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
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