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From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)

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GROWING   occurs   15 times    (Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
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1.
... growing by leaps and bounds when literature ...   BB xxiii, Foreword to Fourth Edition   Display entire Foreword to Fourth Edition
In country after country where the A.A. seed was planted, it has taken root, slowly at first, then growing by leaps and bounds when literature has become available.


2.
... growing consciousness of the power of God ...   BB p.130, The Family Afterward   Go to page 130 in the Big Book
This dream world has been replaced by a great sense of purpose, accompanied by a growing consciousness of the power of God in our lives.

3.
... growing conviction that human will is of ...   12&12 p.40, Step Three
This statement may surprise newcomers who have experienced nothing but constant deflation and a growing conviction that human will is of no value whatever.


4.
... growing fellowship of these men and their ...   BB xxv(xxiii), The Doctor's Opinion   Display entire Doctor's Opinion
This has become the basis of a rapidly growing fellowship of these men and their families.

5.
... growing group's hierarchy of service -- self-appointed, of ...   12&12 p.133, Tradition Two
These are the growing group's hierarchy of service -- self-appointed, of course, because there is no other way.


6.
... growing in numbers and power.(*)   BB p.16, Bill's Story   Go to page 16 in the Big Book
We are growing in numbers and power.(*)


7.
... growing membership of thousands of alcoholics such ...   BB p.567(569), Appendix II, Spiritual Experience   Display entire Appendix II
Among our rapidly growing membership of thousands of alcoholics such transformations, though frequent, are by no means the rule.

8.
... growing, our attitudes and actions toward security ...   12&12 p.115, Step Twelve
After we come into A.A., if we go on growing, our attitudes and actions toward security -- emotional security and financial security -- commence to change profoundly.

9.
... growing pains.   12&12 p.17, Foreword
This startling expansion brought with it very severe growing pains.


10.
... growing pains and they hurt a great ...   BB p.124, The Family Afterward   Go to page 124 in the Big Book
A few of us have had these growing pains and they hurt a great deal.

11.
Growing pains now beset the group.   12&12 p.133, Tradition Two
Growing pains now beset the group.

12.
... growing pains of thousands of groups must ...   12&12 p.168, Tradition Eight
Sacks of letters on every conceivable A.A. problem ranging from a lonely-heart Eskimo to the growing pains of thousands of groups must be answered by people who know.

13.
... growing up.   12&12 p.92, Step Ten
It will become more and more evident as we go forward that it is pointless to become angry, or to get hurt by people who, like us, are suffering from the pains of growing up.


14.
... growing up among them.   BB xxviii(xxvi), The Doctor's Opinion   Display entire 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.

15.
... growing up, and nothing but good can ...   12&12 p.111, Step Twelve
But in the longer run we clearly realize that these are only the pains of growing up, and nothing but good can come from them if we turn more and more to the entire Twelve Steps for the answers.


Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.  The A.A. Preamble, copyright © The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission.  Permission to reprint does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous or The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.

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