From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... learn.
12&12 p.65,
Step Six
The key words "entirely ready" underline the fact that we
want to aim at the very best we know or can learn.
2.
... learn.
12&12 p.100,
Step Eleven
3.
... learn a
lesson!"
12&12 p.144,
Tradition Three
4.
... learn and
grow by this means, are ...
12&12 p.88,
Step Ten
A continuous look at our
assets and liabilities, and a real desire to learn and grow by this means, are necessities for us.
5.
... learn much
from them if you wish, ...
BB p.89,
Working With Others
Ministers and doctors
are competent and you can learn much from them if you wish, but it happens that because of your own drinking experience you
can be uniquely useful
to other alcoholics.
6.
... learn, often
to our consternation, that this ...
12&12 p.73,
Step Seven
Then we learn, often to our
consternation, that this is only the first milestone on the new road we are walking.
7.
... learn right
relations with people who understand ...
12&12 p.117,
Step Twelve
Through it we begin to
learn right relations with people who
understand us; we don't have to be alone any more.
8.
... learn something
about humility.
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
9.
... learn that
great corporations have set their ...
12&12 p.180,
Tradition Eleven
Employers learn that great corporations have
set their approval upon us, and wish to discover what can be done
about alcoholism in their own firms.
10.
... learn that
in alcoholics the will is ...
BB p.7,
Bill's Story
It relieved me somewhat to learn that in alcoholics the will is amazingly weakened when
it comes to combating liquor, though it often remains strong in other respects.
11.
... learn that
the sole authority in A.A. ...
12&12 p.132,
Tradition Two
These practical folk then
read Tradition Two, and learn that the sole authority in A.A. is a loving God as He may express Himself in the group conscience.
12.
... learn that
we could commence at a ...
BB p.47,
We Agnostics
13.
... learn the
full meaning of "Love thy ...
BB p.153,
A Vision For You
14.
... learn the
grim truth about alcoholism.
BB p.144,
To Employers
15.
... learn the
very hard lesson that overdependence ...
12&12 p.115,
Step Twelve
We had refused to learn the
very hard lesson that overdependence upon people is unsuccessful
because all people are fallible, and even the best of them will sometimes let us down, especially when our
demands for attention
become unreasonable.
16.
... learn these
things the hard way.
BB p.121,
To Wives
17.
... learn this
truth: Job or no job ...
BB p.98,
Working With Others
Some of us have taken very hard knocks to learn this truth: Job or no job
-- wife or no wife -- we simply do not stop drinking so long as we place dependence upon other people ahead of dependence on God.
18.
... learn tolerance,
patience and good will toward ...
BB p.70,
How It Works
We have begun to learn tolerance, patience and
good will toward all men, even our enemies, for we look on them as sick people.
19.
... learn why
his own convictions have not ...
BB p.93,
Working With Others
But he will be curious to
learn why his own convictions have not worked and why yours seem to work so well.
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