From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
PATTERN occurs
5 times
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1.
... pattern.
12&12 p.173,
Tradition Nine
It does not
conform to this
pattern.
2.
... pattern, he
would go on a bigger ...
BB p.138,
To Employers
The only
answer I could make was that if the
man followed the
usual pattern, he would go on a
bigger bust than ever.
3.
... pattern is
thereby established that may take ...
12&12 p.118,
Step Twelve
A
pattern is thereby
established that may take a
lot of
undoing later on.
4.
... pattern of
living as eagerly as we ...
12&12 p.111,
Step Twelve
Can we
love the
whole pattern of
living as
eagerly as we do the
small segment of it we
discover
when we
try to
help other
alcoholics achieve sobriety?
5.
... pattern of
our lives.
12&12 p.80,
Step Eight
We can go far
beyond those things which were
superficially wrong
with us, to see those
flaws which were
basic,
flaws which sometimes
were
responsible for the
whole pattern of our
lives.
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