From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... disease.
12&12 p.150,
Tradition Five
Alcoholics Anonymous can be likened
to a group of physicians who might find a
cure for cancer, and upon whose concerted work would depend the answer for sufferers of this disease.
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... disease, for
we have been not only ...
BB p.64,
How It Works
From it stem all forms of spiritual disease, for we
have been not only mentally and physically ill, we have been
spiritually sick.
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