From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
READINESS occurs
5 times
(
Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
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1.
... readiness?
12&12 p.65,
Step Six
How many of us have this
degree of
readiness?
2.
... readiness to
change our point of view.
BB p.52,
We Agnostics
We had to
ask ourselves why we shouldn't
apply to our
human problems this same
readiness
to
change our
point of
view.
3.
... readiness to
go through with it at ...
BB p.74,
Into Action
If that is so, this
step may be
postponed, only, however, if we
hold ourselves in
complete
readiness to go through with it at the
first opportunity.
4.
... readiness to
take the full consequences of ...
12&12 p.87,
Step Nine
For the
readiness to take the
full consequences of our
past acts, and to take
responsibility for the well-being of others at
the same
time, is the very
spirit of
Step Nine.
5.
... readiness with
which we throw away the ...
BB p.52,
We Agnostics
Is not our
age characterized by the
ease with which we
discard old ideas for new, by the
complete readiness with which
we
throw away the
theory or
gadget which does not
work
for something new which does?
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