From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... daily.
12&12 p.64,
Step Six
2.
... daily basis
of living.
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
We never thought of making honesty, tolerance, and true love of man and God the daily basis of living.
3.
... daily discussion
without rancor or bias.
BB p.134,
The Family Afterward
When this happens, they can be invited to join in morning meditation and
then they can take part in the
daily discussion without rancor or bias.
4.
... daily lives
so that we and those ...
12&12 p.106,
Step Twelve
Here we begin to practice all Twelve Steps of the program in our
daily lives so that we and those about us may find emotional sobriety.
5.
... daily living,
and we keenly realized that ...
12&12 p.108,
Step Twelve
By this time, at Step Ten, we had begun to get a basis for daily living, and we keenly realized that we
would need to continue taking personal inventory, and that when we were in the wrong we ought to admit it promptly.
6.
... daily living
is still out of reach.
12&12 p.43,
Step Four
Without a searching
and fearless moral inventory, most of us have found that the faith which really works in daily living is still out of reach.
7.
... daily living
with us as practicing alcoholics ...
12&12 p.81,
Step Eight
Such a roster of harms done others -- the kind that make daily living with us as practicing alcoholics
difficult and often unbearable -- could be extended almost indefinitely.
8.
... daily needs,
and our most desperate ones, ...
12&12 p.36,
Step Three
Silently and surely, electricity, that strange energy so few people understand, meets our simplest daily needs, and our most desperate ones, too.
9.
... daily reprieve
contingent on the maintenance of ...
BB p.85,
Into Action
10.
... daily see
such members render prodigies of ...
12&12 p.120,
Step Twelve
11.
... daily to
spot, admit, and correct these ...
12&12 p.95,
Step Ten
Learning daily to spot, admit, and correct these flaws is the essence of character-building and good living.
12.
... daily ups
and downs, especially those where ...
12&12 p.91,
Step Ten
The quick inventory is
aimed at our daily ups and downs, especially those where people or new events throw us off balance and tempt us to make mistakes.
13.
... daily work?
12&12 p.112,
Step Twelve
14.
... daily work,
and even of their sleeping ...
BB xxviii(xxvi),
The Doctor's Opinion
If any feel that as psychiatrists directing a hospital for
alcoholics we appear
somewhat sentimental, let them stand with us a while on the firing line, see the tragedies, the despairing wives, the little children; let the solving of these problems become a part of their daily work, and even of their sleeping moments, and the
most cynical will not wonder that we have accepted and encouraged
this movement.
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