From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... perfection!"
12&12 p.68,
Step Six
Why -- that is perfection!"
2.
... perfection.
12&12 p.68,
Step Six
Only Step One, where we made the 100 percent admission we were
powerless over alcohol, can be practiced
with absolute perfection.
3.
... perfection.
12&12 p.69,
Step Six
4.
... perfection.
12&12 p.91,
Step Ten
5.
... perfection.
BB p.60,
How It Works
6.
... perfection, and
be ready to walk in ...
12&12 p.68,
Step Six
7.
... perfection as
will get us by in ...
12&12 p.68,
Step Six
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.
8.
... perfection, but
I'm certainly not going to ...
12&12 p.69,
Step Six
9.
... perfection, have
gone to the other extreme ...
12&12 p.156,
Tradition Six
We are all perfectionists who, failing perfection, have gone to the other extreme and settled for the
bottle and the blackout.
10.
... perfection that
God wishes for us here ...
12&12 p.65,
Step Six
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.
11.
... perfection; we
want to settle for only ...
12&12 p.68,
Step Six
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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