From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... 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
3.
... knows about
the others' alcoholic troubles.
BB p.125,
The Family Afterward
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
7.
... knows he
owes you more than sobriety.
BB p.118,
To Wives
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
Here, for instance, is a
typical example: An officer of one of the largest banking institutions in America knows I no longer drink.
10.
... knows in
a general way that we ...
BB p.81,
Into Action
11.
... knows in
his heart he doesn't deserve ...
BB p.73,
Into Action
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
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
20.
... knows that
thousands of men, much like ...
BB p.113,
To Wives
21.
... knows the
alcoholic as the employer sees ...
BB p.136,
To Employers
22.
... knows the
reason.
BB p.51,
We Agnostics
23.
... knows, we
have tried hard enough and ...
BB p.31,
More About Alcoholism
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
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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