From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
SAFE occurs
8 times
(
Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
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1.
... safe and
protected.
BB p.85,
Into Action
We
feel as though we had been
placed in a
position of
neutrality --
safe and
protected.
2.
... safe and
secure as he tries to ...
12&12 p.64,
Step Six
And he
wishes to be
reasonably safe and
secure as he
tries to
attain these things.
3.
... safe at
home did.
12&12 p.38,
Step Three
They had even
fewer alcoholic lapses or
emotional binges than
A.A.'s
safe at
home did.
4.
... 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.
5.
... 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.
6.
... safe harbor
for the foundering vessel he ...
12&12 p.35,
Step Three
7.
... safe path
between these extremes took a ...
12&12 p.185,
Tradition Twelve
The
charting of a
safe path between these
extremes
took a
long time.
8.
... 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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and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
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