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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
FOUR occurs
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1.
... Four.
12&12 p.46,
Step Four
They can do this, for they are the
carriers of
A.A.'s
tested experience with
Step Four.
2.
... Four.
12&12 p.50,
Step Four
These are the
first fruits
of
Step Four.
3.
... Four.
BB p.64,
How It Works
4.
... four.
BB p.156,
A Vision For You
As we shall see, he now
means a
great deal to his
community, and the
major liabilities of
thirty years of
hard drinking have been
repaired in
four.
5.
... Four an
A.A. group had exercised its ...
12&12 p.149,
Tradition Four
Thus it was that under
Tradition Four an
A.A. group had
exercised its right to be
wrong.
6.
... Four back
and forth over our careers, ...
12&12 p.55,
Step Five
If we have
swept the
searchlight of
Step Four back and
forth over our
careers, and it has
revealed in
stark relief those
experiences
we'd rather not
remember, if we have
come to
know how
wrong thinking and
action have
hurt us and others,
then the
need to
quit living by ourselves with those
tormenting ghosts of
yesterday gets more
urgent
than ever.
7.
... four categories:
BB p.108,
To Wives
The
problem with which you
struggle usually
falls within one of
four categories:
8.
Four days
before he had hanged himself ...
BB p.137,
To Employers
Four days before he had
hanged himself in his
woodshed.
9.
Four --
Each group should be autonomous except ...
BB p.562(564),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
10.
... Four Horsemen
-- Terror, Bewilderment, Frustration, Despair.
BB p.151,
A Vision For You
11.
... four hours
a day in and through ...
BB p.16,
Bill's Story
Faith has to
work twenty-
four hours a
day in and through us, or
we
perish.
12.
... four hours
ahead.
BB p.86,
Into Action
On
awakening let us
think about the
twenty-
four hours ahead.
13.
... Four is
but the beginning of a ...
12&12 p.50,
Step Four
14.
... Four is
our vigorous and painstaking effort ...
12&12 p.42,
Step Four
Step Four is our
vigorous and
painstaking effort to
discover what these
liabilities in each of us have been, and are.
15.
... four months
the goose hung high.
BB p.7,
Bill's Story
16.
... Four was,
after all, only a look.
12&12 p.58,
Step Five
The
objective look at
ourselves we
achieved in
Step Four was, after all, only a
look.
17.
... Four, we
commenced to search out the ...
12&12 p.107,
Step Twelve
Beginning with
Step Four, we
commenced to
search out the things in ourselves which had brought
us to
physical,
moral,
and
spiritual bankruptcy.
18.
Four --
With respect to its own affairs, ...
12&12 p.189,
Tradition Four (Long)
19.
... four years.
BB p.33,
More About Alcoholism
20.
Four: You
may have a husband of ...
BB p.110,
To Wives
Four: You may have a
husband of whom you
completely despair.
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