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From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)

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FLIGHT   occurs   6 times    (Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
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1.
... flight?   BB p.52, We Agnostics   Go to page 52 in the Big Book
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   Go to page 55 in the Big Book
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   Go to page 51 in the Big Book
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   Go to page 51 in the Big Book
Had not all efforts at flight failed before?


5.
... flight from reality, or were outright mental ...   BB xxvi(xxiv), The Doctor's Opinion   Display entire 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   Go to page 2 in the Big Book
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.


Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.  The A.A. Preamble, copyright © The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission.  Permission to reprint does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous or The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.

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