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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
GROUND occurs
7 times
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1.
... ground.
BB p.107,
To Wives
2.
... ground a
bit.
BB p.55,
We Agnostics
We can only
clear the
ground
a
bit.
3.
... ground before
you start and that your ...
BB p.102,
Working With Others
But be
sure you are on
solid
spiritual ground before
you
start and that your
motive in
going is
thoroughly good.
4.
... ground floor
there would be a club; ...
12&12 p.147,
Tradition Four
Beginning on the
ground
floor there would be a
club;
in the
second story they
would
sober up
drunks and
hand them
currency for
their back
debts; the
third
deck would
house an
educational project --
quite
noncontroversial, of
course.
5.
... ground of
tolerance, understanding and love.
BB p.122,
The Family Afterward
All
members of the
family
should
meet upon the
common
ground of
tolerance,
understanding and
love.
6.
... ground that
this was what God had ...
12&12 p.60,
Step Five
Lacking both
practice
and
humility, they had
deluded themselves and were able to
justify the most
arrant nonsense on the
ground that
this was what
God had told them.
7.
... ground when
we cry, "This I will ...
12&12 p.66,
Step Six
And we shall often
tread on even more
dangerous ground when we
cry, "This I will
never give up!"
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