From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
1.
... compulsions and
desires?
12&12 p.73,
Step Seven
How can we possibly summon the resolution and
the willingness to get
rid of such overwhelming compulsions
and desires?
2.
... compulsions of
self-preservation, duty, and love, it ...
12&12 p.151,
Tradition Five
Under these compulsions of self-preservation, duty, and love, it is not strange that our Society
has concluded that it has but one high mission -- to carry the A.A. message to those who don't know there's a
way out.
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