From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... Thou, nothing
whatever except the sincere desire ...
BB p.18,
There Is A Solution
That the man who is making
the approach has had the same difficulty, that he obviously knows what he is
talking about, that his whole deportment shouts at the new prospect that he is a man with
a real answer, that he has
no attitude of Holier Than Thou, nothing whatever except the sincere desire to be helpful; that
there are no fees to pay, no axes
to grind, no people to please, no lectures to be endured -- these are the conditions we have found
most effective.
2.
... Thou wilt.
BB p.63,
How It Works
Many of us said to our Maker, as we understood
Him: "God, I offer myself to Thee -- to build with me and to do with me as Thou wilt.
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