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From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)


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... scheme cost?'   12&12 p.152, Tradition Five
Sarcastically he asked, 'How much does your scheme cost?'


2.
... scheme of combating alcoholism which proposes to ...   BB p.101, Working With Others   Go to page 101 in the Big Book
In our belief any scheme of combating alcoholism which proposes to shield the sick man from temptation is doomed to failure.

3.
... scheme of things, and therefore no God ...   12&12 p.97, Step Eleven
Surely there could be no justice in this scheme of things, and therefore no God at all.

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... scheme of things -- these are the permanent ...   12&12 p.124, Step Twelve
Service, gladly rendered, obligations squarely met, troubles well accepted or solved with God's help, the knowledge that at home or in the world outside we are partners in a common effort, the well-understood fact that in God's sight all human beings are important, the proof that love freely given surely brings a full return, the certainty that we are no longer isolated and alone in self-constructed prisons, the surety that we need no longer be square pegs in round holes but can fit and belong in God's scheme of things -- these are the permanent and legitimate satisfactions of right living for which no amount of pomp and circumstance, no heap of material possessions, could possibly be substitutes.


Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.  The A.A. Preamble, copyright © The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission.  Permission to reprint does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous or The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.

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