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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
FILL occurs
6 times
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1.
... fill.
12&12 p.170,
Tradition Eight
These are only a few of the
jobs which
A.A. members as
individuals have been
asked to
fill.
2.
... fill a
deep human need.
12&12 p.181,
Tradition Eleven
3.
... fill Madison
Square Garden, and I don't ...
12&12 p.136,
Tradition Two
Some
day this
bunch of
ex-
drunks of yours will
fill Madison Square Garden, and I don't
see why you should
starve meanwhile.
4.
... fill me
with conflict?
12&12 p.51,
Step Four
Did
fear and
inferiority about my
fitness for my
job destroy my
confidence
and
fill me with
conflict?
5.
... fill the
bill at all.
BB p.83,
Into Action
A
remorseful mumbling that we are
sorry
won't
fill the
bill at all.
6.
... fill with
new purpose and meaning, to ...
12&12 p.110,
Step Twelve
To
watch the
eyes of
men and
women open with
wonder as they
move from
darkness into
light, to see their
lives quickly fill with new
purpose and
meaning, to see
whole families reassembled, to see the
alcoholic outcast received back into his
community in
full citizenship, and above all to
watch these people
awaken to
the
presence of a
loving
God in their
lives -- these
things are the
substance of what we
receive as we
carry A.A.'s
message to the
next alcoholic.
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