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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
DEVELOP occurs
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1.
... develop.
12&12 p.119,
Step Twelve
It is only where "
boy meets girl on
A.A. campus," and
love follows at
first sight, that
difficulties
may
develop.
2.
... develop a
wet brain, perhaps within a ...
BB p.7,
Bill's Story
My
weary and
despairing
wife was
informed that it
would all
end with
heart failure during
delirium tremens, or I would
develop a
wet brain, perhaps
within a
year.
3.
... develop hurt
feelings, a sense of persecution, ...
12&12 p.53,
Step Four
4.
... develop much
more of this precious quality ...
12&12 p.70,
Step Seven
Nearly all
A.A.'s have
found, too, that
unless they
develop much more of this
precious quality than may
be
required just for
sobriety, they still haven't much
chance of
becoming truly happy.
5.
... develop slowly
over a period of time.
BB p.567(569),
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience
Most of our
experiences are what the
psychologist William
James calls the "
educational variety"
because they
develop slowly
over a
period of
time.
6.
... develop such
an obsession for financial security ...
12&12 p.43,
Step Four
Another may
develop such an
obsession for
financial
security that he
wants to
do
nothing but
hoard money.
7.
... develop the
best possible public relations policy ...
12&12 p.180,
Tradition Eleven
8.
... develop the
best possible relations with every ...
12&12 p.77,
Step Eight
First, we take a
look backward and
try to
discover where we have been at
fault;
next we make a
vigorous attempt to
repair the
damage we have
done; and
third, having thus
cleaned away the
debris of
the
past, we
consider how,
with our
newfound knowledge of ourselves, we may
develop the
best possible relations with
every
human being we
know.
9.
... develop the
quality of willingness.
12&12 p.40,
Step Three
All by himself, and in the
light of his
own circumstances, he
needs to
develop the
quality of
willingness.
10.
... develop the
sense of being in partnership ...
12&12 p.116,
Step Twelve
It
became clear that if we
ever were to
feel emotionally secure among
grown-up people, we would have to
put our
lives on a
give-and-take
basis; we would
have to
develop the
sense of
being in
partnership or
brotherhood with all those around us.
11.
... develop this
vital sixth sense.
BB p.85,
Into Action
We have
begun to
develop this
vital sixth sense.
12.
... develop which
work against marriage partnership and ...
12&12 p.117,
Step Twelve
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