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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
IMAGINATION occurs
9 times
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1.
... imagination.
12&12 p.100,
Step Eleven
Perhaps our
trouble was not that we used our
imagination.
2.
... imagination.
BB p.110,
To Wives
It
stirs his
imagination.
3.
... imagination.
BB p.151,
A Vision For You
4.
... imagination; all
sound achievement rests upon it.
12&12 p.100,
Step Eleven
There's
nothing the
matter with
constructive imagination;
all
sound achievement
rests upon it.
5.
... imagination as
it tried to create reality ...
12&12 p.100,
Step Eleven
When such
thoughts break
in, we might
recall, a
little ruefully, how much
store we used to
set by
imagination as it
tried to
create reality out of
bottles.
6.
... imagination the
gleaming center was to go ...
12&12 p.147,
Tradition Four
In
imagination the
gleaming center was to go
up several
stories more, but
three would do for a
start.
7.
... imagination toward
the right objectives.
12&12 p.100,
Step Eleven
Perhaps the
real trouble
was our almost
total inability to
point imagination toward the
right objectives.
8.
... imagination, we
might proceed like this:
12&12 p.101,
Step Eleven
When, by such
simple devices, we have
placed
ourselves in a
mood in which we can
focus undisturbed on
constructive imagination,
we might
proceed like this:
9.
... imagination will
be fired.
BB p.152,
A Vision For You
Your
imagination will be
fired.
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