From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... awakening.
12&12 p.106,
Step Twelve
Our Twelfth Step also says that as a result of practicing all
the Steps, we have each found something called a spiritual awakening.
2.
... awakening about
which finally there was no ...
12&12 p.109,
Step Twelve
3.
... awakening" are
used many times in this ...
BB p.567(569),
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience
The terms "spiritual experience" and "spiritual awakening" are used many times in this book which, upon careful reading, shows that the personality change sufficient to bring about
recovery from alcoholism has manifested itself among us in many different forms.
4.
... awakening as
the result of these steps, ...
12&12 p.106,
Step Twelve
"Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these
steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs."
5.
... awakening as
the result of these steps, ...
BB p.60,
How It Works
12. Having had a spiritual
awakening as the result of
these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
6.
... awakening as
there are people who have ...
12&12 p.106,
Step Twelve
7.
... awakening let
us think about the twenty-four ...
BB p.86,
Into Action
8.
... awakening, the
most important meaning of it ...
12&12 p.106,
Step Twelve
When a man or a woman has a spiritual awakening, the
most important meaning
of it is that he has now become able to do, feel, and believe that which
he could not do before on his unaided strength and resources alone.
9.
... awakening'?" they
ask.
12&12 p.106,
Step Twelve
10.
... awakening to
face the hideous Four Horsemen ...
BB p.151,
A Vision For You
Momentarily we did -- then would come oblivion and the awful awakening to face the hideous Four Horsemen -- Terror, Bewilderment,
Frustration, Despair.
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