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Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... everybody.
12&12 p.92,
Step Ten
Not many people can
truthfully assert that they
love everybody.
2.
... everybody.
12&12 p.152,
Tradition Five
He's had a
bad case of
D.T.'s, he's
pretty foggy, and he's very
suspicious of
everybody.
3.
... everybody, and
everybody expected that he'd soon ...
12&12 p.143,
Tradition Three
He
browbeat everybody, and
everybody expected that
he'd soon get
drunk -- for at the
time, you see,
A.A. was on the
pious side.
4.
... everybody away
and our isolation had become ...
12&12 p.116,
Step Twelve
But when
self-will had
driven everybody away and our
isolation had
become complete, it
caused us to
play the
big shot in
cheap barrooms and then
fare forth alone on the
street to
depend upon the
charity
of
passersby.
5.
Everybody believes
them without a murmur of ...
BB p.48,
We Agnostics
Everybody believes them
without a
murmur of
doubt.
6.
... everybody can
have all the security and ...
12&12 p.71,
Step Seven
Poverty will
disappear, and there will be such
abundance that
everybody can
have all the
security and
personal satisfactions he
desires.
7.
... everybody does
when afraid.
12&12 p.140,
Tradition Three
Naturally, we
began to
act like most
everybody does
when
afraid.
8.
... everybody else
how.
12&12 p.156,
Tradition Six
Having
learned to
live so
happily, we'd
show everybody else how.
9.
... everybody else,
we were afflicted with pride, ...
BB p.116,
To Wives
We
wives found that, like
everybody else, we were
afflicted with
pride,
self-
pity,
vanity and all the things which go to make up the
self-
centered person; and we were not above
selfishness or
dishonesty.
10.
... everybody expected
that he'd soon get drunk ...
12&12 p.143,
Tradition Three
He
browbeat everybody, and
everybody expected that
he'd soon get
drunk -- for at the
time, you see,
A.A. was on the
pious side.
11.
... everybody --
friends, wives, husbands, even the world ...
12&12 p.115,
Step Twelve
We had
failed to see that though
adult in
years we were still
behaving childishly,
trying to
turn everybody --
friends,
wives,
husbands, even the
world itself -- into
protective parents.
12.
Everybody gains,
and we have lost nothing.
12&12 p.171,
Tradition Eight
Everybody gains, and we have
lost nothing.
13.
Everybody had
given them up.
BB p.113,
To Wives
Everybody had
given them up.
14.
Everybody had
to confess his own.
12&12 p.56,
Step Five
Everybody had to
confess
his
own.
15.
... everybody hopefully
awaits the day when the ...
BB p.23,
There Is A Solution
In a
vague way their
families and
friends sense that these
drinkers
are
abnormal, but
everybody hopefully awaits the
day when the
sufferer will
rouse himself
from his
lethargy and
assert his
power of will.
16.
Everybody, including
himself, would be pleased.
BB p.61,
How It Works
Everybody,
including
himself, would be
pleased.
17.
... everybody is
infected with it.
12&12 p.67,
Step Six
To a
greater or
less degree,
everybody is
infected with it.
18.
... everybody knew
what that meant!
12&12 p.144,
Tradition Three
He'd
sent a
telegram for
money, and
everybody knew what that
meant!
19.
Everybody knows
that active alcoholics scream that ...
12&12 p.160,
Tradition Seven
Everybody knows that
active alcoholics scream that they have no
troubles money can't
cure.
20.
Everybody knows
that those in bad health, ...
BB p.132,
The Family Afterward
Everybody knows that those in
bad health, and those who
seldom play, do not
laugh much.
21.
Everybody likes
him.
BB p.35,
More About Alcoholism
22.
Everybody nowadays,
believes in scores of assumptions ...
BB p.48,
We Agnostics
23.
... everybody's primary
instincts are satisfied, there won't ...
12&12 p.71,
Step Seven
The
theory seems to be that
once
everybody's
primary instincts are
satisfied, there won't be much
left to
quarrel about.
24.
... everybody to
see that each sober A.A. ...
12&12 p.64,
Step Six
It is
plain for
everybody to
see that each
sober A.A. member has been
granted a
release from this very
obstinate and
potentially fatal obsession.
25.
Everybody was
scared witless that something or ...
12&12 p.139,
Tradition Three
Everybody was
scared witless that something or somebody would
capsize the
boat and
dump us all back into the
drink.
26.
... everybody wishes
to be rid of his ...
12&12 p.66,
Step Six
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