From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... depend completely
upon a stronger person for ...
12&12 p.43,
Step Four
How frequently we see a
frightened human being determined to depend completely upon a stronger person for guidance and protection.
2.
... depend squarely
upon it.
12&12 p.129,
Tradition One
3.
... depend the
answer for sufferers of this ...
12&12 p.150,
Tradition Five
Alcoholics Anonymous can be likened
to a group of physicians who might find a
cure for cancer, and upon whose concerted work would depend the answer for sufferers of this disease.
4.
... depend upon
a higher power and absorb ...
BB p.570(572),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
Learning to depend upon a higher power and absorb himself in his work with other alcoholics, he remains sober day by day.
5.
... depend upon
a Higher Power, the more ...
12&12 p.36,
Step Three
And the facts seem to be
these: The more we become willing to depend upon a Higher Power, the more independent we actually are.
6.
... depend upon
how it was channeled.
12&12 p.187,
Tradition Twelve
7.
... depend upon
money or conformity.
12&12 p.189,
Tradition Three (Long)
8.
... depend upon
money or conformity.
BB p.563(565),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
9.
... depend upon
our constant thought of others ...
BB p.20,
There Is A Solution
Our very lives, as ex-problem drinkers, depend upon our constant thought of others and how we
may help meet their needs.
10.
... depend upon
Somebody or Something else.
12&12 p.39,
Step Three
11.
... depend upon
the charity of passersby.
12&12 p.116,
Step Twelve
But when self-will had driven everybody away and our isolation had
become complete, it caused us to play the big shot in cheap barrooms and then fare forth alone on the street to depend upon the charity of passersby.
12.
... depend upon
them far too much.
12&12 p.53,
Step Four
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