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Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... actually a
perilous resolve.
12&12 p.56,
Step Five
Yet if
A.A.'s
experience means anything
at all, this is not only
unwise, but is
actually a
perilous resolve.
2.
... actually a
time when the press of ...
12&12 p.182,
Tradition Eleven
There was
actually a
time when
the
press of
America thought the
anonymity of
A.A. was
better for us than
some of our
own members did.
3.
... actually antisocial
were we to forbid them.
12&12 p.171,
Tradition Eight
It would be
actually antisocial were we to
forbid them.
4.
... actually are.
12&12 p.36,
Step Three
And the
facts seem to be
these: The more we
become willing to
depend upon a
Higher Power, the more
independent we
actually
are.
5.
... actually been
formed, though no one realized ...
BB xvii,
Foreword to Second Edition
When the
broker returned
to New
York in the
fall of
1935, the
first A.A. group had
actually been
formed, though no
one
realized it at the
time.
6.
... actually carry
the A.A. spirit into our ...
12&12 p.112,
Step Twelve
Can we
actually carry the
A.A. spirit into our
daily work?
7.
... actually demands
nothing.
12&12 p.109,
Step Twelve
This is
indeed the
kind of
giving that
actually demands nothing.
8.
... actually depends
upon obedience to spiritual principles.
12&12 p.130,
Tradition One
9.
... actually felt
the presence of God.
12&12 p.62,
Step Five
Many an
A.A., once
agnostic
or
atheistic, tells us that it was during this
stage of
Step Five that he
first actually felt the
presence of
God.
10.
... actually happened
in their lives.
BB p.29,
There Is A Solution
These
give a
fair cross section of our
membership and a
clear-
cut idea of what has
actually happened in their
lives.
11.
... actually have
earnest religious beliefs which remained ...
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
We could
actually have
earnest religious beliefs which
remained barren because we were still
trying to
play God ourselves.
12.
... actually have
given our emotions violent twists ...
12&12 p.80,
Step Eight
At the
time of these
occurrences, they may
actually have
given our
emotions violent twists which have since
discolored our
personalities and
altered our
lives for the
worse.
13.
Actually, he
may be helping you more ...
BB p.94,
Working With Others
Actually, he may be
helping
you more than you are
helping him.
14.
... actually is.
12&12 p.35,
Step Three
Let's
look at how
practical it
actually is.
15.
... actually kill.
BB p.66,
How It Works
In that
state, the
wrong-doing of others,
fancied or
real, had
power to
actually kill.
16.
... actually means.
12&12 p.92,
Step Ten
Finally, we
begin to see that all people,
including ourselves, are to some
extent emotionally ill as well as
frequently wrong, and then we
approach
true tolerance and see
what
real love for our
fellows actually means.
17.
... actually need
protection from their father, it ...
BB p.115,
To Wives
Unless they
actually need protection from their
father, it is
best not to
take
sides in any
argument he has with them while
drinking.
18.
... actually ruptured
the brain.
BB p.140,
To Employers
19.
... actually shunned
by fellow members.
12&12 p.168,
Tradition Eight
At
times, they were
actually
shunned by
fellow members.
20.
... actually sit
down and talk aloud about ...
12&12 p.60,
Step Five
Until we
actually sit down and
talk aloud about what we have
so
long hidden, our
willingness to
clean house is still
largely theoretical.
21.
... actually succeeded
in throwing Ed out for ...
12&12 p.145,
Tradition Three
22.
... actually take
satisfaction from the fact that ...
12&12 p.67,
Step Six
In a
perverse way we can
actually take
satisfaction
from the
fact that many people
annoy us, for it brings a
comfortable feeling of
superiority.
23.
... actually to
practice a genuine humility.
12&12 p.192,
Tradition Twelve (Long)
It
reminds us that we are to place
principles before
personalities; that we are
actually to
practice a
genuine humility.
24.
... actually to
practice a genuine humility.
BB p.566(568),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
It
reminds us that we are to place
principles before
personalities; that we are
actually to
practice a
genuine humility.
25.
... actually visiting
or even writing the people ...
12&12 p.79,
Step Eight
But the
prospect of
actually visiting or even
writing the people
concerned now
overwhelmed us,
especially when we
remembered in what
poor favor we
stood with most of
them.
26.
Actually, we
used to have no reasonable ...
BB p.49,
We Agnostics
Actually, we used to have no
reasonable conception
whatever.
27.
Actually we
were fooling ourselves, for deep ...
BB p.55,
We Agnostics
Actually we were
fooling
ourselves, for
deep down in every
man,
woman, and
child, is the
fundamental
idea of
God.
28.
... actually were.
12&12 p.22,
Step One
Even these "
last-
gaspers"
often had
difficulty in
realizing how
hopeless
they
actually were.
29.
... actually work?
12&12 p.37,
Step Three
This
brave philosophy,
wherein each
man plays God,
sounds good in the
speaking, but it still has to
meet the
acid test: how well does it
actually
work?
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