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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
BREAK occurs
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1.
... break.
12&12 p.161,
Tradition Seven
We saw that if they weren't, the
man coming in the
door couldn't get
a
break.
2.
... break.
BB p.73,
Into Action
We
know but few
instances
where we have
given these
doctors a
fair break.
3.
... break anonymity
at the public level.
12&12 p.183,
Tradition Eleven
4.
... break he
ought to have.
12&12 p.168,
Tradition Eight
She was
helping to
give the
man coming in the
door the
break he ought to have.
5.
... break his
anonymity at a public level, ...
12&12 p.158,
Tradition Six
But that wasn't the
whole story, for in this
case not only
was an
A.A. member to
break his
anonymity at a
public level, he was to
link the
name Alcoholics Anonymous
to this
particular educational project in
the
minds of
millions.
6.
... break in,
we might recall, a little ...
12&12 p.100,
Step Eleven
When such
thoughts break
in, we might
recall, a
little ruefully, how much
store we used to
set by
imagination as it
tried
to
create reality out of
bottles.
7.
... break it.
12&12 p.22,
Step One
8.
... break it,
once having lost their self-confidence, ...
BB xxviii(xxvi),
The Doctor's Opinion
These
allergic types can
never safely use
alcohol in any
form at all;
and once having
formed the
habit and
found they cannot
break it, once having
lost
their
self-
confidence,
their
reliance upon things
human, their
problems pile up on them and
become astonishingly difficult to
solve.
9.
... break our
anonymity wide open.
12&12 p.185,
Tradition Twelve
Between these
lines, it is
easy to
read our
fear that
large numbers of
incoming people
might
break our
anonymity
wide open.
10.
... break out
of their confinement, and miraculously ...
12&12 p.62,
Step Five
The
dammed-up
emotions
of
years break out of their
confinement, and
miraculously vanish as
soon as they are
exposed.
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