From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
HABIT occurs
7 times
(
Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
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1.
... habit and found they cannot break it, ...
BB xxviii(xxvi),
The Doctor's Opinion
These
allergic types can
never safely use
alcohol in any
form at all;
and once having
formed the
habit and
found they cannot
break it, once having
lost their
self-
confidence, their
reliance upon things
human, their
problems pile up on them and
become astonishingly difficult to
solve.
2.
... habit badly enough to gradually impair him ...
BB p.20,
There Is A Solution
3.
... habit of accurate self-appraisal.
12&12 p.89,
Step Ten
The
emphasis on
inventory is
heavy only
because a
great many of us have
never really
acquired the
habit of
accurate self-
appraisal.
4.
... habit of self-restraint has become automatic.
12&12 p.91,
Step Ten
For we can neither
think nor
act to
good purpose until the
habit of
self-
restraint has
become automatic.
5.
... habit, that it was indeed the beginning ...
12&12 p.23,
Step One
By
going back in our
own drinking histories, we
could
show that
years before
we
realized it we were out of
control, that our
drinking
even then was no
mere habit,
that it was
indeed the
beginning of a
fatal progression.
6.
... habit, until he is able to admit ...
12&12 p.88,
Step Ten
For the
wise have always
known that no one can make much of his
life until
self-
searching becomes a
regular habit, until he is
able to
admit and
accept
what he
finds, and until he
patiently and
persistently tries to
correct what is
wrong.
7.
... habit, with stubbornness, or a weak will?
BB p.140,
To Employers
Can you
discard the
feeling that you are
dealing only with
habit, with
stubbornness, or a
weak will?
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