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Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... higher plane
when our thinking is cleared ...
BB p.86,
Into Action
Our
thought-
life will be
placed on a much
higher plane when our
thinking is
cleared of
wrong motives.
2.
... 'higher power.'
12&12 p.27,
Step Two
You can, if you
wish, make
A.A.
itself your '
higher power.'
3.
... Higher Power.
12&12 p.38,
Step Three
So it is by
circumstance rather than by any
virtue that we have been
driven to
A.A., have
admitted defeat, have
acquired the
rudiments
of
faith, and now
want to
make a
decision to
turn
our will and our
lives over to a
Higher Power.
4.
... Higher Power?
12&12 p.39,
Step Three
So how,
exactly, can the
willing person continue to
turn his will and
his
life over to the
Higher Power?
5.
... higher power.
12&12 p.107,
Step Twelve
For the
time being, we who were
atheist or
agnostic discovered that our
own group, or
A.A. as a
whole, would
suffice as a
higher power.
6.
... Higher Power.
BB p.43,
More About Alcoholism
His
defense must come from a
Higher Power.
7.
... higher power
and absorb himself in his ...
BB p.570(572),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
Learning to
depend upon
a
higher power and
absorb himself in his
work with
other
alcoholics, he
remains sober day by
day.
8.
... Higher Power,
and most of them began ...
12&12 p.28,
Step Two
9.
... Higher Power
and you will presently live ...
BB p.100,
Working With Others
10.
... Higher Power
can remove our obsession.
12&12 p.25,
Step Two
11.
... higher power,
claims for the power of ...
12&12 p.96,
Step Eleven
To
certain newcomers
and to those one-
time agnostics who still
cling
to the
A.A. group as their
higher power,
claims for the
power of
prayer may,
despite all the
logic and
experience in
proof of it, still be
unconvincing or quite
objectionable.
12.
... Higher Power,
God as I understood Him, ...
12&12 p.63,
Step Six
13.
... Higher Power
had restored us to sanity ...
12&12 p.108,
Step Twelve
In
Step Eleven we saw that
if a
Higher Power had
restored us to
sanity and
had
enabled us to
live with
some
peace of
mind in a
sorely troubled world, then such a
Higher Power was
worth knowing better, by as
direct contact as
possible.
14.
... Higher Power
hasn't produced any baleful results.
12&12 p.38,
Step Three
But
dependence upon an
A.A. group or upon a
Higher Power hasn't
produced any
baleful results.
15.
... Higher Power
impossible.
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
For just so
long as we were
convinced that we could
live
exclusively by our
own
individual strength
and
intelligence, for just that
long was a
working faith in a
Higher Power impossible.
16.
... Higher Power
-- into our lives.
12&12 p.34,
Step Three
Like all the
remaining Steps,
Step Three calls for
affirmative action, for
it is only by
action that we can
cut away the
self-will which has
always
blocked the
entry
of
God -- or, if you like, a
Higher Power -- into our
lives.
17.
... Higher Power,
let alone meditation and prayer?
12&12 p.24,
Step One
Who
cares anything about a
Higher Power, let alone
meditation and
prayer?
18.
... Higher Power
must necessarily do so if ...
12&12 p.107,
Step Twelve
In
Step Two we saw that since
we could not
restore ourselves to
sanity, some
Higher Power must necessarily do so if we were to
survive.
19.
... Higher Power,
the more independent we actually ...
12&12 p.36,
Step Three
And the
facts seem to be
these: The more we
become willing to
depend upon a
Higher Power, the more
independent we
actually are.
20.
... Higher Power
was a sort of bush-league ...
12&12 p.75,
Step Seven
We
began to get over the
idea
that the
Higher Power was a
sort of
bush-
league pinch hitter, to be called upon only in an
emergency.
21.
... Higher Power
was out of the question.
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
22.
... Higher Power
was worth knowing better, by ...
12&12 p.108,
Step Twelve
In
Step Eleven we saw that
if a
Higher Power had
restored us to
sanity and
had
enabled us to
live with
some
peace of
mind in a
sorely troubled world, then such a
Higher Power was
worth knowing better, by as
direct contact as
possible.
23.
... Higher Power
worked.
12&12 p.38,
Step Three
Whether in
Alaska or on the
Salerno beachhead, their
dependence upon a
Higher
Power worked.
24.
... higher power,
would presently love God and ...
12&12 p.109,
Step Twelve
From
great numbers of such
experiences, we could
predict that the
doubter
who still
claimed that he hadn't got the "
spiritual angle," and who
still
considered his well-
loved A.A. group the
higher power, would
presently love God and call Him by
name.
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