From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
SURVIVAL occurs
6 times
(
Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
1.
... survival.
12&12 p.42,
Step Four
If
men and
women didn't
exert themselves to be
secure
in their
persons, made no
effort to
harvest food or
construct shelter, there would be no
survival.
2.
... survival.
12&12 p.74,
Step Seven
We may still have no very
high opinion of
humility as a
desirable personal virtue, but we do
recognize it as a
necessary aid to our
survival.
3.
... survival.
12&12 p.146,
Tradition Four
4.
... survival.
12&12 p.151,
Tradition Five
Yet such a
failure wouldn't
jeopardize their
personal survival.
5.
... survival.
12&12 p.177,
Tradition Ten
Since
recovery from
alcoholism is
life itself
to us, it is
imperative that we
preserve in
full strength our
means of
survival.
6.
... survival and
spread of Alcoholics Anonymous to ...
12&12 p.177,
Tradition Ten
We
conceive the
survival
and
spread of
Alcoholics Anonymous
to be something of far
greater importance than the
weight we could
collectively throw back
of any other
cause.
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