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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
SURVIVE occurs
10 times
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Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
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1.
... 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
5.
... survive and
function effectively.
BB xix,
Foreword to Second Edition
6.
... survive and
live to become elder statesmen.
12&12 p.135,
Tradition Two
Happily, most of them
survive and
live to
become elder statesmen.
7.
... survive and
rediscover life.
BB p.153,
A Vision For You
Then you will
know what it
means to
give of
yourself that others may
survive and
rediscover life.
8.
... survive or
the individual will not.
12&12 p.130,
Tradition One
It
becomes plain that the
group must survive or the
individual will
not.
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
Neither he nor anybody else can
survive unless he
carries the
A.A. message.
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