From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... building an
arch through which we shall ...
BB p.75,
Into Action
Carefully reading the
first five proposals we ask if we have
omitted anything, for
we are building an arch through which we shall walk a free man at last.
2.
... building and
good living.
12&12 p.95,
Step Ten
Learning daily to spot, admit, and correct these flaws is the essence of character-building and good living.
3.
... building and
spiritual values had to come ...
12&12 p.71,
Step Seven
We had lacked the perspective to see that character-building and spiritual values had to come first, and that material satisfactions were not the purpose of living.
4.
... building as
something desirable in itself, something ...
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
Seldom did we look at character-building as something desirable in
itself, something we
would like to strive for whether our instinctual
needs were met or not.
5.
... building of
character.
12&12 p.65,
Step Six
6.
... building, so
that I got rapidly worse.
BB p.175,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
After three years of this, I wound up in the local hospital where they attempted to help me, but I
would get my friends to smuggle me a quart, or I
would steal the alcohol
about the building, so that I got rapidly worse.
7.
... building through
suffering might be all right ...
12&12 p.74,
Step Seven
Character-building through suffering might
be all right for saints,
but it certainly didn't appeal to us.
8.
... building was
lost in the dust of ...
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
But whenever we had to choose between character and comfort,
the character-building
was lost in the dust of our chase after what we thought was happiness.
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