From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... attitude.
12&12 p.75,
Step Seven
2.
... attitude.
12&12 p.182,
Tradition Eleven
3.
... attitude.
BB p.27,
There Is A Solution
He can go anywhere on this
earth where other free men may go without disaster, provided he remains willing to maintain a certain simple attitude.
4.
... attitude.
BB p.143,
To Employers
5.
... attitude.
BB p.149,
To Employers
6.
... attitude, a
new relationship with our Creator, ...
BB p.72,
Into Action
We have been trying to get a
new attitude, a new relationship with our
Creator, and to discover the obstacles
in our path.
7.
... attitude and
outlook upon life will change.
BB p.84,
Into Action
8.
... attitude and
spirit all around.
BB p.99,
Working With Others
9.
... attitude, and
they have been saved from ...
BB p.150,
To Employers
10.
... attitude and
work at it.
BB p.86,
Into Action
11.
... attitude at
this point has helped many ...
BB p.142,
To Employers
12.
... attitude brought
immediate and practical results.
12&12 p.23,
Step One
13.
... attitude in
which to proceed, we will ...
12&12 p.83,
Step Nine
After we have made the list of people we have harmed, have reflected carefully upon each instance, and have tried to possess ourselves of the right
attitude in which to proceed, we will see that the making of direct amends divides those we should approach into several classes.
14.
... attitude is
far removed from central government, ...
12&12 p.174,
Tradition Nine
15.
... attitude is
not helpful to anyone.
BB p.103,
Working With Others
16.
... attitude is
one of bitterness or hostility.
BB p.103,
Working With Others
Some day we hope that Alcoholics Anonymous
will help the public to a better realization of the gravity of the alcoholic
problem, but we shall be
of little use if our attitude is one of bitterness or hostility.
17.
... attitude, of
course, is the end result ...
12&12 p.79,
Step Eight
18.
... attitude of
Holier Than Thou, nothing whatever ...
BB p.18,
There Is A Solution
That the man who is making
the approach has had the same difficulty, that he obviously knows what he is
talking about, that his whole deportment shouts at the new prospect that he is a man with
a real answer, that he has
no attitude of Holier Than Thou, nothing whatever except the sincere desire to be helpful; that
there are no fees to pay, no axes
to grind, no people to please, no lectures to be endured -- these are the conditions we have found
most effective.
19.
... attitude of
intolerance or belligerent denial.
BB p.568(570),
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience
20.
... attitude one
can take in order to ...
12&12 p.65,
Step Six
So Step Six -- "Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character" --
is A.A.'s way of stating the best possible attitude one can take in order to make a beginning on this lifetime job.
21.
... attitude plus
the contents of this book ...
BB p.144,
To Employers
You are betting, of course, that your changed
attitude plus the contents of this book will turn the trick.
22.
... attitude regarding
these had been anything but ...
12&12 p.27,
Step Two
23.
... attitude that
so far as you are ...
BB p.143,
To Employers
While on the subject of confidence, can you adopt
the attitude that so far as you
are concerned this will
be a strictly personal
matter, that his alcoholic derelictions, the treatment about to be undertaken, will never be discussed without his consent?
24.
... attitude to
depress their salaries.
12&12 p.168,
Tradition Eight
25.
... attitude toward
God.
12&12 p.75,
Step Seven
During this process of learning more about humility, the most profound result of all was
the change in our attitude
toward God.
26.
... attitude toward
him, we are still not ...
BB p.77,
Into Action
It may be he has done us more
harm than we have done him
and, though we may have acquired a better attitude toward him, we are still not too keen about admitting our faults.
27.
... attitude toward
him which God will show ...
BB p.117,
To Wives
We urge you to try our program, for nothing will be so helpful to your husband as the radically
changed attitude toward him which God will show you how to have.
28.
... attitude toward
life, toward our fellows and ...
BB p.25,
There Is A Solution
The great fact is just this, and nothing less: That we have had deep and
effective spiritual
experiences(*) which have revolutionized our whole attitude toward life, toward our fellows and toward God's universe.
29.
... attitude toward
liquor has been given us ...
BB p.85,
Into Action
We will see that our new attitude toward liquor has been given us without any thought or effort on our part.
30.
... attitude toward
that Power, and to do ...
BB p.50,
We Agnostics
They flatly declare that
since they have come to believe in a Power greater than themselves,
to take a certain attitude toward that Power, and to do certain simple things, there has been
a revolutionary change in their way of living and thinking.
31.
... attitude towards
himself or herself.
BB p.122,
The Family Afterward
The alcoholic, his wife,
his children, his "in-laws", each one is likely to have fixed ideas about the family's attitude towards himself or herself.
32.
... attitude which
can only be changed by ...
12&12 p.79,
Step Eight
33.
... attitude which
permits us, with humility as ...
12&12 p.76,
Step Seven
The Seventh Step is where
we make the change in our
attitude which permits us,
with humility as our guide, to move out from ourselves toward others and toward God.
34.
... attitude will
command undying loyalty.
BB p.145,
To Employers
35.
... attitude you
cannot fail.
BB p.55,
We Agnostics
With this attitude you cannot fail.
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