From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
PAINSTAKING occurs
2 times
(
Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
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1.
... painstaking about
this phase of our development, ...
BB p.83,
Into Action
If we are
painstaking about this
phase of our
development,
we
will be
amazed before we are
half way through.
2.
... painstaking effort
to discover what these liabilities ...
12&12 p.42,
Step Four
Step Four is our
vigorous and
painstaking effort to
discover what
these
liabilities in
each of us have been, and are.
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