From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... based, and
after a large amount of ...
12&12 p.16,
Foreword
After three years of trial and error in selecting the most
workable tenets upon which the Society could
be based, and after a large amount of failure in getting alcoholics to recover,
three successful groups emerged -- the first at Akron, the second at New York, and the third at Cleveland.
2.
... based foursquare
on the single purpose of ...
12&12 p.153,
Tradition Five
3.
... based on
attraction rather than promotion; we ...
12&12 p.180,
Tradition Eleven
"Our public relations
policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at
the level of press, radio, and films."
4.
... based on
attraction rather than promotion; we ...
BB p.562(564),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
Eleven -- Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we
need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of
press, radio and films.
5.
... based on
his own experience, of course.
12&12 p.27,
Step Two
6.
... based on
self which later placed us ...
BB p.62,
How It Works
Sometimes they hurt us,
seemingly without provocation, but we invariably find that at
some time in the past we have
made decisions based on self which later placed us in a position to be hurt.
7.
... based on
the kinship of common suffering; ...
BB p.571(573),
Appendix IV, The Lasker Award
"The American Public Health Association presents a Lasker Group Award for 1951 to Alcoholics Anonymous in recognition of its unique and highly successful approach to
that age-old public health and social problem, alcoholism ... In emphasizing alcoholism as an illness, the social stigma associated with
this condition is being
blotted out ... Historians may one day recognize Alcoholics Anonymous
to have been a great venture in social pioneering which forged a
new instrument for social action; a new therapy based on the kinship of common suffering; one having a vast potential for the myriad
other ills of mankind."
8.
... based only
on the desire to help ...
12&12 p.166,
Tradition Eight
Almost from the beginning, we have been positive that face-to-face work with the alcoholic who suffers
could be based only on the desire to help and be helped.
9.
... based only
upon forgetfulness of the past.
BB p.124,
The Family Afterward
The family may be possessed by the idea that
future happiness can be
based only upon forgetfulness of the past.
10.
... based upon
a supposition that we know ...
12&12 p.104,
Step Eleven
Such prayers, of course, are fundamentally good acts, but often they are based upon a supposition that we know
God's will for the person for whom we pray.
11.
... based upon
attraction rather than promotion.
BB xix,
Foreword to Second Edition
12.
... based upon
experience, some of it painful.
BB p.121,
To Wives
13.
... based upon
shortsighted or unworthy desires are ...
12&12 p.76,
Step Seven
We have seen that character defects based upon shortsighted or unworthy desires are the
obstacles that block our
path toward these objectives.
14.
... based upon
that alone, wouldn't be nearly ...
12&12 p.59,
Step Five
Hence it was most evident
that a solitary self-appraisal, and the admission of our defects
based upon that alone, wouldn't be nearly enough.
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