From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... path.
BB p.58,
How It Works
2.
... path.
BB p.72,
Into Action
We have been trying to get a
new attitude, a new relationship with our
Creator, and to discover the obstacles
in our path.
3.
... path, beg
you to lay aside prejudice, ...
BB p.49,
We Agnostics
We, who have traveled this dubious path, beg you to lay aside prejudice, even against organized religion.
4.
... path between
these extremes took a long ...
12&12 p.185,
Tradition Twelve
5.
... path of
spiritual progress.
BB p.100,
Working With Others
6.
... path that
really goes somewhere; have seen ...
BB p.15,
Bill's Story
I have seen hundreds of families set their feet in the path that really goes somewhere; have seen the
most impossible domestic situations righted; feuds and bitterness of all sorts wiped out.
7.
... path to
recovery that was blazed by ...
BB xxii,
Foreword to Third Edition
The Twelve Steps that summarize the program may
be called los Doce Pasos in one country, les Douze Etapes in another, but they
trace exactly the same path to recovery that was blazed by
the earliest members of
Alcoholics Anonymous.
8.
... path toward
these objectives.
12&12 p.76,
Step Seven
We have seen that character defects based upon shortsighted or unworthy desires are the
obstacles that block our
path toward these objectives.
9.
... path which
led to the discovery of ...
BB p.116,
To Wives
Time after time, this apparent calamity has been a boon to
us, for it opened up a path which led to the discovery of God.
10.
... path which
tells him he is really ...
12&12 p.107,
Step Twelve
He has been set on a path which
tells him he is really going somewhere, that life is not a dead end, not something to be endured or mastered.
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