From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... benefit.
12&12 p.96,
Step Eleven
To be sure, we feel it is something that might help us
to meet an occasional emergency, but at first many of us are apt to regard it as a somewhat mysterious skill of clergymen, from which we may hope to get a secondhand benefit.
2.
... benefit.
12&12 p.98,
Step Eleven
3.
... benefit.
BB xxviii(xxvi),
The Doctor's Opinion
Of course an alcoholic
ought to be freed from his
physical craving for liquor, and this often requires a definite hospital procedure, before psychological
measures can be of maximum benefit.
4.
... benefit of
contact with you who wrote ...
BB p.164,
A Vision For You
5.
... benefit of
talking to another person is ...
12&12 p.60,
Step Five
The benefit of talking to
another person is that we
can get his direct comment and counsel on our
situation, and there can be no doubt in our minds what that advice is.
6.
... benefit of
those experimentally inclined, I should ...
BB p.177,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
7.
... benefit others.
BB p.84,
Into Action
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