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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
BUILT occurs
7 times
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1.
... built.
12&12 p.21,
Step One
2.
... built.(*)
BB p.47,
We Agnostics
3.
... built a fine-mesh fence right around A.A.
12&12 p.140,
Tradition Three
We
built a
fine-
mesh fence right around
A.A.
4.
... built anew on bedrock.
12&12 p.50,
Step Four
By now the
newcomer has
probably arrived at the
following conclusions: that his
character defects,
representing instincts gone astray, have been the
primary cause of his
drinking and his
failure
at
life; that
unless he is
now
willing to
work hard at the
elimination of
the
worst of these
defects, both
sobriety and
peace of
mind will still
elude him; that all the
faulty
foundation of his
life
will have to be
torn out and
built anew on
bedrock.
5.
... built around them.
BB p.107,
To Wives
Sometimes they were so
inaccessible that it
seemed as though a
great wall had been
built around them.
6.
... built through the years were swept away.
BB p.56,
We Agnostics
The
barriers he had
built
through the
years were
swept
away.
7.
... built, through which the light of reason ...
12&12 p.46,
Step Four
The
problem is to
help them
discover a
chink in the
walls their
ego has
built, through which the
light of
reason can
shine.
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