From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... fill.
12&12 p.170,
Tradition Eight
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
6.
... fill up
on large doses of sedatives ...
BB p.176,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
Most of the time, therefore, I did not take
the morning drink which I
craved so badly, but instead would fill up on large doses of sedatives to quiet the jitters, which distressed me terribly.
7.
... 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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