From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... spoke in
a very different voice.
12&12 p.142,
Tradition Three
2.
... spoke of
their spiritual experience and told ...
BB p.157,
A Vision For You
The two friends spoke of their spiritual experience and told him
about the course of action
they carried out.
3.
... spoke of
these things just before he ...
BB p.10,
Bill's Story
I could almost hear the sound of the preacher's voice as I sat, on still Sundays, way over there on the hillside; there was that proffered temperance
pledge I never signed; my grandfather's
good natured contempt of some church folk and their doings; his insistence that the spheres really had their music; but his denial of the
preacher's right to tell him how he must listen; his fearlessness as he spoke
of these things just before he died; these recollections welled
up from the past.
4.
... spoke the
group conscience.
12&12 p.138,
Tradition Two
5.
... spoke with
great freedom from embarrassment, which ...
BB p.178,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
They spoke with great freedom from embarrassment, which I could never do, and they seemed very much at ease on all occasions and appeared very healthy.
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