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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... given.
12&12 p.42,
Step Four
2.
... given.
12&12 p.48,
Step Four
Often these
personalities are just as
sharply defined as the
examples given.
3.
... given.
BB p.90,
Working With Others
Here no
specific rule can
be
given.
4.
... given a
determined and persistent trial.
12&12 p.40,
Step Three
Then it is
explained that other
Steps of the
A.A. program can be
practiced
with
success only when
Step
Three is
given a
determined and
persistent trial.
5.
... given a
long-term meaning.
12&12 p.69,
Step Six
6.
... given A.A.
their blessing.
BB p.572(574),
Appendix V, The Religious View on A.A.
7.
... given Alcoholics
Anonymous.
BB p.571(573),
Appendix IV, The Lasker Award
8.
... given an
opportunity to get well.
BB p.147,
To Employers
They often
jeopardize their
own positions by
trying to
help serious drinkers who
should have been
fired long
ago, or else
given an
opportunity to get well.
9.
... given and
therefore good, neither to be ...
BB p.69,
How It Works
We
remembered always that our
sex powers were
God-
given and therefore
good, neither to be used
lightly or
selfishly nor
to be
despised and
loathed.
10.
... given by
John D. Rockefeller Jr. to ...
BB p.572(574),
Appendix V, The Religious View on A.A.
11.
... given by
magazines and newspapers throughout the ...
12&12 p.17,
Foreword
12.
... given five
thousand dollars to do with ...
12&12 p.161,
Tradition Seven
One
A.A. group was
given five thousand dollars to do
with what it would.
13.
... given for
his family also.
BB p.90,
Working With Others
This
advice is
given for his
family also.
14.
... given help
is the very thing which ...
BB p.124,
The Family Afterward
Showing others who
suffer
how we were
given help is the
very thing which makes
life seem so
worth while to us now.
15.
... given here
may be adapted to help ...
BB p.104,
To Wives (Note)
But many of the
suggestions given here may be
adapted to
help the
person who
lives with a
woman alcoholic -- whether she is still
drinking or is
recovering in
A.A.
16.
... given him.
12&12 p.133,
Tradition Two
Alone now, he
reflects that he may not be able to
stay sober, or even
alive,
unless he
passes on to other
alcoholics what was so
freely given him.
17.
... given in
this foreword describe the Fellowship ...
BB xv,
Foreword to Second Edition
18.
... given instincts.
12&12 p.49,
Step Four
Pride lures us into
making demands upon
ourselves or upon others which cannot be
met without
perverting or
misusing our
God-
given instincts.
19.
... given me.
BB p.14,
Bill's Story
While I
lay in the
hospital
the
thought came that there
were
thousands of
hopeless alcoholics who
might be
glad to have what had been so
freely given me.
20.
... given me
a special token of appreciation?
BB p.1,
Bill's Story
I
fancied myself a
leader, for had not the
men of
my
battery given me a
special token of
appreciation?
21.
... given offense.
12&12 p.81,
Step Eight
Having
carefully surveyed this
whole area of
human relations, and having
decided exactly what
personality traits in us
injured and
disturbed
others, we can now
commence to
ransack memory for the
people to whom we have
given offense.
22.
... given our
emotions violent twists which have ...
12&12 p.80,
Step Eight
At the
time of these
occurrences, they may
actually have
given our
emotions violent twists which have since
discolored our
personalities and
altered our
lives for the
worse.
23.
... given purpose
and direction to millions.
BB p.49,
We Agnostics
We have
learned that whatever the
human frailties of
various faiths may be, those
faiths have
given purpose and
direction to
millions.
24.
... given set
of conditions.
12&12 p.87,
Step Nine
But all of them do
require a
complete willingness
to make
amends as
fast and
as far as may be
possible in a
given set of
conditions.
25.
... given showing
how we recovered.
BB p.29,
There Is A Solution
26.
... given strength
and direction to do the ...
BB p.79,
Into Action
Reminding ourselves that we have
decided to go to any
lengths to find a
spiritual experience,
we
ask that we be
given strength and
direction
to do the
right thing, no
matter what the
personal consequences may be.
27.
... given surely
brings a full return, the ...
12&12 p.124,
Step Twelve
Service,
gladly rendered,
obligations
squarely met,
troubles well
accepted or
solved with
God's
help, the
knowledge that at
home or in the
world outside we are
partners in
a
common effort, the
well-
understood fact
that in
God's
sight all
human beings are
important, the
proof that
love freely given surely brings a
full return, the
certainty that we are no
longer isolated and alone
in
self-
constructed prisons, the
surety that we
need no
longer be
square pegs in
round holes but can
fit and
belong in
God's
scheme of things -- these
are the
permanent and
legitimate satisfactions of
right
living for which no
amount
of
pomp and
circumstance, no
heap of
material possessions, could
possibly be
substitutes.
28.
... given the
courage to declare each A.A. ...
12&12 p.147,
Tradition Four
29.
... given the
grace by which we may ...
12&12 p.102,
Step Eleven
We
ask simply that
throughout the
day God place in us the
best understanding of His will that we can have for
that
day, and that we be
given
the
grace by which we may
carry it out.
30.
... given the
power to help others.
BB p.132,
The Family Afterward
We have
recovered, and have been
given the
power to
help others.
31.
... given the
power to reason, to examine ...
BB p.53,
We Agnostics
It is not by
chance we were
given the
power to
reason, to
examine the
evidence of our
senses, and
to
draw conclusions.
32.
... given their
needs.
BB p.131,
The Family Afterward
33.
... given them
up.
BB p.113,
To Wives
Everybody had
given them
up.
34.
... given these
doctors a fair break.
BB p.73,
Into Action
We
know but few
instances
where we have
given these
doctors a
fair break.
35.
... given to
any other human being without ...
12&12 p.32,
Step Two
In no
deep or
meaningful
sense had we ever
taken stock of ourselves, made
amends to those we had
harmed, or
freely given to any other
human being
without any
demand for
reward.
36.
... given to
those ever-urgent questions, "How can ...
BB p.561(563),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
37.
... given us?
BB p.19,
There Is A Solution
How then shall we
present that which has been so
freely given us?
38.
... given us
certain values.
12&12 p.29,
Step Two
39.
... given us
or, if you prefer, "a ...
BB p.28,
There Is A Solution
A new
life has been
given us
or, if you
prefer, "a
design for
living" that
really
works.
40.
... given us,
we felt it perfectly natural ...
12&12 p.123,
Step Twelve
41.
... given us
without any thought or effort ...
BB p.85,
Into Action
We will see that our new
attitude toward liquor has been
given us without any
thought or
effort on our
part.
42.
... given whatever
we need to take care ...
BB p.87,
Into Action
We usually
conclude the
period of
meditation with
a
prayer that we be
shown
all through the
day what our
next step is to be, that we be
given whatever we
need to take
care of such
problems.
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