From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... creative energy
that deeply influences our lives.
12&12 p.117,
Step Twelve
This mighty urge is the root of great human accomplishments, a creative energy that deeply influences our lives.
2.
... Creative Intelligence,
a Spirit of the Universe ...
BB p.46,
We Agnostics
As soon as we admitted the
possible existence of
a Creative Intelligence, a Spirit
of the Universe underlying the totality
of things, we began to be
possessed of a new sense of power and direction, provided we
took other simple steps.
3.
... Creative Intelligence,
right there our perverse streak ...
BB p.49,
We Agnostics
When, however, the perfectly logical assumption is suggested that underneath the material
world and life as we see it, there is an All Powerful, Guiding, Creative Intelligence, right there our perverse streak comes to the surface and we laboriously set out to convince ourselves it isn't so.
4.
... Creative Intelligence,
Universal Mind or Spirit of ...
BB p.12,
Bill's Story
I could go for such conceptions as Creative Intelligence, Universal Mind or Spirit of Nature but I resisted the thought of a
Czar of the Heavens,
however loving His sway
might be.
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