From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
DEFEAT occurs
8 times
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1.
... defeat?
12&12 p.21,
Step One
2.
... defeat.
BB p.11,
Bill's Story
Like myself, he had
admitted complete defeat.
3.
... defeat are we able to take our ...
12&12 p.21,
Step One
We
perceive that only through
utter defeat are we able to take
our
first steps toward liberation and
strength.
4.
... defeat, have acquired the rudiments of faith, ...
12&12 p.38,
Step Three
So it is by
circumstance rather than by any
virtue that we have been
driven to
A.A., have
admitted defeat, have
acquired the
rudiments
of
faith, and now
want to
make a
decision to
turn
our will and our
lives over to a
Higher Power.
5.
... defeat is the main taproot from which ...
12&12 p.22,
Step One
The
principle that we shall find no
enduring strength until
we
first admit complete defeat is the
main taproot from which our
whole Society has
sprung and
flowered.
6.
... defeat, most of us revolted.
12&12 p.22,
Step One
When
first challenged
to
admit defeat, most of us
revolted.
7.
Defeat seemed certain.
BB p.113,
To Wives
8.
... defeat we were bitter.
12&12 p.123,
Step Twelve
In
fitful successes we
boasted of
greater feats to be done; in
defeat we
were
bitter.
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