From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... survive.
12&12 p.107,
Step Twelve
In Step Two we saw that since we could not restore ourselves to sanity, some Higher Power must necessarily do so if we were to survive.
2.
... survive.
12&12 p.131,
Tradition One
As we had once struggled
and prayed for individual recovery, just so earnestly did we commence to quest for the principles through which
A.A. itself might survive.
3.
... survive.
BB p.120,
To Wives
Your husband will see at once that he must redouble his spiritual activities
if he expects to survive.
4.
... survive?"
BB p.561(563),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
The "12 Traditions" of Alcoholics Anonymous
are, we A.A.'s believe, the
best answers that our experience has yet given to those ever-urgent questions, "How can A.A. best function?" and, "How can
A.A. best stay whole and so survive?"
5.
... survive and
function effectively.
BB xix,
Foreword to Second Edition
As we discovered the principles by which the individual alcoholic
could live, so we had to evolve principles by
which the A.A. groups and A.A. as a whole could survive and function effectively.
6.
... survive and
live to become elder statesmen.
12&12 p.135,
Tradition Two
7.
... survive and
rediscover life.
BB p.153,
A Vision For You
8.
... survive or
the individual will not.
12&12 p.130,
Tradition One
9.
... survive the
certain trials and low spots ...
BB p.15,
Bill's Story
For if an alcoholic failed to perfect and enlarge his spiritual life through work and self-sacrifice for others, he
could not survive the certain trials and low spots ahead.
10.
... survive unless
he carries the A.A. message.
12&12 p.130,
Tradition One
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