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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... case.
12&12 p.26,
Step Two
The
sponsor continues,
"Take, for
example, my
own
case.
2.
... case.
12&12 p.61,
Step Five
Besides, your
sponsor already has the
advantage of
knowing
something about your
case.
3.
... case.
BB p.37,
More About Alcoholism
You may
think this an
extreme case.
4.
... case, a
desperate one, recovered immediately and ...
BB xvii,
Foreword to Second Edition
5.
... case accomplished
the miraculous, the humanly impossible.
BB p.50,
We Agnostics
6.
... case afterward.
BB p.133,
The Family Afterward
7.
... case, an
alcoholic was sent to a ...
BB p.145,
To Employers
In another
case, an
alcoholic was
sent to a
hospital for
treatment.
8.
... case, and
that above all he wanted ...
12&12 p.142,
Tradition Three
He soon
proved that his was a
desperate case, and that
above all he
wanted to get well.
9.
... case brought
in by a physician prominent ...
BB xxxi(xxix),
The Doctor's Opinion
When I
need a
mental uplift, I often
think of
another
case brought in by a
physician prominent in
New
York.
10.
... case certain
family problems will arise.
BB p.126,
The Family Afterward
11.
... case contains
a powerful lesson.
BB p.33,
More About Alcoholism
12.
... case does
He render us white as ...
12&12 p.65,
Step Six
But in no
case does He
render us
white as
snow and
keep us that way without
our
cooperation.
13.
... case he
does stumble, even once, you ...
BB p.147,
To Employers
In
case he does
stumble,
even once, you will have to
decide whether to let
him go.
14.
... case he
is going to wonder how ...
BB p.93,
Working With Others
In that
case he is
going to
wonder how you can
add
anything to what he already
knows.
15.
... case histories
in which the alcoholics described ...
12&12 p.17,
Foreword
16.
... case in
point: One of our friends ...
BB p.135,
The Family Afterward
Here is a
case in
point: One
of our
friends is a
heavy
smoker and
coffee drinker.
17.
... case is
not strange or different, that ...
12&12 p.46,
Step Four
They
comfort the
melancholy one by
first showing him that his
case is
not
strange or
different, that his
character defects are
probably not more
numerous or
worse than those
of anyone else in
A.A.
18.
... case long
before it is suspected.
BB p.24,
There Is A Solution
This
tragic situation
has already
arrived in
practically every
case long before it is
suspected.
19.
... case may
be.
BB p.61,
How It Works
He
becomes, on the
next occasion, still more
demanding or
gracious,
as the
case may be.
20.
... case meant
for his sponsor's ear alone.
12&12 p.185,
Tradition Twelve
21.
... case not
only was an A.A. member ...
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.
22.
... case of
D.T.'s, he's pretty foggy, and ...
12&12 p.152,
Tradition Five
He's had a
bad case of
D.T.'s, he's
pretty foggy, and he's very
suspicious of
everybody.
23.
... case of
it.
12&12 p.138,
Tradition Two
Well, this is a
plain case of
it.
24.
... case of
jitters.
BB p.39,
More About Alcoholism
We
first saw
Fred about a
year ago in a
hospital where
he had
gone to
recover from
a
bad case of
jitters.
25.
... case of
jitters if you get a ...
BB p.32,
More About Alcoholism
It may be
worth a
bad case of
jitters if you get a
full knowledge of your
condition.
26.
... case of
misdirected instinct.
12&12 p.42,
Step Four
27.
... case of
pathological mental deterioration.
BB xxxi(xxix),
The Doctor's Opinion
28.
... case of
the club janitor and cook.
12&12 p.167,
Tradition Eight
Take the
case of the
club janitor and
cook.
29.
... case of
the one who says he ...
12&12 p.25,
Step Two
Let's
look first at the
case of the one who says he won't
believe -- the
belligerent one.
30.
... case, pain
had been the price of ...
12&12 p.75,
Step Seven
In every
case,
pain had been
the
price of
admission
into a new
life.
31.
... case presents
additional questions which we shall ...
BB p.110,
To Wives
His
case presents additional questions
which we shall
try to
answer
for you.
32.
... case recover,
where that state of mind ...
BB p.27,
There Is A Solution
I have
never seen one
single case recover, where that
state of
mind existed to the
extent that it does in you."
33.
... case, that
nothing my company could have ...
BB p.141,
To Employers
I
know, in my
own particular case, that
nothing my
company could
have done would have
stopped me for, so
long as I was able to
hold my
position, I could not
possibly realize how
serious my
situation was.
34.
... case, the
group now has a so-called ...
12&12 p.134,
Tradition Two
In either
case, the
group now
has a so-called
rotating committee, very
sharply
limited in
its authority.
35.
... case they
did not spell the necessary ...
BB p.27,
There Is A Solution
This
hope, however, was
destroyed by the
doctor's
telling him that while his
religious convictions
were very
good, in his
case
they did not
spell the
necessary vital spiritual experience.
36.
... case, this
imperious urge can destroy his ...
12&12 p.43,
Step Four
37.
... case, to
be friendly.
BB p.95,
Working With Others
But
point out that we
alcoholics have much in
common and that you would like, in any
case, to be
friendly.
38.
... case, we
are asking God to do ...
12&12 p.102,
Step Eleven
In that
case, we are
asking
God to do it our way.
39.
... case, will
help turn up the root ...
12&12 p.53,
Step Four
Questions like these, more of which will
come to
mind easily in each
individual
case, will
help turn up the
root causes.
40.
... case, you
may be suffering from an ...
BB p.44,
We Agnostics
If that be the
case, you may be
suffering from an
illness
which only a
spiritual experience will
conquer.
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