From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... liberation and
strength.
12&12 p.21,
Step One
We perceive that only through utter defeat are we able to take our first steps toward liberation and strength.
2.
... liberation from
its paralyzing grip.
12&12 p.73,
Step Seven
Every newcomer in Alcoholics Anonymous
is told, and soon realizes for himself, that
his humble admission of
powerlessness over alcohol is his first step toward liberation from its paralyzing grip.
3.
... liberation from
this world, people who rose ...
BB p.55,
We Agnostics
Yet we had been seeing another kind of flight, a spiritual liberation from this world, people who rose above their problems.
4.
... liberation of
our thinking.
BB p.52,
We Agnostics
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