From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... led before
the bottle cut us down.
12&12 p.45,
Step Four
No doubt we shall point with pride to the good lives we thought we led before the bottle cut us down.
2.
... led Ed
aside.
12&12 p.143,
Tradition Three
3.
... led him
presently to a certain resident ...
BB p.155,
A Vision For You
His call to the clergyman
led him presently to a certain resident of the town, who, though formerly able and respected, was then nearing the nadir of alcoholic despair.
4.
... led in
time to pitiful and incomprehensible ...
BB p.30,
More About Alcoholism
All of us felt at times that
we were regaining control, but such intervals -- usually brief -- were inevitably
followed by still less control, which led in time to pitiful and incomprehensible demoralization.
5.
... led straight
to the bottle.
12&12 p.90,
Step Ten
6.
... led to
sure power and safe guidance ...
12&12 p.109,
Step Twelve
The persistent use of meditation and prayer, we
found, did open the channel so that where there had been a trickle, there now was a river which led to sure power and safe guidance from God as we were increasingly better able to understand Him.
7.
... led to
the bottle and extinction.
12&12 p.45,
Step Four
This is not a moral inventory at all; it is the very process by which the depressive has so often
been led to the bottle and
extinction.
8.
... led to
the discovery of God.
BB p.116,
To Wives
Time after time, this apparent calamity has been a boon to
us, for it opened up a path which led to the discovery of God.
9.
... led to
us through channels like these.
12&12 p.180,
Tradition Eleven
It is no exaggeration to
say that half of A.A.'s membership has been
led to us through channels like these.
10.
... led us
to the conclusion that our ...
12&12 p.135,
Tradition Two
This is the experience which has led us to the conclusion that
our group conscience,
well-advised by its elders, will be in the long run wiser than any single leader.
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