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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... admit alcohol
has him down for keeps.
12&12 p.25,
Step Two
It's
bad enough, he
thinks, to
admit alcohol has him down for
keeps.
2.
... admit and
accept what he finds, and ...
12&12 p.88,
Step Ten
For the
wise have always
known that no one can make much of his
life until
self-
searching becomes a
regular habit, until he is
able to
admit and
accept
what he
finds, and until he
patiently and
persistently tries to
correct what is
wrong.
3.
... admit, and
correct these flaws is the ...
12&12 p.95,
Step Ten
4.
... admit complete
defeat?
12&12 p.21,
Step One
5.
... admit complete
defeat is the main taproot ...
12&12 p.22,
Step One
The
principle that we shall find no
enduring strength until
we
first admit complete defeat is the
main taproot from which our
whole Society has
sprung and
flowered.
6.
... admit defeat,
most of us revolted.
12&12 p.22,
Step One
When
first challenged
to
admit defeat, most of us
revolted.
7.
... admit if
we substituted alcoholism for jay-walking, ...
BB p.38,
More About Alcoholism
We, who have been through the
wringer, have to
admit if we
substituted
alcoholism for
jay-
walking, the
illustration would
fit us
exactly.
8.
... admit it
is injurious, they cannot after ...
BB xxviii(xxvi),
The Doctor's Opinion
The
sensation is so
elusive that, while they
admit
it is
injurious, they cannot after a
time differentiate the
true from the
false.
9.
... admit it
promptly.
12&12 p.108,
Step Twelve
By this
time, at
Step Ten, we had
begun to get a
basis for
daily living, and we
keenly realized that we would
need
to
continue taking personal inventory, and
that when we were in the
wrong we ought to
admit it
promptly.
10.
... admit it
-- to ourselves always, and to ...
12&12 p.93,
Step Ten
Whenever we
fail any of
these people, we can
promptly admit it -- to ourselves always, and to them also, when the
admission would be
helpful.
11.
... admit nobody
to A.A. but that hypothetical ...
12&12 p.140,
Tradition Three
12.
... admit other
defects that have made us ...
12&12 p.84,
Step Nine
Almost always we
want to go
further and
admit other
defects that have made us
hard
to
live with.
13.
... admit our
fault.
BB p.81,
Into Action
Undoubtedly we should
admit our
fault.
14.
... admit that
A.A. showed results, prodigious results.
12&12 p.27,
Step Two
15.
... admit that
and mend his spiritual fences.
BB p.135,
The Family Afterward
He had to
painfully admit
that and
mend his
spiritual fences.
16.
... admit that,
glass in hand, we have ...
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.
17.
... admit that
he cannot take a drink.
BB xxx(xxviii),
The Doctor's Opinion
There is the
type of
man who is
unwilling to
admit that
he cannot take a
drink.
18.
Admit that
he probably knows more about ...
BB p.93,
Working With Others
Admit that he
probably knows more about it than you do, but call to his
attention the
fact that
however
deep his
faith and
knowledge, he could not have
applied it or he would not
drink.
19.
... admit that
our justification for a spree ...
BB p.37,
More About Alcoholism
But even in this
type of
beginning we are
obliged
to
admit that our
justification for a
spree was
insanely insufficient in the
light of what always
happened.
20.
... admit that
their imaginary sex excursions are ...
12&12 p.67,
Step Six
And even while
staying within conventional bounds, many people have to
admit that their
imaginary sex excursions are
apt to be all
dressed up as
dreams of
romance.
21.
... admit that
they prefer to hang on ...
12&12 p.68,
Step Six
But even these people, if they
construct a
list of still
milder defects, will be
obliged to
admit that they
prefer to
hang on to some of them.
22.
... admit that
we had many of these ...
12&12 p.47,
Step Four
First of all, we had to
admit
that we had many of these
defects, even though
such
disclosures were
painful and
humiliating.
23.
... admit that
we have loved but a ...
12&12 p.92,
Step Ten
Most of us
must admit that we
have
loved but a few; that we have been quite
indifferent to the many so
long as
none of them
gave us
trouble; and as for
the
remainder -- well, we have really
disliked or
hated them.
24.
... admit the
damage we have done and ...
12&12 p.84,
Step Nine
Against this
background we can
freely admit the
damage we have done and make our
apologies.
25.
... admit the
damage we have done by ...
12&12 p.84,
Step Nine
After
coming from our
first
meeting, or perhaps after we have
finished reading the book
"
Alcoholics Anonymous," we usually
want
to
sit down with some
member
of the
family and
readily
admit the
damage we have
done by our
drinking.
26.
... admit the
truth about ourselves -- the help ...
12&12 p.59,
Step Five
We'd have to have
outside help if we were
surely to
know and
admit the
truth about ourselves -- the
help of
God and another
human being.
27.
... admit them.
BB p.99,
Working With Others
Little by
little the
family may see their
own defects and
admit them.
28.
... admit we
have made little impression upon ...
BB xxix(xxvii),
The Doctor's Opinion
29.
... admit we
have some of these symptoms, ...
BB p.38,
More About Alcoholism
We
admit we have some of these
symptoms, but we have not
gone to the
extremes you
fellows did, nor are we
likely to, for we
understand ourselves so well after what you have
told us that such things cannot
happen again.
30.
... admit we
were real alcoholics.
BB p.30,
More About Alcoholism
Most of us have been
unwilling to
admit we were
real alcoholics.
31.
... admit when
the fault is ours, and ...
12&12 p.91,
Step Ten
In all these
situations we
need self-
restraint,
honest analysis of what is
involved, a
willingness to
admit when
the
fault is ours, and an
equal willingness to
forgive when the
fault is
elsewhere.
32.
Admit your
faults to Him and to ...
BB p.164,
A Vision For You
Admit your
faults to Him and
to your
fellows.
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