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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
PERFECTION occurs
12 times
[1 in BB ... 11 in 12&12]
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1.
... 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
5.
... perfection.
12&12
Step Six, p.69
6.
... perfection.
12&12
Step Ten, p.91
We
shall look for
progress, not for
perfection.
7.
... perfection, and
be ready to walk in ...
12&12
Step Six, p.68
We
shall need to
raise our
eyes toward perfection, and be
ready to
walk in that
direction.
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
Sure, I'll
head toward perfection, but I'm
certainly not
going to
hurry any.
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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