From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
BECOMING occurs
10 times
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1.
... becoming a
lay therapist.
12&12 p.136,
Tradition Two
There was
nothing wrong
whatever with
becoming a
lay therapist.
2.
... becoming aware
that he cannot drink like ...
BB p.109,
To Wives
He is
worried at
times,
and is
becoming aware that he
cannot
drink like other people.
3.
... becoming better
Catholics."
BB p.572(574),
Appendix V, The Religious View on A.A.
4.
... becoming blacker.
BB p.151,
A Vision For You
It
thickened, ever
becoming blacker.
5.
... becoming club
members; others started in the ...
12&12 p.148,
Tradition Four
Some would
start at the
top
and
come through to the
bottom,
becoming club members; others
started in the
club,
pitched a
binge, were
hospitalized, then
graduated to
education
on the
third floor.
6.
... becoming critical
of them.
BB p.100,
Working With Others
In this way you can
set them on the
right track without
becoming critical of them.
7.
... becoming impossible,
and if we had passed ...
BB p.25,
There Is A Solution
We were in a
position where
life was
becoming impossible, and if we had
passed into the
region from
which there is no
return through
human aid, we had but
two alternatives: One was
to go on to the
bitter end,
blotting out the
consciousness of our
intolerable situation
as
best we could; and the other, to
accept spiritual help.
8.
... becoming our
President.
12&12 p.122,
Step Twelve
9.
... becoming serious
drinkers again later.
BB p.34,
More About Alcoholism
10.
... becoming truly
happy.
12&12 p.70,
Step Seven
Nearly all
A.A.'s have
found, too, that
unless they
develop much more of this
precious quality than may
be
required just for
sobriety, they still haven't much
chance of
becoming truly happy.
Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous
and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
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