From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... create a
service organization for itself?
12&12 p.172,
Tradition Nine
How, then, can we have an unorganized movement which can and does create a service organization for itself?
2.
... create great
havoc without in the least ...
12&12 p.104,
Step Eleven
3.
... create reality
out of bottles.
12&12 p.100,
Step Eleven
When such thoughts break in, we might recall, a
little ruefully, how much store we used to set by imagination as it tried
to create reality out of bottles.
4.
... create service
boards or committees directly responsible ...
12&12 p.172,
Tradition Nine
"A.A., as such, ought never be organized; but we may create
service boards or committees directly responsible to those they
serve."
5.
... create service
boards or committees directly responsible ...
BB p.562(564),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
Nine -- A.A., as such, ought never be organized; but we
may create service boards or committees directly responsible
to those they serve.
6.
... create special
service boards and committees which ...
12&12 p.172,
Tradition Nine
Then, in seeming contradiction, we proceed to create special service boards and committees
which in themselves are organized.
7.
... create such
an impression, many alcoholics have ...
BB p.567(569),
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience
Though it was not our intention to create such an impression, many alcoholics have nevertheless concluded that in order to
recover they must acquire an immediate and
overwhelming "God-consciousness" followed at once by a vast change in feeling and outlook.
8.
... create the
fellowship you crave.(*)
BB p.164,
A Vision For You
9.
... create their
lives.
BB xxviii(xxvi),
The Doctor's Opinion
In nearly all cases, their
ideals must be grounded in a power greater than themselves,
if they are to re-create their
lives.
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