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