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

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perception
perfect
PERFECTION   occurs   12 times 1 in BB  •  11 in 12&12 Definition in Merriam-Webster Online
perfectionists
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1.
  ... perfection.  BB How It Works, p.60
We claim spiritual progress rather than spiritual perfection.


2.
  ... perfection.  12&12 Contents (Step Six), pp.6-7
Recognition of difference between striving for objective -- and perfection.


3.
  ... perfection!"  12&12 Step Six, p.68
Why -- that is perfection!"


4.
  ... perfection.  12&12 Step Six, p.68
Only Step One, where we made the 100 percent admission we were powerless over alcohol, can be practiced with absolute perfection.


5.
  ... perfection.  12&12 Step Six, p.69
It is suggested that we ought to become entirely willing to aim toward perfection.


6.
  ... perfection.  12&12 Step Ten, p.91
We shall look for progress, not for perfection.


7.
  ... perfection, and be ready to walk in ...  12&12 Step Six, p.68
We shall need to raise our eyes toward perfection, and be ready to walk in that direction.


8.
  ... perfection as will get us by in ...  12&12 Step Six, p.68
Therefore, it seems plain that few of us can quickly or easily become ready to aim at spiritual and moral perfection; we want to settle for only as much perfection as will get us by in life, according, of course, to our various and sundry ideas of what will get us by.


9.
  ... perfection, but I'm certainly not going to ...  12&12 Step Six, p.69
Sure, I'll head toward perfection, but I'm certainly not going to hurry any.


10.
  ... perfection, have gone to the other extreme ...  12&12 Tradition Six, p.156
We are all perfectionists who, failing perfection, have gone to the other extreme and settled for the bottle and the blackout.


11.
  ... perfection that God wishes for us here ...  12&12 Step Six, p.65
When they drive us blindly, or we willfully demand that they supply us with more satisfactions or pleasures than are possible or due us, that is the point at which we depart from the degree of perfection that God wishes for us here on earth.


12.
  ... perfection; we want to settle for only ...  12&12 Step Six, p.68
Therefore, it seems plain that few of us can quickly or easily become ready to aim at spiritual and moral perfection; we want to settle for only as much perfection as will get us by in life, according, of course, to our various and sundry ideas of what will get us by.


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