From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
DRIVES occurs
5 times
(
Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
1.
... drives.
12&12 p.65,
Step Six
2.
... drives.
12&12 p.65,
Step Six
So far as we
know, it is
nowhere on the
record that
God has
completely removed from any
human being
all his
natural drives.
3.
... drives for
charitable funds, A.A. presented a ...
12&12 p.165,
Tradition Seven
4.
... drives have
been restored to something like ...
12&12 p.124,
Step Twelve
But
today, in well-
matured
A.A.'s, these
distorted
drives have been
restored
to something like their
true purpose and
direction.
5.
... drives us
to covet the possessions of ...
12&12 p.49,
Step Four
Unreasonable fear that
our
instincts will not be
satisfied drives us to
covet the
possessions of
others, to
lust for
sex and
power, to
become angry when our
instinctive demands are
threatened, to be
envious when the
ambitions of others
seem to
be
realized while ours are not.
Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous
and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
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