From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
1.
... calmly accept
impossible situations, seeking neither to ...
12&12 p.31,
Step Two
2.
... calmly accepted
our lot, then we found ...
12&12 p.122,
Step Twelve
When, with God's help, we calmly accepted our lot, then we found we could live at peace with ourselves and show others who still suffered the same fears that they could get over them, too.
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