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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
FAILURE occurs
15 times
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1.
... failure.
BB p.64,
How It Works
First, we
searched out
the
flaws in our make-up which
caused our
failure.
2.
... failure.
BB p.101,
Working With Others
3.
... failure.
BB p.151,
A Vision For You
There was always one more
attempt -- and one more
failure.
4.
... failure and
misery transformed by humility into ...
12&12 p.75,
Step Seven
5.
... failure and
success.
BB p.98,
Working With Others
That often makes the
difference between
failure and
success.
6.
... failure are
converted into assets.
12&12 p.93,
Step Ten
Under these
conditions, the
pains of
failure are
converted into
assets.
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
10.
... failure, insanity,
fatal illness, suicide -- these calamities ...
BB p.56,
We Agnostics
11.
... failure is
always the result.
12&12 p.173,
Tradition Nine
We've
tried it
lots of
times, but
utter failure is always the
result.
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
Furthermore, how shall we
come to
terms with
seeming failure or
success?
15.
... failure wouldn't
jeopardize their personal survival.
12&12 p.151,
Tradition Five
Yet such a
failure wouldn't
jeopardize their
personal survival.
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