From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... practicing A.A.'s
remaining eleven Steps means the ...
12&12 p.24,
Step One
For practicing A.A.'s remaining eleven Steps means the adoption of attitudes
and actions that almost
no alcoholic who is still drinking can dream of taking.
2.
... practicing alcoholics
difficult and often unbearable -- could ...
12&12 p.81,
Step Eight
Such a roster of harms done others -- the kind that make daily living with us as practicing alcoholics difficult
and often unbearable --
could be extended almost
indefinitely.
3.
... practicing alcoholics
who have any idea how ...
12&12 p.32,
Step Two
Few indeed are the practicing alcoholics who have
any idea how irrational they are, or seeing their irrationality, can bear
to face it.
4.
... practicing all
the Steps, we have each ...
12&12 p.106,
Step Twelve
Our Twelfth Step also says that as a result of practicing all the Steps, we have each found something called a spiritual awakening.
5.
... practicing evasion.
12&12 p.85,
Step Nine
6.
Practicing Step
Three is like the opening ...
12&12 p.34,
Step Three
Practicing Step Three is like the opening of a door which to all
appearances is still
closed and locked.
7.
... practicing them.
BB p.130,
The Family Afterward
They can hardly fail to approve these simple principles, though the head of the house still fails somewhat in practicing them.
8.
... practicing these
Steps, we had a spiritual ...
12&12 p.109,
Step Twelve
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