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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
FAIL occurs
15 times
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Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
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1.
... fail.
BB p.55,
We Agnostics
With this
attitude you cannot
fail.
2.
... fail.
BB p.89,
Working With Others
It
works when other
activities fail.
3.
... fail.
BB p.89,
Working With Others
You can
secure their
confidence when others
fail.
4.
... fail any
of these people, we can ...
12&12 p.93,
Step Ten
Whenever we
fail any of
these people, we can
promptly admit it -- to ourselves always, and to them also, when
the
admission would be
helpful.
5.
... fail its
purpose for lack of nourishment, ...
12&12 p.97,
Step Eleven
As the
body can
fail its purpose for
lack of
nourishment, so
can the
soul.
6.
... fail, our
suffering becomes acute and constant.
12&12 p.53,
Step Four
7.
... fail to
approve these simple principles, though ...
BB p.130,
The Family Afterward
They can
hardly fail to
approve these
simple principles, though the
head
of the
house still
fails
somewhat in
practicing them.
8.
... fail to
get a worked-for promotion.
12&12 p.113,
Step Twelve
We
fail to get a
worked-for
promotion.
9.
... fail to
get something we demanded.
12&12 p.76,
Step Seven
The
chief activator of
our
defects has been
self-
centered fear --
primarily fear that we would
lose something
we already
possessed or would
fail to get something we
demanded.
10.
... fail to
keep a man in everlasting ...
BB p.568(570),
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience
"There is a
principle which is a
bar against all
information, which is
proof against all
arguments
and which cannot
fail to
keep
a
man in
everlasting ignorance -- that
principle is
contempt prior to
investigation." --
Herbert Spencer
11.
... fail to
make satisfactory progress.
BB p.78,
Into Action
12.
... fail to
make us feel elated.
12&12 p.92,
Step Ten
For no people have ever
loved personal triumphs more
than we have
loved them; we
drank of
success as of a
wine which could
never fail to make us
feel elated.
13.
... fail to
recognize is our total inability ...
12&12 p.53,
Step Four
The
primary fact that we
fail to
recognize is our
total inability to
form a
true partnership with another
human being.
14.
... fail us,
for they are human, too, ...
12&12 p.53,
Step Four
If we
lean too
heavily on
people, they will
sooner or
later fail us, for they are
human, too, and cannot
possibly meet our
incessant demands.
15.
... fail who
has thoroughly followed our path.
BB p.58,
How It Works
Rarely have we seen a
person fail who has
thoroughly followed our
path.
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