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... survive.
BB
To Wives, p.120
Your husband will see at once that he must redouble his spiritual activities if
he expects to survive.
2.
... survive?"
BB
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.561
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?"
3.
... survive.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.107
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.
4.
... survive.
12&12
Tradition One, pp.130-131
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.
5.
... survive and
function effectively.
BB
Foreword to Second Edition, p.xix
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
Tradition Two, p.135
7.
... survive and
rediscover life.
BB
A Vision For You, p.153
8.
... survive or
the individual will not.
12&12
Tradition One, p.130
9.
... survive or
the individual will not. Common ...
12&12
Contents (Tradition One), p.9
Tradition One -- "Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon A.A. unity." Without unity, A.A. dies. Individual liberty, yet great unity. Key to paradox: each A.A.'s life depends on obedience to spiritual principles.
The group must survive or the individual will not. Common welfare comes first. How best to live and work together as groups.
10.
... survive the
certain trials and low spots ...
BB
Bill's Story, pp.14-15
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.
11.
... survive unless
he carries the A.A. message.
12&12
Tradition One, p.130
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