From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... causes.
12&12 p.53,
Step Four
Questions like these, more of which will come to mind easily in each individual case, will help turn up the root causes.
2.
... causes.
BB p.69,
How It Works
Then we have the voices who cry for sex and more sex; who bewail the institution
of marriage; who think
that most of the troubles of the race are traceable to sex causes.
3.
... causes.
Grapevine,
Preamble
AA is not allied with any sect, denomination, politics, organization or institution; does not wish
to engage in any controversy, neither endorses nor opposes any causes.
4.
... causes and
all connected with them suffered ...
12&12 p.170,
Tradition Eight
For this reason, some very
good causes and all connected with them suffered unjust criticism from A.A. groups.
5.
... causes and
conditions.
BB p.64,
How It Works
6.
... causes and
ideas fill a deep human ...
12&12 p.181,
Tradition Eleven
7.
... causes which
sometimes seem to be within ...
12&12 p.52,
Step Four
These stem from causes which
sometimes seem to be within us, and at other times to come from without.
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