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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... fellows.
12&12 p.43,
Step Four
We have also seen
men and
women who go
power-
mad, who
devote themselves to
attempting to
rule their
fellows.
2.
... fellows.
12&12 p.64,
Step Six
Every
normal person wants, for
example, to
eat, to
reproduce, to be
somebody in the
society of his
fellows.
3.
... fellows.
12&12 p.76,
Step Seven
Each of us would like to
live at
peace with himself and with his
fellows.
4.
... fellows.
BB p.30,
More About Alcoholism
No
person likes to
think he is
bodily and
mentally different from
his
fellows.
5.
... fellows.
BB p.76,
Into Action
I
pray that you now
remove
from me every
single defect of
character which
stands in the way of my
usefulness to you and my
fellows.
6.
... fellows.
BB p.84,
Into Action
We will
lose interest in
selfish things and
gain interest in our
fellows.
7.
... fellows.
BB p.164,
A Vision For You
Admit your
faults to Him
and to your
fellows.
8.
... fellows actually
means.
12&12 p.92,
Step Ten
Finally, we
begin to see that all people,
including ourselves, are to some
extent emotionally ill as well as
frequently wrong, and then we
approach
true tolerance and see
what
real love for our
fellows actually means.
9.
... fellows and
from God.
12&12 p.82,
Step Eight
It is the
beginning of the
end of
isolation from our
fellows and from
God.
10.
... fellows and
repair the damage done in ...
BB p.76,
Into Action
Now we go out to our
fellows and
repair the
damage done in the
past.
11.
... fellows and
they retaliate.
BB p.62,
How It Works
12.
... fellows and
toward God's universe.
BB p.25,
There Is A Solution
13.
... fellows, and
why this private room?
BB p.157,
A Vision For You
"Who are you
fellows, and why this
private room?
14.
... fellows are
somebody.
BB p.157,
A Vision For You
You fellows are somebody.
15.
... fellows craving
attention and companionship, but never ...
12&12 p.57,
Step Five
Either we were
shy, and
dared
not
draw near others, or we
were
apt to be
noisy good fellows craving attention and
companionship, but
never getting it -- at
least to our way of
thinking.
16.
... fellows did,
nor are we likely to, ...
BB p.38,
More About Alcoholism
We
admit we have some of these
symptoms, but we have not
gone to the
extremes you
fellows did, nor are we
likely to, for we
understand ourselves so well after what you have
told us that such things cannot
happen again.
17.
... fellows got
over your drinking.
BB p.148,
To Employers
He
remarked: "I'm
mighty
glad you
fellows got over your
drinking.
18.
... fellows had
your morning meditation?"
12&12 p.144,
Tradition Three
A
quizzical smile on his
lips, he said, "Have you
fellows had your
morning meditation?"
19.
... fellows in
order to be useful and ...
12&12 p.124,
Step Twelve
Still more
wonderful is the
feeling that we do not have to be
specially distinguished among our
fellows in
order to be
useful and
profoundly happy.
20.
... fellows in
the world.
BB p.21,
There Is A Solution
He may be one of the
finest fellows in the
world.
21.
... fellows know
your stuff all right, but ...
BB p.157,
A Vision For You
You
fellows know your
stuff all
right, but I don't
see what
good it'll do.
22.
... fellows may
enjoy sound minds and bodies.
BB p.133,
The Family Afterward
Most of them
give freely of
themselves, that their
fellows may
enjoy sound minds and
bodies.
23.
... fellows nor
would we feel the urge ...
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.
24.
... fellows of
Alcoholics Anonymous.
BB p.152,
A Vision For You
25.
... fellows of
Alcoholics Anonymous.
BB p.161,
A Vision For You
26.
... fellows of
Alcoholics Anonymous.
BB p.163,
A Vision For You
Some of them may
sink and perhaps
never get up, but if our
experience is a
criterion, more than
half of
those
approached will
become fellows of
Alcoholics Anonymous.
27.
... fellows put
this spiritual stuff makes sense.
BB p.159,
A Vision For You
After a
bit, he said, "The way you
fellows put this
spiritual stuff makes
sense.
28.
... fellows said
about alcoholism, and I frankly ...
BB p.40,
More About Alcoholism
Let him tell you about it: "I was much
impressed
with what you
fellows said about
alcoholism, and I
frankly did not
believe it
would be
possible for me to
drink again.
29.
... fellows, that
I had been usually successful ...
BB p.40,
More About Alcoholism
I
reasoned I was not so far
advanced as most of you
fellows, that I had been usually
successful in
licking my
other
personal problems, and that I would therefore be
successful where you
men failed.
30.
... fellows ...
the 'herd instinct.'
BB p.569(571),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
31.
... fellows, they
can do damage almost as ...
12&12 p.81,
Step Eight
When we take such
personality traits as these into
shop,
office, and the
society of
our
fellows, they can do
damage almost as
extensive
as that we have
caused at
home.
32.
... fellows to
see.
BB p.73,
Into Action
This is the one he
likes his
fellows to see.
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