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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... knows!
12&12 p.25,
Step Two
How he does
cherish the
thought that
man,
risen so
majestically
from a
single cell in the
primordial ooze, is the
spearhead of
evolution
and therefore the only
god that his
universe knows!
2.
... knows.
BB p.93,
Working With Others
In that
case he is
going to
wonder how you can
add
anything to what he already
knows.
3.
... knows about
the others' alcoholic troubles.
BB p.125,
The Family Afterward
Everyone knows about the
others'
alcoholic troubles.
4.
... knows all
about us, we are apt ...
12&12 p.60,
Step Five
Though we may at
first be
startled to
realize that
God knows all about us, we are
apt to get used to that quite
quickly.
5.
... knows he
is to blame; it may ...
BB p.123,
The Family Afterward
Father knows he is to
blame; it may take him many
seasons of
hard work to be
restored financially, but he shouldn't be
reproached.
6.
... knows he
must be honest if he ...
BB p.146,
To Employers
For he
knows he
must be
honest if he would
live at all.
7.
... knows he
owes you more than sobriety.
BB p.118,
To Wives
Your
husband knows he
owes you more than
sobriety.
8.
... knows how,
but meanwhile the alcoholic alternately ...
12&12 p.118,
Step Twelve
The
wife usually
goes on doing
the
best she
knows how, but
meanwhile the
alcoholic
alternately loves and
hates her
maternal care.
9.
... knows I
no longer drink.
BB p.138,
To Employers
10.
... knows in
a general way that we ...
BB p.81,
Into Action
If she
knows in a
general
way that we have been
wild, should we tell her in
detail?
11.
... knows in
his heart he doesn't deserve ...
BB p.73,
Into Action
He
wants to
enjoy a
certain reputation, but
knows in his
heart he doesn't
deserve it.
12.
... knows more
about it than you do, ...
BB p.93,
Working With Others
Admit that he
probably
knows more about it than you do, but call to his
attention the
fact that
however
deep his
faith and
knowledge, he could not have
applied it or he would not
drink.
13.
... knows no
alcohol, he may overdo.
BB p.146,
To Employers
Being somewhat
weakened, and
faced with
physical and
mental readjustment to
a
life which
knows no
alcohol, he may
overdo.
14.
... knows, so
that we may experience and ...
12&12 p.100,
Step Eleven
We
rest quietly with the
thoughts of someone who
knows, so that we may
experience and
learn.
15.
... knows so
well.
BB p.93,
Working With Others
Perhaps your
story will
help
him see where he has
failed to
practice the very
precepts he
knows so well.
16.
... knows that
active alcoholics scream that they ...
12&12 p.160,
Tradition Seven
17.
... knows that
God has enabled him to ...
12&12 p.109,
Step Twelve
His
own character may
still be
gravely defective, but he somehow
knows that
God has
enabled him to make a
mighty
beginning, and he
senses that he
stands at the
edge of new
mysteries,
joys, and
experiences of
which he had
never even
dreamed.
18.
... knows that
they are real.
BB p.14,
Bill's Story
He
knows that they are
real.
19.
... knows that
those in bad health, and ...
BB p.132,
The Family Afterward
Everybody knows that
those in
bad health, and
those who
seldom play, do
not
laugh much.
20.
... knows that
thousands of men, much like ...
BB p.113,
To Wives
He
knows that
thousands
of
men, much like himself, have
recovered.
21.
... knows the
alcoholic as the employer sees ...
BB p.136,
To Employers
He
knows the
alcoholic as
the
employer sees him.
22.
... knows the
reason.
BB p.51,
We Agnostics
Almost
everyone knows the
reason.
23.
... knows, we
have tried hard enough and ...
BB p.31,
More About Alcoholism
Heaven knows, we have
tried hard enough and
long enough to
drink like other
people!
24.
... knows what
he is talking about, that ...
BB p.18,
There Is A Solution
That the
man who is
making
the
approach has had the same
difficulty, that he
obviously knows what he is
talking about, that his
whole deportment shouts at the new
prospect
that he is a
man with a
real answer, that he has no
attitude of
Holier Than
Thou,
nothing whatever
except the
sincere desire to be
helpful; that
there are no
fees to
pay, no
axes to
grind, no people to
please, no
lectures to be
endured -- these are the
conditions we have
found
most
effective.
25.
... knows what
trouble he'll brew.
12&12 p.142,
Tradition Three
If we
allow him in, only
God
knows what
trouble he'll
brew.
26.
... knows you
understand and will not be ...
BB p.144,
To Employers
If he
feels free to
discuss his
problems with
you, if he
knows you
understand and will not be
upset by anything he
wishes to
say, he will
probably be off to a
fast start.
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