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... instinct.
12&12 p.42,
Step Four
2.
... instinct.
12&12 p.64,
Step Six
3.
... instinct.'
BB p.569(571),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
Dr. Foster Kennedy, neurologist:
"This organization of Alcoholics Anonymous
calls on two of the greatest reservoirs of
power known to man, religion and that instinct for association with
one's fellows ... the 'herd instinct.'
4.
... instinct and
logic always seek to bolster ...
12&12 p.36,
Step Three
This, of course, is the process by which instinct and
logic always seek to bolster egotism, and so frustrate
spiritual development.
5.
... instinct cries
out against the idea of ...
12&12 p.21,
Step One
6.
... instinct for
association with one's fellows ... the ...
BB p.569(571),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
Dr. Foster Kennedy, neurologist:
"This organization of Alcoholics Anonymous
calls on two of the greatest reservoirs of
power known to man, religion and that instinct for association with
one's fellows ... the 'herd instinct.'
7.
... instinct, if
men cared nothing for the ...
12&12 p.42,
Step Four
If there were no social instinct, if men cared nothing for the society of one another, there would be no society.
8.
... instinct in
us might be our undoing.
12&12 p.187,
Tradition Twelve
9.
... instinct run
wild in themselves is the ...
12&12 p.44,
Step Four
Alcoholics especially should be able
to see that instinct run wild in themselves is the underlying cause of their
destructive drinking.
10.
... instinct still
cries out, as it certainly ...
12&12 p.35,
Step Three
But suppose that instinct
still cries out, as it certainly will, "Yes, respecting alcohol, I guess I have to be dependent upon A.A., but in all other matters I must still maintain my independence.
11.
... instinct to
begin with, the situation is ...
12&12 p.118,
Step Twelve
12.
... instinct to
live can cooperate fully with ...
12&12 p.64,
Step Six
Here their powerful instinct to live can cooperate fully with their
Creator's desire to give them new life.
13.
... instinct, we
A.A.'s have known from the ...
12&12 p.176,
Tradition Ten
As by some deep instinct, we
A.A.'s have known from the very beginning that we must never, no matter what the provocation, publicly
take sides in any fight, even a worthy one.
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