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From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)

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DRIVEN   occurs   10 times 2 in BB  •  8 in 12&12 Definition in Merriam-Webster Online
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1.
  ... driven argument.  12&12 Step Ten, p.91
We must avoid quick-tempered criticism and furious, power-driven argument.


2.
  Driven by a hundred forms of fear, ...  BB How It Works, p.62
Driven by a hundred forms of fear, self-delusion, self-seeking, and self-pity, we step on the toes of our fellows and they retaliate.


3.
  ... driven by pride of self unconsciously blind ...  12&12 Step Four, p.46
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 Step Twelve, p.116
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 Tradition Four, p.146
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 Step Seven, p.73
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 Step One, p.24
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 Step Three, p.38
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 Step Two, p.30
But finally, driven to A.A., we learned better.


10.
  ... driven to maudlin sympathy, to bitter resentment.  BB To Wives, pp.104-105
We have been driven to maudlin sympathy, to bitter resentment.


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