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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... led before
the bottle cut us down.
12&12 p.45,
Step Four
No
doubt we shall
point with
pride to the
good lives we
thought we
led before the
bottle cut us down.
2.
... led Ed
aside.
12&12 p.143,
Tradition Three
3.
... led him
presently to a certain resident ...
BB p.155,
A Vision For You
His call to the
clergyman led him
presently to a
certain resident of the
town, who, though
formerly
able and
respected, was then
nearing the
nadir of
alcoholic despair.
4.
... led in
time to pitiful and incomprehensible ...
BB p.30,
More About Alcoholism
5.
... led straight
to the bottle.
12&12 p.90,
Step Ten
6.
... led to
sure power and safe guidance ...
12&12 p.109,
Step Twelve
The
persistent use of
meditation and
prayer, we
found, did
open the
channel so that where there had been a
trickle, there now was a
river which
led to
sure power and
safe guidance from
God as we were
increasingly better
able to
understand Him.
7.
... led to
the bottle and extinction.
12&12 p.45,
Step Four
This is not a
moral inventory at all; it is the very
process by which the
depressive has so often been
led to the
bottle and
extinction.
8.
... led to
the discovery of God.
BB p.116,
To Wives
Time after
time, this
apparent calamity has
been a
boon to us, for it
opened up a
path which
led to the
discovery of
God.
9.
... led to
us through channels like these.
12&12 p.180,
Tradition Eleven
It is no
exaggeration to say that
half of
A.A.'s
membership has been
led to
us through
channels like these.
10.
... led us
to the conclusion that our ...
12&12 p.135,
Tradition Two
This is the
experience which has
led us to the
conclusion that
our
group conscience,
well-
advised by
its elders, will be in the
long run wiser than any
single leader.
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