From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... intelligence?
BB p.10,
Bill's Story
2.
... intelligence.
BB p.172,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
3.
... Intelligence, a
Spirit of the Universe underlying ...
BB p.46,
We Agnostics
As soon as we admitted the
possible existence of
a Creative Intelligence, a
Spirit of the Universe
underlying the totality of things, we began to be possessed of a
new sense of power and direction, provided we took other simple steps.
4.
... intelligence and
labor, men will have shaped ...
12&12 p.71,
Step Seven
5.
... intelligence, backed
by willpower, can rightly control ...
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.
6.
... intelligence, for
just that long was a ...
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
For just so long as we were convinced that we could live
exclusively by our own
individual strength
and intelligence, for just
that long was a working faith in a Higher Power impossible.
7.
... intelligence, men
of science have been forcing ...
12&12 p.70,
Step Seven
8.
... Intelligence, right
there our perverse streak comes ...
BB p.49,
We Agnostics
When, however, the perfectly logical assumption is suggested that underneath the material
world and life as we see it, there is an All Powerful, Guiding, Creative Intelligence, right there our perverse streak comes to the surface and we laboriously set out to convince ourselves it isn't so.
9.
... Intelligence, Universal
Mind or Spirit of Nature ...
BB p.12,
Bill's Story
I could go for such conceptions as Creative Intelligence, Universal Mind or Spirit of Nature but I resisted the thought of a
Czar of the Heavens,
however loving His sway
might be.
10.
... intelligence was
the last word, the alpha ...
BB p.49,
We Agnostics
Instead of regarding
ourselves as intelligent agents, spearheads of God's ever advancing Creation, we agnostics
and atheists chose to believe that our human intelligence was the last word, the alpha and the omega, the beginning and end of all.
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