From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
COOPERATE occurs
6 times
(
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1.
... cooperate fully
with their Creator's desire to ...
12&12 p.64,
Step Six
Here their
powerful instinct to
live can
cooperate fully with their
Creator's
desire to
give them new
life.
2.
... cooperate; never
criticize.
BB p.89,
Working With Others
So
cooperate;
never criticize.
3.
... cooperate, rather
than complain, you will find ...
BB p.119,
To Wives
If you
cooperate, rather than
complain, you will find that his
excess enthusiasm will
tone down.
4.
... cooperate widely
with the men of medicine ...
BB xx,
Foreword to Second Edition
Neither does
A.A. take any
particular medical point of
view, though we
cooperate widely with the
men of
medicine as well as
with the
men of
religion.
5.
... cooperate with
anyone, such cooperation ought never ...
12&12 p.190,
Tradition Six (Long)
While an
A.A. group may
cooperate with anyone, such
cooperation ought
never
to go so far as
affiliation or
endorsement,
actual or
implied.
6.
... cooperate with
anyone, such cooperation ought never ...
BB p.564(566),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
While an
A.A. group may
cooperate with anyone, such
cooperation ought
never
go so far as
affiliation or
endorsement,
actual or
implied.
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