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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... different.
BB p.9,
Bill's Story
He was
inexplicably different.
2.
... different about
her husband already.
BB p.158,
A Vision For You
His
wife came,
scarcely daring to be
hopeful, though she
thought
she saw something
different about her
husband already.
3.
... different; and
so we were sold on ...
12&12 p.97,
Step Eleven
Of
course we finally did
experiment, and when
unexpected results followed, we
felt different; in
fact we
knew different; and so we were
sold on
meditation and
prayer.
4.
... different angle.
BB p.66,
How It Works
We were
prepared to
look
at it from an
entirely different angle.
5.
... different basis
of life, he will never ...
BB p.146,
To Employers
Being on a
radically different basis of
life, he will
never take
advantage of the
situation.
6.
... different basis;
the basis of trusting and ...
BB p.68,
How It Works
For we are now on a
different basis; the
basis of
trusting and
relying upon
God.
7.
... different conditions,
the same thing is taking ...
BB p.161,
A Vision For You
Under only
slightly different conditions, the same
thing is
taking place in many
eastern cities.
8.
... different footing.
BB p.12,
Bill's Story
He was on a
different footing.
9.
... different forms.
BB p.567(569),
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience
The
terms "
spiritual experience" and "
spiritual awakening"
are used many
times in this book which, upon
careful reading,
shows that the
personality change sufficient to bring about
recovery from
alcoholism has
manifested itself among us in many
different forms.
10.
... different from
his fellows.
BB p.30,
More About Alcoholism
No
person likes to
think he is
bodily and
mentally different from his
fellows.
11.
... different from
ours.
BB p.20,
There Is A Solution
We see that these
expressions refer to people whose
reactions are very
different
from ours.
12.
... different; in
fact we knew different; and ...
12&12 p.97,
Step Eleven
Of
course we finally did
experiment, and when
unexpected results followed, we
felt different; in
fact we
knew different; and so we were
sold on
meditation and
prayer.
13.
... different lifestyles,
just as the program has ...
BB xxii,
Foreword to Third Edition
The
basic principles of
the
A.A. program, it
appears,
hold good for
individuals with
many
different lifestyles, just as the
program has brought
recovery to those of many
different nationalities.
14.
... different light.
BB p.116,
To Wives
Should it
happen again,
regard it in a
different light.
15.
... different man.
BB p.128,
The Family Afterward
Overnight, as it were, he is a
different man.
16.
... different matter.
12&12 p.177,
Tradition Ten
But when it
comes to
A.A. as a
whole, that's quite a
different matter.
17.
... different nationalities.
BB xxii,
Foreword to Third Edition
The
basic principles of
the
A.A. program, it
appears,
hold good for
individuals with
many
different lifestyles, just as the
program has brought
recovery to those of many
different nationalities.
18.
... different occasion,
and in sharp contrast with ...
12&12 p.84,
Step Nine
This will be a very
different occasion, and in
sharp contrast with those
hangover mornings when we
alternated between
reviling ourselves and
blaming the
family (and
everyone else) for our
troubles.
19.
... different snag.
12&12 p.79,
Step Eight
Some of us, though,
tripped over a very
different snag.
20.
... different tack.
12&12 p.97,
Step Eleven
Sometimes we took a
slightly different tack.
21.
... different, that
his character defects are probably ...
12&12 p.46,
Step Four
They
comfort the
melancholy one by
first showing him that his
case is
not
strange or
different,
that his
character defects are
probably not
more
numerous or
worse
than those of anyone else in
A.A.
22.
... different voice.
12&12 p.142,
Tradition Three
Then one of the
three spoke
in a very
different voice.
23.
... different we
were from one another; they ...
12&12 p.123,
Step Twelve
The
doctors weren't
trying to find how
different we
were from one another; they
sought to find whatever
personality traits,
if any, this
group of
alcoholics had in
common.
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