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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
WEIGHT occurs
5 times
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1.
... weight.
BB p.7,
Bill's Story
I could
eat little or
nothing when
drinking, and
I was
forty pounds under
weight.
2.
... weight.
BB xxviii(xxvi),
The Doctor's Opinion
The
message which can
interest and
hold these
alcoholic people
must have
depth and
weight.
3.
... weight of
the A.A. name behind any ...
12&12 p.155,
Tradition Six
4.
... weight to
be willing to look for ...
12&12 p.38,
Step Three
Each of us has had his
own near-
fatal encounter with the
juggernaut of
self-will,
and has
suffered enough
under
its weight to be
willing to
look for something
better.
5.
... weight we
could collectively throw back of ...
12&12 p.177,
Tradition Ten
We
conceive the
survival and
spread of
Alcoholics Anonymous
to be something of far
greater importance than the
weight
we could
collectively throw back of any other
cause.
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