From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... act.
12&12 p.37,
Step Three
How persistently we claim the right to decide all by ourselves just what we shall think and just how we shall act.
2.
... act.
12&12 p.64,
Step Six
When men and women pour so much alcohol into themselves
that they destroy their lives, they commit a most unnatural act.
3.
... act as
he wishes.
12&12 p.129,
Tradition One
We believe there isn't a fellowship on earth which
lavishes more devoted care upon its individual members; surely there is none which more jealously guards the individual's
right to think, talk, and act as he wishes.
4.
... act as
they see the right upon ...
12&12 p.177,
Tradition Ten
Nor does it mean that the members of Alcoholics Anonymous, now restored as citizens of
the world, are going to back away from their individual responsibilities to act as they see the right upon issues of our time.
5.
... act extemporaneously.
12&12 p.57,
Step Five
6.
... act, for
the more you hurry him ...
BB p.113,
To Wives
Wait until repeated stumbling convinces him he must act, for the more you hurry him the longer his recovery may be delayed.
7.
... act hastily
or rashly, the ability to ...
12&12 p.91,
Step Ten
When we speak or act hastily or rashly, the ability to be fair-minded and tolerant evaporates on the spot.
8.
... act like
most everybody does when afraid.
12&12 p.140,
Tradition Three
9.
... act like
one.
BB p.147,
To Employers
10.
... act of
his own will.
12&12 p.40,
Step Three
11.
... act of
Providence can remove it from ...
12&12 p.21,
Step One
It is truly awful to admit that, glass in hand, we have warped our minds into such an obsession for destructive drinking
that only an act of Providence can remove it
from us.
12.
... act once
in a while isn't enough.
BB p.97,
Working With Others
13.
... act only
as a banker for his ...
BB p.95,
Working With Others
If he is not interested in your solution, if he expects
you to act only as a banker
for his financial difficulties or a nurse
for his sprees, you may have to drop him until he changes his mind.
14.
... act or
think badly, try to visualize ...
12&12 p.94,
Step Ten
Here we need only recognize that we did act or
think badly, try to visualize how we might
have done better, and resolve with God's help to carry these lessons over into tomorrow, making, of course, any amends still neglected.
15.
... act or
thought.
12&12 p.95,
Step Ten
16.
... act that
appears to be wrong.
12&12 p.94,
Step Ten
As we glance down the debit side of the day's ledger, we should carefully examine our motives in each thought or act that appears to be wrong.
17.
... act the
Good Samaritan every day, if ...
BB p.97,
Working With Others
18.
... act to
good purpose until the habit ...
12&12 p.91,
Step Ten
For we can neither think
nor act to good purpose until the habit of self-restraint has become automatic.
19.
... act upon
these principles, your husband may ...
BB p.112,
To Wives
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