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From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)


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1.
... clean house.   12&12 p.56, Step Five
Some people are unable to stay sober at all; others will relapse periodically until they really clean house.


2.
... clean house.   BB p.98, Working With Others   Go to page 98 in the Big Book
The only condition is that he trust in God and clean house.

3.
... clean house and then asked a Higher ...   12&12 p.63, Step Six
But when I became willing to clean house and then asked a Higher Power, God as I understood Him, to give me release, my obsession to drink vanished.

4.
... clean house is still largely theoretical.   12&12 p.60, Step Five
Until we actually sit down and talk aloud about what we have so long hidden, our willingness to clean house is still largely theoretical.


5.
... clean house with the family, asking each ...   BB p.83, Into Action   Go to page 83 in the Big Book
So we clean house with the family, asking each morning in meditation that our Creator show us the way of patience, tolerance, kindliness and love.

6.
... clean up politics.   12&12 p.156, Tradition Six
Our uncompromising honesty might soon clean up politics.


7.
... clean wind of a mountain top blew ...   BB p.14, Bill's Story   Go to page 14 in the Big Book
I felt lifted up, as though the great clean wind of a mountain top blew through and through.


Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.  The A.A. Preamble, copyright © The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission.  Permission to reprint does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous or The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.

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