From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... fatal.
12&12 p.69,
Step Six
2.
... fatal.
BB p.66,
How It Works
We found that it is fatal.
3.
... fatal encounter
with the juggernaut of self-will, ...
12&12 p.37,
Step Three
Each of us has had his own near-fatal encounter with the juggernaut of self-will, and has suffered enough under its weight to be willing to look for something better.
4.
... fatal illness,
suicide -- these calamities in his ...
BB p.56,
We Agnostics
Business failure, insanity, fatal illness, suicide -- these
calamities in his immediate family embittered and depressed him.
5.
... fatal illness
with little complaint, and often ...
12&12 p.114,
Step Twelve
We have seen A.A.'s suffer lingering and fatal illness with little complaint, and often in good cheer.
6.
... fatal malady.
BB p.92,
Working With Others
7.
... fatal malady,"
or "That one ought to ...
12&12 p.104,
Step Eleven
We say to ourselves, "This
one ought to be cured of his fatal malady," or "That one ought to be relieved of his
emotional pain," and we
pray for these specific things.
8.
... fatal nature
of our situation.
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.
9.
... fatal obsession.
12&12 p.64,
Step Six
It is plain for everybody to see that each sober A.A. member has been granted a release from this
very obstinate and potentially fatal obsession.
10.
... fatal progression.
12&12 p.23,
Step One
By going back in our own drinking histories, we could show
that years before we realized it we were out of control, that our drinking
even then was no mere habit, that it was indeed the beginning of a
fatal progression.
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