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		<title>Chapter 5, How it Works</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Next we launched out on a course of vigorous action, the first step of which is a personal housecleaning, which many of us had never attempted. Though our decision was a vital and crucial step, it could have little permanent effect unless at once followed by a strenuous effort to face, and to be rid [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=therecoveryblog.wordpress.com&blog=698497&post=87&subd=therecoveryblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[When we sincerely took such a position, all sorts of remarkable things followed. We had a new Employer. Being all powerful, He provided what we needed, if we kept close to Him and performed His work well. Established on such a footing we became less and less interested in ourselves, our little plans and designs. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=therecoveryblog.wordpress.com&blog=698497&post=86&subd=therecoveryblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2007 12:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Selfishness &#8211; self-centeredness! That, we think, is the root of our troubles. Driven by a hundred forms of fear, self-delusion, self-seeking, and self-pity, we step on the toes of our fellows and they retaliate. Sometimes they hurt us, seemingly without provocation, but we invariably find that at some time in the past we have made [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=therecoveryblog.wordpress.com&blog=698497&post=83&subd=therecoveryblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2007 05:37:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being convinced, we were at Step Three, which is that we decided to turn our will and our life over to God as we understood Him. Just what do we mean by that, and just what do we do?
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		<description><![CDATA[Rarely have we seen a person fail who has thoroughly followed our path. Those who do not recover are people who cannot or will not completely give themselves to this simple program, usually men and women who are constitutionally incapable of being honest with themselves. There are such unfortunates. They are not at fault; they [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=therecoveryblog.wordpress.com&blog=698497&post=80&subd=therecoveryblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We Agnostics</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our friend was a minister&#8217;s son. He attended church school, where he became rebellious at what he thought an overdose of religious education. For years thereafter he was dogged by trouble and frustration. Business failure, insanity, fatal illness, suicide &#8211; these calamities in his immediate family embittered and depressed him. Post-war disillusionment, ever more serious [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=therecoveryblog.wordpress.com&blog=698497&post=77&subd=therecoveryblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[That was natural, but let us think a little more closely. Without knowing it, had we not been brought to where we stood by a certain kind of faith? For did we not believe in our own reasoning? Did we not have confidence in our ability to think? What was that but a sort of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=therecoveryblog.wordpress.com&blog=698497&post=76&subd=therecoveryblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[But in most fields our generation has witnessed complete liberation of our thinking. Show any longshoreman a Sunday supplement describing a proposal to explore the moon by means of a rocket and he will say &#8220;I bet they do it &#8211; maybe not so long either.&#8221; Is not our age characterized by the ease with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=therecoveryblog.wordpress.com&blog=698497&post=75&subd=therecoveryblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are thousands of men and women, worldly indeed. They flatly declare that since they have come to believe in a Power greater than themselves, to take a certain attitude toward that Power, and to do certain simple things, there has been a revolutionary change in their way of living and thinking. In the face [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=therecoveryblog.wordpress.com&blog=698497&post=74&subd=therecoveryblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everybody nowadays, believes in scores of assumptions for which there is good evidence, but no perfect visual proof. And does not science demonstrate that visual proof is the weakest proof? It is being constantly revealed, as mankind studies the material world, that outward appearances are not inward reality at all. To illustrate:
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