From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... deadly business
of living alone with our ...
12&12 p.108,
Step Twelve
We knew we would have to quit
the deadly business of living alone with our conflicts, and in honesty
confide these to God and another human being.
2.
... deadly earnestness.
BB p.16,
Bill's Story
3.
... deadly hazard
to an alcoholic.
BB p.117,
To Wives
4.
... deadly obsession
could be banished, then there ...
12&12 p.76,
Step Seven
If that degree of humility could enable us to
find the grace by which such a deadly obsession could be banished, then there must be
hope of the same result respecting any other problem we could possibly
have.
5.
... Deadly Sins
of pride, greed, lust, anger, ...
12&12 p.48,
Step Four
To avoid falling into confusion over the names these defects should be
called, let's take a universally recognized list of major human failings -- the Seven Deadly Sins of pride, greed, lust, anger, gluttony, envy, and sloth.
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