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Now, the format for this next session is we have our speakers here, and I'm going to read a couple of paragraphs here out of the big

book and then they're going to discuss their impressions of that.

It's a workshop.

There is a solution.

Almost none of us like the self-searching, the leveling of our pride,

the confession of shortcomings, which the process requires for its successful consummation,

but we saw that it really worked in others, and we had come to believe in hopelessness and futility, and we had come to believe in hopelessness and futility

and we had come to believe in the hopelessness and futility of life

as we had been living it.

When therefore we were approached by those

in whom the problem had been solved,

there was nothing left for us

but to pick up the simple kit of spiritual tools laid at our feet.

We have found much of heaven, and we have been rocketed into a new dimension,

into a fourth dimension of existence, of which we had not even dreamed.

The great fact is just this and nothing less,

that we have had deep and effective spiritual experiences

which have revolutionized our whole attitude toward life,

toward our fellows, and toward God's universe.

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