From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... fit all
such dilemmas.
12&12 p.87,
Step Nine
2.
... fit and
belong in God's scheme of ...
12&12 p.124,
Step Twelve
Service, gladly rendered, obligations
squarely met, troubles well accepted or solved with God's help, the knowledge that at home or in
the world outside we are
partners in a common effort, the well-understood fact that in God's sight all human beings are important, the proof that
love freely given surely brings a full return, the certainty that
we are no longer isolated and alone in self-constructed prisons, the surety that we
need no longer be square pegs in round holes but can fit and belong in God's scheme of things -- these are
the permanent and legitimate satisfactions of right
living for which no amount of pomp and circumstance, no heap of material possessions, could possibly be substitutes.
3.
... fit, he
ought to step into them ...
12&12 p.48,
Step Four
Having found the shoes that
fit, he ought to step into them and walk with new confidence that he is at
last on the right track.
4.
... fit in
with meditation?
12&12 p.102,
Step Eleven
And how does it fit in with meditation?
5.
... fit more
or less into both classifications.
12&12 p.48,
Step Four
6.
... fit of
anger.
BB p.135,
The Family Afterward
His wife is one of those persons who really feels there is something rather sinful about these commodities, so she nagged, and her intolerance finally threw him into a fit of anger.
7.
... fit ourselves
to be of maximum service ...
BB p.77,
Into Action
8.
... fit spiritual
condition.
BB p.85,
Into Action
9.
... fit us
exactly.
BB p.38,
More About Alcoholism
We, who have been through the wringer, have to admit if we
substituted alcoholism for jay-walking, the illustration would fit us
exactly.
10.
... fit, we
can do all sorts of ...
BB p.100,
Working With Others
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