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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... idea.
12&12 p.99,
Step Eleven
As
beginners in
meditation, we might now
reread this
prayer several
times very
slowly,
savoring every
word and
trying to take in the
deep meaning of each
phrase and
idea.
2.
... idea.
12&12 p.147,
Tradition Four
3.
... idea.
BB p.7,
Bill's Story
I
knew, and almost
welcomed the
idea.
4.
... idea.
BB p.12,
Bill's Story
I didn't like the idea.
5.
... idea.
BB p.12,
Bill's Story
6.
... idea a
minute on how to improve ...
12&12 p.143,
Tradition Three
He had at
least an
idea a
minute on how to
improve A.A.
7.
... idea and
a practical program of action.
BB p.9,
Bill's Story
They had told of a
simple religious idea and a
practical program of
action.
8.
... idea, and
that was sobriety.
12&12 p.154,
Tradition Five
Years later, this
tough Irish customer liked to say, "My
sponsor sold me one
idea, and that was
sobriety.
9.
... idea did.
BB p.52,
We Agnostics
10.
... idea entirely.
BB p.45,
We Agnostics
11.
... idea how
irrational they are, or seeing ...
12&12 p.33,
Step Two
Few
indeed are the
practicing alcoholics
who have any
idea how
irrational they are, or seeing their
irrationality, can
bear
to
face it.
12.
... idea how
prevalent this problem is.
BB p.149,
To Employers
13.
... idea if
we continue to keep a ...
12&12 p.133,
Tradition Two
They say to one another, "Perhaps it would be a
good
idea if we
continue to
keep a
firm hand on
A.A. in this
town.
14.
... idea into
the consciousness of every man ...
BB p.98,
Working With Others
Burn the
idea into the
consciousness of every
man that he can get well
regardless of anyone.
15.
... idea is
good, but it isn't good ...
12&12 p.137,
Tradition Two
Sure,
Charlie's
idea is
good, but it isn't
good enough.
16.
... idea misunderstood;
the word itself is often ...
12&12 p.70,
Step Seven
Not only is the
idea misunderstood; the
word
itself is often
intensely disliked.
17.
... idea of
being humble, to gain a ...
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.
18.
... idea of
bowing before any God.
12&12 p.96,
Step Eleven
We well
remember how something
deep inside us
kept rebelling against the
idea of
bowing before any
God.
19.
... idea of
dependence at the level of ...
12&12 p.36,
Step Three
20.
... idea of
God.
BB p.55,
We Agnostics
Actually we were
fooling ourselves, for
deep
down in every
man,
woman, and
child, is the
fundamental idea of
God.
21.
... idea of
helping drunks by spirituality, I ...
12&12 p.136,
Tradition Two
22.
... idea of
helping other alcoholics to a ...
BB p.15,
Bill's Story
My
wife and I
abandoned
ourselves with
enthusiasm to the
idea of
helping other
alcoholics to a
solution of their
problems.
23.
... idea of
Him with which someone had ...
BB p.45,
We Agnostics
To others, the
word "
God"
brought up a
particular idea of Him with which someone had
tried to
impress them during
childhood.
24.
... idea of
his behavior, his problems, his ...
BB p.90,
Working With Others
25.
... idea of
how we approach and aid ...
BB p.153,
A Vision For You
In the
chapter "
Working
With Others" you
gathered an
idea of how we
approach and
aid others to
health.
26.
... idea of
how you ought to proceed.
BB p.91,
Working With Others
You will thus get a
better idea of how you ought to
proceed.
27.
... idea of
personal powerlessness.
12&12 p.21,
Step One
28.
... idea of
what has actually happened in ...
BB p.29,
There Is A Solution
29.
... idea of
what life is all about.
BB p.49,
We Agnostics
People of
faith have a
logical idea of what
life is all about.
30.
... idea out
of his head.
BB p.38,
More About Alcoholism
He
tries every
known means to get the
jay-
walking idea out of his
head.
31.
... idea that
future happiness can be based ...
BB p.123,
The Family Afterward
The
family may be
possessed by the
idea that
future happiness can be
based only upon
forgetfulness of the
past.
32.
... idea that
God has accomplished the miracle ...
BB p.128,
The Family Afterward
While
grateful that he
drinks no more, they may not like the
idea that
God has
accomplished the
miracle where they
failed.
33.
... idea that
he can still control his ...
BB p.92,
Working With Others
If he
sticks to the
idea
that he can still
control his
drinking, tell him that
possibly he can -- if he is not too
alcoholic.
34.
... idea that
he could take whiskey if ...
BB p.37,
More About Alcoholism
Yet all
reasons for not
drinking were
easily pushed aside in
favor of the
foolish idea that he could take
whiskey
if only he
mixed it with
milk!
35.
... idea that
it would be far better ...
12&12 p.181,
Tradition Eleven
Obviously,
A.A. had to be
publicized somehow, so we
resorted to the
idea that it
would be far
better to let our
friends do this for us.
36.
... idea that
people are trying to pull ...
BB p.145,
To Employers
Sometimes we
alcoholics have an
idea that people are
trying to
pull us down.
37.
... idea that
self-sufficiency would solve our problems.
BB p.52,
We Agnostics
38.
... idea that
somehow, someday he will control ...
BB p.30,
More About Alcoholism
The
idea that somehow,
someday he will
control and
enjoy his
drinking is the
great obsession of every
abnormal drinker.
39.
... idea that
the Higher Power was a ...
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.
40.
... idea that
this time we shall handle ...
BB p.24,
There Is A Solution
If these
thoughts occur,
they are
hazy and
readily
supplanted with the
old
threadbare idea that
this
time we shall
handle
ourselves like other people.
41.
... idea that
wasn't so salable.
12&12 p.143,
Tradition Three
But he had one
idea that wasn't so
salable.
42.
... idea that
we can be possessively loving ...
12&12 p.92,
Step Ten
The
idea that we can be
possessively loving of
a few, can
ignore the many, and can
continue to
fear or
hate anybody, has to be
abandoned, if only a
little at a
time.
43.
... idea that
we needed vast sums of ...
12&12 p.161,
Tradition Seven
As
A.A. emerged from
its infancy into
adolescence, we
swung
from the
idea that we
needed
vast sums of
money to the
notion that
A.A. shouldn't have any.
44.
... idea that
we were too good to ...
BB p.116,
To Wives
But it was a
silly idea that
we were too
good to
need God.
45.
... idea that
you are a nag or ...
BB p.111,
To Wives
If he gets the
idea that you are a
nag or a
killjoy, your
chance of
accomplishing anything
useful may be
zero.
46.
... idea, voicing
it without reservation.
BB p.63,
How It Works
The
wording was, of
course, quite
optional so
long as we
expressed the
idea,
voicing it without
reservation.
47.
... idea why
he took that first drink ...
BB p.23,
There Is A Solution
And the
truth,
strange to
say, is usually that he has no more
idea why he took
that
first drink than you
have.
48.
... idea won
out.
BB p.37,
More About Alcoholism
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