From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... flight?
BB p.52,
We Agnostics
We were having trouble with personal relationships, we couldn't control our emotional natures, we were a prey to misery and depression, we
couldn't make a living, we
had a feeling of uselessness, we were full
of fear, we were unhappy,
we couldn't seem to be of real
help to other people -- was not a basic solution of these bedevilments more important than whether we
should see newsreels of lunar flight?
2.
... flight, a
spiritual liberation from this world, ...
BB p.55,
We Agnostics
Yet we had been seeing another kind of flight, a spiritual liberation from this world, people who rose above their problems.
3.
... flight at
Kitty Hawk.
BB p.51,
We Agnostics
Even in the present century, American newspapers were afraid to
print an account of the Wright brothers' first successful flight at Kitty Hawk.
4.
... flight failed
before?
BB p.51,
We Agnostics
5.
... flight from
reality, or were outright mental ...
BB xxvi(xxiv),
The Doctor's Opinion
It did not satisfy us to be told that we could not control
our drinking just because we were maladjusted to life, that
we were in full flight from reality, or were outright
mental defectives.
6.
... flight like
a boomerang and all but ...
BB p.2,
Bill's Story
Out of this alloy of drink and speculation, I
commenced to forge the
weapon that one day would turn in its flight like a boomerang and all but
cut me to ribbons.
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