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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
IMPOSSIBLE occurs
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1.
... impossible.
12&12 p.25,
Step Two
But
now,
still smarting from that
admission, he is
faced with
something really impossible.
2.
... impossible.
12&12 p.35,
Step Three
3.
... impossible.
12&12 p.66,
Step Six
To
think of
liking lust seems impossible.
4.
... impossible.
12&12 p.68,
Step Six
Seen in this
light,
Step Six is
still difficult, but not at
all
impossible.
5.
... impossible.
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
6.
... impossible.
12&12 p.121,
Step Twelve
And these were
fears which would
make a
serene and
useful existence, at
any financial level,
quite impossible.
7.
... impossible.
BB p.11,
Bill's Story
Here was
something at
work in a
human heart which had
done the
impossible.
8.
... impossible.
BB p.34,
More About Alcoholism
Yet we
found it
impossible.
9.
... impossible.
BB p.50,
We Agnostics
10.
... impossible, and
if we had passed into ...
BB p.25,
There Is A Solution
We were in a
position where
life was
becoming impossible, and if we had
passed
into the
region from which there is
no return through human aid, we had but
two alternatives:
One was to
go on to the
bitter end,
blotting out the
consciousness of
our
intolerable situation as
best we could;
and the
other, to
accept spiritual help.
11.
... impossible, but
to continue as he is ...
BB p.44,
We Agnostics
12.
... impossible domestic
situations righted; feuds and bitterness ...
BB p.15,
Bill's Story
13.
... impossible for
any of us to fully ...
BB p.46,
We Agnostics
14.
... impossible for
him to stop.
BB p.22,
There Is A Solution
15.
... impossible had
now become possible.
12&12 p.17,
Foreword
16.
... impossible have
always failed.
BB p.101,
Working With Others
These
attempts to do the
impossible have
always failed.
17.
... impossible job
from which we recoil.
12&12 p.73,
Step Seven
We
will want to be
rid of some of these
defects,
but in some
instances this
will appear to be an
impossible job from which we
recoil.
18.
... impossible list
for Santa Claus.
12&12 p.31,
Step Two
19.
... impossible situations,
seeking neither to run nor ...
12&12 p.31,
Step Two
20.
... impossible to
explain what we see, feel, ...
BB p.48,
We Agnostics
21.
... impossible to
persuade an alcoholic to discuss ...
BB p.18,
There Is A Solution
22.
... impossible to
say we had no capacity ...
BB p.54,
We Agnostics
It was
impossible to
say we had
no capacity for
faith, or
love, or
worship.
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