From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... safe.
BB p.175,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
2.
... safe.
BB p.177,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
3.
... safe and
protected.
BB p.85,
Into Action
4.
... safe and
secure as he tries to ...
12&12 p.64,
Step Six
5.
... safe at
home did.
12&12 p.38,
Step Three
6.
... safe cracker
who thinks society has wronged ...
BB p.62,
How It Works
He is like the retired business man who lolls in the Florida sunshine in the winter complaining of the sad state of the nation; the minister who sighs over the sins of the twentieth century; politicians and reformers who are sure all
would be Utopia if the rest
of the world would only behave; the outlaw safe cracker who thinks society has wronged him; and the alcoholic who has lost all
and is locked up.
7.
... safe guidance
from God as we were ...
12&12 p.109,
Step Twelve
The persistent use of meditation and prayer, we
found, did open the channel so that where there had been a trickle, there now was a river which led to sure power and safe guidance from God as we were increasingly better able to understand Him.
8.
... safe harbor
for the foundering vessel he ...
12&12 p.35,
Step Three
Any willing newcomer feels sure A.A. is the only safe harbor for the foundering vessel he has
become.
9.
... safe path
between these extremes took a ...
12&12 p.185,
Tradition Twelve
10.
... safe to
talk in complete frankness with ...
12&12 p.85,
Step Nine
As soon as we begin to feel confident in our new way of life and have begun, by our behavior and example, to
convince those about us
that we are indeed changing for the better, it
is usually safe to talk in complete frankness with those who
have been seriously affected, even those who may be only a little
or not at all aware of what we have done to them.
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