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


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... sponsors?   12&12 p.112, Step Twelve
Can we have the same kind of confidence and faith in these people who have been infected and sometimes crippled by our own illness that we have in our sponsors?

2.
... sponsors come to the rescue.   12&12 p.46, Step Four
At this stage of the inventory proceedings, our sponsors come to the rescue.

3.
... sponsors declared that we were the victims ...   12&12 p.22, Step One
Our sponsors declared that we were the victims of a mental obsession so subtly powerful that no amount of human willpower could break it.

4.
... sponsors of those who feel they need ...   12&12 p.46, Step Four
The sponsors of those who feel they need no inventory are confronted with quite another problem.

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... sponsors or spiritual advisers that we first ...   12&12 p.58, Step Five
Often it was while working on this Step with our sponsors or spiritual advisers that we first felt truly able to forgive others, no matter how deeply we felt they had wronged us.

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... sponsors pointed out our increasing sensitivity to ...   12&12 p.22, Step One
Relentlessly deepening our dilemma, our sponsors pointed out our increasing sensitivity to alcohol -- an allergy, they called it.


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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