From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... begin.
12&12 p.47,
Step Four
2.
... begin?
12&12 p.99,
Step Eleven
3.
... begin.
BB p.163,
A Vision For You
4.
... begin in
a casual or natural way.
12&12 p.85,
Step Nine
5.
... begin making
certain kinds of direct amends ...
12&12 p.83,
Step Nine
6.
... begin somewhere.
BB p.47,
We Agnostics
7.
... begin the
practice of Step Three.
12&12 p.41,
Step Three
Once we have come into agreement with these ideas,
it is really easy to begin the practice of Step Three.
8.
... begin to
achieve some measure of importance ...
12&12 p.91,
Step Ten
We must be quite as careful when we begin to achieve some measure of importance and material
success.
9.
... begin to
do it.
12&12 p.35,
Step Three
Fortunately, we who have tried it, and with equal misgivings, can testify
that anyone, anyone at
all, can begin to do it.
10.
... begin to
dominate them.
BB p.27,
There Is A Solution
Ideas, emotions, and attitudes which were once
the guiding forces of the
lives of these men are suddenly cast to one side, and a completely new set of conceptions and motives begin to dominate them.
11.
... begin to
dwell on the hopeless feature ...
BB p.92,
Working With Others
If you are satisfied that he is a real alcoholic, begin to dwell on the hopeless feature of the malady.
12.
... begin to
feel confident in our new ...
12&12 p.85,
Step Nine
As soon as we begin to feel confident in our new way of life and have begun, by our behavior and example, to
convince those about us
that we are indeed changing for the better, it
is usually safe to talk in complete frankness with those who
have been seriously affected, even those who may be only a little
or not at all aware of what we have done to them.
13.
... begin to
feel the nearness of our ...
BB p.75,
Into Action
14.
... begin to
find one in the pages ...
BB xxi,
Foreword to Second Edition
Yet it is our great hope that all those who have as
yet found no answer may begin to find one in the pages of this book and will presently join us on the high road to a new freedom.
15.
... begin to
get right with ourselves and ...
12&12 p.125,
Step Twelve
For it is only by accepting and solving our problems that
we can begin to get right with ourselves and
with the world about us, and with Him who presides over us all.
16.
... begin to
have a spiritual experience.
BB p.75,
Into Action
17.
... begin to
learn right relations with people ...
12&12 p.117,
Step Twelve
Through it we begin to learn right relations with people who
understand us; we don't have to be alone any more.
18.
... begin to
make our peace, and so ...
12&12 p.108,
Step Twelve
We had to begin to make our peace, and so we listed the people we had harmed and became willing to set things right.
19.
... begin to
open to the immense values ...
12&12 p.74,
Step Seven
Our eyes begin to open to the immense values which have come straight out of painful ego-puncturing.
20.
... begin to
practice all Twelve Steps of ...
12&12 p.106,
Step Twelve
Here we begin to practice all Twelve Steps of the program in our
daily lives so that we and
those about us may find emotional sobriety.
21.
... begin to
practice justice and courtesy, perhaps ...
12&12 p.93,
Step Ten
With those we dislike we
can begin to practice justice and courtesy, perhaps going out of our way to understand and help them.
22.
... begin to
see and feel.
12&12 p.27,
Step Two
23.
... begin to
see that all people, including ...
12&12 p.92,
Step Ten
Finally, we begin to see that all people, including ourselves,
are to some extent emotionally ill as well as frequently wrong, and then we approach
true tolerance and see what real love for our fellows actually means.
24.
... begin to
see truth, justice, and love ...
12&12 p.105,
Step Eleven
The moment we catch even a glimpse of God's will, the moment we begin to see truth, justice, and love as the real and eternal things in life, we are no longer deeply disturbed by all
the seeming evidence to
the contrary that surrounds us in purely human affairs.
25.
... begin to
suspect it had never been ...
12&12 p.119,
Step Twelve
26.
... begin to
swallow, let alone digest.
12&12 p.113,
Step Twelve
Then perhaps life, as it
has a way of doing, suddenly hands us a great big lump that we can't begin to swallow, let alone digest.
27.
... begin to
think that A.A. doesn't pay ...
12&12 p.113,
Step Twelve
28.
... begin to
use it rightly.
12&12 p.40,
Step Three
29.
... begin, we
ask God to direct our ...
BB p.86,
Into Action
Before we begin, we ask God to direct our thinking, especially asking that it
be divorced from self-pity, dishonest or self-seeking motives.
30.
... begin with.
12&12 p.78,
Step Eight
We've repeatedly strained the patience of
our best friends to a snapping point, and have brought out the very worst in those who didn't think much of us to begin with.
31.
... begin with
indifference.
12&12 p.112,
Step Twelve
32.
... begin with,
the situation is aggravated.
12&12 p.118,
Step Twelve
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