From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
FREEDOM occurs
10 times
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1.
... 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
We are
going to
know a new
freedom and a new
happiness.
5.
... freedom from
fear was more important than ...
12&12 p.122,
Step Twelve
We
found that
freedom from
fear was more
important than
freedom from
want.
6.
... 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.
7.
... freedom from
want.
12&12 p.122,
Step Twelve
We
found that
freedom from
fear was more
important than
freedom from
want.
8.
... 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.
9.
... freedom of
will and action.
12&12 p.147,
Tradition Four
In all other
respects there was
perfect freedom of will and
action.
10.
... 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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and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
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