From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... freedom.
BB p.62,
How It Works
Most good ideas are simple, and this concept was
the keystone of the new and
triumphant arch through which we passed to
freedom.
2.
... freedom.
BB p.160,
A Vision For You
Many a man, yet dazed from his hospital experience,
has stepped over the threshold of that home into
freedom.
3.
... freedom.
BB xxi,
Foreword to Second Edition
Yet it is our great hope that all those who have as
yet found no answer may begin to find one in the pages of this book and will presently join us on the high road to a new freedom.
4.
... freedom and
a new happiness.
BB p.83,
Into Action
5.
... freedom from
embarrassment, which I could never ...
BB p.178,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
They spoke with great freedom from embarrassment,
which I could never do, and they seemed very much at ease on all occasions and appeared
very healthy.
6.
... freedom from
fear was more important than ...
12&12 p.122,
Step Twelve
7.
... freedom from
self-will, and are careful to ...
BB p.87,
Into Action
We ask especially for
freedom from self-will, and are careful to make no request for ourselves
only.
8.
... freedom from
want.
12&12 p.122,
Step Twelve
9.
... freedom of
the human spirit, to be ...
12&12 p.73,
Step Seven
To get completely away from our aversion to the
idea of being humble, to gain a vision of humility as the
avenue to true freedom of the human spirit, to be willing to work for humility as something to be desired
for itself, takes most of
us a long, long time.
10.
... freedom of
will and action.
12&12 p.147,
Tradition Four
11.
... freedom, we
found it necessary to post ...
12&12 p.147,
Tradition Four
In charting this enormous expanse of freedom, we found it necessary to post only two storm signals: A group ought not do anything which
would greatly injure A.A. as a whole, nor ought it affiliate itself with anything or anybody else.
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