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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... driven argument.
12&12 p.91,
Step Ten
2.
Driven by
a hundred forms of fear, ...
BB p.62,
How It Works
3.
... driven by
pride of self unconsciously blind ...
12&12 p.46,
Step Four
This is because people who are
driven by
pride of
self unconsciously blind
themselves to their
liabilities.
4.
... driven everybody
away and our isolation had ...
12&12 p.116,
Step Twelve
But when
self-will had
driven
everybody away and our
isolation had
become complete, it
caused us to
play the
big shot in
cheap barrooms and then
fare forth alone on the
street to
depend upon the
charity
of
passersby.
5.
... driven individualists.
12&12 p.146,
Tradition Four
That was
sure to be, since we are so
largely a
band of
ego-
driven individualists.
6.
... driven on
by the inescapable conclusion which ...
12&12 p.73,
Step Seven
But again we are
driven on by the
inescapable conclusion which we
draw
from
A.A. experience, that
we
surely must try with a will, or else
fall by
the
wayside.
7.
... driven to
A.A., and there we discover ...
12&12 p.24,
Step One
Under the
lash of
alcoholism, we are
driven
to
A.A., and there we
discover the
fatal nature of our
situation.
8.
... driven to
A.A., have admitted defeat, have ...
12&12 p.38,
Step Three
So it is by
circumstance rather than by any
virtue that we have been
driven to
A.A., have
admitted defeat, have
acquired the
rudiments
of
faith, and now
want to
make a
decision to
turn
our will and our
lives over to a
Higher Power.
9.
... driven to
A.A., we learned better.
12&12 p.30,
Step Two
But finally,
driven to
A.A., we
learned better.
10.
... driven to
maudlin sympathy, to bitter resentment.
BB p.105,
To Wives
We have been
driven to
maudlin sympathy, to
bitter resentment.
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