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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
HAPPENED occurs
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1.
... happened.
12&12 p.31,
Step Two
2.
... happened.
12&12 p.149,
Tradition Four
When that
lifted, a
wonderful thing had
happened.
3.
... happened.
BB p.6,
Bill's Story
In no
time I was
beating on
the
bar asking myself how it
happened.
4.
... happened?
BB p.9,
Bill's Story
What had happened?
5.
... happened.
BB p.35,
More About Alcoholism
On each of these
occasions we
worked with him,
reviewing
carefully what had
happened.
6.
... happened.
BB p.36,
More About Alcoholism
We
asked him to tell us
exactly how it
happened.
7.
... happened.
BB p.37,
More About Alcoholism
Next day we would
ask ourselves, in all
earnestness and
sincerity, how it could have
happened.
8.
... happened.
BB p.37,
More About Alcoholism
But even in this
type of
beginning we are
obliged
to
admit that our
justification for a
spree was
insanely insufficient in the
light of what always
happened.
9.
... happened.
BB p.52,
We Agnostics
Without that,
nothing could have
happened.
10.
... happened among
us, they can happen with ...
BB p.153,
A Vision For You
The
practical answer is
that since these things have
happened among us, they
can
happen with you.
11.
... happened, and
what we are like now.
BB p.58,
How It Works
Our
stories disclose in
a
general way what we used to be like, what
happened, and what we are like now.
12.
... happened automatically.
BB p.85,
Into Action
We
react sanely and
normally, and we will find that this has
happened automatically.
13.
... happened in
their lives.
BB p.29,
There Is A Solution
These
give a
fair cross section of our
membership and a
clear-
cut idea of what has
actually happened in their
lives.
14.
... happened, our
Fellowship's confidence would be shaken.
12&12 p.165,
Tradition Seven
The
moment that
happened,
our
Fellowship's
confidence would be
shaken.
15.
... happened soon
after they whole-heartedly met a ...
BB p.50,
We Agnostics
This
happened soon after they
whole-
heartedly met a few
simple requirements.
16.
... happened, to
an unbelievable extent.
12&12 p.181,
Tradition Eleven
Precisely that has
happened, to an
unbelievable
extent.
17.
... happened to
be good, we no longer ...
12&12 p.122,
Step Twelve
If our
circumstances happened to be
good, we no
longer dreaded a
change for the
worse, for we
had
learned that these
troubles could be
turned
into
great values.
18.
... happened to
him and all the others ...
12&12 p.145,
Tradition Three
What would have
happened to him and all the others he
later helped?"
19.
... happened to
me"; or, more important, "Yes, ...
BB xii,
Preface
If you have a
drinking problem, we
hope that you may
pause in
reading one of
the
forty-
two personal stories and
think: "Yes, that
happened to
me"; or, more
important, "Yes, I've
felt like that"; or, most
important, "Yes, I
believe this
program can
work for me too."
20.
... happened to
them, to be advised how ...
BB p.160,
A Vision For You
Many a
distracted wife
has
visited this
house to
find
loving and
understanding companionship among
women who
knew her
problem, to
hear from the
lips of their
husbands what
had
happened to them, to be
advised how her
own wayward mate might be
hospitalized and
approached when
next he
stumbled.
21.
... happened to
you.
BB p.93,
Working With Others
Tell him
exactly what
happened to you.
22.
... happened to
you I don't understand.
BB p.14,
Bill's Story
Finally he
shook his
head
saying, "Something has
happened to you I don't
understand.
23.
... happened years
ago.
BB p.80,
Into Action
This all
happened years ago.
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