From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... ground.
BB p.107,
To Wives
As animals on a treadmill, we have patiently and wearily climbed, falling back in exhaustion after each futile effort to reach solid ground.
2.
... ground a
bit.
BB p.55,
We Agnostics
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
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
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