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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
OCCASIONAL occurs
6 times
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1.
... occasional emergency,
but at first many of ...
12&12 p.96,
Step Eleven
To be
sure, we
feel it is
something that might
help us to
meet an
occasional emergency, but at
first
many of us are
apt to
regard
it as a somewhat
mysterious skill of
clergymen, from
which we may
hope to get a
secondhand benefit.
2.
... occasional heartening
success.
BB xvii,
Foreword to Second Edition
There were many
failures, but there was an
occasional heartening success.
3.
... occasional inspiration
gradually becomes a working part ...
BB p.87,
Into Action
What used to be the
hunch or the
occasional inspiration gradually becomes a
working part of the
mind.
4.
... occasional luxury
of more balanced people, could ...
12&12 p.90,
Step Ten
Anger, that
occasional luxury of more
balanced
people, could
keep us on an
emotional jag indefinitely.
5.
... occasional retreat
from the outside world where ...
12&12 p.89,
Step Ten
Many of us also like the
experience of an
occasional retreat from the
outside world where we can
quiet down for an
undisturbed day or so of
self-
overhaul and
meditation.
6.
... occasional situation
where to make a full ...
12&12 p.86,
Step Nine
That will
arise in the
occasional situation where to
make a
full revelation
would
seriously harm the
one to whom we are
making amends.
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