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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... kind."
12&12 p.46,
Step Four
Therefore we
think our
indignation is
justified and
reasonable -- that our
resentments are the "
right kind."
2.
... kind.
12&12 p.80,
Step Eight
3.
... kind.
12&12 p.144,
Tradition Three
I have been
deserted by my
own kind.
4.
... kind?
BB p.61,
How It Works
Is he not really a
self-
seeker even when
trying to be
kind?
5.
... kind.
BB p.69,
How It Works
They
think we do not have
enough of it, or that it isn't the
right kind.
6.
... kind.
BB p.114,
To Wives
7.
... kind, and
he was much ashamed of ...
BB p.39,
More About Alcoholism
It was his
first experience of this
kind,
and he was much
ashamed of it.
8.
... kind and
loving toward all?
BB p.86,
Into Action
Were we
kind and
loving toward all?
9.
... kind, considerate,
patient, generous; even modest and ...
BB p.61,
How It Works
10.
... kind doctor
who explained that though certainly ...
BB p.7,
Bill's Story
11.
... kind enough
to enlarge upon his views ...
BB xxvi(xxiv),
The Doctor's Opinion
The
physician who, at our
request,
gave us this
letter, has been
kind enough to
enlarge upon his
views in another
statement which
follows.
12.
... kind, if
only in A.A. itself, is ...
12&12 p.34,
Step Three
We saw that we were
powerless over
alcohol, but we also
perceived that
faith of
some
kind, if only in
A.A.
itself, is
possible to anyone.
13.
... kind like
other men.
BB p.31,
More About Alcoholism
Neither does there
appear to be any
kind of
treatment which will
make
alcoholics of our
kind like other
men.
14.
... kind, nor
any lurking notion that someday ...
BB p.33,
More About Alcoholism
If we are
planning to
stop
drinking, there
must be no
reservation of any
kind, nor any
lurking notion that
someday we will
be
immune to
alcohol.
15.
... kind of
approach does not catch your ...
BB p.112,
To Wives
If this
kind of
approach
does not
catch your
husband's
interest, it may
be
best to
drop the
subject, but after a
friendly talk your
husband will usually
revive
the
topic himself.
16.
... kind of
bankruptcy is like this one.
12&12 p.21,
Step One
No other
kind of
bankruptcy is like this one.
17.
... kind of
character, and cut across every ...
12&12 p.141,
Tradition Three
Could any then
imagine a
society which would
include
every
conceivable kind
of
character, and
cut
across every
barrier of
race,
creed,
politics, and
language
with
ease?
18.
... kind of
confidence and faith in these ...
12&12 p.112,
Step Twelve
Can we have the same
kind of
confidence and
faith in
these people who have been
infected and sometimes
crippled by our
own illness that we have in our
sponsors?
19.
... kind of
confidence is born, and the ...
12&12 p.50,
Step Four
As we
persist, a
brand-new
kind of
confidence is
born, and the
sense of
relief at finally
facing
ourselves is
indescribable.
20.
... kind of
defense that keeps one from ...
BB p.24,
There Is A Solution
There is a
complete failure of the
kind of
defense that
keeps one from
putting his
hand on a
hot stove.
21.
... kind of
dependence they had learned in ...
12&12 p.38,
Step Three
Would the
kind of
dependence they had
learned in
A.A. carry them through?
22.
... kind of
domination or dependence.
12&12 p.117,
Step Twelve
Even when our
fortunes had not
ebbed that much and we nevertheless
found ourselves alone in the
world, we still
vainly tried to be
secure by some
unhealthy kind of
domination or
dependence.
23.
... kind of
education seems good to me, ...
12&12 p.158,
Tradition Six
The
kind of
education seems good to me, and is not too
controversial.
24.
... kind of
employee such an attitude will ...
BB p.145,
To Employers
25.
... kind of
faith?
BB p.53,
We Agnostics
Without
knowing it, had we not been brought to
where we
stood by a
certain kind of
faith?
26.
... kind of
flight, a spiritual liberation from ...
BB p.55,
We Agnostics
Yet we had been seeing another
kind of
flight, a
spiritual liberation
from this
world, people who
rose above their
problems.
27.
... kind of
giving he has found his ...
12&12 p.109,
Step Twelve
And then he
discovers that by the
divine paradox of this
kind of
giving he has
found his
own reward, whether his
brother
has
yet received anything
or not.
28.
... kind of
giving that actually demands nothing.
12&12 p.109,
Step Twelve
29.
... kind of
giving that asks no rewards.
12&12 p.106,
Step Twelve
Here we
experience the
kind of
giving that
asks no
rewards.
30.
... kind of
God was a part of ...
BB p.55,
We Agnostics
We finally saw that
faith in some
kind of
God was a
part of our make-up, just as much as the
feeling we have for a
friend.
31.
... kind of
hangover which we all experience ...
12&12 p.88,
Step Ten
But there is another
kind of
hangover which we all
experience whether we are
drinking or not.
32.
... kind of
happiness, can A.A. offer them ...
12&12 p.120,
Step Twelve
If they cannot have this
kind of
happiness, can
A.A. offer them
satisfactions of
similar worth and
durability?
33.
... kind of
humility that makes it possible ...
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.
34.
... kind of
insecurity may arise in any ...
12&12 p.52,
Step Four
It should be
remembered that this
kind of
insecurity may
arise in any
area where
instincts are
threatened.
35.
... kind of
life such obedience brings.
12&12 p.174,
Tradition Nine
So we of
A.A. do
obey spiritual principles,
first because we
must, and
ultimately because we
love
the
kind of
life such
obedience brings.
36.
... kind of
love that has no price ...
12&12 p.106,
Step Twelve
When the
Twelfth Step is
seen in
its full implication, it is really
talking about the
kind of
love that has no
price tag on it.
37.
... kind of
man, the kind who recovers, ...
BB p.149,
To Employers
The
right kind of
man, the
kind who
recovers, will not
want this
sort of thing.
38.
... kind of
money the hospital used to ...
12&12 p.136,
Tradition Two
Handing it to me, he
continued, 'This
shows the
kind of
money the
hospital used to make back in the
1920's.
39.
... kind of
person should head the job?
12&12 p.157,
Tradition Six
But what
kind of
person
should
head the
job?
40.
... kind of
pilot plant A.A. groups could ...
12&12 p.147,
Tradition Four
41.
... kind of
prayer, by this self-serving demand ...
12&12 p.103,
Step Eleven
42.
... kind of
problem: the intellectually self-sufficient man ...
12&12 p.29,
Step Two
43.
... kind of
quarantined confinement.
12&12 p.155,
Tradition Six
We'd
gather up
derelicts from
skid rows,
sort out those who could
get well, and make it
possible for the
rest to
earn their
livelihood in a
kind of
quarantined confinement.
44.
... kind of
self-righteousness can underlie the smallest ...
12&12 p.94,
Step Ten
45.
... kind of
setting in which such an ...
12&12 p.90,
Step Ten
Before we
ask what a
spot-
check inventory is, let's
look at the
kind of
setting in which such an
inventory can do
its work.
46.
... kind of
talk.
BB p.146,
To Employers
The
employer can many
times protect the
victim from this
kind of
talk.
47.
... kind of
thinking has been characteristic of ...
BB p.37,
More About Alcoholism
To us it is not far-
fetched, for this
kind of
thinking has been
characteristic of every
single one of us.
48.
... kind of
thinking takes no real account ...
12&12 p.36,
Step Three
The
trouble is that this
kind of
thinking takes no
real account of the
facts.
49.
... kind of
treatment which will make alcoholics ...
BB p.30,
More About Alcoholism
Neither does there
appear to be any
kind of
treatment which will
make
alcoholics of our
kind like other
men.
50.
... kind of
Twelfth Step work.
12&12 p.110,
Step Twelve
Nor is this the only
kind of
Twelfth Step work.
51.
... kind of
waste goes on unabated.
BB p.137,
To Employers
This
kind of
waste goes on
unabated.
52.
... kind that
make daily living with us ...
12&12 p.81,
Step Eight
Such a
roster of
harms done
others -- the
kind that make
daily living with us as
practicing alcoholics
difficult and often
unbearable -- could be
extended almost
indefinitely.
53.
... kind, the
informality, the genuine democracy, the ...
BB p.160,
A Vision For You
54.
... kind thing
is to lock them up, ...
BB p.114,
To Wives
When they
become too
dangerous, we
think the
kind thing is to
lock them up,
but of
course a
good doctor should always be
consulted.
55.
... kind who
recovers, will not want this ...
BB p.149,
To Employers
The
right kind of
man, the
kind who
recovers, will not
want this
sort of thing.
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