From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
SERENITY occurs
11 times
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1.
... serenity.
12&12 p.74,
Step Seven
2.
... serenity.
12&12 p.94,
Step Ten
How
heartily we
A.A.'s can
agree with him, for we
know
that the
pains of
drinking had to
come before
sobriety, and
emotional turmoil before
serenity.
3.
... serenity?
12&12 p.112,
Step Twelve
4.
... serenity.
12&12 p.148,
Tradition Four
5.
... serenity.
BB p.68,
How It Works
Just to the
extent that we do as we
think He would have us, and
humbly rely on Him, does He
enable us to
match calamity with
serenity.
6.
... serenity and
we will know peace.
BB p.84,
Into Action
We will
comprehend the
word serenity and we will
know peace.
7.
... serenity are
so combined, something else of ...
12&12 p.62,
Step Five
And when
humility and
serenity are so
combined,
something else of
great moment is
apt to
occur.
8.
... serenity as
I had never known.
BB p.14,
Bill's Story
There was a
sense of
victory,
followed by such
a
peace and
serenity as I had
never known.
9.
... serenity to
accept the things I cannot ...
12&12 p.41,
Step Three
In all
times of
emotional disturbance
or
indecision, we can
pause,
ask for
quiet, and in the
stillness
simply say: "
God grant me the
serenity to
accept the things I cannot
change,
courage to
change the things I can, and
wisdom to
know the
difference.
10.
... serenity to
accept the things we cannot ...
12&12 p.125,
Step Twelve
God grant us the
serenity to
accept the things we
cannot
change,
Courage to
change the things we can, And
wisdom to
know the
difference.
11.
... serenity until
I accept that person, place, ...
BB p.417(449),
Acceptance
When I am
disturbed, it is because I find some
person, place, thing or
situation -- some
fact of my
life --
unacceptable
to me, and I can find no
serenity until I
accept that
person, place,
thing or
situation as being
exactly the way it is
supposed to be at this
moment.
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