From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... aid.
BB p.62,
How It Works
2.
... aid.
BB p.128,
The Family Afterward
3.
... aid and
place what we have at ...
BB p.132,
The Family Afterward
When we see a man sinking into the mire that is
alcoholism, we give him
first aid and place what we have at his disposal.
4.
... aid, and
unless locked up, may die ...
BB p.24,
There Is A Solution
When this sort of thinking
is fully established
in an individual with alcoholic tendencies,
he has probably placed
himself beyond human aid, and unless locked up, may die or go permanently insane.
5.
... aid his
recovery.
12&12 p.153,
Tradition Five
Finally, he saw that I
wasn't attempting to change his religious views, that I wanted him to find the grace in his own religion that would aid his recovery.
6.
... aid others
to health.
BB p.153,
A Vision For You
In the chapter "Working
With Others" you gathered an idea of how we approach and aid others to health.
7.
... aid to
clear thinking and honest appraisal.
12&12 p.54,
Step Four
8.
... aid to
our survival.
12&12 p.74,
Step Seven
We may still have no very high opinion of humility as a
desirable personal virtue, but we do recognize it as a necessary aid to our survival.
9.
... aid, we
had but two alternatives: One ...
BB p.25,
There Is A Solution
We were in a position where life was becoming impossible, and if we had passed into the region from
which there is no return through human aid, we had but two alternatives: One was to
go on to the bitter end, blotting out the consciousness of
our intolerable situation as best we could;
and the other, to accept spiritual help.
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