From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... vigorous action,
the first step of which ...
BB p.63,
How It Works
Next we launched out on a course of vigorous action, the first step of which is a personal housecleaning, which many of us had never attempted.
2.
... vigorous and
painstaking effort to discover what ...
12&12 p.42,
Step Four
Step Four is our vigorous and painstaking effort to discover what
these liabilities in each of us have been, and are.
3.
... vigorous attempt
to repair the damage we ...
12&12 p.77,
Step Eight
First, we take a look backward and try to discover where we have
been at fault; next we make a vigorous attempt to repair the damage we have done; and third, having thus cleaned away the debris of the past, we consider how, with our newfound knowledge of ourselves, we may develop
the best possible relations with every human being we know.
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