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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... left.
12&12 p.69,
Step Six
Let's
dispose of what
appears to be a
hazardous
open end we have
left.
2.
... left."
12&12 p.145,
Tradition Three
This is the
end ...
nothing
is
left."
3.
... left Alcoholics
Anonymous in trust with the ...
12&12 p.163,
Tradition Seven
4.
... left alone
and afraid.
12&12 p.43,
Step Four
In
time all his
protectors either
flee or
die, and he is once more
left
alone and
afraid.
5.
... left and
thought I had better go ...
BB p.4,
Bill's Story
He had
plenty of
money
left and
thought I had
better go to
Canada.
6.
... left but
pure reason, it wouldn't be ...
BB p.54,
We Agnostics
Were
nothing left but
pure reason, it wouldn't be
life.
7.
... left for
outsiders.
BB p.131,
The Family Afterward
The
family may
feel they
hold a
mortgage on
dad, so
big that no
equity should be
left for
outsiders.
8.
... left for
us but to pick up ...
BB p.25,
There Is A Solution
When, therefore, we were
approached by those in
whom the
problem had been
solved, there was
nothing
left for us but to
pick up the
simple kit of
spiritual tools laid at our
feet.
9.
... left in
his wake.
12&12 p.77,
Step Eight
Every
A.A. has
found that he
can make
little headway
in this new
adventure of
living until he
first backtracks and really makes an
accurate and
unsparing
survey of the
human wreckage he has
left in his
wake.
10.
... left in
terrified loneliness.
12&12 p.57,
Step Five
But even
Bacchus boomeranged on us; we were finally
struck down and
left in
terrified loneliness.
11.
... left me.
BB xxxi(xxix),
The Doctor's Opinion
To me he was a
stranger, and so he
left me.
12.
... left off
at thirty.
BB p.33,
More About Alcoholism
But here is a
man who at
fifty-
five years found he was just where
he had
left off at
thirty.
13.
... left out
as they witness so much ...
12&12 p.120,
Step Twelve
At
first many of these
feel
lonely,
hurt, and
left out as they
witness so much
domestic happiness
about them.
14.
... left over
from yesterday.
12&12 p.102,
Step Eleven
15.
... left to
quarrel about.
12&12 p.71,
Step Seven
The
theory seems to be that
once
everybody's
primary instincts are
satisfied, there won't be much
left to
quarrel about.
16.
... left to
themselves, and had they stuck ...
12&12 p.178,
Tradition Ten
Had they been
left to themselves, and had they
stuck to their one
goal, they
might have
found the
rest of
the
answer.
17.
... left to
those better qualified to handle ...
12&12 p.90,
Step Ten
We have
found that
justified anger ought to be
left to those
better qualified to
handle it.
18.
... left unchanged.
BB xii,
Preface
19.
... left untouched
in the course of revisions ...
BB xi,
Preface
20.
... left us
a note saying you were ...
BB p.136,
To Employers
He
left us a
note saying you
were the
best boss he ever
had, and that you were not to
blame in any way."
21.
... left us
a wonderful supply.
12&12 p.99,
Step Eleven
We won't have far to
seek; the
great men and
women of all
religions have
left us a
wonderful supply.
22.
... left who
deliberately break anonymity at the ...
12&12 p.183,
Tradition Eleven
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