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.
2.
... occasional heartening
success.
BB xvii,
Foreword to Second Edition
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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