From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... driven argument.
12&12 p.91,
Step Ten
2.
Driven by
a hundred forms of fear, ...
BB p.62,
How It Works
Driven by a hundred forms of fear, self-delusion, self-seeking, and self-pity, we step on the toes of our fellows and they retaliate.
3.
... driven by
pride of self unconsciously blind ...
12&12 p.46,
Step Four
This is because people
who are driven by pride of self unconsciously blind themselves to their
liabilities.
4.
... driven everybody
away and our isolation had ...
12&12 p.116,
Step Twelve
But when self-will had driven everybody away and our isolation had
become complete, it caused us to play the big shot in cheap barrooms and then fare forth alone on the street to depend upon the charity of passersby.
5.
... driven individualists.
12&12 p.146,
Tradition Four
6.
... driven on
by the inescapable conclusion which ...
12&12 p.73,
Step Seven
But again we are driven on by
the inescapable conclusion which we draw
from A.A. experience, that
we surely must try with a will, or else fall by the wayside.
7.
... driven to
A.A., and there we discover ...
12&12 p.24,
Step One
Under the lash of alcoholism, we are driven
to A.A., and there we discover the fatal nature of our situation.
8.
... driven to
A.A., have admitted defeat, have ...
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.
9.
... driven to
A.A., we learned better.
12&12 p.30,
Step Two
10.
... driven to
maudlin sympathy, to bitter resentment.
BB p.105,
To Wives
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