From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
COMPULSIONS occurs
2 times
(
Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
1.
... compulsions and
desires?
12&12 p.73,
Step Seven
How can we
possibly summon the
resolution and
the
willingness to get
rid of such
overwhelming
compulsions and
desires?
2.
... compulsions of
self-preservation, duty, and love, it ...
12&12 p.151,
Tradition Five
Under these
compulsions of
self-
preservation,
duty, and
love, it is not
strange that our
Society
has
concluded that it has but one
high mission -- to
carry the
A.A. message to those who don't
know there's a way out.
Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous
and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
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