From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
1.
... preservation, duty,
and love, it is not ...
12&12 p.151,
Tradition Five
Under these compulsions of self-preservation, duty, and love, it is not strange that
our Society has concluded that it has but one
high mission -- to carry the A.A. message to those who don't know there's a way out.
2.
... preservation of
the Fellowship.
12&12 p.130,
Tradition One
Realization dawns that
he is but a small part of a
great whole; that no personal sacrifice is too great for
preservation of the Fellowship.
3.
... preservation of
this principle.
12&12 p.150,
Tradition Five
4.
... preservation, they
seem bent upon self-destruction.
12&12 p.64,
Step Six
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