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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... enough.
12&12 p.27,
Step Two
Even this
minimum of
faith
will be
enough.
2.
... enough.
12&12 p.29,
Step Two
We
became convinced
that such
simple rules of
fair play and
decency would be
enough.
3.
... enough.
12&12 p.49,
Step Four
We
eat,
drink, and
grab for more of
everything
than we
need,
fearing we
shall
never have
enough.
4.
... enough.
12&12 p.59,
Step Five
Hence it was most
evident that a
solitary self-
appraisal, and the
admission of our
defects
based upon that alone, wouldn't be
nearly enough.
5.
... enough."
12&12 p.97,
Step Eleven
It has been well said that "almost the only
scoffers at
prayer are
those who
never tried it
enough."
6.
... enough.
12&12 p.108,
Step Twelve
Looking at
Step Five, we
decided that an
inventory,
taken alone,
wouldn't be
enough.
7.
... enough.
12&12 p.137,
Tradition Two
Sure,
Charlie's
idea is
good, but it isn't
good enough.
8.
... enough.
12&12 p.164,
Tradition Seven
The
Foundation was really
hard up just then; the
groups
weren't
sending in
enough
for the
support of the
office; we had been
tossing
in all the book
income and even that hadn't been
enough.
9.
... enough.
BB p.12,
Bill's Story
Thus was I
convinced that
God is
concerned with us
humans when we
want Him
enough.
10.
... enough.
BB p.68,
How It Works
Self-
reliance was
good as far as it went, but it didn't go far
enough.
11.
... enough.
BB p.82,
Into Action
We
feel a
man is
unthinking when he says that
sobriety is
enough.
12.
... enough.
BB p.97,
Working With Others
A
kindly act once in a while
isn't
enough.
13.
... enough.
BB xxix(xxvii),
The Doctor's Opinion
Although he
gives all that is in him, it often is
not
enough.
14.
... enough about
your drinking habits, symptoms, and ...
BB p.91,
Working With Others
Tell him
enough about your
drinking habits,
symptoms, and
experiences to
encourage him to
speak of
himself.
15.
... enough acquainted
to know that their compatibility ...
12&12 p.119,
Step Twelve
16.
... enough and
long enough to drink like ...
BB p.31,
More About Alcoholism
Heaven knows, we have
tried hard enough and
long enough to
drink like other people!
17.
... enough desire
to stop while there is ...
BB p.32,
More About Alcoholism
But the
difficulty is that few
alcoholics have
enough desire to
stop while there is
yet time.
18.
... enough, Ed
proceeded to stay sober.
12&12 p.143,
Tradition Three
19.
... enough for
any alcoholic.
12&12 p.37,
Step Three
One
good look in the
mirror ought to be
answer
enough for any
alcoholic.
20.
... enough for
the support of the office; ...
12&12 p.164,
Tradition Seven
The
Foundation was really
hard up just then; the
groups
weren't
sending in
enough
for the
support of the
office; we had been
tossing
in all the book
income and even that hadn't been
enough.
21.
... enough for
us.
12&12 p.29,
Step Two
The here and now was
good enough for us.
22.
... enough gin
concealed about the house to ...
BB p.8,
Bill's Story
With a
certain satisfaction I
reflected there was
enough
gin concealed about the
house to
carry me through that
night and the
next day.
23.
... enough grace
to restore us to sanity.
12&12 p.32,
Step Two
24.
... enough, he
is often difficult to deal ...
BB p.110,
To Wives
Oddly enough, he is often
difficult to
deal with.
25.
... enough, he
thinks, to admit alcohol has ...
12&12 p.25,
Step Two
It's
bad enough, he
thinks, to
admit alcohol has him down for
keeps.
26.
... enough in
admitting these things to ourselves.
BB p.72,
Into Action
We
think we have done well
enough in
admitting these
things to ourselves.
27.
... enough, it
is a bone-crushing juggernaut whose ...
12&12 p.37,
Step Three
28.
... enough of
humility, fearlessness and honesty, in ...
BB p.73,
Into Action
But they had not
learned enough of
humility,
fearlessness and
honesty, in the
sense we find
it
necessary, until they told someone else all
their
life story.
29.
... enough of
it, or that it isn't ...
BB p.69,
How It Works
They
think we do not have
enough of it, or that it isn't the
right kind.
30.
... enough of
what we thought we wanted.
12&12 p.71,
Step Seven
Never was there
enough of
what we
thought we
wanted.
31.
... enough, people
who had money thought otherwise.
12&12 p.160,
Tradition Seven
But
oddly enough, people who
had
money thought otherwise.
32.
... enough, self-righteously
imposes its will upon the ...
12&12 p.37,
Step Three
Every such
pressure group, if it is
strong enough,
self-
righteously imposes its will upon the
rest.
33.
... enough to
accept employment with outside agencies ...
12&12 p.168,
Tradition Eight
34.
... enough to
accept with eagerness what you ...
BB p.96,
Working With Others
You are
sure to find someone
desperate enough to
accept with
eagerness what
you
offer.
35.
... enough to
be so situated that they ...
BB p.19,
There Is A Solution
A few are
fortunate enough to be so
situated that
they can
give nearly all
their
time to the
work.
36.
... enough to
continue.
BB p.113,
To Wives
Then perhaps he will be
interested enough to
continue.
37.
... enough to
drink like other people!
BB p.31,
More About Alcoholism
Heaven knows, we have
tried hard enough and
long enough to
drink like other people!
38.
... enough to
enlarge upon his views in ...
BB xxvi(xxiv),
The Doctor's Opinion
The
physician who, at our
request,
gave us this
letter, has been
kind enough to
enlarge upon his
views in another
statement
which
follows.
39.
... enough to
gradually impair him physically and ...
BB p.20,
There Is A Solution
40.
... enough to
have a home.
BB p.98,
Working With Others
That is, if he is
lucky enough to have a
home.
41.
... enough to
murder, lustful enough to rape, ...
12&12 p.66,
Step Six
No one
wants to be
angry
enough to
murder,
lustful enough to
rape,
gluttonous enough to
ruin his
health.
42.
... enough to
rape, gluttonous enough to ruin ...
12&12 p.66,
Step Six
No one
wants to be
angry
enough to
murder,
lustful enough to
rape,
gluttonous enough to
ruin his
health.
43.
... enough to
ruin his health.
12&12 p.66,
Step Six
No one
wants to be
angry
enough to
murder,
lustful enough to
rape,
gluttonous enough to
ruin his
health.
44.
... enough to
try.
BB p.28,
There Is A Solution
If what we have
learned and
felt and seen
means anything at
all, it
means that all of us, whatever our
race,
creed, or
color are the
children of a
living Creator with whom
we may
form a
relationship upon
simple and
understandable terms
as soon as we are
willing and
honest enough to
try.
45.
... enough under
its weight to be willing ...
12&12 p.38,
Step Three
Each of us has had his
own near-
fatal encounter with the
juggernaut of
self-will,
and has
suffered enough
under
its weight to be
willing to
look for something
better.
46.
... enough, we
A.A.'s find we need something ...
12&12 p.92,
Step Ten
Although these
attitudes are
common enough, we
A.A.'s find we
need something much
better in
order to
keep our
balance.
47.
... enough, we
find such convictions no great ...
BB p.29,
There Is A Solution
48.
... enough when
in confidence we had admitted ...
12&12 p.78,
Step Eight
It had been
embarrassing enough when in
confidence we
had
admitted these things to
God, to ourselves, and to another
human being.
49.
... enough willingness
and honesty to try repeatedly ...
12&12 p.63,
Step Six
He
goes on to
explain that
any
person capable of
enough willingness and
honesty to
try repeatedly Step Six on all his
faults -- without
any
reservations whatever -- has
indeed come a
long way
spiritually, and
is therefore
entitled to be called a
man who is
sincerely trying to
grow in the
image and
likeness of his
own Creator.
50.
... enough willingness,
honesty and humility to establish ...
BB p.13,
Bill's Story
51.
... enough, wives,
parents and intimate friends usually ...
BB p.18,
There Is A Solution
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