From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
SURFACE occurs
4 times
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1.
... surface.
12&12 p.177,
Tradition Ten
Before we
leveled off a
bit,
A.A. looked more like one
prodigious squabble
than anything else, at
least on the
surface.
2.
... surface and
we laboriously set out to ...
BB p.49,
We Agnostics
When, however, the
perfectly logical assumption is
suggested that
underneath the
material
world and
life as we see it,
there is an All
Powerful,
Guiding,
Creative Intelligence,
right
there our
perverse streak comes to the
surface and we
laboriously set out to
convince ourselves
it isn't so.
3.
... surface of
the problem would hardly be ...
BB p.19,
There Is A Solution
If we
keep on the way we are
going there is
little doubt that much
good will
result, but the
surface of the
problem would
hardly be
scratched.
4.
... surface record
hasn't looked too bad, we ...
12&12 p.53,
Step Four
Because our
surface record
hasn't
looked too
bad, we
have
frequently been
abashed to find that this is so
simply because we have
buried
these
selfsame defects
deep down in us under
thick
layers of
self-
justification.
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