From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... doing.
BB p.69,
How It Works
We must be willing to make amends where we have done harm, provided that we do not bring about still more harm in so doing.
2.
... doing.
BB p.115,
To Wives
Your desire to protect
him should not cause you to lie to people when they have a
right to know where he is and
what he is doing.
3.
... doing.
BB p.129,
The Family Afterward
Instead of treating the
family as he should, he may retreat further into himself and feel he has spiritual justification for so doing.
4.
... doing a
great deal of spree drinking.
BB p.32,
More About Alcoholism
5.
... doing a
Twelfth Step job at a ...
12&12 p.136,
Tradition Two
6.
... doing all
we can for months, we ...
12&12 p.111,
Step Twelve
For example, we may set our
hearts on getting a particular person sobered up, and after doing all we can for months, we see him relapse.
7.
... doing and
how she was overpaid, then ...
12&12 p.168,
Tradition Eight
Then we saw that if a hardworking secretary
answered the phone dozens of times a day, listened to twenty wailing wives, arranged hospitalization and got
sponsorship for ten newcomers, and was gently
diplomatic with the irate drunk who complained about the job she
was doing and how she was overpaid, then such a person could surely not be called a professional
A.A.
8.
... doing and
wish us well.
BB p.78,
Into Action
9.
... doing are
the habits of years.
BB p.118,
To Wives
10.
... doing as
a means of destroying the ...
BB p.80,
Into Action
11.
... doing everything
in his power to avoid ...
BB p.118,
To Wives
If your husband is trying
to live on a spiritual basis, he will also be doing everything in his power to
avoid disagreement or
contention.
12.
... doing fine
on a few of them.
12&12 p.113,
Step Twelve
13.
... doing fine
on only two of them, ...
12&12 p.113,
Step Twelve
Maybe we are doing fine on only two of them, the First Step and that part of the Twelfth where we
"carry the message."
14.
... doing for
us what we could not ...
BB p.84,
Into Action
15.
... doing him
a favor by keeping him ...
BB p.141,
To Employers
16.
... doing his
utmost, you may wish to ...
BB p.147,
To Employers
17.
... doing I
am paying my debt to ...
BB p.181,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
18.
... doing just
as well now, and it ...
12&12 p.136,
Tradition Two
19.
... doing of
others, fancied or real, had ...
BB p.66,
How It Works
20.
... doing so.
BB p.120,
To Wives
21.
... doing so
too.
BB p.116,
To Wives
As our husbands began to
apply spiritual principles in their lives,
we began to see the desirability of doing so
too.
22.
... doing, suddenly
hands us a great big ...
12&12 p.113,
Step Twelve
Then perhaps life, as it
has a way of doing, suddenly hands us a great big lump that we can't begin to swallow, let alone digest.
23.
... doing thankless
tasks that no one else ...
12&12 p.167,
Tradition Eight
Ignoring the fact that
these labors were not Twelfth Step jobs at all, the critics attacked as A.A. professionals these workers of ours who were often doing thankless tasks that no one else
could or would do.
24.
... doing that
and it doesn't work.
BB p.87,
Into Action
25.
... doing that,
he must decide for himself ...
BB p.95,
Working With Others
26.
... doing the
best she knows how, but ...
12&12 p.118,
Step Twelve
The wife usually goes on doing the best she knows how, but meanwhile the alcoholic
alternately loves and
hates her maternal care.
27.
... doing the
group's chores.
12&12 p.134,
Tradition Two
28.
... doing the
man an injustice.
BB p.138,
To Employers
29.
... doing the
right thing if you assume ...
BB p.97,
Working With Others
30.
... doing this
will so quickly reveal themselves ...
12&12 p.78,
Step Eight
But if a willing start is
made, then the great advantages of doing this will so quickly reveal themselves that
the pain will be lessened as one obstacle after another melts away.
31.
... doing to
others as I would have ...
12&12 p.93,
Step Ten
32.
... doing very
well.
BB p.126,
The Family Afterward
33.
... doing what
I wanted to do, without ...
BB p.172,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
My whole life seemed to be centered around doing what I wanted to do, without regard for the rights, wishes, or privileges of
anyone else; a state of mind which became more and more predominant as the years passed.
34.
... doing what
we know to be good ...
12&12 p.105,
Step Eleven
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