From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... failure.
BB p.64,
How It Works
2.
... failure.
BB p.101,
Working With Others
In our belief any scheme of combating alcoholism which proposes to shield the sick man from temptation is doomed to
failure.
3.
... failure.
BB p.151,
A Vision For You
4.
... failure and
misery transformed by humility into ...
12&12 p.75,
Step Seven
5.
... failure and
success.
BB p.98,
Working With Others
6.
... failure are
converted into assets.
12&12 p.93,
Step Ten
7.
... failure at
life; that unless he is ...
12&12 p.50,
Step Four
By now the newcomer has probably arrived at the following conclusions: that his character defects, representing instincts gone astray, have been the primary cause of his drinking and his failure at
life; that unless he is now willing to work hard at the elimination of the worst
of these defects, both sobriety and peace of mind will still elude him; that all the
faulty foundation of
his life will have to be torn out and built anew on bedrock.
8.
... failure during
delirium tremens, or I would ...
BB p.7,
Bill's Story
My weary and despairing
wife was informed that it
would all end with heart failure during delirium tremens, or I
would develop a wet brain, perhaps within a year.
9.
... failure in
getting alcoholics to recover, three ...
12&12 p.16,
Foreword
After three years of trial and error in selecting the most
workable tenets upon which the Society could
be based, and after a large amount of failure in getting alcoholics to recover,
three successful groups emerged -- the first at Akron, the second at New York, and the third at Cleveland.
10.
... failure, insanity,
fatal illness, suicide -- these calamities ...
BB p.56,
We Agnostics
Business failure, insanity, fatal illness, suicide -- these
calamities in his immediate family embittered and depressed him.
11.
... failure is
always the result.
12&12 p.173,
Tradition Nine
12.
... failure of
the kind of defense that ...
BB p.24,
There Is A Solution
There is a complete failure of the kind of defense that keeps one from putting his hand on a hot stove.
13.
... failure of
their human resources, they found ...
BB p.50,
We Agnostics
In the face of collapse
and despair, in the face of
the total failure of their human resources, they found that a new power, peace, happiness, and sense of direction flowed into
them.
14.
... failure or
success?
12&12 p.112,
Step Twelve
15.
... failure wouldn't
jeopardize their personal survival.
12&12 p.151,
Tradition Five
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