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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
DIVINE occurs
3 times
(
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1.
... divine guidance.
12&12 p.137,
Tradition Two
Racing back to
Brooklyn
on the
subway, I had a
seeming flash of
divine guidance.
2.
... divine help.
BB p.43,
More About Alcoholism
As to
two of you
men, whose
stories I have
heard, there
is no
doubt in my
mind that
you were
100%
hopeless,
apart from
divine help.
3.
... divine paradox
of this kind of giving ...
12&12 p.109,
Step Twelve
And then he
discovers that by the
divine paradox of this
kind of
giving he has
found his
own reward, whether his
brother
has
yet received anything
or not.
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