From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... built.
12&12 p.21,
Step One
Our admissions of personal powerlessness finally
turn out to be firm bedrock upon which happy and purposeful lives may be
built.
2.
... built.(*)
BB p.47,
We Agnostics
It has been repeatedly proven among us that upon this simple cornerstone a wonderfully effective
spiritual structure
can be built.(*)
3.
... built a
fine-mesh fence right around A.A.
12&12 p.140,
Tradition Three
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
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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