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Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... feel.
12&12 p.27,
Step Two
The
minute I
stopped arguing, I could
begin to see
and
feel.
2.
... feel a
man is unthinking when he ...
BB p.82,
Into Action
We
feel a
man is
unthinking when he says that
sobriety is
enough.
3.
... feel a
part.
BB p.15,
Bill's Story
We
commenced to make many
fast friends and a
fellowship has
grown up
among us of which it is a
wonderful thing to
feel a
part.
4.
... feel absolutely
free to come and go ...
BB p.120,
To Wives
Make him
feel absolutely
free to
come and go as he
likes.
5.
... feel, after
many years of experience, that ...
BB xxviii(xxvi),
The Doctor's Opinion
We
feel, after many
years of
experience, that we have
found nothing which has
contributed more to the
rehabilitation of these
men than the
altruistic movement now
growing up
among them.
6.
... feel alone.
12&12 p.120,
Step Twelve
Surrounded by so many
A.A.
friends, these so-called
loners tell us they no
longer
feel alone.
7.
... feel, and
believe that which he could ...
12&12 p.106,
Step Twelve
When a
man or a
woman has a
spiritual awakening,
the most
important meaning of it is that he has now
become able to do,
feel, and
believe that which he could not do before on his
unaided strength and
resources alone.
8.
... feel, and
wish to become:
12&12 p.99,
Step Eleven
And as he
came out the other
side of that
painful experience, this
prayer
was his
expression of what he could then see,
feel, and
wish to
become:
9.
... feel as
though we had been placed ...
BB p.85,
Into Action
We
feel as though we had been
placed in a
position of
neutrality --
safe and
protected.
10.
... Feel better.
Work better. Having a better ...
BB p.151,
A Vision For You
Now and then a
serious drinker, being
dry at the
moment says, "I don't
miss it
at all.
Feel better.
Work better. Having a
better time."
11.
... feel bound
to devote themselves solely to ...
12&12 p.150,
Tradition Five
But once these
men had
hit upon
a
cure, once it
became apparent that only by their
united effort could this be
accomplished, then all of them would
feel bound to
devote themselves
solely to
the
relief of
cancer.
12.
... feel closer
over a highball.
BB p.110,
To Wives
13.
... feel confident
in our new way of ...
12&12 p.85,
Step Nine
As soon as we
begin to
feel
confident in our new way of
life and have
begun, by our
behavior and
example, to
convince those about us that we are
indeed changing for the
better, it is usually
safe to
talk in
complete frankness with those who have been
seriously affected, even
those who may be only a
little or not at all
aware of what we have done to them.
14.
... feel diffident
about going to some of ...
BB p.76,
Into Action
As we
look over the
list of
business acquaintances and
friends we have
hurt, we may
feel diffident about
going to some of them on a
spiritual basis.
15.
... feel, direct,
and use, without a reasonable ...
BB p.48,
We Agnostics
Simply because it is
impossible to
explain
what we see,
feel,
direct,
and use, without a
reasonable assumption as a
starting point.
16.
... feel elated.
12&12 p.92,
Step Ten
For no people have ever
loved personal triumphs more
than we have
loved them; we
drank of
success as of a
wine which could
never fail to make us
feel elated.
17.
... feel emotionally
secure among grown-up people, we ...
12&12 p.116,
Step Twelve
It
became clear that if we
ever were to
feel emotionally secure among
grown-up people, we would have to
put our
lives on a
give-and-take
basis; we would
have to
develop the
sense
of being in
partnership or
brotherhood with all those around us.
18.
... feel fully
responsible.
BB p.143,
To Employers
It is
better for him to
feel
fully responsible.
19.
... feel he
can deal with you without ...
BB p.91,
Working With Others
He will
feel he can
deal with
you without being
nagged by his
family.
20.
... feel he
has spiritual justification for so ...
BB p.129,
The Family Afterward
Instead of
treating the
family as he should, he may
retreat further into
himself and
feel he has
spiritual justification for so doing.
21.
... feel he
should now be yours.
BB p.119,
To Wives
You feel he should now be yours.
22.
... feel heroic.
BB p.1,
Bill's Story
War fever ran high in the New
England town to which we new,
young officers from
Plattsburg were
assigned, and we were
flattered when the
first citizens took us to their
homes,
making us
feel heroic.
23.
... feel his
own inadequacy.
BB xxix(xxvii),
The Doctor's Opinion
Faced with this
problem,
if a
doctor is
honest with
himself, he
must sometimes
feel his
own inadequacy.
24.
... feel humility
as something more than a ...
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
25.
... feel it.
BB p.126,
The Family Afterward
They are all
disappointed, and often let him
feel it.
26.
... feel it
better to let our friends ...
12&12 p.192,
Tradition Eleven (Long)
We
feel it
better to let our
friends recommend us.
27.
... feel it
better to let our friends ...
BB p.565(567),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
We
feel it
better to let our
friends recommend us.
28.
... feel it
is something that might help ...
12&12 p.96,
Step Eleven
To be
sure, we
feel it is
something that might
help us to
meet an
occasional emergency, but at
first
many of us are
apt to
regard
it as a somewhat
mysterious skill of
clergymen, from
which we may
hope to get a
secondhand benefit.
29.
... feel just
a little superior to the ...
12&12 p.66,
Step Six
Who, for
example, doesn't like to
feel just a
little superior to the
next fellow, or even quite a
lot superior?
30.
... feel like
those who had insisted the ...
BB p.53,
We Agnostics
When others
showed us that "
God-
sufficiency"
worked with them, we
began to
feel like those who had
insisted the
Wrights would
never fly.
31.
... feel lonely,
hurt, and left out as ...
12&12 p.120,
Step Twelve
At
first many of these
feel
lonely,
hurt, and
left out as they
witness so
much
domestic happiness about them.
32.
... feel lonely,
sorry for himself.
BB p.81,
Into Action
The
husband begins to
feel lonely,
sorry for himself.
33.
... feel no
reluctance to rid yourself of ...
BB p.148,
To Employers
At the same
time you will
feel
no
reluctance to
rid yourself of those who cannot or will not
stop.
34.
... feel satisfied
that there is no need ...
12&12 p.113,
Step Twelve
We
temporarily cease
to
grow because we
feel satisfied that there is no
need for all of
A.A.'s
Twelve Steps for us.
35.
... feel satisfied
with a proposal which does ...
BB p.53,
We Agnostics
36.
... feel superior
by pulling him down.
12&12 p.94,
Step Ten
Or, the
person concerned not being
present, we
thought we were
helping others to
understand him, when in
actuality our
true motive was to
feel superior by
pulling him
down.
37.
... feel superior
to all of them.
12&12 p.30,
Step Two
In
belaboring the
sins
of some
religious people, we could
feel superior to all of them.
38.
... feel superior
to other people.
12&12 p.177,
Tradition Ten
Let us
reemphasize that this
reluctance to
fight one
another or anybody else is not
counted as some
special virtue which makes
us
feel superior to other
people.
39.
... feel that
as psychiatrists directing a hospital ...
BB xxviii(xxvi),
The Doctor's Opinion
If any
feel that as
psychiatrists directing a
hospital for
alcoholics we
appear
somewhat
sentimental, let them
stand with us a while on the
firing line, see the
tragedies, the
despairing wives, the
little children; let the
solving of these
problems
become a
part of their
daily work, and even of their
sleeping moments, and the
most
cynical will not
wonder that we have
accepted and
encouraged
this
movement.
40.
... feel that
each family, in the light ...
BB p.103,
Working With Others
We
feel that each
family, in
the
light of their
own circumstances, ought to
decide for themselves.
41.
... feel that
elimination of our drinking is ...
BB p.19,
There Is A Solution
We
feel that
elimination of our
drinking is but a
beginning.
42.
... feel that
for years his drinking has ...
BB p.129,
The Family Afterward
Dad may
feel that for
years his
drinking has
placed him on the
wrong side of every
argument, but
that now he has
become a
superior person with
God on his
side.
43.
... feel that
he will now measure up ...
BB p.118,
To Wives
It is the most
natural thing in the
world, once his
liquor problem is
solved, to
feel that he will now
measure up
to that
cherished vision.
44.
... feel that
I had known him before.
BB xxxi(xxix),
The Doctor's Opinion
I
talked with him for some
time, but was not able to bring myself to
feel that I had
known him before.
45.
... feel that
we might have the answer ...
12&12 p.155,
Tradition Six
The
moment we saw that we had an
answer for
alcoholism, it
was
reasonable (or so it
seemed at the
time) for us to
feel that we might have the
answer to a
lot of other things.
46.
... feel that
we understand as perhaps few ...
BB p.104,
To Wives
As
wives of
Alcoholics
Anonymous, we would like you to
feel that we
understand as
perhaps few can.
47.
... feel that
you must apologize as though ...
BB p.115,
To Wives
You will no
longer be
self-
conscious or
feel that you
must apologize as though your
husband were a
weak character.
48.
... feel the
ache.
BB p.23,
There Is A Solution
They
sound like the
philosophy of the
man who,
having a
headache,
beats
himself on the
head with a
hammer so that he can't
feel
the
ache.
49.
... feel the
nearness of our Creator.
BB p.75,
Into Action
We
begin to
feel the
nearness of our
Creator.
50.
... feel the
urge wholly to rely on ...
12&12 p.116,
Step Twelve
If we really
depended upon
God, we couldn't very well
play God to our
fellows nor would we
feel the
urge wholly to
rely on
human protection and
care.
51.
... feel their
money troubles are about to ...
BB p.126,
The Family Afterward
The
family will be
affected also,
pleasantly at
first, as
they
feel their
money troubles are about to be
solved, then not so
pleasantly as they find themselves
neglected.
52.
... feel themselves
cut off from God's help ...
12&12 p.105,
Step Eleven
All this should be very
encouraging news for those who
recoil from
prayer because they don't
believe in it, or because they
feel themselves
cut off from
God's
help and
direction.
53.
... feel they
have done well may dispute ...
12&12 p.66,
Step Six
Some who
feel they have done well may
dispute this, so let's
try to
think it through a
little
further.
54.
... feel they
have received from God.
12&12 p.60,
Step Five
It is
worth noting that
people of very
high spiritual development
almost always
insist on
checking with
friends or
spiritual advisers
the
guidance they
feel
they have
received from
God.
55.
... feel they
hold a mortgage on dad, ...
BB p.131,
The Family Afterward
The
family may
feel they
hold a
mortgage on
dad, so
big that no
equity should be
left for
outsiders.
56.
... feel they
need no inventory are confronted ...
12&12 p.46,
Step Four
The
sponsors of those who
feel they
need no
inventory are
confronted with quite another
problem.
57.
... feel this
feeling rising.
BB p.139,
To Employers
Even when you
understand the
malady better, you may
feel this
feeling rising.
58.
... feel unable
to speak at meetings or ...
12&12 p.110,
Step Twelve
There are many
opportunities even for those
of us who
feel unable to
speak at
meetings or who are
so
situated that we cannot do much
face-to-
face Twelfth Step work.
59.
... feel under
no obligation to keep him ...
BB p.147,
To Employers
But you should
feel under no
obligation to
keep him on,
for your
obligation has been well
discharged already.
60.
... feel we
are on the Broad Highway, ...
BB p.75,
Into Action
We
feel we are on the
Broad
Highway,
walking hand in
hand with the
Spirit of the
Universe.
61.
... feel we
had gone on drinking many ...
BB p.34,
More About Alcoholism
As we
look back, we
feel we
had
gone on
drinking many
years beyond the
point where we could
quit on our
will
power.
62.
... feel we
need look no further for ...
BB p.16,
Bill's Story
Most of us
feel we
need look no
further for
Utopia.
63.
... feel we
ought to say to her ...
BB p.81,
Into Action
We
feel we ought to say to her that we have no
right to
involve another
person.
64.
... feel you
had better leave.
BB p.108,
To Wives
If you are
positive he is one of this
type you may
feel you had
better leave.
65.
... feel your
organization has no alcoholic problem, ...
BB p.149,
To Employers
Even if you
feel your
organization has no
alcoholic problem, it
might
pay to take another
look
down the
line.
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