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Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... end.
12&12 p.26,
Step Two
This is the
beginning of the
end.
2.
... end.
12&12 p.137,
Tradition Two
With
waning enthusiasm, my
tale trailed off to the
end.
3.
... end.
12&12 p.183,
Tradition Eleven
They have even
sacrificed good stories to this
end.
4.
... end.
BB p.8,
Bill's Story
Everyone became resigned to the
certainty that I would have to be
shut up somewhere, or would
stumble along to a
miserable end.
5.
... end.
BB p.152,
A Vision For You
He will
wish for the
end.
6.
... end.
BB p.154,
A Vision For You
Unless he took some
drinks, he might not have the
courage to
scrape an
acquaintance and would have a
lonely week-
end.
7.
... end all
drunks.
BB p.106,
To Wives
In
desperation, we have even got
tight ourselves -- the
drunk to
end all
drunks.
8.
... end and
aim of life.
12&12 p.71,
Step Seven
Instead of
regarding the
satisfaction of our
material desires as the
means by which we could
live and
function as
human beings, we had
taken these
satisfactions to be the
final end and
aim of
life.
9.
... end and
aim of our lives.
12&12 p.114,
Step Twelve
We have
learned that the
satisfaction of
instincts cannot be the
sole
end and
aim of our
lives.
10.
... end, blotting
out the consciousness of our ...
BB p.25,
There Is A Solution
We were in a
position where
life was
becoming impossible, and if we had
passed into the
region from
which there is no
return through
human aid, we had but
two alternatives: One was
to go on to the
bitter end,
blotting out the
consciousness of our
intolerable situation
as
best we could; and the other, to
accept spiritual help.
11.
... end in
itself.
BB p.77,
Into Action
But this is not an end in itself.
12.
... end might
run like this: Looking at ...
12&12 p.52,
Step Four
13.
... end, not
something to be endured or ...
12&12 p.107,
Step Twelve
He has been
set on a
path which
tells him he is really
going somewhere, that
life is not a
dead end, not something to be
endured
or
mastered.
14.
... end ...
nothing is left."
12&12 p.144,
Tradition Three
This is the
end ...
nothing
is
left."
15.
... end of
1939 it was estimated that ...
BB xviii,
Foreword to Second Edition
By the
end of
1939 it was
estimated that
800 alcoholics were on their way to
recovery.
16.
... end of
a few days, the news ...
12&12 p.144,
Tradition Three
At the
end of a few
days, the
news came in.
17.
... end of
a long road, marked by ...
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
18.
... end of
a perfect day, not a ...
BB p.41,
More About Alcoholism
It was the
end of a
perfect
day, not a
cloud on the
horizon.
19.
... end of
all.
BB p.49,
We Agnostics
20.
... end of
his next drinking bout.
BB p.90,
Working With Others
They should
wait for the
end
of his
next drinking bout.
21.
... end of
his old life, and the ...
12&12 p.26,
Step Two
And so it is: the
beginning of the
end of his
old life, and the
beginning of
his
emergence into a new one.
22.
... end of
isolation from our fellows and ...
12&12 p.82,
Step Eight
It is the
beginning of the
end of
isolation from our
fellows and from
God.
23.
... end of
it, my reports to Wall ...
BB p.3,
Bill's Story
At the
end of it, my
reports to
Wall Street procured me a
position there and the use of a
large expense account.
24.
... end of
that bleak November, I sat ...
BB p.8,
Bill's Story
25.
... end of
the room stood a glass ...
BB p.154,
A Vision For You
26.
... end of
the spree, or at least ...
BB p.90,
Working With Others
Wait for the
end of the
spree, or at
least for a
lucid interval.
27.
... end result
of purposeful forgetting.
12&12 p.79,
Step Eight
28.
... end that
our great blessings may never ...
12&12 p.192,
Tradition Twelve (Long)
This to the
end that our
great blessings may
never spoil us; that we shall
forever live in
thankful contemplation of Him who
presides over us all.
29.
... end that
our great blessings may never ...
BB p.566(568),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
This to the
end that our
great blessings may
never spoil us; that we shall
forever live in
thankful contemplation of Him who
presides over us all.
30.
... end we
have left.
12&12 p.69,
Step Six
Let's
dispose of what
appears to be a
hazardous
open end we have
left.
31.
... end, when
we review the happenings of ...
12&12 p.89,
Step Ten
There's the one we take at
day's
end, when we
review the
happenings of the
hours
just
past.
32.
... end with
heart failure during delirium tremens, ...
BB p.7,
Bill's Story
My
weary and
despairing
wife was
informed that it
would all
end with
heart failure during
delirium tremens, or I would
develop
a
wet brain, perhaps
within a
year.
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