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


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... variety.   BB p.44, We Agnostics   Go to page 44 in the Big Book
To one who feels he is an atheist or agnostic such an experience seems impossible, but to continue as he is means disaster, especially if he is an alcoholic of the hopeless variety.


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... variety" because they develop slowly over a ...   BB p.567(569), Appendix II, Spiritual Experience   Display entire Appendix II
Most of our experiences are what the psychologist William James calls the "educational variety" because they develop slowly over a period of time.

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... variety of reasons, cannot have a family ...   12&12 p.120, Step Twelve
And what can be said of many A.A. members who, for a variety of reasons, cannot have a family life?


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... variety of suffering alcoholics.   BB xxiii, Foreword to Fourth Edition   Display entire Foreword to Fourth Edition
As the message of recovery has reached larger numbers of people, it has also touched the lives of a vastly greater variety of suffering alcoholics.


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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