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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
BECOMES occurs
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1.
... becomes a
battleground for the instincts, there ...
12&12 p.44,
Step Four
Whenever a
human being
becomes a
battleground
for the
instincts, there can be no
peace.
2.
... becomes a
military casualty.
12&12 p.113,
Step Twelve
3.
... becomes a
regular habit, until he is ...
12&12 p.88,
Step Ten
For the
wise have always
known that no one can make much of his
life until
self-
searching becomes a
regular habit, until he is
able to
admit and
accept
what he
finds, and until he
patiently and
persistently tries to
correct what is
wrong.
4.
... becomes a
religious enthusiast.
BB p.128,
The Family Afterward
5.
... becomes a
sick and irresponsible child who ...
12&12 p.118,
Step Twelve
6.
... becomes a
working part of the mind.
BB p.87,
Into Action
What used to be the
hunch or the
occasional inspiration gradually
becomes a
working part of the
mind.
7.
... becomes acute
and constant.
12&12 p.53,
Step Four
8.
... becomes an
active guardian of our Fellowship.
12&12 p.183,
Tradition Eleven
In it, each
member becomes
an
active guardian of
our
Fellowship.
9.
... becomes angry,
indignant, self-pitying.
BB p.61,
How It Works
10.
... becomes clear,
cost what it may?
12&12 p.86,
Step Nine
Do we
lay the
matter before
our
sponsor or
spiritual adviser,
earnestly asking God's
help and
guidance --
meanwhile resolving to do the
right
thing when it
becomes clear,
cost what it may?
11.
... becomes disgustingly,
and even dangerously anti-social.
BB p.21,
There Is A Solution
12.
... becomes just
how and by what specific ...
12&12 p.34,
Step Three
Therefore our
problem now
becomes just how and by what
specific means shall we be
able to let Him in?
13.
... becomes of
them?
12&12 p.135,
Tradition Two
What becomes of them?
14.
... becomes, on
the next occasion, still more ...
BB p.61,
How It Works
He
becomes, on the
next occasion, still more
demanding or
gracious,
as the
case may be.
15.
... becomes operative,
this man can also stop ...
BB p.21,
There Is A Solution
16.
... becomes plain
that the group must survive ...
12&12 p.130,
Tradition One
It
becomes plain that the
group must survive or the
individual will not.
17.
... becomes practically
nonexistent.
BB p.24,
There Is A Solution
Our so-called will
power becomes practically nonexistent.
18.
... becomes really
neglectful.
BB p.119,
To Wives
Sometimes he will be so
interested that he
becomes really
neglectful.
19.
... becomes still
less communicative.
BB p.126,
The Family Afterward
He
becomes still
less communicative.
20.
... becomes the
chairman of a committee composed ...
12&12 p.133,
Tradition Two
21.
... becomes the
principal asset of the family ...
BB p.124,
The Family Afterward
The
alcoholic's
past thus
becomes the
principal asset of the
family and
frequently it is almost the only one!
22.
... becomes the
seat of perilous wealth or ...
BB p.575,
Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form)
23.
... becomes the
sole object of our lives, ...
12&12 p.49,
Step Four
24.
... becomes unbearable
and you have to leave ...
BB p.111,
To Wives
Even though your
husband becomes unbearable and you
have to
leave him
temporarily, you should, if you can, go without
rancor.
25.
... becomes uncontrollable,
whether in the sewing circle ...
12&12 p.44,
Step Four
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