From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... avoid a
place where there is drinking, ...
BB p.101,
Working With Others
So our rule is not to avoid a
place where there is drinking, if we have a legitimate reason for being there.
2.
Avoid answering
these inquiries as much as ...
BB p.115,
To Wives
3.
... avoid disagreement
or contention.
BB p.118,
To Wives
If your husband is trying
to live on a spiritual basis, he will also be doing everything in his power to
avoid disagreement or
contention.
4.
... avoid drawing
on our small capital.
BB p.3,
Bill's Story
I had had some success at speculation, so we had a little money, but we once worked on a farm for a month to avoid drawing on our small capital.
5.
... avoid extreme
judgments, both of ourselves and ...
12&12 p.82,
Step Eight
6.
... avoid falling
into confusion over the names ...
12&12 p.48,
Step Four
To avoid falling into confusion over the names these defects should be
called, let's take a universally recognized list of major human failings -- the Seven Deadly Sins of pride, greed, lust, anger, gluttony, envy, and sloth.
7.
... avoid harming
third parties, whoever they may ...
12&12 p.86,
Step Nine
And even in those cases where such a matter must be discussed, let's try to avoid harming third parties, whoever they may
be.
8.
... avoid hysterical
thinking or advice.
BB p.70,
How It Works
9.
... avoid it.
BB p.43,
More About Alcoholism
Had you offered yourselves as patients
at this hospital, I would not have taken you, if I had been able to
avoid it.
10.
... avoid looking
at some of our own ...
12&12 p.30,
Step Two
11.
... avoid meeting
a man through his family.
BB p.91,
Working With Others
12.
... avoid moving
pictures which show drinking scenes; ...
BB p.101,
Working With Others
People have said we must not go where liquor is served; we must not have it in our homes;
we must shun friends who drink; we must avoid moving pictures which show drinking scenes; we must not go into bars; our friends must hide their bottles if we go to their houses; we mustn't think or be reminded about alcohol at
all.
13.
... avoid quick-tempered
criticism and furious, power-driven argument.
12&12 p.91,
Step Ten
14.
... avoid retaliation
or argument.
BB p.67,
How It Works
15.
... avoid sensational
advertising.
12&12 p.192,
Tradition Eleven (Long)
16.
... avoid sensational
advertising.
BB p.565(567),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
17.
... avoid the
issue, hoping against hope we ...
BB p.44,
We Agnostics
18.
... avoid the
subject of drinking, even with ...
BB p.114,
To Wives
19.
Avoid then,
the deliberate manufacture of misery, ...
BB p.133,
The Family Afterward
Avoid then, the deliberate manufacture of misery,
but if trouble comes, cheerfully capitalize
it as an opportunity to demonstrate His omnipotence.
20.
... avoid these
responsibilities, but be sure you ...
BB p.97,
Working With Others
21.
... avoid these
unnecessary difficulties.(*)
BB p.121,
To Wives
That is why we are anxious
that you understand, and that you avoid these unnecessary difficulties.(*)
22.
... avoid this
humbling experience, they have turned ...
BB p.72,
Into Action
23.
... avoid those
dangers of great wealth, prestige, ...
12&12 p.175,
Tradition Nine
A.A. has to function, but at
the same time it must avoid those dangers of great wealth, prestige, and entrenched power which necessarily tempt other societies.
24.
Avoid urging
him to follow our program.
BB p.113,
To Wives
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