From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... revealed.
12&12 p.31,
Step Two
2.
... revealed, as
mankind studies the material world, ...
BB p.48,
We Agnostics
It is being constantly
revealed, as mankind studies the material world, that outward appearances are not inward reality at all.
3.
... revealed in
stark relief those experiences we'd ...
12&12 p.55,
Step Five
If we have swept the searchlight of Step Four back and forth over our careers, and it has revealed
in stark relief those experiences we'd rather not remember, if we
have come to know how wrong thinking and action have hurt us and others, then the need to quit living by ourselves with those tormenting ghosts of yesterday gets more urgent than ever.
4.
... revealed to
us out of bitter experience.
BB p.39,
More About Alcoholism
This is a point we wish to emphasize and re-emphasize, to smash home upon our alcoholic readers as it
has been revealed to us out of
bitter experience.
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