From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... sudden.
BB p.57,
We Agnostics
2.
... sudden and
profound.
BB p.14,
Bill's Story
3.
... sudden and
spectacular upheavals.
BB p.567(569),
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience
Yet it is true that our first printing gave many readers the impression
that these personality changes, or religious experiences, must be in
the nature of sudden and spectacular upheavals.
4.
... sudden revolutionary
changes are described.
BB p.567(569),
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience
5.
... sudden spiritual
experience, following a meeting with ...
BB xv,
Foreword to Second Edition
Six months earlier, the broker had been
relieved of his drink obsession by a sudden spiritual experience,
following a meeting
with an alcoholic friend who had been in contact with the Oxford Groups of that day.
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