore, do not trust anyone esle, and where there is no trust, in themselves as well as anyone esle, there can be no peace, ever. They fear everything and everyone one, to diffreeing degrees. Knowing this and knowing that any alcoholic can and will recover if they are willing, honest and open minded enough to follow the steps outlined in the Big Book, to best of their ability, and continue to enlarge upon their spiritual lives through the continual completion of steps 10, 11, and 12.

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Life will take on new meaning. To watch people recover, to see them help others, to watch loneliness vanish, to see a fellowship grow up about you, to have a host of friends — this is an experience you must not miss. We know you will not want to miss it. Frequent contact with newcomers and with each other is the bright spot of our lives.

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More than most people, the alcoholic leads a double life. He is very much the actor. To the outer world he presents his stage character. This is the one he likes his fellows to see. He wants to enjoy a certain reputation, but knows in his heart he doesn’t deserve it.

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