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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
CONSEQUENCES occurs
8 times
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1.
... consequences.
12&12 p.21,
Step One
2.
... consequences.
BB p.37,
More About Alcoholism
We have sometimes
reflected more than
Jim did upon the
consequences.
3.
... consequences at
all.
BB p.41,
More About Alcoholism
This
time I had not
thought
of the
consequences at all.
4.
... consequences may
be.
BB p.79,
Into Action
Reminding ourselves that we have
decided to go to any
lengths to find a
spiritual experience,
we
ask that we be
given strength and
direction
to do the
right thing, no
matter what the
personal
consequences may be.
5.
... consequences might
be.
BB p.37,
More About Alcoholism
We now see that when we
began to
drink deliberately,
instead of
casually, there was
little serious or
effective thought during
the
period of
premeditation of what the
terrific consequences might
be.
6.
... consequences of
our past acts, and to ...
12&12 p.87,
Step Nine
For the
readiness to take the
full consequences of our
past acts, and to take
responsibility for the well-being of others at
the same
time, is the very
spirit of
Step Nine.
7.
... consequences that
follow taking even a glass ...
BB p.24,
There Is A Solution
The almost
certain consequences that
follow taking even a
glass of
beer do not
crowd into the
mind to
deter us.
8.
... consequences which
are hard to take.
12&12 p.111,
Step Twelve
Here again we are
presented with the
temptation to
overmanage things, and sometimes this
results in
rebuffs and
other
consequences which are
hard to take.
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