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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... easily able
to control his desire for ...
BB xxix(xxvii),
The Doctor's Opinion
On the other
hand -- and
strange as this may
seem to
those who do not
understand -- once a
psychic change has
occurred, the very same
person who
seemed doomed, who had so many
problems he
despaired of
ever
solving them,
suddenly finds himself
easily able to
control his
desire for
alcohol, the only
effort necessary being
that
required to
follow
a few
simple rules.
2.
... easily about
A.A. to almost anyone.
12&12 p.186,
Tradition Twelve
When
opportunities to be
helpful came along, he
found he could
talk easily about
A.A. to almost anyone.
3.
... easily and
will soon become eager.
12&12 p.62,
Step Five
When your
mission is
carefully explained,
and it is seen by the
recipient of your
confidence how
helpful
he can really be, the
conversation will
start easily and will soon
become eager.
4.
... easily, and
without exhibitionism, about his own ...
12&12 p.46,
Step Four
5.
... easily become
ready to aim at spiritual ...
12&12 p.68,
Step Six
Therefore, it
seems plain
that few of us can
quickly or
easily become ready to
aim at
spiritual and
moral perfection; we
want to
settle for only as much
perfection as will get us by in
life,
according, of
course, to our
various and
sundry ideas of what will
get us by.
6.
... easily breakable
as an A.A. group.
12&12 p.139,
Tradition Three
7.
... easily divert
us from our primary spiritual ...
12&12 p.190,
Tradition Six (Long)
8.
... easily divert
us from our primary spiritual ...
BB p.563(565),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
9.
... easily find
some by asking a few ...
BB p.89,
Working With Others
You can
easily find some by
asking a few
doctors,
ministers,
priests or
hospitals.
10.
... easily, for
we are not burning up ...
BB p.88,
Into Action
We do not
tire so
easily, for
we are not
burning up
energy foolishly as we did
when we were
trying to
arrange life to
suit ourselves.
11.
... easily in
each individual case, will help ...
12&12 p.53,
Step Four
Questions like these, more of which will
come to
mind easily in each
individual case, will
help turn up the
root causes.
12.
... easily mend
with a few casual apologies.
12&12 p.79,
Step Eight
No more,
surely, than we could
easily mend with a few
casual apologies.
13.
... easily passed
among alcoholics, one to the ...
12&12 p.151,
Tradition Five
These
legacies of
suffering and of
recovery are
easily passed among
alcoholics,
one to the other.
14.
... easily pushed
aside in favor of the ...
BB p.37,
More About Alcoholism
Yet all
reasons for not
drinking were
easily pushed aside in
favor of the
foolish idea that he could take
whiskey if only he
mixed it
with
milk!
15.
... easily see
why.
BB p.87,
Into Action
You can easily see why.
16.
... easily understood.
BB p.137,
To Employers
That he has not always done so for the
alcoholic
is
easily understood.
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