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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... helped.
12&12 p.102,
Step Eleven
Our
immediate temptation will be to
ask
for
specific solutions to
specific problems, and for the
ability to
help other people
as we have already
thought they should be
helped.
2.
... helped.
12&12 p.133,
Tradition Two
Very soon, though, his
assumed authority to
run everything begins to be
shared with the
first alcoholics he has
helped.
3.
... helped?"
12&12 p.145,
Tradition Three
What would have
happened to him and all the
others he
later helped?"
4.
... helped.
12&12 p.166,
Tradition Eight
Almost from the
beginning, we have been
positive that
face-to-
face work with the
alcoholic who
suffers
could be
based only on the
desire to
help and be
helped.
5.
... helped.
12&12 p.183,
Tradition Eleven
The
force of their
cooperation has
certainly helped.
6.
... helped.
BB p.87,
Into Action
We may
ask for ourselves, however, if others will be
helped.
7.
... helped at
times by extreme drunkenness, kept ...
BB p.3,
Bill's Story
There had been no
real infidelity, for
loyalty
to my
wife,
helped at
times by
extreme drunkenness,
kept me out
of those
scrapes.
8.
... helped by
better understanding all around.
BB p.137,
To Employers
We
think the
business fabric is
shot through with a
situation which might be
helped by
better understanding all around.
9.
... helped by
such contacts.
BB p.131,
The Family Afterward
Alcoholics who have
derided religious people
will be
helped by such
contacts.
10.
... helped by
the late Dr. William D. ...
BB xvi,
Foreword to Second Edition
11.
... helped double
our total membership in a ...
12&12 p.186,
Tradition Twelve
12.
... helped him.
BB p.94,
Working With Others
You should not be
offended if he
wants to call it off, for he has
helped you more than you have
helped
him.
13.
... helped him
to lose his fear of ...
12&12 p.186,
Tradition Twelve
14.
... helped many
of us.
BB p.142,
To Employers
A
firm attitude at this
point has
helped many of us.
15.
... helped much.
BB p.7,
Bill's Story
16.
... helped other
men recover, and is a ...
BB p.158,
A Vision For You
He has
helped other
men recover, and is a
power in
the
church from which he was
long absent.
17.
... helped such
large numbers of alcoholic men ...
BB xi,
Preface
Because this book has
become the
basic text for our
Society and has
helped such
large numbers of
alcoholic men and
women to
recovery, there
exists strong sentiment against any
radical changes being made
in it.
18.
... helped us.
BB p.139,
To Employers
Without much
ado, he
accepted the
principles
and
procedure that had
helped us.
19.
... helped us
to get down to our ...
12&12 p.30,
Step Two
They
helped us to get down to our
right size.
20.
... helped you
more than you have helped ...
BB p.94,
Working With Others
You should not be
offended if he
wants to call it off, for he has
helped you more than you have
helped
him.
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