From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... perfect adherence
to these principles.
BB p.60,
How It Works
2.
... perfect after
all.
BB p.129,
The Family Afterward
He will perceive that his
spiritual growth is lopsided, that for an average man like himself, a spiritual life which does
not include his family obligations may not be so perfect after all.
3.
... perfect and
enlarge his spiritual life through ...
BB p.14,
Bill's Story
For if an alcoholic failed to perfect and enlarge his spiritual life through work and self-sacrifice for others, he
could not survive the certain trials and low spots ahead.
4.
... perfect day,
not a cloud on the ...
BB p.41,
More About Alcoholism
5.
... perfect definition
of humility.
12&12 p.153,
Tradition Five
6.
... perfect excuse
for minimizing or forgetting our ...
12&12 p.78,
Step Eight
Triumphantly we seize
upon his misbehavior as
the perfect excuse for minimizing or forgetting our own.
7.
... perfect freedom
of will and action.
12&12 p.147,
Tradition Four
8.
... perfect ideals.
12&12 p.68,
Step Six
9.
... perfect justice,
forgiveness, and love was healthy, ...
12&12 p.116,
Step Twelve
We found that dependence upon His perfect justice, forgiveness, and love was
healthy, and that it would work where nothing else would.
10.
... perfect liberty
to handle this matter any ...
12&12 p.173,
Tradition Nine
They even had to coin a couple of sentences which
still go into half the letters they write: "Of course, you are at
perfect liberty to handle this matter any way you please.
11.
... perfect objective
which is of God.
12&12 p.68,
Step Six
So the difference between "the boys and the men" is the difference between striving for a self-determined objective and for the perfect objective which is of
God.
12.
... perfect peace
and ease.
BB p.75,
Into Action
13.
... perfect release
from alcoholism, why then shouldn't ...
12&12 p.64,
Step Six
Having been granted a perfect release from alcoholism, why then
shouldn't we be able to achieve by the same means a perfect release from every other difficulty or defect?
14.
... perfect release
from every other difficulty or ...
12&12 p.64,
Step Six
Having been granted a perfect release from alcoholism, why then
shouldn't we be able to achieve by the same means a perfect release from every other difficulty or defect?
15.
... perfect safety
in the process of trial ...
12&12 p.146,
Tradition Four
16.
... perfect visual
proof.
BB p.48,
We Agnostics
Everybody nowadays,
believes in scores of assumptions for which there is good evidence, but no perfect visual proof.
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