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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
SPIRITUALLY occurs
8 times
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1.
... spiritually active.
BB p.156,
A Vision For You
Both saw that they
must keep
spiritually active.
2.
... spiritually, and
is therefore entitled to be ...
12&12 p.63,
Step Six
He
goes on to
explain that
any
person capable of
enough willingness and
honesty to
try repeatedly Step Six on all his
faults -- without
any
reservations whatever -- has
indeed come a
long way
spiritually, and is
therefore
entitled to be called a
man who is
sincerely trying to
grow in the
image and
likeness of his
own Creator.
3.
... spiritually centered
and truly religious people.
12&12 p.56,
Step Five
It has been
validated in every
century, and it
characterizes the
lives
of all
spiritually centered and
truly religious people.
4.
... spiritually fit,
we can do all sorts ...
BB p.100,
Working With Others
Assuming we are
spiritually fit, we can do all
sorts of things
alcoholics
are not
supposed to do.
5.
... spiritually-minded persons
of all races, colors, and ...
BB p.49,
We Agnostics
We used to
amuse ourselves by
cynically dissecting
spiritual beliefs and
practices when we might have
observed that many
spiritually-
minded persons of all
races,
colors, and
creeds were
demonstrating a
degree
of
stability,
happiness and
usefulness which we should have
sought ourselves.
6.
... spiritually sick.
BB p.64,
How It Works
From it
stem all
forms of
spiritual disease, for we
have been not only
mentally and
physically ill, we have been
spiritually sick.
7.
... spiritually sick.
BB p.66,
How It Works
This was our
course: We
realized that the people who
wronged us were perhaps
spiritually sick.
8.
... spiritually, we
find that our old attitudes ...
12&12 p.114,
Step Twelve
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