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


1.
... unaided strength and resources alone.   12&12 p.107, Step Twelve
When a man or a woman has a spiritual awakening, the most important meaning of it is that he has now become able to do, feel, and believe that which he could not do before on his unaided strength and resources alone.

2.
... unaided will.   12&12 p.22, Step One
There was, they said, no such thing as the personal conquest of this compulsion by the unaided will.

3.
... unaided will cannot do it.   12&12 p.39, Step Three
His lone courage and unaided will cannot do it.


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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