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


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1.
... confident.   12&12 p.137, Tradition Two
The speaker's voice grew more confident.

2.
... confident in our new way of life ...   12&12 p.85, Step Nine
As soon as we begin to feel confident in our new way of life and have begun, by our behavior and example, to convince those about us that we are indeed changing for the better, it is usually safe to talk in complete frankness with those who have been seriously affected, even those who may be only a little or not at all aware of what we have done to them.


3.
... confident it could not happen to me ...   BB p.40, More About Alcoholism   Go to page 40 in the Big Book
I rather appreciated your ideas about the subtle insanity which precedes the first drink, but I was confident it could not happen to me after what I had learned.

4.
... confident of this had we become that ...   12&12 p.146, Tradition Four
So confident of this had we become that the original statement of A.A. tradition carried this significant sentence: "Any two or three alcoholics gathered together for sobriety may call themselves an A.A. group provided that as a group they have no other affiliation."


5.
... confident, that it would be only a ...   BB p.40, More About Alcoholism   Go to page 40 in the Big Book
I felt I had every right to be self-confident, that it would be only a matter of exercising my will power and keeping on guard.

6.
... confident that we can maintain our sobriety.   12&12 p.83, Step Nine
There will be those who ought to be dealt with just as soon as we become reasonably confident that we can maintain our sobriety.


Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.  The A.A. Preamble, copyright © The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission.  Permission to reprint does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous or The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.

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