2023-09-23 Sat 09.43am [[Alcoholics Anonymous 2001 (og 1944) - The Big Book, 4th Edition.pdf]] ![[Pasted image 20231015100917.png]] ![[Pasted image 20231015101010.png]] ![[Pasted image 20231015101129.png]] >%% >```annotation-json >{"created":"2023-10-13T04:32:16.640Z","updated":"2023-10-13T04:32:16.640Z","document":{"title":"Alcoholics Anonymous, Fourth Edition","link":[{"href":"urn:x-pdf:869b36175130fe03487cf6461012b7e7"},{"href":"vault:/z.Attachments/-Papers and books/Alcoholics Anonymous 2003 - Alcoholics Anonymous - The story of how many thousands of men and women have recovered from alcoholism.pdf"}],"documentFingerprint":"869b36175130fe03487cf6461012b7e7"},"uri":"vault:/z.Attachments/-Papers and books/Alcoholics Anonymous 2003 - Alcoholics Anonymous - The story of how many thousands of men and women have recovered from alcoholism.pdf","target":[{"source":"vault:/z.Attachments/-Papers and books/Alcoholics Anonymous 2003 - Alcoholics Anonymous - The story of how many thousands of men and women have recovered from alcoholism.pdf","selector":[{"type":"TextPositionSelector","start":12577,"end":12942},{"type":"TextQuoteSelector","exact":"his is the Foreword as it appeared in the first printing of the first edition in 1939. WE, OF Alcoholics Anonymous, are more than one hundred men and women who have recovered from a seemingly hopeless state of mind and body. To show other alcoholics precisely how we have recovered is the main purpose of this book. ","prefix":".”FOREWORD TO FIRST EDITION T","suffix":" For them, we hope these pa"}]}]} >``` >%% >*%%HIGHLIGHT%% ==his is the Foreword as it appeared in the first printing of the first edition in 1939. WE, OF Alcoholics Anonymous, are more than one hundred men and women who have recovered from a seemingly hopeless state of mind and body. To show other alcoholics precisely how we have recovered is the main purpose of this book.== * >%%LINK%%[[#^3b2gc3jtntf|show annotation]] >%%COMMENT%% > >%%TAGS%% > ^3b2gc3jtntf >%% >```annotation-json >{"created":"2023-10-13T04:32:43.649Z","updated":"2023-10-13T04:32:43.649Z","document":{"title":"Alcoholics Anonymous, Fourth Edition","link":[{"href":"urn:x-pdf:869b36175130fe03487cf6461012b7e7"},{"href":"vault:/z.Attachments/-Papers and books/Alcoholics Anonymous 2003 - Alcoholics Anonymous - The story of how many thousands of men and women have recovered from alcoholism.pdf"}],"documentFingerprint":"869b36175130fe03487cf6461012b7e7"},"uri":"vault:/z.Attachments/-Papers and books/Alcoholics Anonymous 2003 - Alcoholics Anonymous - The story of how many thousands of men and women have recovered from alcoholism.pdf","target":[{"source":"vault:/z.Attachments/-Papers and books/Alcoholics Anonymous 2003 - Alcoholics Anonymous - The story of how many thousands of men and women have recovered from alcoholism.pdf","selector":[{"type":"TextPositionSelector","start":13339,"end":13654},{"type":"TextQuoteSelector","exact":"It is important that we remain anonymous because we are too few, at present to handle the overwhelming number of personal appeals which may result from this publication. Being mostly business or professional folk, we could not well carry on our occupations in such an event","prefix":"has its advantages for all. ","suffix":". We would like it understoo"}]}]} >``` >%% >*%%HIGHLIGHT%% ==It is important that we remain anonymous because we are too few, at present to handle the overwhelming number of personal appeals which may result from this publication. Being mostly business or professional folk, we could not well carry on our occupations in such an event== * >%%LINK%%[[#^v9s177losnc|show annotation]] >%%COMMENT%% > >%%TAGS%% > ^v9s177losnc >%% >```annotation-json >{"created":"2023-10-13T04:33:07.632Z","updated":"2023-10-13T04:33:07.632Z","document":{"title":"Alcoholics Anonymous, Fourth Edition","link":[{"href":"urn:x-pdf:869b36175130fe03487cf6461012b7e7"},{"href":"vault:/z.Attachments/-Papers and books/Alcoholics Anonymous 2003 - Alcoholics Anonymous - The story of how many thousands of men and women have recovered from alcoholism.pdf"}],"documentFingerprint":"869b36175130fe03487cf6461012b7e7"},"uri":"vault:/z.Attachments/-Papers and books/Alcoholics Anonymous 2003 - Alcoholics Anonymous - The story of how many thousands of men and women have recovered from alcoholism.pdf","target":[{"source":"vault:/z.Attachments/-Papers and books/Alcoholics Anonymous 2003 - Alcoholics Anonymous - The story of how many thousands of men and women have recovered from alcoholism.pdf","selector":[{"type":"TextPositionSelector","start":14066,"end":14273},{"type":"TextQuoteSelector","exact":"We are not an organization in the conventional sense of the word. There are no fees or dues whatsoever. The only requirement for membership is an honest desire to stop drinking. ","prefix":"hall be greatly handicapped. ","suffix":"We are not allied with any "}]}]} >``` >%% >*%%HIGHLIGHT%% ==We are not an organization in the conventional sense of the word. There are no fees or dues whatsoever. The only requirement for membership is an honest desire to stop drinking.== * >%%LINK%%[[#^7hfo1e3k6yd|show annotation]] >%%COMMENT%% > >%%TAGS%% > ^7hfo1e3k6yd >%% >```annotation-json >{"created":"2023-10-13T04:34:51.943Z","updated":"2023-10-13T04:34:51.943Z","document":{"title":"Alcoholics Anonymous, Fourth Edition","link":[{"href":"urn:x-pdf:869b36175130fe03487cf6461012b7e7"},{"href":"vault:/z.Attachments/-Papers and books/Alcoholics Anonymous 2003 - Alcoholics Anonymous - The story of how many thousands of men and women have recovered from alcoholism.pdf"}],"documentFingerprint":"869b36175130fe03487cf6461012b7e7"},"uri":"vault:/z.Attachments/-Papers and books/Alcoholics Anonymous 2003 - Alcoholics Anonymous - The story of how many thousands of men and women have recovered from alcoholism.pdf","target":[{"source":"vault:/z.Attachments/-Papers and books/Alcoholics Anonymous 2003 - Alcoholics Anonymous - The story of how many thousands of men and women have recovered from alcoholism.pdf","selector":[{"type":"TextPositionSelector","start":16158,"end":16888},{"type":"TextQuoteSelector","exact":"The spark that was to flare into the first A.A. group was struck at Akron, Ohio, in June 1935, during a talk between a New York stockbroker and an Akron physician. Six months earlier, the broker had been relieved of his drink obsession by a sudden spiritual experience, following a meeting with an alcoholic friend who had been in contact with the Oxford Groups of that day. He had also been greatly helped by the late Dr. William D. Silkworth, a New York specialist in aicohotismn who is now accounted no less than a medical saint by A.A. members, and whose story of the early days of our Society appears in the next pages. ","prefix":" a much larger future ahead. ","suffix":" From this doctor, the broke"}]}]} >``` >%% >*%%HIGHLIGHT%% ==The spark that was to flare into the first A.A. group was struck at Akron, Ohio, in June 1935, during a talk between a New York stockbroker and an Akron physician. Six months earlier, the broker had been relieved of his drink obsession by a sudden spiritual experience, following a meeting with an alcoholic friend who had been in contact with the Oxford Groups of that day. He had also been greatly helped by the late Dr. William D. Silkworth, a New York specialist in aicohotismn who is now accounted no less than a medical saint by A.A. members, and whose story of the early days of our Society appears in the next pages.== * >%%LINK%%[[#^tli1x28vkf|show annotation]] >%%COMMENT%% > >%%TAGS%% > ^tli1x28vkf >%% >```annotation-json >{"created":"2023-10-13T04:36:07.775Z","updated":"2023-10-13T04:36:07.775Z","document":{"title":"Alcoholics Anonymous, Fourth Edition","link":[{"href":"urn:x-pdf:869b36175130fe03487cf6461012b7e7"},{"href":"vault:/z.Attachments/-Papers and books/Alcoholics Anonymous 2003 - Alcoholics Anonymous - The story of how many thousands of men and women have recovered from alcoholism.pdf"}],"documentFingerprint":"869b36175130fe03487cf6461012b7e7"},"uri":"vault:/z.Attachments/-Papers and books/Alcoholics Anonymous 2003 - Alcoholics Anonymous - The story of how many thousands of men and women have recovered from alcoholism.pdf","target":[{"source":"vault:/z.Attachments/-Papers and books/Alcoholics Anonymous 2003 - Alcoholics Anonymous - The story of how many thousands of men and women have recovered from alcoholism.pdf","selector":[{"type":"TextPositionSelector","start":17824,"end":18275},{"type":"TextQuoteSelector","exact":"This physician had repeatedly tried spiritual means to resolve his alcoholic dilemma but had failed. But when the broker gave him Dr. Silkworth’s description of alcoholism and its hopelessness, the physician began to pursue the spiritual remedy for his malady with a willingness he had never before been able to muster. He sobered, never to drink again up to the moment of his death in 1950.","prefix":" to be the Akron physician. ","suffix":" This seemed to prove that "}]}]} >``` >%% >*%%HIGHLIGHT%% ==This physician had repeatedly tried spiritual means to resolve his alcoholic dilemma but had failed. But when the broker gave him Dr. Silkworth’s description of alcoholism and its hopelessness, the physician began to pursue the spiritual remedy for his malady with a willingness he had never before been able to muster. He sobered, never to drink again up to the moment of his death in 1950.== * >%%LINK%%[[#^468v0iqdsti|show annotation]] >%%COMMENT%% > >%%TAGS%% > ^468v0iqdsti >%% >```annotation-json >{"created":"2023-10-13T04:38:15.699Z","updated":"2023-10-13T04:38:15.699Z","document":{"title":"Alcoholics Anonymous, Fourth Edition","link":[{"href":"urn:x-pdf:869b36175130fe03487cf6461012b7e7"},{"href":"vault:/z.Attachments/-Papers and books/Alcoholics Anonymous 2003 - Alcoholics Anonymous - The story of how many thousands of men and women have recovered from alcoholism.pdf"}],"documentFingerprint":"869b36175130fe03487cf6461012b7e7"},"uri":"vault:/z.Attachments/-Papers and books/Alcoholics Anonymous 2003 - Alcoholics Anonymous - The story of how many thousands of men and women have recovered from alcoholism.pdf","target":[{"source":"vault:/z.Attachments/-Papers and books/Alcoholics Anonymous 2003 - Alcoholics Anonymous - The story of how many thousands of men and women have recovered from alcoholism.pdf","selector":[{"type":"TextPositionSelector","start":21051,"end":21822},{"type":"TextQuoteSelector","exact":"In the spring of 1940, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. gave a dinner for many of his friends to which he invited A.A. members to tel their stories. News of this got on the world wires; inquiries poured in again and many people went to the bookstores to get the book “Alcoholics Anonymous.” By March 1941 the membership had shot up to 2,000. Then Jack Alexander wrote a feature article in the Saturday Evening Post and placed such a compelling picture of A.A. before the general public that alcoholics in need of help really deluged us. By the close of 1941, A.A. numbered 8,000 members. The mushrooming process was in full swing. A.A. had become a national institution. ","prefix":" on their way to recovery. ","suffix":"Our Society then entered a "}]}]} >``` >%% >*%%HIGHLIGHT%% ==In the spring of 1940, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. gave a dinner for many of his friends to which he invited A.A. members to tel their stories. News of this got on the world wires; inquiries poured in again and many people went to the bookstores to get the book “Alcoholics Anonymous.” By March 1941 the membership had shot up to 2,000. Then Jack Alexander wrote a feature article in the Saturday Evening Post and placed such a compelling picture of A.A. before the general public that alcoholics in need of help really deluged us. By the close of 1941, A.A. numbered 8,000 members. The mushrooming process was in full swing. A.A. had become a national institution.== * >%%LINK%%[[#^xi42yqvfi4|show annotation]] >%%COMMENT%% > >%%TAGS%% > ^xi42yqvfi4 >%% >```annotation-json >{"created":"2023-10-13T04:39:42.557Z","updated":"2023-10-13T04:39:42.557Z","document":{"title":"Alcoholics Anonymous, Fourth Edition","link":[{"href":"urn:x-pdf:869b36175130fe03487cf6461012b7e7"},{"href":"vault:/z.Attachments/-Papers and books/Alcoholics Anonymous 2003 - Alcoholics Anonymous - The story of how many thousands of men and women have recovered from alcoholism.pdf"}],"documentFingerprint":"869b36175130fe03487cf6461012b7e7"},"uri":"vault:/z.Attachments/-Papers and books/Alcoholics Anonymous 2003 - Alcoholics Anonymous - The story of how many thousands of men and women have recovered from alcoholism.pdf","target":[{"source":"vault:/z.Attachments/-Papers and books/Alcoholics Anonymous 2003 - Alcoholics Anonymous - The story of how many thousands of men and women have recovered from alcoholism.pdf","selector":[{"type":"TextPositionSelector","start":22767,"end":23544},{"type":"TextQuoteSelector","exact":"It was thought that no alcoholic man or woman could be excluded from our Society; that our leaders might serve but never govern; that each group was to be autonomous and there was to be no professional class of therapy. There were to be no fees or dues; our expenses were to be met by our own voluntary contributions. There was to be the least possible organization, even in our service centers. Our public relations were to be based upon attraction rather than promotion. It was decided that all members ought to be anonymous at the level of press, radio, TV and films. And in no circumstances should we give endorsements, make alliances, or enter public controversies. ","prefix":"e and function effectively. ","suffix":"This was the substance of A"}]}]} >``` >%% >*%%HIGHLIGHT%% ==It was thought that no alcoholic man or woman could be excluded from our Society; that our leaders might serve but never govern; that each group was to be autonomous and there was to be no professional class of therapy. There were to be no fees or dues; our expenses were to be met by our own voluntary contributions. There was to be the least possible organization, even in our service centers. Our public relations were to be based upon attraction rather than promotion. It was decided that all members ought to be anonymous at the level of press, radio, TV and films. And in no circumstances should we give endorsements, make alliances, or enter public controversies.== * >%%LINK%%[[#^kzga59jcmih|show annotation]] >%%COMMENT%% > >%%TAGS%% > ^kzga59jcmih >%% >```annotation-json >{"created":"2023-10-13T04:40:15.111Z","updated":"2023-10-13T04:40:15.111Z","document":{"title":"Alcoholics Anonymous, Fourth Edition","link":[{"href":"urn:x-pdf:869b36175130fe03487cf6461012b7e7"},{"href":"vault:/z.Attachments/-Papers and books/Alcoholics Anonymous 2003 - Alcoholics Anonymous - The story of how many thousands of men and women have recovered from alcoholism.pdf"}],"documentFingerprint":"869b36175130fe03487cf6461012b7e7"},"uri":"vault:/z.Attachments/-Papers and books/Alcoholics Anonymous 2003 - Alcoholics Anonymous - The story of how many thousands of men and women have recovered from alcoholism.pdf","target":[{"source":"vault:/z.Attachments/-Papers and books/Alcoholics Anonymous 2003 - Alcoholics Anonymous - The story of how many thousands of men and women have recovered from alcoholism.pdf","selector":[{"type":"TextPositionSelector","start":23544,"end":23883},{"type":"TextQuoteSelector","exact":"This was the substance of A.A.’s Twelve Traditions, which are stated in full on page 561 of this book. Though none of these principles had the force of rules or laws, they had become so widely accepted by 1950 that they were confirmed by our first International Conference held at Cleveland. ","prefix":"r enter public controversies. ","suffix":"Today the remarkable unity o"}]}]} >``` >%% >*%%HIGHLIGHT%% ==This was the substance of A.A.’s Twelve Traditions, which are stated in full on page 561 of this book. Though none of these principles had the force of rules or laws, they had become so widely accepted by 1950 that they were confirmed by our first International Conference held at Cleveland.== * >%%LINK%%[[#^8xejnhrb2g7|show annotation]] >%%COMMENT%% > >%%TAGS%% > ^8xejnhrb2g7 >%% >```annotation-json >{"created":"2023-10-13T04:41:56.972Z","updated":"2023-10-13T04:41:56.972Z","document":{"title":"Alcoholics Anonymous, Fourth Edition","link":[{"href":"urn:x-pdf:869b36175130fe03487cf6461012b7e7"},{"href":"vault:/z.Attachments/-Papers and books/Alcoholics Anonymous 2003 - Alcoholics Anonymous - The story of how many thousands of men and women have recovered from alcoholism.pdf"}],"documentFingerprint":"869b36175130fe03487cf6461012b7e7"},"uri":"vault:/z.Attachments/-Papers and books/Alcoholics Anonymous 2003 - Alcoholics Anonymous - The story of how many thousands of men and women have recovered from alcoholism.pdf","target":[{"source":"vault:/z.Attachments/-Papers and books/Alcoholics Anonymous 2003 - Alcoholics Anonymous - The story of how many thousands of men and women have recovered from alcoholism.pdf","selector":[{"type":"TextPositionSelector","start":26468,"end":26744},{"type":"TextQuoteSelector","exact":"FOREWORD TO THIRD EDITION BY March 1976, when this edition went to the printer, the total worldwide membership of Alcoholics Anonymous was conservatively estimated at more than 1,000,000, with almost 28,000 groups meeting in over 90 countries. ","prefix":"high road to a new freedom.","suffix":"Surveys of groups in the Un"}]}]} >``` >%% >*%%HIGHLIGHT%% ==FOREWORD TO THIRD EDITION BY March 1976, when this edition went to the printer, the total worldwide membership of Alcoholics Anonymous was conservatively estimated at more than 1,000,000, with almost 28,000 groups meeting in over 90 countries.== * >%%LINK%%[[#^m3iwa5owv2e|show annotation]] >%%COMMENT%% > >%%TAGS%% > ^m3iwa5owv2e >%% >```annotation-json >{"created":"2023-10-13T04:42:43.246Z","updated":"2023-10-13T04:42:43.246Z","document":{"title":"Alcoholics Anonymous, Fourth Edition","link":[{"href":"urn:x-pdf:869b36175130fe03487cf6461012b7e7"},{"href":"vault:/z.Attachments/-Papers and books/Alcoholics Anonymous 2003 - Alcoholics Anonymous - The story of how many thousands of men and women have recovered from alcoholism.pdf"}],"documentFingerprint":"869b36175130fe03487cf6461012b7e7"},"uri":"vault:/z.Attachments/-Papers and books/Alcoholics Anonymous 2003 - Alcoholics Anonymous - The story of how many thousands of men and women have recovered from alcoholism.pdf","target":[{"source":"vault:/z.Attachments/-Papers and books/Alcoholics Anonymous 2003 - Alcoholics Anonymous - The story of how many thousands of men and women have recovered from alcoholism.pdf","selector":[{"type":"TextPositionSelector","start":27962,"end":28375},{"type":"TextQuoteSelector","exact":"FOREWORD TO FOURTH EDITION THIS fourth edition of “Alcoholics Anonymous” came off press in November 2001, at the start of a new millennium. Since the third edition was published in 1976, worldwide membership of A.A. has just about doubled, to an estimated two million or more, with nearly 100,800 groups meeting in approximately 150 countries around the world. ","prefix":"perience, strength, and hope.","suffix":"Literature has played a majo"}]}]} >``` >%% >*%%HIGHLIGHT%% ==FOREWORD TO FOURTH EDITION THIS fourth edition of “Alcoholics Anonymous” came off press in November 2001, at the start of a new millennium. Since the third edition was published in 1976, worldwide membership of A.A. has just about doubled, to an estimated two million or more, with nearly 100,800 groups meeting in approximately 150 countries around the world.== * >%%LINK%%[[#^zweome4zana|show annotation]] >%%COMMENT%% > >%%TAGS%% > ^zweome4zana >%% >```annotation-json >{"created":"2023-10-13T04:43:19.396Z","updated":"2023-10-13T04:43:19.396Z","document":{"title":"Alcoholics Anonymous, Fourth Edition","link":[{"href":"urn:x-pdf:869b36175130fe03487cf6461012b7e7"},{"href":"vault:/z.Attachments/-Papers and books/Alcoholics Anonymous 2003 - Alcoholics Anonymous - The story of how many thousands of men and women have recovered from alcoholism.pdf"}],"documentFingerprint":"869b36175130fe03487cf6461012b7e7"},"uri":"vault:/z.Attachments/-Papers and books/Alcoholics Anonymous 2003 - Alcoholics Anonymous - The story of how many thousands of men and women have recovered from alcoholism.pdf","target":[{"source":"vault:/z.Attachments/-Papers and books/Alcoholics Anonymous 2003 - Alcoholics Anonymous - The story of how many thousands of men and women have recovered from alcoholism.pdf","selector":[{"type":"TextPositionSelector","start":28889,"end":29743},{"type":"TextQuoteSelector","exact":"s the message of recovery has reached larger numbers of people, it has also touched the lives of a vastly greater variety of suffering alcoholics. When the phrase “We are people who normally would not mix” (page 17 of this book) was written in 1939, it referred to a Fellowship composed largely of men (and a few women) with quite similar social, ethnic, and economic backgrounds. Like so much of A.A.’s basic text, those words have proved to be far more visionary than the founding members could ever have imagined. The stories added to this edition represent a membership whose characteristics—of age, gender, race, and culture—have widened and have deepened to encompass virtually everyone the first 1OO members could have hoped to reach. ","prefix":"into forty-three* languages. A","suffix":"While our literature has pre"}]}]} >``` >%% >*%%HIGHLIGHT%% ==s the message of recovery has reached larger numbers of people, it has also touched the lives of a vastly greater variety of suffering alcoholics. When the phrase “We are people who normally would not mix” (page 17 of this book) was written in 1939, it referred to a Fellowship composed largely of men (and a few women) with quite similar social, ethnic, and economic backgrounds. Like so much of A.A.’s basic text, those words have proved to be far more visionary than the founding members could ever have imagined. The stories added to this edition represent a membership whose characteristics—of age, gender, race, and culture—have widened and have deepened to encompass virtually everyone the first 1OO members could have hoped to reach.== * >%%LINK%%[[#^12yyg08mvtb|show annotation]] >%%COMMENT%% > >%%TAGS%% > ^12yyg08mvtb >%% >```annotation-json >{"created":"2023-10-13T04:48:56.066Z","updated":"2023-10-13T04:48:56.066Z","document":{"title":"Alcoholics Anonymous, Fourth Edition","link":[{"href":"urn:x-pdf:869b36175130fe03487cf6461012b7e7"},{"href":"vault:/z.Attachments/-Papers and books/Alcoholics Anonymous 2003 - Alcoholics Anonymous - The story of how many thousands of men and women have recovered from alcoholism.pdf"}],"documentFingerprint":"869b36175130fe03487cf6461012b7e7"},"uri":"vault:/z.Attachments/-Papers and books/Alcoholics Anonymous 2003 - Alcoholics Anonymous - The story of how many thousands of men and women have recovered from alcoholism.pdf","target":[{"source":"vault:/z.Attachments/-Papers and books/Alcoholics Anonymous 2003 - Alcoholics Anonymous - The story of how many thousands of men and women have recovered from alcoholism.pdf","selector":[{"type":"TextPositionSelector","start":36118,"end":36197},{"type":"TextQuoteSelector","exact":"hese allergic types can never safely use alcohol in any form at all;","prefix":" average temperate drinker. T","suffix":" and once having formed the "}]}]} >``` >%% >*%%HIGHLIGHT%% ==hese allergic types can never safely use alcohol in any form at all;== * >%%LINK%%[[#^xrwck0a27fd|show annotation]] >%%COMMENT%% > >%%TAGS%% > ^xrwck0a27fd >%% >```annotation-json >{"created":"2023-10-13T04:49:33.934Z","updated":"2023-10-13T04:49:33.934Z","document":{"title":"Alcoholics Anonymous, Fourth Edition","link":[{"href":"urn:x-pdf:869b36175130fe03487cf6461012b7e7"},{"href":"vault:/z.Attachments/-Papers and books/Alcoholics Anonymous 2003 - Alcoholics Anonymous - The story of how many thousands of men and women have recovered from alcoholism.pdf"}],"documentFingerprint":"869b36175130fe03487cf6461012b7e7"},"uri":"vault:/z.Attachments/-Papers and books/Alcoholics Anonymous 2003 - Alcoholics Anonymous - The story of how many thousands of men and women have recovered from alcoholism.pdf","target":[{"source":"vault:/z.Attachments/-Papers and books/Alcoholics Anonymous 2003 - Alcoholics Anonymous - The story of how many thousands of men and women have recovered from alcoholism.pdf","selector":[{"type":"TextPositionSelector","start":36444,"end":36733},{"type":"TextQuoteSelector","exact":"rothy emotional appeal seldom suffices. The message which can interest and hold these alcoholic people must have depth and weight. In nearly all cases, their ideals must be grounded in a power greater than themselves, if they are to re-create their ves.","prefix":"shingly difficult to solve. F","suffix":"If any feel that as psychia"}]}]} >``` >%% >*%%HIGHLIGHT%% ==rothy emotional appeal seldom suffices. The message which can interest and hold these alcoholic people must have depth and weight. In nearly all cases, their ideals must be grounded in a power greater than themselves, if they are to re-create their ves.== * >%%LINK%%[[#^oklvzlo5hhq|show annotation]] >%%COMMENT%% > >%%TAGS%% > ^oklvzlo5hhq >%% >```annotation-json >{"created":"2023-10-13T05:01:57.008Z","updated":"2023-10-13T05:01:57.008Z","document":{"title":"Alcoholics Anonymous, Fourth Edition","link":[{"href":"urn:x-pdf:869b36175130fe03487cf6461012b7e7"},{"href":"vault:/z.Attachments/-Papers and books/Alcoholics Anonymous 2003 - Alcoholics Anonymous - The story of how many thousands of men and women have recovered from alcoholism.pdf"}],"documentFingerprint":"869b36175130fe03487cf6461012b7e7"},"uri":"vault:/z.Attachments/-Papers and books/Alcoholics Anonymous 2003 - Alcoholics Anonymous - The story of how many thousands of men and women have recovered from alcoholism.pdf","target":[{"source":"vault:/z.Attachments/-Papers and books/Alcoholics Anonymous 2003 - Alcoholics Anonymous - The story of how many thousands of men and women have recovered from alcoholism.pdf","selector":[{"type":"TextPositionSelector","start":41420,"end":41907},{"type":"TextQuoteSelector","exact":"ll these, and many others, have one symptom in common: they cannot start drinking without developing the phenomenon of craving. This phenomenon, as we have suggested, may be the manifestation of an allergy which differentiates these eople, and sets them apart as a distinct entity. It has never been, by any treatment with which we are familiar, permanently eradicated. The only relief we have to suggest is entire abstinence. ","prefix":"intelligent, friendly people.A","suffix":"This immediately precipitates "}]}]} >``` >%% >*%%HIGHLIGHT%% ==ll these, and many others, have one symptom in common: they cannot start drinking without developing the phenomenon of craving. This phenomenon, as we have suggested, may be the manifestation of an allergy which differentiates these eople, and sets them apart as a distinct entity. It has never been, by any treatment with which we are familiar, permanently eradicated. The only relief we have to suggest is entire abstinence.== * >%%LINK%%[[#^12yqzkb53hp|show annotation]] >%%COMMENT%% > >%%TAGS%% > ^12yqzkb53hp >%% >```annotation-json >{"created":"2023-10-13T05:15:35.231Z","updated":"2023-10-13T05:15:35.231Z","document":{"title":"Alcoholics Anonymous, Fourth Edition","link":[{"href":"urn:x-pdf:869b36175130fe03487cf6461012b7e7"},{"href":"vault:/z.Attachments/-Papers and books/Alcoholics Anonymous 2003 - Alcoholics Anonymous - The story of how many thousands of men and women have recovered from alcoholism.pdf"}],"documentFingerprint":"869b36175130fe03487cf6461012b7e7"},"uri":"vault:/z.Attachments/-Papers and books/Alcoholics Anonymous 2003 - Alcoholics Anonymous - The story of how many thousands of men and women have recovered from alcoholism.pdf","target":[{"source":"vault:/z.Attachments/-Papers and books/Alcoholics Anonymous 2003 - Alcoholics Anonymous - The story of how many thousands of men and women have recovered from alcoholism.pdf","selector":[{"type":"TextPositionSelector","start":43373,"end":43791},{"type":"TextQuoteSelector","exact":"When I need a mental uplift, I often think of another case brought in by a physician prominent in New York. 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His alcoholic problem was so complex, and his depression so great, that we felt his only hope would be through what we then called “moral psychology,” and we Joubted if even that would have any effect. However, he did become “sold” on the ideas contained in this book. He has not had a drink fora great many years. I see him now and then and he is as fine a specimen of manhood as one could wish to meet. I earnestly advise every alcoholic to read this book through, and though perhaps he came to scoff, he may remain to pray. William D. Silkworth, M.D.","prefix":"cal rehabilitation, he had a","suffix":"Chapter 1 BILL’S STORY WAR FE"}]}]} >``` >%% >*%%HIGHLIGHT%% ==talk with me in which he frankly stated he thought the treatment a waste of effort, unless I could assure him, which no one ever had, that in the future he would have the “will power’ to resist the impulse to drink. 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It was fortunate, for my old business associates remained skeptical fora year and a half, during which I found little work. I was not too well at the time, and was plagued by waves of self-pity and resentment. This sometimes nearly drove me back to drink, but I soon found that when all other measures failed, work with another alcoholic would save the day. Many times I have gone to my old hospital in despair. On talking to a man there, I would be amazingly lifted up and set on my feet. It is a design for living that works in rough going. ","prefix":"h us it is just like that.","suffix":"We commenced to make many f"}]}]} >``` >%% >*%%HIGHLIGHT%% ==My wife and I abandoned ourselves with enthusiasm to the idea of helping other alcoholics to a solution of their problems. It was fortunate, for my old business associates remained skeptical fora year and a half, during which I found little work. I was not too well at the time, and was plagued by waves of self-pity and resentment. This sometimes nearly drove me back to drink, but I soon found that when all other measures failed, work with another alcoholic would save the day. Many times I have gone to my old hospital in despair. On talking to a man there, I would be amazingly lifted up and set on my feet. 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