From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... serenity.
12&12 p.74,
Step Seven
Where humility had formerly stood for a forced feeding on humble pie, it now begins to mean the nourishing ingredient which can give
us serenity.
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
7.
... serenity are
so combined, something else of ...
12&12 p.62,
Step Five
8.
... serenity as
I had never known.
BB p.14,
Bill's Story
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. Thy will, not mine, be done."
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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