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Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... course.
12&12 p.21,
Step One
Practically no one, of
course.
2.
... course.
12&12 p.27,
Step Two
"This is only one
man's
opinion based on his
own experience, of
course.
3.
... course.
12&12 p.147,
Tradition Four
Beginning on the
ground
floor there would be a
club;
in the
second story they
would
sober up
drunks and
hand them
currency for
their back
debts; the
third
deck would
house an
educational project --
quite
noncontroversial, of
course.
4.
... course."
12&12 p.154,
Tradition Five
No place, of course."
5.
... course.
BB p.2,
Bill's Story
6.
... course.
BB p.142,
To Employers
This may
seem severe, but it
is usually the
best course.
7.
... course a
good doctor should always be ...
BB p.114,
To Wives
When they
become too
dangerous, we
think the
kind thing is to
lock them up,
but of
course a
good doctor should always be
consulted.
8.
... course ahead
began to look easier.
12&12 p.47,
Step Four
But once over the
first two or
three high hurdles, the
course ahead began to
look easier.
9.
... course all
A.A.'s, even the best, fall ...
12&12 p.112,
Step Twelve
Of
course all
A.A.'s, even the
best,
fall far
short of such
achievements as a
consistent thing.
10.
... course an
alcoholic ought to be freed ...
BB xxvii(xxv),
The Doctor's Opinion
11.
... course, and
obtained employment as investigator for ...
BB p.2,
Bill's Story
12.
... course, any
amends still neglected.
12&12 p.94,
Step Ten
Here we
need only
recognize that we did
act or
think badly,
try to
visualize how we might
have done
better, and
resolve with
God's
help to
carry these
lessons over into
tomorrow,
making, of
course, any
amends still
neglected.
13.
... course, are
fundamentally good acts, but often ...
12&12 p.104,
Step Eleven
Such
prayers, of
course,
are
fundamentally good acts, but often they are
based upon a
supposition
that we
know God's will for the
person for whom we
pray.
14.
... course, be
referred to your own doctor.
BB p.143,
To Employers
The
matter of
physical
treatment should, of
course, be
referred to your
own doctor.
15.
... course, because
there is no other way.
12&12 p.133,
Tradition Two
These are the
growing group's
hierarchy of
service --
self-
appointed, of
course,
because there is no other way.
16.
... course, can
be so impossibly damaged that ...
12&12 p.119,
Step Twelve
17.
... course create
great havoc without in the ...
12&12 p.104,
Step Eleven
Under such an
illusion, he can of
course create great havoc without in the
least intending it.
18.
... course depending
upon a doctor's advice.
BB p.133,
The Family Afterward
One of the many
doctors who had the
opportunity of
reading
this book in
manuscript form told us that the use of
sweets was often
helpful, of
course depending upon a
doctor's
advice.
19.
... course, for
drinking, and for all kinds ...
12&12 p.46,
Step Four
For most of us,
self-
justification was the
maker of
excuses;
excuses, of
course, for
drinking, and for all
kinds
of
crazy and
damaging conduct.
20.
... course, going
to be very happy.
BB p.117,
To Wives
If you and your
husband find a
solution for the
pressing
problem of
drink you are,
of
course,
going to be very
happy.
21.
... course he
couldn't drink, but why not ...
BB p.154,
A Vision For You
Of
course he couldn't
drink,
but why not
sit hopefully
at a
table, a
bottle of
ginger ale before him?
22.
... course he
would have dinner, and then ...
BB p.9,
Bill's Story
Of
course he would have
dinner, and then I could
drink
openly with him.
23.
... course I
can't take the job.
12&12 p.158,
Tradition Six
"Of
course I can't take the
job.
24.
... course, I
knew the law was not ...
BB p.2,
Bill's Story
By the
time I had
completed the
course, I
knew the
law was not for me.
25.
... course I
would!
BB p.12,
Bill's Story
Of course I would!
26.
... course, immense.
12&12 p.98,
Step Eleven
27.
... course, in
all times and places have ...
12&12 p.88,
Step Ten
28.
... course, is
the end result of purposeful ...
12&12 p.79,
Step Eight
29.
... course, is
the process by which instinct ...
12&12 p.36,
Step Three
30.
... course, it
is reasonable and understandable that ...
12&12 p.103,
Step Eleven
Of
course, it is
reasonable and
understandable that the
question is often
asked:
"Why can't we take a
specific and
troubling dilemma straight to
God, and in
prayer secure from Him
sure and
definite answers to our
requests?"
31.
... course it
was.
BB p.52,
We Agnostics
Of course it was.
32.
... course, may
conclude that they are indeed ...
12&12 p.67,
Step Six
Some people, of
course, may
conclude that they are
indeed ready to have all such
defects taken from them.
33.
... course, mean
just as much to uncounted ...
BB p.561(563),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
A.A. can, of
course,
mean just as much to
uncounted alcoholics
not
yet reached.
34.
... course, mean
little.
BB xxvi(xxiv),
The Doctor's Opinion
As
laymen, our
opinion as
to
its soundness may, of
course,
mean little.
35.
... course, most
human beings don't suffer these ...
12&12 p.66,
Step Six
Of
course, most
human beings don't
suffer these
defects at these
rock-
bottom levels.
36.
... course, my
answer was 'My own sobriety ...
12&12 p.152,
Tradition Five
"Of
course, my
answer was
'My
own sobriety and a
mighty happy life.'
37.
... course of
action.
BB p.142,
To Employers
After
satisfying yourself that your
man wants to
recover and that he
will go to any
extreme to do so, you may
suggest a
definite course of
action.
38.
... course of
action they carried out.
BB p.157,
A Vision For You
The
two friends spoke of their
spiritual experience and told him about the
course of
action they
carried out.
39.
... course of
admitting the things we have ...
12&12 p.81,
Step Eight
We shall
want to
hold
ourselves to the
course of
admitting the things we have done,
meanwhile forgiving the
wrongs done us,
real or
fancied.
40.
... course of
his third treatment he acquired ...
BB xxv(xxiii),
The Doctor's Opinion
41.
... course of
our existence?
BB p.54,
We Agnostics
Did not these
feelings, after all,
determine the
course of our
existence?
42.
... course of
revisions made for the second, ...
BB xi,
Preface
43.
... course of
vigorous action, the first step ...
BB p.63,
How It Works
Next we
launched out on a
course of
vigorous action, the
first step of which is a
personal
housecleaning, which many of us had
never attempted.
44.
... course or
be hopelessly lost.
12&12 p.147,
Tradition Four
The
A.A. group would have to
stick to
its course or be
hopelessly lost.
45.
... course our
friend was wrong -- dead wrong.
BB p.135,
The Family Afterward
Of
course our
friend was
wrong --
dead wrong.
46.
... course, people
turned away from us, bored ...
12&12 p.92,
Step Ten
Of
course, people
turned
away from us,
bored or
hurt.
47.
... course, ponder
and weigh each instance carefully.
12&12 p.81,
Step Eight
We should, of
course,
ponder
and
weigh each
instance
carefully.
48.
... course, quite
optional so long as we ...
BB p.63,
How It Works
The
wording was, of
course,
quite
optional so
long as
we
expressed the
idea,
voicing it without
reservation.
49.
... course she
did not, and the whole ...
BB p.79,
Into Action
Of
course she did not, and the
whole situation has
long since been
adjusted.
50.
... course that
isn't so, and such people ...
BB p.141,
To Employers
Of
course that isn't so, and such people often may
impose on you.
51.
... course, that
the reader desires to stop.
BB p.34,
More About Alcoholism
We are
assuming, of
course, that the
reader desires to
stop.
52.
... course, that
we are going to talk ...
BB p.45,
We Agnostics
And it
means, of
course, that
we are
going to
talk about
God.
53.
... course, that
we had been given the ...
12&12 p.147,
Tradition Four
54.
... course, that
we had substituted negative for ...
12&12 p.30,
Step Two
This all
meant, of
course,
that we had
substituted negative for
positive thinking.
55.
... course, that
we were still far off ...
12&12 p.121,
Step Twelve
This all
meant, of
course,
that we were still far off
balance.
56.
... course, that
your changed attitude plus the ...
BB p.144,
To Employers
You are
betting, of
course,
that your
changed attitude plus the
contents of this book will
turn the
trick.
57.
... course the
depressive and the power-driver are ...
12&12 p.48,
Step Four
58.
... course, the
familiar alcoholic obsession that few ...
BB p.155,
A Vision For You
He had, of
course, the
familiar alcoholic obsession that few
knew of
his
drinking.
59.
... course, the
family may look at their ...
BB p.128,
The Family Afterward
As soon as his
sobriety begins to be
taken as a
matter of
course, the
family may
look at their
strange new
dad with
apprehension, then with
irritation.
60.
... course, the
often disputed question of whether ...
12&12 p.63,
Step Six
Of
course, the often
disputed question of
whether
God can -- and will, under
certain conditions --
remove defects of
character will be
answered with a
prompt affirmative by almost any
A.A. member.
61.
... course, the
psychopaths who are emotionally unstable.
BB xxx(xxviii),
The Doctor's Opinion
There are, of
course, the
psychopaths who are
emotionally unstable.
62.
... course the
sponsor points out that our ...
12&12 p.39,
Step Three
Of
course the
sponsor points out that our
friend's
life is still
unmanageable even though he is
sober, that after all, only a
bare start on
A.A.'s
program has been made.
63.
... course, there
couldn't be the slightest objection ...
12&12 p.158,
Tradition Six
64.
... course, there
is no pat answer which ...
12&12 p.87,
Step Nine
Of
course, there is no
pat answer which can
fit all such
dilemmas.
65.
... course, there
is such a thing as ...
BB p.108,
To Wives
Of
course, there is such a thing as
incompatibility, but in
nearly every
instance the
alcoholic only
seems to
be
unloving and
inconsiderate; it is usually because he is
warped and
sickened that he
says and does these
appalling things.
66.
... course, there
was a promoter in the ...
12&12 p.148,
Tradition Four
Of
course, there was a
promoter in the
deal -- a
super-
promoter.
67.
... course, they
are willing to have a ...
BB p.146,
To Employers
After your
man has
gone along
without
drinking for a few
months, you may be able to make use of his
services with other
employees who are
giving
you the
alcoholic run-around --
provided, of
course, they are
willing to
have a
third party in the
picture.
68.
... course, they
would use the resources of ...
12&12 p.157,
Tradition Six
Of
course, they would use the
resources of
radio,
press, and
films to make their
point.
69.
... course, this
chapter refers to alcoholics, sick ...
BB p.149,
To Employers
70.
... course, this
isn't so at all.
12&12 p.177,
Tradition Ten
Of course, this isn't so at all.
71.
... course, this
won't do.
12&12 p.69,
Step Six
Of course, this won't do.
72.
... course, to
our various and sundry ideas ...
12&12 p.68,
Step Six
Therefore, it
seems plain
that few of us can
quickly or
easily become ready to
aim at
spiritual and
moral perfection; we
want to
settle for only as much
perfection as will get us by in
life,
according, of
course, to our
various and
sundry ideas of what will get
us by.
73.
... course to
take.
BB p.81,
Into Action
Though there may be
justifiable exceptions, and though we
wish to
lay down no
rule of any
sort, we have often
found this the
best course to take.
74.
... course to
take.
BB p.86,
Into Action
We may not be able to
determine which
course to take.
75.
... course, very
ancient.
12&12 p.56,
Step Five
This
practice of
admitting one's
defects
to another
person is, of
course, very
ancient.
76.
... course, we
all fall much below this ...
BB p.99,
Working With Others
Of
course, we all
fall much
below this
standard many
times.
77.
... course we
couldn't.
BB p.54,
We Agnostics
Of course we couldn't.
78.
... course we
did.
BB p.54,
We Agnostics
But we
believed in
life --
of
course we did.
79.
... course we
finally did experiment, and when ...
12&12 p.97,
Step Eleven
80.
... course, we
have lost all perspective, and ...
12&12 p.45,
Step Four
Here, of
course, we have
lost
all
perspective, and therefore all
genuine humility.
81.
... course: We
realized that the people who ...
BB p.66,
How It Works
This was our
course: We
realized that the people who
wronged us were perhaps
spiritually sick.
82.
... course, we
sometimes encounter people who do ...
BB p.74,
Into Action
Of
course, we sometimes
encounter people who do not
understand alcoholics.
83.
... course, we
were glad that good home ...
12&12 p.28,
Step Two
84.
... course which
had inspired such awe in ...
BB p.4,
Bill's Story
It was
fun to
carom around the
exclusive course which
had
inspired such
awe in me
as a
lad.
85.
... course, will
want to go to the ...
BB p.74,
Into Action
86.
... course, you
are at perfect liberty to ...
12&12 p.173,
Tradition Nine
They even had to
coin a
couple of
sentences which
still go into
half the
letters they
write: "Of
course, you are at
perfect liberty to
handle this
matter any way you
please.
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