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From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)

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COMPULSION   occurs   3 times    (Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
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1.
... compulsion, and self-will, do we misuse this ...   12&12 p.117, Step Twelve
So our question will be this: How, by ignorance, compulsion, and self-will, do we misuse this gift for our own destruction?

2.
... compulsion, because hundreds may be suffering within ...   12&12 p.133, Tradition Two
He feels a spiritual and ethical compulsion, because hundreds may be suffering within reach of his help.

3.
... compulsion by the unaided will.   12&12 p.22, Step One
There was, they said, no such thing as the personal conquest of this compulsion by the unaided will.


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