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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
CONCERNED occurs
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1.
... concerned.
12&12 p.30,
Step Two
This
phony form of
respectability was our
undoing, so far as
faith was
concerned.
2.
... concerned.
BB p.163,
A Vision For You
The
authorities were much
concerned.
3.
... concerned, A.A.
would go even further.
12&12 p.56,
Step Five
So far as
alcoholics are
concerned,
A.A. would go even
further.
4.
... concerned about
that.
BB p.98,
Working With Others
Though his
family be at
fault in many
respects, he
should not be
concerned about that.
5.
... concerned, and
lay our cards on the ...
12&12 p.86,
Step Nine
But if no such
opportunity presents itself, at some
point we will
want to
summon all our
courage,
head straight for the
person concerned, and
lay our
cards on the
table.
6.
... concerned, are
not always so.
BB p.139,
To Employers
Drinking occasionally, and
understanding your
own reactions, it is
possible for you to
become
quite
sure of many things which, so far as the
alcoholic is
concerned, are
not always so.
7.
... concerned, except
when it would injure them ...
12&12 p.108,
Step Twelve
We
followed this up in
Step Nine by
making direct amends to those
concerned,
except when it would
injure
them or other people.
8.
... concerned, it
has worked with us.
BB p.144,
To Employers
By no
means do we
offer it
as the
last word on this
subject, but so far as we are
concerned, it has
worked with us.
9.
... concerned not
being present, we thought we ...
12&12 p.94,
Step Ten
Or, the
person concerned not
being
present, we
thought we were
helping
others to
understand him, when in
actuality our
true motive was to
feel superior by
pulling him
down.
10.
... concerned now
overwhelmed us, especially when we ...
12&12 p.79,
Step Eight
But the
prospect of
actually visiting or even
writing the people
concerned now
overwhelmed us,
especially when we
remembered in what
poor favor we
stood with most of
them.
11.
... concerned, our
outlook underwent the same revolutionary ...
12&12 p.120,
Step Twelve
Where the
possession of
money and
material things
was
concerned, our
outlook
underwent the same
revolutionary change.
12.
... concerned, self-confidence
was no good whatever; in ...
12&12 p.22,
Step One
Then we had been told that so far as
alcohol is
concerned,
self-
confidence was no
good
whatever; in
fact, it was a
total liability.
13.
... concerned that
a couple remain apart.
BB p.99,
Working With Others
Sometimes it is to the
best interests of all
concerned
that a
couple remain apart.
14.
... concerned, there
is nothing obligatory about it.
BB p.132,
The Family Afterward
So far as we are
concerned, there is
nothing obligatory about
it.
15.
... concerned this
will be a strictly personal ...
BB p.143,
To Employers
While on the
subject of
confidence, can you
adopt
the
attitude that so far as you are
concerned this will be a
strictly personal matter, that his
alcoholic
derelictions, the
treatment about to be
undertaken, will
never be
discussed without his
consent?
16.
... concerned, we
had to drop the word ...
12&12 p.47,
Step Four
Where other people were
concerned, we had to
drop the
word "
blame" from our
speech and
thought.
17.
... concerned with.
12&12 p.53,
Step Four
18.
... concerned with
a drinking problem.
BB p.19,
There Is A Solution
This should
suggest a
useful program for anyone
concerned with a
drinking
problem.
19.
... concerned with
ourselves, our resentments, or our ...
BB p.62,
How It Works
Whatever our
protestations, are not most of
us
concerned with ourselves, our
resentments, or our
self-
pity?
20.
... concerned with
personal relations.
12&12 p.77,
Step Eight
21.
... concerned with
us humans when we want ...
BB p.12,
Bill's Story
Thus was I
convinced that
God is
concerned with us
humans when we
want Him
enough.
22.
... concerned with
ways to make A.A. more ...
12&12 p.178,
Tradition Ten
Let it be
noted, too, that they were almost always
concerned with
ways to make
A.A. more
effective, how to do
the most
good for the most
alcoholics.
23.
... concerned would
at times wish he could ...
12&12 p.150,
Tradition Five
Every
doctor concerned would
at
times wish he could
devote himself to his
chosen
field rather than
work only
with the
group.
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