From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... break.
12&12 p.161,
Tradition Seven
2.
... break.
BB p.73,
Into Action
3.
... break anonymity
at the public level.
12&12 p.183,
Tradition Eleven
4.
... break he
ought to have.
12&12 p.168,
Tradition Eight
5.
... break his
anonymity at a public level, ...
12&12 p.158,
Tradition Six
But that wasn't the whole story, for in this case not only
was an A.A. member to break his anonymity at a public level, he was to link the name Alcoholics Anonymous
to this particular educational project in
the minds of millions.
6.
... break in,
we might recall, a little ...
12&12 p.100,
Step Eleven
When such thoughts break in, we might recall, a little ruefully, how much store we used to set by imagination as it tried
to create reality out of bottles.
7.
... break it.
12&12 p.22,
Step One
Our sponsors declared
that we were the victims of a mental obsession so subtly powerful that no amount of human willpower could break it.
8.
... break it,
once having lost their self-confidence, ...
BB xxviii(xxvi),
The Doctor's Opinion
These allergic types can
never safely use alcohol in any form at all; and once having formed the habit and found they cannot
break it, once having lost their self-confidence, their reliance upon things human, their problems pile up on them and become astonishingly difficult to solve.
9.
... break our
anonymity wide open.
12&12 p.185,
Tradition Twelve
Between these lines, it is
easy to read our fear that large numbers of incoming people might break our anonymity wide open.
10.
... break out
of their confinement, and miraculously ...
12&12 p.62,
Step Five
The dammed-up emotions of years break out of their confinement, and miraculously vanish as
soon as they are exposed.
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