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From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)


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... 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.


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... occasional heartening success.   BB xvii, Foreword to Second Edition   Display entire Foreword to Second Edition
There were many failures, but there was an occasional heartening success.


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... occasional inspiration gradually becomes a working part ...   BB p.87, Into Action   Go to page 87 in the Big Book
What used to be the hunch or the occasional inspiration gradually becomes a working part of the mind.

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... 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.

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... 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.

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... 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.


Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.  The A.A. Preamble, copyright © The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission.  Permission to reprint does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous or The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.

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