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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... perfect adherence to these principles.
BB p.60,
How It Works
No one among us has been able to
maintain
anything like
perfect adherence to these
principles.
2.
... perfect after all.
BB p.129,
The Family Afterward
He will
perceive that his
spiritual growth is
lopsided, that for an
average man like himself, a
spiritual life which does
not
include his
family obligations may not be so
perfect after all.
3.
... perfect and enlarge his spiritual life through ...
BB p.14,
Bill's Story
For if an
alcoholic failed to
perfect and
enlarge his
spiritual life through
work and
self-
sacrifice for others,
he could not
survive the
certain trials and
low spots ahead.
4.
... perfect day, not a cloud on the ...
BB p.41,
More About Alcoholism
It was the
end of a
perfect day, not a
cloud on the
horizon.
5.
... perfect definition of humility.
12&12 p.153,
Tradition Five
I'll
bet, too, that you could
give me a
letter-
perfect definition of
humility.
6.
... perfect excuse for minimizing or forgetting our ...
12&12 p.78,
Step Eight
7.
... perfect freedom of will and action.
12&12 p.147,
Tradition Four
In all other
respects there was
perfect freedom of will and
action.
8.
... perfect ideals.
12&12 p.68,
Step Six
9.
... perfect justice, forgiveness, and love was healthy, ...
12&12 p.116,
Step Twelve
We
found that
dependence upon His
perfect
justice,
forgiveness, and
love was
healthy, and that it would
work where
nothing else would.
10.
... perfect liberty to handle this matter any ...
12&12 p.173,
Tradition Nine
They even had to
coin a
couple of
sentences which
still go into
half the
letters they
write: "Of
course, you are at
perfect liberty to
handle this
matter any way you
please.
11.
... perfect objective which is of God.
12&12 p.68,
Step Six
So the
difference between "the
boys and the
men" is the
difference between
striving for a
self-
determined objective
and for the
perfect objective which is of
God.
12.
... perfect peace and ease.
BB p.75,
Into Action
We can be alone at
perfect peace and
ease.
13.
... perfect release from alcoholism, why then shouldn't ...
12&12 p.64,
Step Six
Having been
granted a
perfect release from
alcoholism, why then shouldn't we be able to
achieve by the same
means a
perfect release from every
other
difficulty or
defect?
14.
... perfect release from every other difficulty or ...
12&12 p.64,
Step Six
Having been
granted a
perfect release from
alcoholism, why then shouldn't we be able to
achieve by the same
means a
perfect release from every
other
difficulty or
defect?
15.
... perfect safety in the process of trial ...
12&12 p.146,
Tradition Four
We had
discovered that there was
perfect safety in the
process of
trial and
error.
16.
... perfect visual proof.
BB p.48,
We Agnostics
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