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How To Listen To God: Overcoming Addiction Through Practice of Two-Way Prayer

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This book has helped me so much, I am able to live a simpler, yet more spiritually filled life. This book shows you how to get closer to God and live a better life in very simple steps. Very clear and right to the point. I wish everyone could read this book. The concepts are easy to grasp, but it takes a sincere effort to make the necessary changes. Well worth the read; it is a reference book for my life now.

Step 11 says, "Sought through Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out." AA's Basic Text is the primer - for the introductory "principles" course - Pages 86-88 provide helpful information. This book, "How to Listen to God" is for advanced, upper-division 12-step students interested in post-graduate work. It's also a fine tool for newcomers who have been introduced to the Alcoholics Anonymous book or other 12-step programs. Wally P provides a fine piece of work that gives great insights into the principles and practices of the Oxford Group, the people who helped Rowland Hazard, that certain American businessman Dr. Jung describes on p. 27 as practically hopeless, find a way to a vital spiritual experience (the solution for his alcoholism - and his other problems).

I have read a lot of books on spirituality. I've read a lot of books on how to live the life we're meant to live and the life we desire to live. Many have been insightful, many have been interesting. But few have been so amazingly simple and so amazingly deep at the same time. This is a MUST HAVE book. It is both extremely challenging and wonderfully liberating. This book will give anyone concrete hope and practical steps for getting free of compulsions, addictions, and obsessions. Putting it's principles into action will enrich one's relationships and provide a sense of meaning and purpose to one's life. I wholeheartedly recommend it.

This book is mind blowing can't believe it is not required for anyone working a twelve step program. Get ready to be transformed if you listen to GOD in the way the book instructs. Unbelievable read!!!

An easy read. This book gives some AA history but mainly focuses on the Oxford groups pamplet "How to listen to God". I am now using this method with my sponsees and I am seeing results in my life.
Though this is a great recovery book it is not limited to people in recovery.
A boon for anyone looking for a better conection to God.
Diana L

If anyone has ever questioned "how do I know God's will for me" this book will give you the answer.

Wally Paton has put together an informative and moving compilation of his own findings and the memories and actions of an early Oxford Group member, James Houck. I couldn't put it down. NEVER in 31 years of continued sobriety have I been so spell bound reading anything connected to AA history. Even after 3 decades and then some of sobriety this book taught me some new and refreshing ideas as to the greatest way of communing with God - TWO WAY PRAYER! I know it would not qualify to be AA conference approved literature so read it on your on. After all it is not disapproved either. Thank you Wally!!