From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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
We saw that the group, exactly like the individual, must eventually conform to whatever tested principles would guarantee survival.
4.
... survival.
12&12 p.151,
Tradition Five
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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