From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... permanent and
legitimate satisfactions of right living ...
12&12 p.124,
Step Twelve
Service, gladly rendered, obligations
squarely met, troubles well accepted or solved with God's help, the knowledge that at home or in
the world outside we are
partners in a common effort, the well-understood fact that in God's sight all human beings are important, the proof that
love freely given surely brings a full return, the certainty that
we are no longer isolated and alone in self-constructed prisons, the surety that we
need no longer be square pegs in round holes but can fit and belong in God's scheme of things -- these are
the permanent and legitimate satisfactions of right
living for which no amount of pomp and circumstance, no heap of material possessions, could possibly be substitutes.
2.
... permanent assets
we shall seek.
12&12 p.95,
Step Ten
An honest regret for harms done, a genuine gratitude for blessings received, and
a willingness to try for
better things tomorrow will be the permanent assets we shall seek.
3.
... permanent brain
injury.
BB xxxi(xxix),
The Doctor's Opinion
4.
... permanent effect
unless at once followed by ...
BB p.64,
How It Works
Though our decision was
a vital and crucial step, it could have little
permanent effect unless at once followed by a strenuous
effort to face, and to be rid of, the things in ourselves which had been blocking us.
5.
... permanent leadership
of A.A.
12&12 p.135,
Tradition Two
6.
Permanent marriage
breakups and separations, however, are ...
12&12 p.117,
Step Twelve
7.
... permanent recovery.
BB xvii,
Foreword to Second Edition
8.
... permanent sobriety
and a contented, useful life.
12&12 p.40,
Step Three
More sobriety brought about by the admission of alcoholism and by attendance at a few meetings is very good indeed, but it is bound to be a far cry from permanent sobriety and a contented, useful life.
9.
... permanent sobriety,
June 10, 1935.
BB p.171,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
10.
... permanent unity.
BB p.561(563),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
Therefore, no society of men and women ever had a more urgent need for continuous effectiveness and permanent unity.
11.
... permanent values,
this blindness to the true ...
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
This lack of anchorage to
any permanent values, this blindness to
the true purpose of our lives, produced another bad result.
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