From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
OVERWHELMING occurs
4 times
(
Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
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1.
... 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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