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Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... important.
BB p.2,
Bill's Story
I'd
prove to the
world I was
important.
2.
... important.
BB p.120,
To Wives
This is important.
3.
... important.
BB p.154,
A Vision For You
Had he been
successful in his
enterprise, he would have been
set on his
feet financially which, at the
time,
seemed vitally important.
4.
... important, an
empty club couldn't answer its ...
12&12 p.167,
Tradition Eight
Even more
important, an
empty
club couldn't
answer its telephone, but it was an
open invitation to a
drunk on a
binge who
possessed a
spare key.
5.
... important and
exhilarating part in my life.
BB p.3,
Bill's Story
Drink was
taking an
important and
exhilarating
part in my
life.
6.
... important appointment
was not met.
BB xxx(xxviii),
The Doctor's Opinion
They took a
drink a
day or so
prior to the
date, and then
the
phenomenon of
craving at once
became paramount to all other
interests so that the
important appointment was not
met.
7.
... important decision
must be made or engagement ...
BB p.21,
There Is A Solution
8.
... important decisions
by discussion, vote, and, whenever ...
BB p.575,
Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form)
9.
... important demonstration
of our principles lies before ...
BB p.19,
There Is A Solution
10.
... important exception
to the foregoing.
BB p.108,
To Wives
There is an
important exception to the
foregoing.
11.
... important fact
of their lives, they present ...
BB p.51,
We Agnostics
When many
hundreds of people are able to say that
the
consciousness of the
Presence of
God is
today the most
important fact of their
lives, they
present a
powerful reason why one should have
faith.
12.
... important for
him to realize that your ...
BB p.94,
Working With Others
It is
important for him to
realize that your
attempt
to
pass this on to him
plays
a
vital part in your
own recovery.
13.
... important for
the A.A.'s who marry "outside" ...
12&12 p.119,
Step Twelve
The
considerations are
equally true and
important for the
A.A.'s who
marry "
outside"
A.A.
14.
... important it
is that he place the ...
BB p.94,
Working With Others
Suggest how
important it is
that he place the
welfare of other people
ahead of his
own.
15.
... important meaning
of it is that he ...
12&12 p.106,
Step Twelve
When a
man or a
woman has a
spiritual awakening,
the most
important meaning
of it is that he has now
become able to do,
feel, and
believe that which
he could not do before on his
unaided strength and
resources
alone.
16.
... important, murmurs
are heard in the body ...
12&12 p.133,
Tradition Two
Still more
important,
murmurs are
heard in the
body politic, which
swell into a
loud cry: "Do these
oldtimers think they can
run this
group forever?
17.
... important --
other people.
12&12 p.86,
Step Nine
Or -- quite as important -- other people.
18.
... important place
in society often tyrannize us.
12&12 p.42,
Step Four
Our
desires for
sex, for
material and
emotional
security, and for an
important place in
society often
tyrannize us.
19.
... important qualification.
BB p.101,
Working With Others
You will
note that we made an
important qualification.
20.
... important question.
12&12 p.163,
Tradition Seven
21.
... important tasks
that make good Twelfth Step ...
12&12 p.110,
Step Twelve
We can be the
ones who take on the
unspectacular but
important tasks that make
good Twelfth Step work possible, perhaps
arranging for the
coffee
and
cake after the
meetings, where so many
skeptical,
suspicious
newcomers have
found confidence and
comfort
in the
laughter and
talk.
22.
... important than
a right dependence upon God, ...
12&12 p.121,
Step Twelve
23.
... important than
freedom from want.
12&12 p.122,
Step Twelve
We
found that
freedom from
fear was more
important than
freedom from
want.
24.
... important than
whether we should see newsreels ...
BB p.52,
We Agnostics
We were having
trouble with
personal relationships, we couldn't
control our
emotional natures, we were a
prey to
misery and
depression, we
couldn't make a
living, we had a
feeling of
uselessness,
we were
full of
fear, we were
unhappy, we couldn't
seem
to be of
real help to other
people -- was not a
basic solution of these
bedevilments more
important than whether we should see
newsreels of
lunar flight?
25.
... important that
he be able to keep ...
BB p.74,
Into Action
It is
important that he be able to
keep a
confidence; that he
fully understand and
approve what we are
driving
at; that he will not
try to
change our
plan.
26.
... important that
we remain anonymous because we ...
12&12 p.184,
Tradition Twelve
Its foreword made this
revealing statement:
"It is
important that we
remain anonymous because
we are too few, at
present, to
handle the
overwhelming
number of
personal appeals which may
result
from this
publication.
27.
... important that
we remain anonymous because we ...
BB xiii,
Foreword to First Edition
It is
important that we
remain anonymous because
we are too few, at
present to
handle the
overwhelming
number of
personal appeals which may
result
from this
publication.
28.
... important, the
proof that love freely given ...
12&12 p.124,
Step Twelve
Service,
gladly rendered,
obligations
squarely met,
troubles well
accepted or
solved with
God's
help, the
knowledge that at
home or in the
world outside we are
partners in
a
common effort, the
well-
understood fact
that in
God's
sight all
human beings are
important, the
proof that
love freely given surely brings a
full return, the
certainty that we are no
longer isolated and alone
in
self-
constructed prisons, the
surety that we
need no
longer be
square pegs in
round holes but can
fit and
belong in
God's
scheme of things -- these
are the
permanent and
legitimate satisfactions of
right
living for which no
amount
of
pomp and
circumstance, no
heap of
material possessions, could
possibly be
substitutes.
29.
... important was
the discovery that spiritual principles ...
BB p.42,
More About Alcoholism
"Quite as
important was the
discovery that
spiritual principles
would
solve all my
problems.
30.
... important, "Yes,
I believe this program can ...
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."
31.
... important, "Yes,
I've felt like that"; or, ...
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."
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