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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
EYES occurs
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1.
... eyes.
BB p.9,
Bill's Story
There was something about his eyes.
2.
... eyes.
BB p.12,
Bill's Story
Scales of
pride and
prejudice fell from my
eyes.
3.
... eyes and
fresh courage to flagging spirits.
BB p.53,
We Agnostics
The
outlines and the
promise of the New
Land had
brought
lustre to
tired
eyes and
fresh courage to
flagging spirits.
4.
... eyes begin
to open to the immense ...
12&12 p.74,
Step Seven
5.
... eyes of
men and women open with ...
12&12 p.110,
Step Twelve
To
watch the
eyes of
men and
women open with
wonder as they
move from
darkness into
light, to see their
lives quickly fill with new
purpose and
meaning, to see
whole families reassembled, to see the
alcoholic outcast received back into his
community in
full citizenship, and above all to
watch these people
awaken to
the
presence of a
loving
God in their
lives -- these
things are the
substance of what we
receive as we
carry A.A.'s
message to the
next alcoholic.
6.
... eyes of
the men, the stimulating and ...
BB p.160,
A Vision For You
The
expression on the
faces of the
women, that
indefinable something in the
eyes of the
men, the
stimulating and
electric atmosphere of
the place,
conspired to let him
know that here was
haven at
last.
7.
... eyes, pick
up a fragment of A.A. ...
12&12 p.132,
Tradition Two
Then they
commence to
watch us with
speculative
eyes,
pick up a
fragment of
A.A. history, and soon have the
solid facts.
8.
... eyes to
the far horizon, beyond which ...
12&12 p.100,
Step Eleven
Let us
look now upon the
sea
and
ponder what
its mystery is; and let us
lift
our
eyes to the far
horizon,
beyond which we
shall
seek all those
wonders still
unseen.
9.
... eyes toward
perfection, and be ready to ...
12&12 p.68,
Step Six
We shall
need to
raise our
eyes toward perfection, and be
ready
to
walk in that
direction.
10.
... eyes which
were slits in his red ...
12&12 p.152,
Tradition Five
Decidedly unfriendly, he
stared at
me out of
eyes which were
slits in his
red and
swollen face.
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