From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... blocked a
partnership relation with any one ...
12&12 p.53,
Step Four
2.
... blocked the
entry of God -- or, if ...
12&12 p.34,
Step Three
Like all the remaining Steps, Step Three calls for affirmative action, for
it is only by action that we can cut away the self-will which has always blocked the entry of God -- or, if you like, a Higher Power -- into our lives.
3.
... blocked you
off from Him.
BB p.71,
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