From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... happily and
usefully whole.
12&12 p.15,
Foreword
A.A.'s Twelve Steps are a group of principles, spiritual
in their nature, which, if practiced as a way of life, can expel the obsession to drink and enable the sufferer to become happily and usefully whole.
2.
Happily for
everyone, this conclusion is erroneous.
BB p.567(569),
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience
3.
... happily in
this world.
BB p.74,
Into Action
4.
... happily married
and the father of promising ...
BB p.39,
More About Alcoholism
His income is good, he has a
fine home, is happily married and the father of promising children of college age.
5.
... happily married
by eliminating the severe emotional ...
12&12 p.117,
Step Twelve
Our main problem is not how
we are to stay married; it
is how to be more happily married by eliminating
the severe emotional twists that have so often stemmed from alcoholism.
6.
Happily, most
of them survive and live ...
12&12 p.135,
Tradition Two
7.
... happily observed
that this time I meant ...
BB p.5,
Bill's Story
Before then, I had written lots of sweet promises, but my wife happily observed that this time I meant business.
8.
... happily our
friends of the writing profession ...
12&12 p.182,
Tradition Eleven
These were plausible arguments, but happily our
friends of the writing
profession disagreed with them.
9.
Happily, though,
the chances are that you ...
12&12 p.61,
Step Five
10.
... happily unaware
of being hurt.
12&12 p.79,
Step Eight
11.
... happily, we'd
show everybody else how.
12&12 p.156,
Tradition Six
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