From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... isolation from
our fellows and from God.
12&12
Step Eight, p.82
2.
... isolation had
become complete, it caused us ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.116
But when self-will had driven everybody away and our isolation had become complete, it caused us to play the big shot in cheap barrooms and then fare forth alone on the street to depend upon the charity of passersby.
3.
... isolation problem
had been solved.
12&12
Step Five, p.57
4.
... isolation through
the open and honest sharing ...
12&12
Step Five, p.62
This feeling of being at
one with God and man, this emerging from isolation through the open and honest sharing of our terrible burden of guilt, brings us to a resting place where we may prepare ourselves for the following Steps toward a full and meaningful sobriety.
5.
... isolation we've
always had.
12&12
Step Five, p.57
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