From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... overwhelming compulsions
and desires?
12&12 p.73,
Step Seven
How can we possibly summon the resolution and
the willingness to get
rid of such overwhelming compulsions and
desires?
2.
... overwhelming "God-consciousness"
followed at once by a ...
BB p.567(569),
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience
Though it was not our intention to create such an impression, many alcoholics have nevertheless concluded that in order to
recover they must acquire an immediate and
overwhelming "God-consciousness" followed at once by a vast change in feeling and outlook.
3.
... overwhelming number
of personal appeals which may ...
12&12 p.184,
Tradition Twelve
Its foreword made this revealing statement: "It is important that we remain
anonymous because we
are too few, at present, to
handle the overwhelming number of personal appeals which may result
from this publication.
4.
... overwhelming number
of personal appeals which may ...
BB xiii,
Foreword to First Edition
It is important that we remain anonymous because we are too few, at present to handle the overwhelming number of personal appeals which may
result from this publication.
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