From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
FINAL occurs
8 times
(
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1.
... final achievement
is ruin.
12&12 p.37,
Step Three
2.
... final catastrophe.
12&12 p.31,
Step Two
In
A.A. we saw the
fruits of
this
belief:
men and
women spared from
alcohol's
final catastrophe.
3.
... final crushing
of our self-sufficiency, that we ...
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
4.
... final effectiveness.
BB p.575,
Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form)
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 judge.
BB p.70,
How It Works
Counsel with
persons is
often
desirable, but we let
God be the
final judge.
7.
... Final responsibility
and ultimate authority for A.A. ...
BB p.574,
Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form)
8.
... final stage
with its commitment to health ...
BB p.107,
To Wives
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