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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
CONSCIOUS occurs
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1.
... conscious.
BB p.85,
Into Action
To some
extent we have
become God-
conscious.
2.
... conscious companionship
with his Creator.
BB p.56,
We Agnostics
For the
first time, he
lived in
conscious companionship with his
Creator.
3.
... conscious contact
with God.
12&12 p.96,
Step Eleven
4.
... conscious contact
with God.
12&12 p.105,
Step Eleven
Almost any
experienced A.A. will tell how his
affairs
have
taken remarkable
and
unexpected turns
for the
better as he
tried
to
improve his
conscious contact with
God.
5.
... conscious contact
with God as we understood ...
12&12 p.96,
Step Eleven
"
Sought through
prayer and
meditation to
improve
our
conscious contact with
God as we
understood Him,
praying only for
knowledge of His will for us and the
power to
carry that out."
6.
... conscious contact
with God as we understood ...
BB p.59,
How It Works
11.
Sought through
prayer and
meditation to
improve our
conscious contact with
God as we
understood Him,
praying
only for
knowledge of His will for us and the
power to
carry that out.
7.
... conscious contact
with God, it is not ...
BB p.87,
Into Action
Being still
inexperienced and having just
made
conscious contact with
God, it is not
probable
that we are
going to be
inspired at all
times.
8.
... conscious contact
with God, with His grace, ...
12&12 p.101,
Step Eleven
But
its object is always the
same: to
improve our
conscious contact with
God, with His
grace,
wisdom, and
love.
9.
... conscious of
God as they never were ...
12&12 p.62,
Step Five
And even those who had
faith already often
become conscious of
God as they
never were before.
10.
... conscious of
His presence, we began to ...
BB p.63,
How It Works
11.
... conscious or
feel that you must apologize ...
BB p.115,
To Wives
You will no
longer be
self-
conscious or
feel that you
must apologize as though your
husband were a
weak character.
12.
... conscious or
unconscious fears, is the basic ...
12&12 p.48,
Step Four
13.
... conscious relation
with God as we understood ...
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.
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