From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... activity.
BB p.172,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
After high school came four years in one of the best colleges in the country
where drinking seemed to
be a major extra-curricular activity.
2.
... activity, all
right, but unlike a beehive, ...
12&12 p.149,
Tradition Four
3.
... activity for
themselves, mother and children demand ...
BB p.131,
The Family Afterward
Instead of developing
new channels of activity for themselves, mother and children demand that he stay home and make up the deficiency.
4.
... activity in
approximately 150 countries, with an ...
BB p.162,
A Vision For You (Note)
There is A.A. activity in approximately 150 countries, with an estimated membership
of over two million.
5.
... activity of
the A.A. program."
BB p.569(571),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
I now conceive the psychiatrist's job to be
the task of breaking down the patient's inner resistance so that
which is inside him will flower, as under the activity of the A.A. program."
6.
... activity should
be balanced.
BB p.131,
The Family Afterward
Father will necessarily spend much time with other alcoholics, but this
activity should be balanced.
7.
... activity, we
may sink to such a ...
12&12 p.45,
Step Four
As we morbidly pursue
this melancholy activity, we may sink to such a point of despair that nothing but oblivion looks possible as a solution.
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