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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... permanent and legitimate satisfactions of right living ...
12&12 p.124,
Step Twelve
Service,
gladly rendered,
obligations
squarely met,
troubles well
accepted or
solved with
God's
help, the
knowledge that at
home or in the
world outside we are
partners in
a
common effort, the
well-
understood fact
that in
God's
sight all
human beings are
important, the
proof that
love freely given surely brings a
full return, the
certainty that we are no
longer isolated and alone
in
self-
constructed prisons, the
surety that we
need no
longer be
square pegs in
round holes but can
fit and
belong in
God's
scheme of things -- these
are the
permanent and
legitimate satisfactions of
right
living for which no
amount
of
pomp and
circumstance, no
heap of
material possessions, could
possibly be
substitutes.
2.
... permanent assets we shall seek.
12&12 p.95,
Step Ten
3.
... permanent brain injury.
BB xxxi(xxix),
The Doctor's Opinion
Following the
elimination of
alcohol,
there was
found to be no
permanent brain injury.
4.
... permanent effect unless at once followed by ...
BB p.64,
How It Works
Though our
decision was a
vital and
crucial step, it could have
little
permanent effect unless at once
followed by
a
strenuous effort to
face, and to be
rid of, the
things in ourselves which had been
blocking us.
5.
... permanent leadership of A.A.
12&12 p.135,
Tradition Two
They
become the
real and
permanent leadership of
A.A.
6.
Permanent marriage breakups and separations, however, are ...
12&12 p.117,
Step Twelve
7.
... permanent recovery.
BB xvii,
Foreword to Second Edition
It also
indicated that
strenuous work, one
alcoholic with another, was
vital to
permanent recovery.
8.
... permanent sobriety and a contented, useful life.
12&12 p.40,
Step Three
More
sobriety brought about by the
admission of
alcoholism and by
attendance at a few
meetings is very
good indeed, but it is
bound to be
a far
cry from
permanent sobriety and a
contented,
useful life.
9.
... permanent unity.
BB p.561(563),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
Therefore, no
society of
men
and
women ever had a more
urgent need for
continuous effectiveness and
permanent unity.
10.
... permanent values, this blindness to the true ...
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
This
lack of
anchorage to
any
permanent values, this
blindness to the
true purpose of our
lives,
produced another
bad result.
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