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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
SUFFICIENCY occurs
8 times
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1.
... sufficiency.
12&12 p.37,
Step Three
Should his
own image in the
mirror be too
awful to
contemplate (and it usually is), he might
first take a
look at the
results normal people are
getting from
self-
sufficiency.
2.
... sufficiency and
all will to resist its ...
12&12 p.21,
Step One
Alcohol, now
become the
rapacious creditor,
bleeds us of all
self-
sufficiency and all will to
resist
its demands.
3.
... sufficiency is
not paying off.
12&12 p.37,
Step Three
The
philosophy of
self-
sufficiency is not
paying off.
4.
... sufficiency, prejudice,
and defiance often prove more ...
12&12 p.28,
Step Two
5.
... sufficiency, that
we began to feel humility ...
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
It was only at the
end of a
long road,
marked by
successive defeats and
humiliations, and the
final crushing of our
self-
sufficiency, that we
began to
feel humility as something more than a
condition of
groveling
despair.
6.
... sufficiency who
have cut themselves off, those ...
12&12 p.28,
Step Two
There will be those who have
drifted into
indifference, those
filled with
self-
sufficiency who have
cut themselves
off, those who have
become prejudiced against
religion, and those who are
downright defiant because
God has
failed to
fulfill their
demands.
7.
... sufficiency" worked
with them, we began to ...
BB p.52,
We Agnostics
When others
showed us that "
God-
sufficiency"
worked with them, we
began to
feel like those who had
insisted the
Wrights would
never fly.
8.
... sufficiency would
solve our problems.
BB p.52,
We Agnostics
We
agnostics and
atheists were
sticking to
the
idea that
self-
sufficiency would
solve our
problems.
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