From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... discover a
chink in the walls their ...
12&12 p.46,
Step Four
The problem is to help them
discover a chink in the walls their ego has built, through which the light of reason can shine.
2.
... discover a
greater challenge in the lesser ...
12&12 p.114,
Step Twelve
But also like others, we often discover a greater challenge in the lesser
and more continuous problems of life.
3.
... discover a
prospect for Alcoholics Anonymous, find ...
BB p.90,
Working With Others
4.
... discover how
and why, in the face ...
BB p.20,
There Is A Solution
Doubtless you are curious to discover how and why, in the face of expert opinion to the contrary, we have recovered from a hopeless condition of mind and body.
5.
... discover how
dependent we really are, and ...
12&12 p.36,
Step Three
In this area it is startling to discover how dependent we really are,
and how unconscious of that dependence.
6.
... discover one
that suits if only you ...
12&12 p.27,
Step Two
If you don't care for the one
I've suggested, you'll be sure to discover one that suits if only you look and listen.
7.
... discover that
we do receive guidance for ...
12&12 p.104,
Step Eleven
We discover that we do receive guidance for our
lives to just about the extent that we stop making demands upon God to give it to us on order and on
our terms.
8.
... discover the
fatal nature of our situation.
12&12 p.24,
Step One
Under the lash of alcoholism, we are driven
to A.A., and there we discover
the fatal nature of our situation.
9.
... discover the
obstacles in our path.
BB p.72,
Into Action
We have been trying to get a
new attitude, a new relationship with our
Creator, and to discover
the obstacles in our path.
10.
... discover the
person in whom we are ...
12&12 p.60,
Step Five
11.
... discover the
truth about the stock-in-trade.
BB p.64,
How It Works
12.
... discover they
have a basis upon which ...
BB p.99,
Working With Others
13.
... discover to
our dismay that there is ...
12&12 p.66,
Step Six
Even then the best of us will discover to our dismay that there is always a
sticking point, a point at which we say, "No, I can't give this up yet."
14.
... discover what
can be done about alcoholism ...
12&12 p.180,
Tradition Eleven
Employers learn that great corporations have
set their approval upon us, and wish to discover what can be done about alcoholism in their own firms.
15.
... discover what
these liabilities in each of ...
12&12 p.42,
Step Four
Step Four is our vigorous and painstaking effort to
discover what these liabilities in each of us
have been, and are.
16.
... discover when
we try to help other ...
12&12 p.111,
Step Twelve
Can we love the whole pattern of living as eagerly as we do the small segment of it we discover when
we try to help other alcoholics achieve sobriety?
17.
... discover where
we have been at fault; ...
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.
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and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
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