From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... vital.
12&12 p.164,
Tradition Seven
2.
... vital and
crucial step, it could have ...
BB p.64,
How It Works
Though our decision was
a vital and crucial step, it could have little permanent effect unless at once followed by a strenuous
effort to face, and to be rid of, the things in ourselves which had been blocking us.
3.
... vital, faith
must be accompanied by self ...
BB p.93,
Working With Others
4.
... vital part
in your own recovery.
BB p.94,
Working With Others
It is important for him to realize that your attempt
to pass this on to him plays
a vital part in your own recovery.
5.
... vital place
in the lives of their ...
BB p.15,
Bill's Story
I have seen men come out of asylums and resume a vital place in the lives of their families and
communities.
6.
... vital sixth
sense.
BB p.85,
Into Action
7.
... vital spiritual
experience.
BB p.27,
There Is A Solution
This hope, however, was destroyed by the doctor's
telling him that while his
religious convictions were very good, in his case they did not spell the necessary vital spiritual experience.
8.
... vital spiritual
experiences.
BB p.27,
There Is A Solution
9.
... vital Step
was also the means by ...
12&12 p.57,
Step Five
This vital Step was also the means by which we began to get the feeling that we could be forgiven, no matter what we had thought
or done.
10.
... vital step,
we may not overcome drinking.
BB p.72,
Into Action
11.
... vital test.
12&12 p.157,
Tradition Six
12.
... vital to
permanent recovery.
BB xvii,
Foreword to Second Edition
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