From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... form a
relationship upon simple and understandable ...
BB p.28,
There Is A Solution
If what we have learned and felt and seen means anything at all, it means that all of us, whatever our race, creed, or color are the children of a living Creator with whom we may form
a relationship upon simple and understandable terms
as soon as we are willing
and honest enough to try.
2.
... form a
true partnership with another human ...
12&12 p.53,
Step Four
The primary fact that we fail to recognize is our total inability to form a true partnership with another human being.
3.
... form" A.A.
Traditions as first printed in ...
BB p.561(563),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
4.
... form and
were first published in 1946 ...
12&12 p.18,
Foreword
It was out of this vast welter of explosive experience that A.A.'s Twelve Traditions took form and were first published in 1946 and later confirmed at A.A.'s First International Convention, held at Cleveland in 1950.
5.
... form another
group more to their liking.
12&12 p.177,
Tradition Ten
Disliking the attempt
of some to manage a group,
half its membership might angrily
rush off to form another group more to their liking.
6.
... form at
all; and once having formed ...
BB xxviii(xxvi),
The Doctor's Opinion
These allergic types can
never safely use alcohol in any form at all; and once having formed the habit and found they cannot break it, once having lost their self-confidence, their reliance upon things human, their problems pile up on them and become astonishingly difficult to solve.
7.
... form at
nominal cost through most A.A. ...
BB p.570(572),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
(This address is now available in pamphlet
form at nominal cost through most A.A. groups or from Box 459, Grand Central Station, New York, NY 10163, under the title "Three Talks to Medical Societies by Bill W." -- formerly called "Bill on Alcoholism" and earlier "Alcoholism the
Illness.")
8.
... form groups
in other cities.
BB xvii,
Foreword to Second Edition
Besides these, there were scattered alcoholics
who had picked up the basic ideas in Akron or New York who were trying to form groups in other cities.
9.
... form groups
of depressive and paranoid folks; ...
12&12 p.156,
Tradition Six
We'd form groups of depressive and paranoid
folks; the deeper the neurosis, the better we'd
like it.
10.
... form ideas
as to what we think ...
12&12 p.104,
Step Eleven
11.
... form in
general use today.
BB p.561(563),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
On the next page, A.A.'s "12 Traditions" are seen in
their so-called "short
form" the form in general use today.
12.
... form" is
more explicit and of possible ...
BB p.561(563),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
13.
... form of
faulty dependence has caused many ...
12&12 p.38,
Step Three
This very form of faulty dependence has caused many a rebellious alcoholic
to conclude that dependence of any sort must be intolerably damaging.
14.
... form of
intellectual pride which keeps you ...
BB p.181,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
If you think you are an atheist, an agnostic, a skeptic, or have any other form of intellectual pride which
keeps you from accepting
what is in this book, I feel
sorry for you.
15.
... form of
moral psychology was of urgent ...
BB xxvii(xxv),
The Doctor's Opinion
We doctors have realized for a long time that some form of moral psychology was of urgent importance to alcoholics, but its application presented
difficulties beyond
our conception.
16.
... form of
murder by character assassination, has ...
12&12 p.67,
Step Six
Gossip barbed with our anger, a polite form of murder by character assassination, has its satisfactions for us, too.
17.
... form of
respectability was our undoing, so ...
12&12 p.30,
Step Two
18.
... form of
self-deception and experimentation, they will ...
BB p.31,
More About Alcoholism
By every form of self-deception and experimentation, they will try to prove themselves exceptions to the rule, therefore nonalcoholic.
19.
... form of
society, has to be a ...
12&12 p.172,
Tradition Nine
Therefore, every nation, in fact every form of society, has to be a government administered by human beings.
20.
... form" of
the Concepts, which follows, was ...
BB p.574,
Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form)
The "short form" of the Concepts, which follows,
was prepared by the 1974
General Service Conference.
21.
... form of
trouble and misery which has ...
BB p.15,
Bill's Story
22.
... form of
trouble too.
BB p.79,
Into Action
23.
... form or
another we had been living ...
BB p.54,
We Agnostics
24.
... form or
other it is there.
BB p.55,
We Agnostics
It may be obscured by calamity, by pomp, by worship of other things, but in some form or other it is there.
25.
... form, substance,
and unity.
12&12 p.18,
Foreword
The Tradition section
of this volume portrays
in some detail the experience which finally
produced the Twelve Traditions and so gave A.A. its present form, substance, and unity.
26.
... form" the
form in general use today.
BB p.561(563),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
On the next page, A.A.'s "12 Traditions" are seen in
their so-called "short
form" the form in general use today.
27.
... form, the
Steps are also used by ...
12&12 p.118,
Step Twelve (Note)
28.
... form told
us that the use of ...
BB p.133,
The Family Afterward
One of the many doctors who had the opportunity of reading
this book in manuscript
form told us that the use of sweets was often helpful, of course depending upon a doctor's advice.
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