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Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... able and
exceedingly anxious to adopt any ...
BB
A Vision For You, p.163
2.
... able and
persistent advocates.
BB
Foreword to Second Edition, p.xx
3.
... able and
respected, was then nearing the ...
BB
A Vision For You, p.155
4.
... able and
willing to get well, little ...
BB
Working With Others, p.97
5.
... able example
and not upon vain displays ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.124
6.
... able, intelligent,
friendly people.
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxx
7.
... able to
achieve by the same means ...
12&12
Step Six, p.64
8.
... able to
admit and accept what he ...
12&12
Step Ten, p.88
9.
... able to
alter my own conduct and ...
12&12
Step Four, p.52
10.
... able to
avoid it.
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.43
Had you
offered yourselves as
patients at
this
hospital, I would not have
taken you, if I had been
able to
avoid it.
11.
... able to
be of this world once ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.127
They should be
thankful he is
sober and
able to be of this
world once more.
12.
... able to
bring myself to feel that ...
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxxi
I
talked with him for some
time, but was not
able to
bring myself to
feel that I had
known him
before.
13.
... able to
build upon the lessons of ...
12&12
Tradition One, p.131
By
faith and by
works we have
been
able to
build upon the
lessons of an
incredible experience.
14.
... able to
control his desire for alcohol, ...
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxix
15.
... able to
determine which course to take.
BB
Into Action, p.86
We may not be
able to
determine which
course to
take.
16.
... able to
do anything."
BB
A Vision For You, p.158
"
God ought to be
able to do
anything."
17.
... able to
do, feel, and believe that ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.106
When a
man or a
woman has a
spiritual awakening, the
most
important meaning
of it is that he has
now become
able to do,
feel, and
believe that which he could not do
before on his
unaided strength and
resources alone.
18.
... able to
do with it!
12&12
Tradition Seven, p.160
What
great things A.A. would be
able to do with it!
19.
... able to
find some of these treasures, ...
12&12
Step Eleven, p.101
He
hoped,
God willing, that he might be
able
to
find some of these
treasures, too.
20.
... able to
forgive others, no matter how ...
12&12
Step Five, p.58
21.
... able to
get away with a few ...
BB
To Employers, p.142
If he
says yes, does he
really mean it, or
down inside does he
think he is
fooling you, and
that
after rest and
treatment he
will be
able to
get away
with a
few drinks now and then?
22.
... able to
hold my position, I could ...
BB
To Employers, p.141
I
know, in my
own particular case, that
nothing my
company could have
done would have
stopped me
for, so
long as I was
able to
hold my
position, I could not
possibly realize how
serious my
situation was.
23.
... able to
justify the most arrant nonsense ...
12&12
Step Five, p.60
Lacking both practice and
humility, they
had
deluded themselves
and were
able to
justify the
most
arrant nonsense on
the
ground that this was what
God had
told them.
24.
... able to
keep a confidence; that he ...
BB
Into Action, p.74
It is
important that he be
able to
keep a
confidence; that he
fully understand and
approve
what we are
driving at; that he
will not
try to
change our
plan.
25.
... able to
lay aside prejudice and express ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.46
26.
... able to
leave it behind us.
12&12
Step Ten, p.89
When this is
done, we are
really able to
leave it
behind us.
27.
... able to
let Him in?
12&12
Step Three, p.34
28.
... able to
maintain anything like perfect adherence ...
BB
How It Works, p.60
29.
... able to
make direct personal contact at ...
12&12
Step Nine, p.83
30.
... able to
make use of his services ...
BB
To Employers, p.146
31.
... able to
meet other difficulties of life.
12&12
Foreword, p.15
32.
... able to
move closer to the ideal ...
12&12
Step Eleven, p.101
It
ought to be
followed by
a
good look at where we
stand now, and a
further look at what might
happen in our
lives were we
able to
move closer to the
ideal we have been
trying to
glimpse.
33.
... able to
muster.
BB
Foreword to Second Edition, p.xvi
34.
... able to
offer them.
BB
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A., p.570
35.
... able to
receive forgiveness and give it, ...
12&12
Step Five, p.58
36.
... able to
recover on a spiritual basis.
BB
A Vision For You, p.162
Understanding our
work,
he can do this with an
eye to
selecting those who are
willing and
able to
recover on a
spiritual basis.
37.
... able to
say that the consciousness of ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.51
38.
... able to
say with assurance that Alcoholics ...
12&12
Tradition Nine, p.172
Today, we are
able to
say with
assurance that
Alcoholics Anonymous --
A.A. as a
whole -- should
never be
organized at all.
39.
... able to
secure a much coveted internship ...
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.174
40.
... able to
see that instinct run wild ...
12&12
Step Four, p.44
41.
... able to
see the change setting in.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.109
42.
... able to
snap back the next morning ...
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.172
43.
... able to
stay sober, or even alive, ...
12&12
Tradition Two, p.132
Alone now, he
reflects that he may not be
able to
stay sober, or
even alive,
unless he
passes on to
other alcoholics what was so
freely given him.
44.
... able to
stop for a considerable period, ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.34
45.
... able to
stop for a long period ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.32
46.
... able to
stop or moderate, because their ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.39
47.
... able to
summon the faith that can ...
12&12
Step Seven, p.70
48.
... able to
surmount other serious difficulties.
12&12
Step Five, p.61
49.
... able to
take a position with such ...
BB
To Employers, p.148
He
will be
able to
take a
position with
such a
man which is
eminently fair and
square.
50.
... able to
take discipline, stand up under ...
12&12
Step Three, p.38
51.
... able to
take our first steps toward ...
12&12
Step One, p.21
52.
... able to
touch more than a fair ...
BB
Foreword to Second Edition, p.xxi
53.
... able to
understand Him.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.109
The
persistent use of
meditation and
prayer, we
found, did
open the
channel so that where there had been a
trickle, there
now was a
river which
led to
sure power and
safe guidance from
God as we were
increasingly
better able to
understand Him.
54.
... able to
understand people who said that ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.42
55.
... able, while
acutely depressed, realization of his ...
BB
To Employers, p.144
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