From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... commence at
a simpler level.
BB p.47,
We Agnostics
2.
... commence shoulder
to shoulder your common journey.
BB p.153,
A Vision For You
You will be bound to them
with new and wonderful ties, for you will escape disaster together and you will commence shoulder to shoulder your common journey.
3.
... commence spiritual
growth, to effect our first ...
BB p.47,
We Agnostics
At the start, this was all we needed to commence spiritual growth, to effect our first conscious relation with
God as we understood Him.
4.
... commence the
search for his own defects, ...
12&12 p.50,
Step Four
5.
... commence to
call some groups "wet," others ...
12&12 p.147,
Tradition Four
There would be real danger
should we commence to call
some groups "wet," others "dry," still others "Republican" or "Communist," and yet others "Catholic" or "Protestant."
6.
... commence to
change profoundly.
12&12 p.115,
Step Twelve
After we come into A.A., if we go on growing, our attitudes
and actions toward security -- emotional security and financial
security -- commence to change profoundly.
7.
... commence to
describe yourself as an alcoholic.
BB p.91,
Working With Others
8.
... commence to
outgrow fear.
BB p.68,
How It Works
9.
... commence to
put our A.A. way of ...
12&12 p.88,
Step Ten
But when we approach Step
Ten we commence to put our A.A. way of living to practical use, day by day, in fair weather or foul.
10.
... commence to
quest for the principles through ...
12&12 p.131,
Tradition One
As we had once struggled
and prayed for individual recovery, just so earnestly did we
commence to quest for the principles through which
A.A. itself might survive.
11.
... commence to
ransack memory for the people ...
12&12 p.81,
Step Eight
Having carefully surveyed this whole area of human relations, and having decided exactly what personality traits in us
injured and disturbed
others, we can now commence to ransack memory for the people to whom
we have given offense.
12.
... commence to
see the full implication of ...
12&12 p.75,
Step Seven
It marked the time when we
could commence to see the full implication of Step Seven: "Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings."
13.
... commence to
solve their problems.
BB p.43,
More About Alcoholism
Most alcoholics have to be pretty badly mangled before they really commence to solve their problems.
14.
... commence to
watch us with speculative eyes, ...
12&12 p.132,
Tradition Two
Then they commence to watch
us with speculative eyes, pick up a fragment of A.A. history, and soon have the solid facts.
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