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From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... perfection.
BB
How It Works, p.60
2.
... perfection.
12&12
Contents (Step Six), pp.6-7
3.
... perfection!"
12&12
Step Six, p.68
Why -- that is perfection!"
4.
... perfection.
12&12
Step Six, p.68
Only Step One, where we made the 100 percent admission we were
powerless over alcohol, can be practiced
with absolute perfection.
5.
... perfection.
12&12
Step Six, p.69
6.
... perfection.
12&12
Step Ten, p.91
7.
... perfection, and
be ready to walk in ...
12&12
Step Six, p.68
8.
... perfection as
will get us by in ...
12&12
Step Six, p.68
Therefore, it seems plain that few of us can quickly or easily become ready to aim at spiritual and moral perfection; we want to settle for only as much perfection as will get us by in life, according, of course, to our various and sundry ideas of what will get us by.
9.
... perfection, but
I'm certainly not going to ...
12&12
Step Six, p.69
10.
... perfection, have
gone to the other extreme ...
12&12
Tradition Six, p.156
We are all perfectionists who, failing perfection, have gone to the other extreme and settled for the
bottle and the blackout.
11.
... perfection that
God wishes for us here ...
12&12
Step Six, p.65
When they drive us blindly,
or we willfully demand
that they supply us with more
satisfactions or pleasures than are possible or due us, that is the
point at which we depart from
the degree of perfection that
God wishes for us here on earth.
12.
... perfection; we
want to settle for only ...
12&12
Step Six, p.68
Therefore, it seems plain that few of us can quickly or easily become ready to aim at spiritual and moral perfection; we want to settle for only as much perfection as will get us by in life, according, of course, to our various and sundry ideas of what will get us by.
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