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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... forms.
12&12 p.135,
Tradition Two
2.
... forms.
BB p.567(569),
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience
The
terms "
spiritual experience" and "
spiritual awakening"
are used many
times in this book which, upon
careful reading,
shows that the
personality change sufficient to bring about
recovery from
alcoholism has
manifested itself among us in many
different forms.
3.
... forms a
group, another discovery is made ...
12&12 p.130,
Tradition One
The
moment this
Twelfth
Step work forms a
group, another
discovery is made -- that most
individuals cannot
recover unless there is a
group.
4.
... forms of
dependence.
12&12 p.38,
Step Three
Like our
professional friends, we, too, are
aware
that there are
wrong forms of
dependence.
5.
... forms of
fear, self-delusion, self-seeking, and self-pity, ...
BB p.62,
How It Works
6.
... forms of
spiritual disease, for we have ...
BB p.64,
How It Works
From it
stem all
forms of
spiritual disease, for we
have been not only
mentally and
physically ill, we have been
spiritually sick.
7.
... forms, there
are some general principles which ...
BB p.79,
Into Action
Although these
reparations take
innumerable forms, there
are some
general principles which we find
guiding.
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