From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... affairs.
12&12 p.105,
Step Eleven
The moment we catch even a glimpse of God's will, the moment we begin to see truth, justice, and love as the real and eternal things in life, we are no longer deeply disturbed by all
the seeming evidence to
the contrary that surrounds us in purely human affairs.
2.
... affairs."
12&12 p.106,
Step Twelve
"Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of
these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs."
3.
... affairs.
12&12 p.106,
Step Twelve
4.
... affairs?
12&12 p.111,
Step Twelve
5.
... affairs?
12&12 p.154,
Tradition Five
6.
... affairs.
12&12 p.161,
Tradition Seven
Now and then, grateful benefactors had endowed
clubhouses, and as a result there was sometimes
outside interference in our affairs.
7.
... affairs.
BB p.14,
Bill's Story
My friend had emphasized the absolute
necessity of demonstrating these principles in all my affairs.
8.
... affairs.
BB p.19,
There Is A Solution
A much more important demonstration of our principles lies before us in our respective homes, occupations and affairs.
9.
... affairs.
BB p.60,
How It Works
12. Having had a spiritual
awakening as the result
of these steps, we tried to
carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
10.
... affairs.
BB p.124,
The Family Afterward
11.
... affairs.
BB p.574,
Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form)
II. The General Service Conference of A.A. has become, for nearly every practical purpose, the active voice and the effective conscience
of our whole Society in its world affairs.
12.
... affairs.
BB p.575,
Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form)
VII. The Charter and Bylaws of the General Service Board are legal instruments, empowering the trustees
to manage and conduct world service affairs.
13.
... affairs.
BB p.172,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
My father was a professional man of recognized ability and
both my father and mother were most active in church affairs.
14.
... affairs, am
I willing to take the ...
12&12 p.52,
Step Four
If I am unable to change
the present state of affairs, am I willing to take the measures necessary to shape my life to conditions as they
are?
15.
... affairs, each
A.A. group should be responsible ...
12&12 p.189,
Tradition Four (Long)
Four -- With respect to its own affairs, each A.A. group should be responsible to no other authority than its own conscience.
16.
... affairs, each
A.A. group should be responsible ...
BB p.563(565),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
4. With respect to its own affairs, each A.A. group should be responsible to no other authority than its own conscience.
17.
... affairs exactly
as it pleases, except when ...
12&12 p.146,
Tradition Four
But in relation to us, it means very simply that every A.A. group can manage its affairs exactly as it pleases, except when A.A. as a whole is threatened.
18.
... affairs from
top to bottom.
12&12 p.94,
Step Ten
This odd trait of mind and emotion, this perverse wish to hide a bad motive underneath a good one, permeates human affairs from top to bottom.
19.
... affairs have
taken remarkable and unexpected turns ...
12&12 p.105,
Step Eleven
Almost any experienced A.A. will tell how his affairs have taken remarkable and unexpected turns for the
better as he tried to improve his conscious contact with God.
20.
... affairs is
the payoff, the magnificent reality, ...
12&12 p.109,
Step Twelve
The wonderful energy it
releases and the eager action by which it carries
our message to the next suffering alcoholic and
which finally translates the Twelve Steps into action upon all our affairs is the payoff, the magnificent
reality, of Alcoholics Anonymous.
21.
... affairs so
he will not be tempted ...
BB p.120,
To Wives
The slightest disposition on your part
to guide his appointments or his affairs so he will not be tempted will be noticed.
22.
... affairs was
negligible, the Brotherhood of Man ...
BB p.11,
Bill's Story
Judging from what I had seen in Europe and since, the
power of God in human affairs was negligible, the Brotherhood of Man a grim jest.
23.
... affairs," well-grounded
A.A.'s seem to have the ...
12&12 p.114,
Step Twelve
Our basic troubles are
the same as everyone else's, but when an honest effort is made "to practice these principles in all our affairs," well-grounded A.A.'s seem to have the ability, by
God's grace, to take these troubles in stride and turn them into demonstrations of faith.
24.
... affairs which
we aren't really competent to ...
12&12 p.111,
Step Twelve
Perhaps we try to give them advice about their
affairs which we aren't really competent to give or ought not give at all.
25.
... affairs with
other men.
BB p.105,
To Wives
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