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Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... complete.
12&12 p.21,
Step One
2.
... complete.
BB p.123,
The Family Afterward
Though
old buildings will
eventually be
replaced by
finer ones, the new
structures
will take
years to
complete.
3.
... complete a
jag!
BB p.9,
Bill's Story
There was that
time we had
chartered an
airplane to
complete a
jag!
4.
... complete abandon.
BB p.59,
How It Works
We
asked His
protection
and
care with
complete abandon.
5.
... complete and
literal way, all A.A.'s have ...
12&12 p.64,
Step Six
So in a very
complete and
literal way, all
A.A.'s have "
become entirely ready" to have
God remove the
mania for
alcohol from their
lives.
6.
... complete candor
of our conflicts, and had ...
12&12 p.57,
Step Five
Until we had
talked with
complete candor of our
conflicts, and had
listened to someone else do the same thing, we still
didn't
belong.
7.
... complete defeat?
12&12 p.21,
Step One
Who
cares to
admit complete defeat?
8.
... complete defeat.
BB p.11,
Bill's Story
Like myself, he had
admitted complete defeat.
9.
... complete defeat
is the main taproot from ...
12&12 p.22,
Step One
The
principle that we shall find no
enduring strength until
we
first admit complete defeat is the
main taproot from which our
whole Society has
sprung and
flowered.
10.
... complete disclosure
of the damage we have ...
12&12 p.86,
Step Nine
There can only be one
consideration which
should
qualify our
desire
for a
complete disclosure of the
damage
we have done.
11.
... complete disclosures
do them or others more ...
12&12 p.83,
Step Nine
There will be those to whom we can make only
partial restitution,
lest complete disclosures do them or others more
harm than
good.
12.
... complete failure
of the kind of defense ...
BB p.24,
There Is A Solution
There is a
complete failure
of the
kind of
defense that
keeps one from
putting his
hand on a
hot stove.
13.
Complete financial
security we must have -- or ...
12&12 p.121,
Step Twelve
Complete financial security we
must have -- or
else.
14.
... complete frankness
with those who have been ...
12&12 p.85,
Step Nine
As soon as we
begin to
feel
confident in our new way of
life and have
begun, by our
behavior and
example, to
convince those about us that we are
indeed changing for the
better, it is usually
safe to
talk in
complete frankness with those who have been
seriously affected, even
those who may be only a
little or not at all
aware of what we have done to them.
15.
... complete human
beings.
12&12 p.42,
Step Four
Without them we wouldn't be
complete human beings.
16.
... complete, it
caused us to play the ...
12&12 p.116,
Step Twelve
But when
self-will had
driven everybody away and
our
isolation had
become complete, it
caused us to
play the
big shot in
cheap barrooms and then
fare forth alone on the
street to
depend upon the
charity of
passersby.
17.
... complete liberation
of our thinking.
BB p.52,
We Agnostics
18.
... complete readiness
to go through with it ...
BB p.74,
Into Action
If that is so, this
step may be
postponed, only, however, if we
hold ourselves in
complete readiness to go through with it at the
first opportunity.
19.
... complete readiness
with which we throw away ...
BB p.52,
We Agnostics
Is not our
age characterized by the
ease with which we
discard old ideas for new, by the
complete readiness with which
we
throw away the
theory or
gadget which does not
work
for something new which does?
20.
... complete stranger
may prove the best bet.
12&12 p.61,
Step Five
For some of us, a
complete stranger may
prove the
best bet.
21.
... complete trust
upon a motor to keep ...
12&12 p.36,
Step Three
Ask the
polio sufferer confined to an
iron lung who
depends with
complete trust upon a
motor to
keep the
breath of
life in him.
22.
... complete willingness
I might build what I ...
BB p.12,
Bill's Story
Upon a
foundation of
complete willingness I might
build what I saw in my
friend.
23.
... complete willingness
to make amends as fast ...
12&12 p.87,
Step Nine
But all of them do
require a
complete willingness to make
amends as
fast and as far as
may be
possible in a
given set of
conditions.
24.
... complete willingness
to move forward.
12&12 p.54,
Step Four
25.
... complete willingness
to take inventory, and exert ...
12&12 p.49,
Step Four
Once we have a
complete willingness to take
inventory, and
exert
ourselves to do the
job thoroughly, a
wonderful light falls upon this
foggy scene.
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