From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... immediate and
overwhelming "God-consciousness" followed at once ...
BB p.567(569),
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience
Though it was not our intention to create such an impression, many alcoholics have nevertheless concluded that in order to
recover they must acquire an immediate and overwhelming "God-consciousness" followed at once by a vast change in feeling and outlook.
2.
... immediate and
practical results.
12&12 p.23,
Step One
3.
... immediate cause
of our woes, including our ...
12&12 p.80,
Step Eight
Since defective relations with other human beings have nearly always been the immediate cause of our woes, including our alcoholism, no field of investigation
could yield more satisfying and valuable
rewards than this one.
4.
... immediate family
embittered and depressed him.
BB p.56,
We Agnostics
Business failure, insanity, fatal illness, suicide -- these
calamities in his immediate family embittered and depressed him.
5.
... immediate interest
in A.A., it is suggested ...
BB p.573(575),
Appendix VI, How to Get in Touch With A.A.
Should you be the relative or friend of an alcoholic who
shows no immediate interest in A.A., it is suggested that you
write the Al-Anon Family Groups, Inc., 1600 Corporate Landing Parkway, Virginia Beach, VA 23456, USA.
6.
... immediate temptation
will be to ask for ...
12&12 p.102,
Step Eleven
Our immediate temptation
will be to ask for specific solutions to specific problems, and
for the ability to help other people as we have already thought they should
be helped.
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