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From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)


1.
... trial.   12&12 p.40, Step Three
Then it is explained that other Steps of the A.A. program can be practiced with success only when Step Three is given a determined and persistent trial.

2.
... trial.   12&12 p.84, Step Nine
Even our severest and most justified critics will frequently meet us more than halfway on the first trial.

3.
... trial and error.   12&12 p.146, Tradition Four
We had discovered that there was perfect safety in the process of trial and error.

4.
... trial and error in selecting the most ...   12&12 p.16, Foreword
After three years of trial and error in selecting the most workable tenets upon which the Society could be based, and after a large amount of failure in getting alcoholics to recover, three successful groups emerged -- the first at Akron, the second at New York, and the third at Cleveland.

5.
... trial and error which, under the grace ...   12&12 p.146, Tradition Four
These very deviations created a vast process of trial and error which, under the grace of God, has brought us to where we stand today.

6.
... trial at making amends, we may enjoy ...   12&12 p.85, Step Nine
After taking this preliminary trial at making amends, we may enjoy such a sense of relief that we conclude our task is finished.


Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.  The A.A. Preamble, copyright © The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission.  Permission to reprint does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous or The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.

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