From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... inner essence
is.
12&12 p.101,
Step Eleven
2.
... inner lives
and guarantee us success in ...
12&12 p.37,
Step Three
We are certain that our intelligence, backed by
willpower, can rightly
control our inner lives and guarantee us success in the world we live in.
3.
... inner meaning
of A.A.'s simple prayer:
12&12 p.125,
Step Twelve
With each passing day of our lives, may every one of us sense more deeply the inner meaning of A.A.'s simple prayer:
4.
... inner resistance
so that which is inside ...
BB p.569(571),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
I now conceive the psychiatrist's job to be
the task of breaking down the patient's inner resistance so that which
is inside him will flower, as under the activity of the A.A. program."
5.
... inner resource
which they presently identify with ...
BB p.568(570),
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience
With few exceptions our
members find that they have
tapped an unsuspected
inner resource which they
presently identify
with their own conception
of a Power greater than themselves.
6.
... inner strength
and peace that could not ...
12&12 p.116,
Step Twelve
These were the new attitudes that finally brought many of us an inner strength and peace that could not be deeply
shaken by the shortcomings of others
or by any calamity not of
our own making.
7.
... inner workings
of his mind and its ...
BB p.26,
There Is A Solution
Above all, he believed he
had acquired such a profound knowledge of
the inner workings of his
mind and its hidden springs that relapse was unthinkable.
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