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“Power great- er than ourselves.” We must eliminate them if we are to have a spiritual awakening:2-57 (page 66, para. 1, lines 1-10)

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(page 64, para. 3, lines 1-3 and 6-9)
“Resentment is the number one offender. It destroys more alcoholics than anything else. From it stem all forms of spiritual disease, . . .
. . . In dealing with resentments, we set them on paper. We listed people, institutions or principles with whom we were angry.”
(A.A., p. 64, para. 3, lines 1-3, In the first paragraph on page 66, the authors emphasize that our resentments keep us separated from the “Power great-
er than ourselves.”
We must eliminate them if we are to have a spiritual awakening:
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(page 66, para. 1, lines 1-10)
“It is plain that a life which includes deep resentment
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leads only to futility and unhappiness. To the precise extent that we permit these, do we squander the hours that might have been worthwhile. But with the alcoholic, whose hope is the maintenance and growth of a spiritual experience, this business of resentment is infinitely grave. We found that it is fatal. For when harboring such feelings we shut ourselves off from the sunlight of the Spirit. The insanity of alcohol returns and we drink again. And with us, to drink is to die.”
(A.A., p. 66, para. 1, lines Then, in the second paragraph on page 67, the authors instruct us to look at our part in each situation to see if we need to make amends:

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