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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
LEADERS occurs
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1.
... leaders are
but trusted servants; they do ...
12&12 p.132,
Tradition Two
Our
leaders are but
trusted
servants; they do not
govern."
2.
... leaders are
but trusted servants; they do ...
BB p.562(564),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
Our
leaders are but
trusted
servants; they do not
govern.
3.
... leaders in
A.A. are but trusted and ...
12&12 p.191,
Tradition Nine (Long)
All such
representatives are to be
guided in the
spirit of
service, for
true leaders in
A.A. are but
trusted and
experienced
servants of the
whole.
4.
... leaders in
A.A. are but trusted and ...
BB p.565(567),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
All such
representatives are to be
guided in the
spirit of
service, for
true leaders in
A.A. are but
trusted and
experienced
servants of the
whole.
5.
... leaders might
serve but never govern; that ...
BB xix,
Foreword to Second Edition
It was
thought that no
alcoholic man or
woman could be
excluded from
our
Society; that our
leaders might
serve but
never govern; that each
group was to be
autonomous
and there was to be no
professional class of
therapy.
6.
... leaders of
prominence, nor do we wish ...
12&12 p.124,
Step Twelve
Not many of us can be
leaders of
prominence, nor do we
wish
to be.
7.
... leaders shall
serve.
12&12 p.134,
Tradition Two
Thus
throughout A.A. does
the
group conscience decree the
terms upon which
its leaders shall
serve.
8.
... leaders were
my heroes.
BB p.2,
Bill's Story
Business and
financial leaders were my
heroes.
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