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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... carry a
beneficial message.
BB p.77,
Into Action
2.
... carry A.A.'s
message.
12&12 p.110,
Step Twelve
If our
turn comes to
speak at a
meeting, we again
try to
carry A.A.'s
message.
3.
... carry A.A.'s
message.
12&12 p.111,
Step Twelve
Perhaps this will
happen in a
succession of
cases, and
we may be
deeply discouraged as to our
ability to
carry A.A.'s
message.
4.
... carry A.A.'s
message.
12&12 p.181,
Tradition Eleven
Veteran newsmen,
trained doubters that they
are, have
gone all out to
carry A.A.'s
message.
5.
... carry A.A.'s
message to the next alcoholic.
12&12 p.110,
Step Twelve
To
watch the
eyes of
men and
women open with
wonder as they
move from
darkness into
light, to see their
lives quickly fill with new
purpose and
meaning, to see
whole families reassembled, to see the
alcoholic outcast received back into his
community in
full citizenship, and above all to
watch these people
awaken to
the
presence of a
loving
God in their
lives -- these
things are the
substance of what we
receive as we
carry A.A.'s
message to the
next alcoholic.
6.
... carry A.A.'s
message to the next sufferer?
12&12 p.24,
Step One
7.
... carry bright
promise and meaning.
12&12 p.75,
Step Seven
But now the
words "Of myself I am
nothing, the
Father doeth the
works"
began to
carry bright promise and
meaning.
8.
... carry green
recruits through a severe hangover.
BB p.102,
Working With Others
We often
need it to
carry green recruits through a
severe hangover.
9.
... carry his
message to another alcoholic.
BB xvi,
Foreword to Second Edition
He
suddenly realized
that in
order to
save himself
he
must carry his
message to another
alcoholic.
10.
... carry it
out.
12&12 p.102,
Step Eleven
We
ask simply that
throughout the
day God place in us the
best understanding of His will that we can have for
that
day, and that we be
given
the
grace by which we may
carry it out.
11.
... carry its
message to the alcoholic who ...
12&12 p.150,
Tradition Five
"Each
group has but one
primary purpose -- to
carry its message to the
alcoholic
who still
suffers."
12.
... carry its
message to the alcoholic who ...
BB p.562(564),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
Five -- Each
group has but
one
primary purpose --
to
carry its message to the
alcoholic
who still
suffers.
13.
... carry me
through that night and the ...
BB p.8,
Bill's Story
With a
certain satisfaction I
reflected there was
enough
gin concealed about the
house to
carry me through that
night and the
next day.
14.
... carry on
a correspondence which will do ...
BB p.573(575),
Appendix VI, How to Get in Touch With A.A.
If there is
none nearby, you
will be
invited to
carry on
a
correspondence which will do much to
insure your
sobriety no
matter how
isolated you
are.
15.
... carry on
our occupations in such an ...
12&12 p.184,
Tradition Twelve
Being mostly
business or
professional folk, we
could not well
carry on our
occupations in such an
event."
16.
... carry on
our occupations in such an ...
BB xiii,
Foreword to First Edition
Being mostly
business or
professional folk, we
could not well
carry on our
occupations in such an
event.
17.
... carry on
our other good works.
12&12 p.155,
Tradition Six
Maybe these
places would make
large sums of
money to
carry on our other
good works.
18.
... carry our
knowledge into other fields, we ...
12&12 p.167,
Tradition Eight
But when we had
declared that our
Fellowship couldn't
hire service workers nor could
any
A.A. member carry our
knowledge into other
fields, we were
taking the
counsel of
fear,
fear which
today has been
largely dispelled in the
light of
experience.
19.
... carry that
out."
12&12 p.96,
Step Eleven
"
Sought through
prayer and
meditation to
improve
our
conscious contact
with
God as we
understood
Him,
praying only for
knowledge of His will for us and the
power to
carry that out."
20.
... carry that
out."
12&12 p.102,
Step Eleven
And we
think that the
whole
range of our
needs is well
defined by that
part of
Step Eleven which says: "...
knowledge of His will for us and the
power to
carry that out."
21.
... carry that
out.
BB p.59,
How It Works
11.
Sought through
prayer and
meditation to
improve our
conscious
contact with
God as we
understood Him,
praying
only for
knowledge of His will for us and the
power to
carry that out.
22.
... carry the
A.A. message to those who ...
12&12 p.151,
Tradition Five
Under these
compulsions of
self-
preservation,
duty, and
love, it is not
strange that our
Society
has
concluded that it has but one
high mission -- to
carry the
A.A. message to those who don't
know there's a way out.
23.
... carry the
A.A. spirit into our daily ...
12&12 p.112,
Step Twelve
Can we
actually carry the
A.A. spirit into our
daily work?
24.
... carry the
burden of avoiding them or ...
BB p.117,
To Wives
Often you
must carry the
burden of
avoiding them or
keeping them under
control.
25.
... carry the
life-giving grace of God; His ...
12&12 p.129,
Tradition One
Without
unity, the
heart of
A.A. would
cease to
beat; our
world arteries would no
longer
carry the
life-
giving grace of
God; His
gift to us would be
spent aimlessly.
26.
... carry the
load alone; how much they ...
12&12 p.56,
Step Five
They will tell how they
tried to
carry the
load alone; how much they
suffered of
irritability,
anxiety,
remorse, and
depression; and how,
unconsciously seeking
relief, they would sometimes
accuse even their
best friends of the very
character defects they
themselves were
trying to
conceal.
27.
... "carry the
message."
12&12 p.113,
Step Twelve
Maybe we are doing
fine on only
two of them, the
First Step and that
part of the
Twelfth where we "
carry the
message."
28.
... carry the
message to so many alcoholics ...
12&12 p.111,
Step Twelve
By a
great deal of
ardent Twelfth Step work we sometimes
carry the
message to so many
alcoholics that they place us in a
position of
trust.
29.
... carry the
vision of God's will into ...
BB p.85,
Into Action
Every
day is a
day when we
must carry the
vision of
God's will into all of
our
activities.
30.
... carry the
world's troubles on our shoulders.
BB p.132,
The Family Afterward
We
try not to
indulge in
cynicism over the
state of
the
nations, nor do we
carry the
world's
troubles on our
shoulders.
31.
... carry them
through?
12&12 p.38,
Step Three
Would the
kind of
dependence they had
learned in
A.A. carry them through?
32.
... carry these
lessons over into tomorrow, making, ...
12&12 p.94,
Step Ten
Here we
need only
recognize that we did
act or
think badly,
try to
visualize how we might
have done
better, and
resolve with
God's
help to
carry these
lessons over into
tomorrow,
making, of
course, any
amends still
neglected.
33.
... carry this
load day in and day ...
12&12 p.168,
Tradition Eight
Volunteer committeemen and
assistants could be of
great help, but they could not
be
expected to
carry this
load day in and
day out.
34.
... carry this
message to alcoholics, and to ...
12&12 p.106,
Step Twelve
"Having had a
spiritual awakening as the
result of
these
steps, we
tried to
carry this
message to
alcoholics, and to
practice these
principles in all our
affairs."
35.
... carry this
message to alcoholics, and to ...
BB p.60,
How It Works
12. Having had a
spiritual
awakening as the
result
of these
steps, we
tried to
carry this
message to
alcoholics, and to
practice these
principles in all our
affairs.
36.
... Carry this
message to other alcoholics!
BB p.89,
Working With Others
This is our
twelfth suggestion:
Carry this
message to other
alcoholics!
37.
... carry us
through.
12&12 p.29,
Step Two
The will to
win would
carry us
through.
38.
... carry with
us a picture of the ...
BB p.118,
To Wives
We
women carry with us a
picture of the
ideal man, the
sort of
chap we would like our
husbands to be.
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