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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... basis.
12&12 p.37,
Step Three
And
everywhere the same thing is being done on
an
individual basis.
2.
... basis.
BB p.76,
Into Action
As we
look over the
list of
business acquaintances and
friends we have
hurt, we may
feel diffident about
going to some of them on a
spiritual basis.
3.
... basis.
BB p.162,
A Vision For You
Understanding our
work, he can do this with an
eye
to
selecting those who are
willing and able to
recover
on a
spiritual basis.
4.
... basis are
not always easy alternatives to ...
BB p.44,
We Agnostics
To be
doomed to an
alcoholic death or to
live on a
spiritual basis are not always
easy alternatives to
face.
5.
... basis, but
just as things are going ...
BB p.120,
To Wives
Perhaps your
husband will make a
fair start on the new
basis, but just as things are
going
beautifully he
dismays you by
coming home drunk.
6.
... basis depends
upon the extent to which ...
BB p.34,
More About Alcoholism
Whether such a
person can
quit upon a
nonspiritual
basis depends upon the
extent to which he has already
lost the
power to
choose whether he will
drink
or not.
7.
... basis for
contention or argument.
BB p.19,
There Is A Solution
Nothing would
please us
so much as to
write a book which would
contain no
basis for
contention or
argument.
8.
... basis for
daily living, and we keenly ...
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.
9.
... basis for
discrediting the man.
BB p.80,
Into Action
10.
... basis for
helpful discussion.
BB p.127,
The Family Afterward
As each
member of a
resentful family begins to see his
shortcomings and
admits
them to the others, he
lays a
basis for
helpful discussion.
11.
... basis, he
will also be doing everything ...
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.
12.
... basis of
a rapidly growing fellowship of ...
BB xxv(xxiii),
The Doctor's Opinion
This has
become the
basis of
a
rapidly growing fellowship of these
men and
their
families.
13.
... basis of
intolerance?
12&12 p.140,
Tradition Three
After all, isn't
fear the
true
basis of
intolerance?
14.
... basis of
life, he will never take ...
BB p.146,
To Employers
Being on a
radically different basis of
life, he will
never take
advantage of the
situation.
15.
... basis of
life -- or else.
BB p.44,
We Agnostics
But after a while we had to
face the
fact that we
must find a
spiritual basis of
life -- or else.
16.
... basis of
living.
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
17.
... basis of
self-knowledge.
BB p.39,
More About Alcoholism
18.
... basis of
the technique of Alcoholics Anonymous ...
BB p.572(574),
Appendix V, The Religious View on A.A.
19.
... basis of
trusting and relying upon God.
BB p.68,
How It Works
For we are now on a
different basis; the
basis of
trusting and
relying upon
God.
20.
... basis of
unsatisfied demands, we were in ...
12&12 p.76,
Step Seven
21.
... basis of
wholesale condemnation.
BB p.50,
We Agnostics
Instead, we
looked at the
human defects of these
people, and sometimes used their
shortcomings
as a
basis of
wholesale
condemnation.
22.
... basis or
not, the alcoholic member has ...
BB p.135,
The Family Afterward
Whether the
family goes on a
spiritual basis or not,
the
alcoholic member
has to if he would
recover.
23.
... basis, since
the former did not work.
BB p.99,
Working With Others
If their
old relationship is to be
resumed it
must be on a
better basis, since the
former did not
work.
24.
... basis suggested.
BB p.155,
A Vision For You
25.
... basis; the
basis of trusting and relying ...
BB p.68,
How It Works
For we are now on a
different basis; the
basis of
trusting and
relying upon
God.
26.
... basis upon
which they can meet.
BB p.99,
Working With Others
The most
incompatible people
discover they have a
basis
upon which they can
meet.
27.
... basis we
are almost always in collision ...
BB p.60,
How It Works
On that
basis we are almost always in
collision with something or somebody, even though
our
motives are
good.
28.
... basis; we
would have to develop the ...
12&12 p.116,
Step Twelve
It
became clear that if we
ever were to
feel emotionally secure among
grown-up people, we would have to
put our
lives on a
give-and-take
basis; we would
have to
develop the
sense
of being in
partnership or
brotherhood with all those around us.
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