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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... facts.
12&12 p.36,
Step Three
The
trouble is that this
kind of
thinking takes no
real account of the
facts.
2.
... facts.
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.
3.
... facts about
himself, can generally win the ...
BB p.18,
There Is A Solution
But the
ex-
problem drinker who has
found this
solution, who is
properly
armed with
facts about
himself, can
generally win
the
entire confidence
of another
alcoholic in a few
hours.
4.
... facts about
ourselves which no others ought ...
12&12 p.61,
Step Five
Perhaps we shall
need to
share with this
person facts about ourselves which no others ought to
know.
5.
... facts about
their lives.
BB p.72,
Into Action
Time after
time newcomers have
tried to
keep to themselves
certain
facts about their
lives.
6.
... facts and
results.
BB p.48,
We Agnostics
7.
... facts appear
to be of extreme medical ...
BB xxv(xxiii),
The Doctor's Opinion
8.
... facts as
old as man himself.
BB p.55,
We Agnostics
For
faith in a
Power greater than ourselves, and
miraculous demonstrations of that
power in
human lives, are
facts as
old as
man himself.
9.
... facts have
been confirmed by legions of ...
BB p.24,
There Is A Solution
10.
... facts in
their laps.
12&12 p.142,
Tradition Three
11.
... facts of
A.A. life.
12&12 p.21,
Step One
Proved beyond doubt by an
immense experience, this is one of the
facts of
A.A. life.
12.
... facts of
A.A. life confirm this ageless ...
12&12 p.98,
Step Eleven
13.
... facts of
A.A. life which brought us ...
12&12 p.132,
Tradition Two
What are these
facts of
A.A. life which brought us to this
apparently impractical principle?
14.
... facts of
life for many more.
12&12 p.112,
Step Twelve
And if these are
facts of
life
for the many
alcoholics who have
recovered in
A.A., they can
become the
facts of
life for many more.
15.
... facts of
life for the many alcoholics ...
12&12 p.112,
Step Twelve
And if these are
facts of
life
for the many
alcoholics who have
recovered in
A.A., they can
become the
facts of
life for many more.
16.
... facts out
of our experience.
BB p.70,
How It Works
These are
facts out of our
experience.
17.
... facts seem
to be these: The more ...
12&12 p.36,
Step Three
And the
facts seem to be
these: The more we
become willing to
depend upon a
Higher Power, the more
independent we
actually are.
18.
... facts were
printed, there was a profound ...
12&12 p.165,
Tradition Seven
When these
facts were
printed, there was a
profound reaction.
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