From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... final achievement
is ruin.
12&12 p.37,
Step Three
2.
... final catastrophe.
12&12 p.31,
Step Two
3.
... final crushing
of our self-sufficiency, that we ...
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
It was only at the end of a long road, marked by successive defeats and humiliations, and the final crushing of our self-sufficiency, that we
began to feel humility as something more than a condition of groveling despair.
4.
... final effectiveness.
BB p.575,
Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form)
The Conference Charter is not a legal document; it relies upon tradition and the A.A. purse for final effectiveness.
5.
... final end
and aim of life.
12&12 p.71,
Step Seven
Instead of regarding
the satisfaction of our material desires as the means by which we could live and
function as human beings, we had taken these satisfactions to be the final end and aim of life.
6.
... final exams
I went on a particularly ...
BB p.174,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
7.
... final judge.
BB p.70,
How It Works
8.
... Final responsibility
and ultimate authority for A.A. ...
BB p.574,
Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form)
I. Final responsibility and ultimate authority for
A.A. world services should always reside in the collective
conscience of our whole
Fellowship.
9.
... final stage
with its commitment to health ...
BB p.107,
To Wives
Most of us have entered the final stage with its commitment to health resorts, sanitariums, hospitals, and jails.
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