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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... door.
12&12 p.40,
Step Three
2.
... door.
12&12 p.137,
Tradition Two
3.
... door.
12&12 p.162,
Tradition Seven
Just then an
old acquaintance stuck a
tousled and
aching head in the
door.
4.
... door.
BB p.123,
The Family Afterward
The
first impulse will be
to
bury these
skeletons
in a
dark closet and
padlock the
door.
5.
... door.
BB p.157,
A Vision For You
I'm
afraid to go out the
door.
6.
... door and
asked to be let in.
12&12 p.141,
Tradition Three
A
newcomer appeared at
one of these
groups,
knocked on the
door and
asked to be let in.
7.
... door couldn't
get a break.
12&12 p.161,
Tradition Seven
We saw that if they weren't, the
man coming in the
door couldn't get
a
break.
8.
... door ever
so slightly open, we find ...
12&12 p.35,
Step Three
Once we have
placed the
key
of
willingness in the
lock and have the
door ever so
slightly open, we find that
we can always
open it some more.
9.
... door on
it.
BB p.83,
Into Action
We will not
regret the
past
nor
wish to
shut the
door on it.
10.
... door open.
12&12 p.34,
Step Three
All we
need is a
key, and the
decision to
swing the
door open.
11.
... door opened
and he stood there, fresh-skinned ...
BB p.9,
Bill's Story
The
door opened and he
stood there,
fresh-
skinned and
glowing.
12.
... door opened
into an attractive bar.
BB p.154,
A Vision For You
Down the
lobby a
door opened into an
attractive
bar.
13.
... door opens
almost of itself, and looking ...
12&12 p.34,
Step Three
Once
unlocked by
willingness, the
door opens almost of itself, and
looking through it, we shall see a
pathway beside which is an
inscription.
14.
... door panels,
smashed treasured crockery, and ripped ...
BB p.106,
To Wives
15.
... door shouting
the good news.
12&12 p.83,
Step Nine
We
want to
come in the
door shouting the
good news.
16.
... door the
break he ought to have.
12&12 p.168,
Tradition Eight
She was
helping to
give the
man coming in the
door the
break he ought to have.
17.
... door which
to all appearances is still ...
12&12 p.34,
Step Three
Practicing Step Three is like the
opening of
a
door which to all
appearances is still
closed and
locked.
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