From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... points.
BB p.142,
To Employers
2.
... points as
we see them.
BB p.20,
There Is A Solution
3.
... points our
emotional disturbance happens to be ...
12&12 p.103,
Step Eleven
If at these points our emotional disturbance
happens to be great, we will more surely keep our balance, provided we remember, and repeat to ourselves, a particular prayer or phrase that has appealed to
us in our reading or meditation.
4.
... points out
that our friend's life is ...
12&12 p.39,
Step Three
Of course the sponsor
points out that our friend's life is still unmanageable even though he is sober, that after all, only a
bare start on A.A.'s program has been made.
5.
... points out
that the newcomer has some ...
12&12 p.46,
Step Four
The sponsor probably
points out that the newcomer has some assets
which can be noted along
with his liabilities.
6.
... points, yet,
there it was.
BB p.54,
We Agnostics
We could not prove life in
the sense that you can prove
a straight line is the shortest distance between two points, yet, there it was.
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