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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
HUMILITY occurs
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1.
... humility.
12&12 p.45,
Step Four
Here, of
course, we have
lost all
perspective, and
therefore all
genuine humility.
2.
... humility.
12&12 p.48,
Step Four
For we had
started to get
perspective on ourselves, which is another way of
saying that we were
gaining in
humility.
3.
... humility.
12&12 p.58,
Step Five
But while this was a
humiliating experience, it didn't
necessarily mean that we
had
yet acquired much
actual humility.
4.
... humility.
12&12 p.59,
Step Five
Only by
discussing ourselves,
holding back
nothing, only
by being
willing to take
advice and
accept direction could we
set foot on the
road to
straight thinking,
solid honesty, and
genuine humility.
5.
... humility.
12&12 p.71,
Step Seven
In all these
strivings, so many of them well-
intentioned, our
crippling handicap had
been our
lack of
humility.
6.
... humility.
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
It was only by
repeated humiliations that we were
forced to
learn something
about
humility.
7.
... humility.
12&12 p.75,
Step Seven
We saw we
needn't always be
bludgeoned and
beaten
into
humility.
8.
... humility.
12&12 p.76,
Step Seven
The
whole emphasis of
Step Seven is on
humility.
9.
... humility.
12&12 p.149,
Tradition Four
Even the
chief architect,
standing in
the
ruins of his
dream,
could
laugh at himself -- and that is the very
acme of
humility.
10.
... humility.
12&12 p.153,
Tradition Five
I'll
bet, too, that you could
give me a
letter-
perfect definition of
humility.
11.
... humility.
12&12 p.192,
Tradition Twelve (Long)
It
reminds us that we are to place
principles before
personalities; that we are
actually to
practice a
genuine humility.
12.
... humility.
BB p.566(568),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
It
reminds us that we are to place
principles before
personalities; that we are
actually to
practice a
genuine humility.
13.
... humility.
BB p.572(574),
Appendix V, The Religious View on A.A.
14.
... humility, a
desire to seek and do ...
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
That
basic ingredient
of all
humility, a
desire to
seek and do
God's will, was
missing.
15.
... humility --
a word often misunderstood.
12&12 p.58,
Step Five
Another
great dividend we
may
expect from
confiding our
defects to
another
human being is
humility -- a
word often
misunderstood.
16.
... humility and
an open mind can lead ...
12&12 p.33,
Step Two
True humility and an
open mind can
lead us to
faith, and every
A.A. meeting is an
assurance that
God will
restore us to
sanity if we
rightly relate ourselves
to Him.
17.
... humility and
intellect could be compatible, provided ...
12&12 p.30,
Step Two
By their
example they
showed us that
humility and
intellect could be
compatible,
provided we
placed humility first.
18.
... humility and
serenity are so combined, something ...
12&12 p.62,
Step Five
And when
humility and
serenity are so
combined,
something else of
great moment is
apt to
occur.
19.
... humility as
a desirable personal virtue, but ...
12&12 p.74,
Step Seven
We may still have no very
high opinion of
humility as a
desirable personal virtue, but we do
recognize it as a
necessary aid to our
survival.
20.
... humility as
a necessity.
12&12 p.73,
Step Seven
So it is that we
first see
humility as a
necessity.
21.
... humility as
a way of life.
12&12 p.70,
Step Seven
Many people haven't even a
nodding acquaintance with
humility as a way of
life.
22.
Humility, as
a word and as an ...
12&12 p.70,
Step Seven
Humility, as a
word and as an
ideal, has a very
bad time of it in our
world.
23.
... humility as
our guide, to move out ...
12&12 p.76,
Step Seven
The
Seventh Step is where
we make the
change in our
attitude which
permits us,
with
humility as our
guide,
to
move out from ourselves
toward others and
toward God.
24.
... humility as
something more than a condition ...
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
It was only at the
end of a
long road,
marked by
successive defeats and
humiliations, and the
final crushing of our
self-
sufficiency, that we
began to
feel humility as something more than a
condition of
groveling
despair.
25.
... humility as
something to be desired for ...
12&12 p.73,
Step Seven
To get
completely away from our
aversion to the
idea of being
humble, to
gain a
vision of
humility as the
avenue to
true freedom of the
human spirit, to be
willing to
work for
humility as something to
be
desired for itself,
takes most of us a
long,
long time.
26.
... humility as
something we really wanted, rather ...
12&12 p.75,
Step Seven
A
great turning point in our
lives came when we
sought for
humility as something we really
wanted, rather than as something we
must have.
27.
... humility as
the avenue to true freedom ...
12&12 p.73,
Step Seven
To get
completely away from our
aversion to the
idea of being
humble, to
gain a
vision of
humility as the
avenue to
true freedom of the
human spirit, to be
willing to
work for
humility as something to
be
desired for itself,
takes most of us a
long,
long time.
28.
... humility at
work.
12&12 p.187,
Tradition Twelve
These
experiences taught us that
anonymity
is
real humility at
work.
29.
... humility commences
to have a wider meaning.
12&12 p.74,
Step Seven
But when we have
taken a
square look at some of these
defects, have
discussed
them with another, and have
become willing to have them
removed, our
thinking
about
humility commences
to have a
wider meaning.
30.
... humility could
enable us to find the ...
12&12 p.76,
Step Seven
If that
degree of
humility
could
enable us to find the
grace by which such a
deadly
obsession could be
banished, then there
must be
hope of the same
result respecting any other
problem we could
possibly
have.
31.
... humility, expressed
by anonymity, is the greatest ...
12&12 p.187,
Tradition Twelve
We are
sure that
humility,
expressed by
anonymity,
is the
greatest safeguard that
Alcoholics Anonymous
can ever have.
32.
... humility, fearlessness
and honesty, in the sense ...
BB p.73,
Into Action
But they had not
learned enough of
humility,
fearlessness and
honesty, in the
sense we find
it
necessary, until they told someone else all
their
life story.
33.
... humility first.
12&12 p.30,
Step Two
By their
example they
showed us that
humility and
intellect could be
compatible,
provided we
placed humility first.
34.
... humility had
brought strength out of weakness.
12&12 p.75,
Step Seven
We
heard story after
story of how
humility had
brought
strength out of
weakness.
35.
... humility had
formerly stood for a forced ...
12&12 p.74,
Step Seven
36.
... humility in
seeking the removal of our ...
12&12 p.76,
Step Seven
It is really saying to us that we now ought to be
willing to
try humility in
seeking the
removal of our other
shortcomings just as we did when we
admitted that we were
powerless over
alcohol,
and
came to
believe that a
Power greater than
ourselves could
restore us to
sanity.
37.
... humility into
priceless assets.
12&12 p.75,
Step Seven
38.
... humility is
and what the practice of ...
12&12 p.70,
Step Seven
Since this
Step so
specifically concerns
itself with
humility, we should
pause here to
consider what
humility is and what the
practice of it can
mean to
us.
39.
... humility is
the foundation principle of each ...
12&12 p.70,
Step Seven
40.
... humility more
than ever.
12&12 p.75,
Step Seven
We
began to
fear pain less, and
desire humility more than ever.
41.
... humility must
consist of recognizing our deficiencies.
12&12 p.58,
Step Five
42.
... humility, no
alcoholic can stay sober at ...
12&12 p.70,
Step Seven
For without some
degree of
humility, no
alcoholic can
stay sober at all.
43.
... humility starts
another revolutionary change in our ...
12&12 p.74,
Step Seven
44.
... humility that
makes it possible for us ...
12&12 p.98,
Step Eleven
It is a
step in the
development of that
kind
of
humility that makes it
possible for us to
receive
God's
help.
45.
... humility, the
most profound result of all ...
12&12 p.75,
Step Seven
During this
process of
learning more about
humility,
the most
profound result
of all was the
change in our
attitude toward God.
46.
... humility, they
had deluded themselves and were ...
12&12 p.60,
Step Five
Lacking both
practice
and
humility, they had
deluded themselves and were able to
justify the most
arrant nonsense on the
ground that
this was what
God had told them.
47.
... humility to
establish and maintain the new ...
BB p.13,
Bill's Story
48.
... humility was
the main key to sobriety.
12&12 p.153,
Tradition Five
But as he
calmed down, he
began to
listen while I
tried to
show him that
humility was the
main key to
sobriety.
49.
... humility we
must pay, we would pay."
12&12 p.31,
Step Two
We soon
concluded that whatever
price in
humility we
must pay, we would
pay."
50.
... humility, we
should pause here to consider ...
12&12 p.70,
Step Seven
Since this
Step so
specifically concerns
itself with
humility, we should
pause here to
consider what
humility is and what the
practice of it can
mean to
us.
51.
... humility when
really we hadn't.
12&12 p.32,
Step Two
We
supposed we had
humility when really we hadn't.
52.
... humility, which
we soon discovered to be ...
12&12 p.75,
Step Seven
It brought a
measure of
humility, which we soon
discovered to be a
healer
of
pain.
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