From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... realm of
spirit, if you like.
12&12 p.101,
Step Eleven
This much could be a fragment of what is called
meditation, perhaps
our very first attempt at a mood, a flier into the realm of spirit, if you like.
2.
... Realm of
Spirit is broad, roomy, all ...
BB p.46,
We Agnostics
To us, the Realm of Spirit
is broad, roomy, all inclusive; never exclusive or forbidding to those who earnestly seek.
3.
... realm of
the material?
BB p.51,
We Agnostics
We asked ourselves this:
Are not some of us just as biased and unreasonable
about the realm of the spirit as were the ancients
about the realm of the material?
4.
... realm of
the material, men's minds were ...
BB p.51,
We Agnostics
In the realm of the material, men's minds were fettered by superstition, tradition, and all sorts of
fixed ideas.
5.
... realm of
the spirit as were the ...
BB p.51,
We Agnostics
We asked ourselves this:
Are not some of us just as biased and unreasonable
about the realm of the spirit as were the ancients
about the realm of the material?
6.
... realm, the
chilling vapor that is loneliness ...
BB p.151,
A Vision For You
As we became subjects of
King Alcohol, shivering denizens of
his mad realm, the chilling vapor that is loneliness settled down.
7.
... realm will
be secure for so long ...
12&12 p.98,
Step Eleven
And we will be comforted
and assured that our own destiny in that realm will be secure for so long as we try, however falteringly, to find and
do the will of our own Creator.
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