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Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... life.
12&12 p.21,
Step One
2.
... life.
12&12 p.27,
Step Two
3.
... life.
12&12 p.29,
Step Two
"As
material success founded upon no more than these
ordinary attributes began to
come to us, we
felt we were
winning at the
game of
life.
4.
... life.
12&12 p.40,
Step Three
More
sobriety brought about by the
admission of
alcoholism and by
attendance at a few
meetings is very
good indeed, but it is
bound to be
a far
cry from
permanent
sobriety and a
contented,
useful life.
5.
... life.
12&12 p.44,
Step Four
These people often
throw to the
winds every
chance for
legitimate security and
a
happy family life.
6.
... life.
12&12 p.48,
Step Four
But all who are in the
least reasonable will
agree upon
one
point: that there is
plenty wrong with us
alcoholics about which
plenty will have to be done if we are to
expect sobriety,
progress, and any
real ability to
cope with
life.
7.
... life.
12&12 p.63,
Step Six
To him, this
proposition will be no
theory at all; it will be just about the
largest fact in his
life.
8.
... life.
12&12 p.64,
Step Six
Here their
powerful instinct to
live can
cooperate fully with their
Creator's
desire to
give them new
life.
9.
... life.
12&12 p.70,
Step Seven
Many people haven't even a
nodding acquaintance with
humility as a way of
life.
10.
... life.
12&12 p.71,
Step Seven
Nor do we
enter into
debate
with the many who still so
passionately cling to the
belief that to
satisfy our
basic natural desires is the
main object of
life.
11.
... life.
12&12 p.71,
Step Seven
Instead of
regarding the
satisfaction of our
material desires as the
means by which we could
live and
function as
human beings, we had
taken these
satisfactions to be the
final end and
aim of
life.
12.
... life.
12&12 p.75,
Step Seven
In every
case,
pain had been
the
price of
admission
into a new
life.
13.
... life.
12&12 p.88,
Step Ten
As we
work the
first nine Steps, we
prepare ourselves for the
adventure of a new
life.
14.
... life.
12&12 p.98,
Step Eleven
15.
... Life.
12&12 p.99,
Step Eleven
It is by
dying that one
awakens to
Eternal Life.
16.
... life.
12&12 p.114,
Step Twelve
17.
... life.
12&12 p.114,
Step Twelve
But also like others, we often
discover a
greater challenge in the
lesser and more
continuous problems of
life.
18.
... life?
12&12 p.120,
Step Twelve
And what can be said of many
A.A. members who, for a
variety
of
reasons, cannot have a
family life?
19.
... life.
12&12 p.123,
Step Twelve
20.
... life.
12&12 p.16,
Foreword
Many people,
nonalcoholics,
report that as a
result of
the
practice of
A.A.'s
Twelve Steps, they have been
able to
meet other
difficulties of
life.
21.
... life.'
12&12 p.152,
Tradition Five
"Of
course, my
answer was
'My
own sobriety and a
mighty happy life.'
22.
... life.
BB p.3,
Bill's Story
23.
... life.
BB p.16,
Bill's Story
He could not, or would not, see our way of life.
24.
... life.
BB p.18,
There Is A Solution
But not so with the
alcoholic illness, for with it there
goes annihilation of all
the things
worth while in
life.
25.
... life.
BB p.35,
More About Alcoholism
All went well for a
time, but he
failed to
enlarge his
spiritual life.
26.
... life.
BB p.40,
More About Alcoholism
He was
positive that this
humiliating experience,
plus the
knowledge he had
acquired, would
keep him
sober the
rest of his
life.
27.
... life.
BB p.51,
We Agnostics
28.
... life.
BB p.54,
We Agnostics
Were
nothing left but
pure reason, it wouldn't be
life.
29.
... life.
BB p.63,
How It Works
More and more we
became interested in seeing what we could
contribute to
life.
30.
... life.
BB p.63,
How It Works
Take away my
difficulties, that
victory over them may
bear witness to those I would
help
of
Thy Power,
Thy Love, and
Thy Way of
life.
31.
... life.
BB p.69,
How It Works
In this way we
tried to
shape a
sane and
sound ideal for our
future sex life.
32.
... life.
BB p.73,
Into Action
More than most people, the
alcoholic leads a
double life.
33.
... life?
BB p.86,
Into Action
Or were we
thinking of what we could do for
others, of what we could
pack into the
stream of
life?
34.
... life.
BB p.97,
Working With Others
The
family should be
offered your way of
life.
35.
... life.
BB p.99,
Working With Others
The
wife should
fully understand his new way of
life.
36.
... life.
BB p.124,
The Family Afterward
Henry Ford once made a
wise remark to the
effect that
experience is
the thing of
supreme value
in
life.
37.
... life.
BB p.131,
The Family Afterward
At the very
beginning, the
couple ought to
frankly face the
fact that each will have
to
yield here and there if the
family is
going to
play an
effective part in the new
life.
38.
... life.
BB p.132,
The Family Afterward
39.
... life.
BB p.153,
A Vision For You
Then you will
know what it
means to
give of
yourself that others may
survive and
rediscover
life.
40.
... life.
BB p.153,
A Vision For You
Suppose now that through you several
families have
adopted this
way of
life.
41.
... life.
BB p.159,
A Vision For You
These
men had
found something
brand new in
life.
42.
... life.
BB p.160,
A Vision For You
43.
... life, a
compelling desire to find a ...
12&12 p.117,
Step Twelve
44.
... life a
fair hearing.
BB p.50,
We Agnostics
45.
... life, according,
of course, to our various ...
12&12 p.68,
Step Six
Therefore, it
seems plain
that few of us can
quickly or
easily become ready to
aim at
spiritual and
moral perfection; we
want to
settle for only as much
perfection as will get us by in
life,
according, of
course, to our
various and
sundry ideas of what will
get us by.
46.
... life actually
depends upon obedience to spiritual ...
12&12 p.130,
Tradition One
47.
... life again,
often begins to assert himself.
BB p.131,
The Family Afterward
Father,
coming suddenly to
life again, often
begins to
assert himself.
48.
... life again,
there will be no stopping ...
BB p.164,
A Vision For You
When a few
men in this
city
have
found themselves, and have
discovered the
joy of
helping others to
face life again, there will be no
stopping until
everyone
in that
town has had his
opportunity to
recover
-- if he can and will.
49.
... life among
Alcoholics Anonymous is more than ...
BB p.161,
A Vision For You
50.
... life and
death.
BB p.561(563),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
To those now in
its fold,
Alcoholics Anonymous
has made the
difference between
misery and
sobriety, and
often the
difference between
life and
death.
51.
... life and
death, Bill, and nothing but ...
12&12 p.138,
Tradition Two
This is a
matter of
life and
death,
Bill, and
nothing but the very
best will
do!'
52.
... life-and-death errand.
BB p.75,
Into Action
He should
realize that we are
engaged upon a
life-and-
death errand.
53.
... life and
happiness for others.
BB p.124,
The Family Afterward
Cling to the
thought that,
in
God's
hands, the
dark past is the
greatest possession you
have -- the
key to
life and
happiness for others.
54.
... life and
have begun, by our behavior ...
12&12 p.85,
Step Nine
As soon as we
begin to
feel
confident in our new way of
life and have
begun, by our
behavior and
example, to
convince those about us that we are
indeed changing for the
better, it is usually
safe to
talk in
complete frankness with those who have been
seriously affected, even
those who may be only a
little or not at all
aware of what we have done to them.
55.
... life and
insists on giving away the ...
BB p.129,
The Family Afterward
He may not see at once that he has
barely scratched a
limitless
lode which will
pay dividends only if he
mines
it for the
rest of his
life
and
insists on
giving
away the
entire product.
56.
... life, and
it comes first.
12&12 p.159,
Tradition Six
57.
... life and
my will over to the ...
12&12 p.36,
Step Three
If I
keep on
turning my
life and my will over to the
care of Something or Somebody else, what will
become of me?
58.
... life, and
the beginning of his emergence ...
12&12 p.26,
Step Two
And so it is: the
beginning of the
end of his
old life, and the
beginning of his
emergence into a new one.
59.
... life and
the lives of your children?
BB p.108,
To Wives
Is it
right to let him
ruin
your
life and the
lives of
your
children?
60.
... life and
was only living, one might ...
BB xxxi(xxix),
The Doctor's Opinion
He had
lost everything
worthwhile in
life and
was only
living, one might say, to
drink.
61.
... life anew.
BB p.114,
To Wives
But sometimes you
must start
life anew.
62.
... life, as
it has a way of ...
12&12 p.113,
Step Twelve
Then perhaps
life, as it has a way of doing,
suddenly hands us a
great big lump that we can't
begin to
swallow, let alone
digest.
63.
... life as
it has affected other people.
12&12 p.79,
Step Eight
Though in some
cases we cannot make
restitution at all, and in some
cases action ought to be
deferred, we should nevertheless make an
accurate and really
exhaustive survey of our
past life as it has
affected other people.
64.
... life as
we had been living it.
BB p.25,
There Is A Solution
But we saw that it really
worked in others, and we
had
come to
believe in the
hopelessness and
futility of
life as we had
been
living it.
65.
... life as
we once did and a ...
BB p.151,
A Vision For You
There was an
insistent yearning to
enjoy life as we once did and a
heartbreaking obsession that some new
miracle of
control would
enable us to do it.
66.
... life as
we see it, there is ...
BB p.49,
We Agnostics
67.
... life at
last, and in the midst ...
BB p.1,
Bill's Story
I was
part of
life at
last, and in the
midst of the
excitement I
discovered liquor.
68.
... life, at
least from the alcoholic angle, ...
BB p.149,
To Employers
69.
... life better
than the best he had ...
BB p.11,
Bill's Story
Then he had, in
effect, been
raised from the
dead,
suddenly taken from the
scrap heap to a
level of
life better than the
best he had
ever
known!
70.
... life brought
about by years of alcoholism.
12&12 p.117,
Step Twelve
71.
... life business
of winning fame, money, and ...
12&12 p.123,
Step Twelve
72.
... life can
bring the much-desired result.
12&12 p.40,
Step Three
Nothing short of
continuous action upon
these as a way of
life can bring the much-
desired result.
73.
... life, can
expel the obsession to drink ...
12&12 p.15,
Foreword
74.
... life completely
on life's terms, I cannot ...
BB p.417(449),
Acceptance
Until I could
accept my
alcoholism, I could not
stay sober;
unless I
accept life completely on
life's
terms, I cannot be
happy.
75.
... life confirm
this ageless truth.
12&12 p.98,
Step Eleven
76.
... life deals
him.
12&12 p.122,
Step Twelve
He
learns that he can be
content as
long as he
plays well whatever
cards life deals him.
77.
... life doesn't
treat him right.
BB p.61,
How It Works
He
begins to
think life doesn't
treat him
right.
78.
... life drinking
ourselves into forgetfulness or had ...
12&12 p.123,
Step Twelve
79.
... life either
with alcohol or without it.
BB p.152,
A Vision For You
Some
day he will be
unable to
imagine life either with
alcohol or without it.
80.
... life everywhere.
12&12 p.187,
Tradition Twelve
81.
... life for
him.
12&12 p.119,
Step Twelve
And above all he is finally
convinced that
reckless romancing is
not a way of
life for him.
82.
... life for
many more.
12&12 p.112,
Step Twelve
And if these are
facts of
life for the many
alcoholics
who have
recovered in
A.A.,
they can
become the
facts
of
life for many more.
83.
... life for
the many alcoholics who have ...
12&12 p.112,
Step Twelve
And if these are
facts of
life for the many
alcoholics
who have
recovered in
A.A.,
they can
become the
facts
of
life for many more.
84.
... life for
us; you can't keep us ...
12&12 p.173,
Tradition Nine
Groups have
tried to
expel members, but the
banished have
come back to
sit in the
meeting place,
saying, "This is
life for us; you can't
keep us out."
85.
... life-giving grace
of God; His gift to ...
12&12 p.129,
Tradition One
Without
unity, the
heart of
A.A. would
cease to
beat; our
world arteries would no
longer carry the
life-
giving grace of
God; His
gift to us would be
spent aimlessly.
86.
... life, God
was going to be our ...
BB p.62,
How It Works
Next, we
decided that
hereafter in this
drama of
life,
God was
going to be our
Director.
87.
... life had
given us, we felt it ...
12&12 p.123,
Step Twelve
88.
... life, had
secured a position, and was ...
BB p.79,
Into Action
He had
commenced our way of
life, had
secured a
position, and was
getting
his
head above
water.
89.
... life has
been given us or, if ...
BB p.28,
There Is A Solution
A new
life has been
given us
or, if you
prefer, "a
design for
living" that
really
works.
90.
... life, he
can readily get under way ...
12&12 p.50,
Step Four
Looking back over his
life,
he can
readily get under way by
consideration of
questions such as these:
91.
... life he
finds that real happiness is ...
12&12 p.122,
Step Twelve
92.
... life he
really wants to live.
12&12 p.130,
Tradition One
At
first he
goes along
because he
must, but
later he
discovers a way of
life
he really
wants to
live.
93.
... life, he
will never take advantage of ...
BB p.146,
To Employers
Being on a
radically different basis of
life, he will
never take
advantage of the
situation.
94.
... life I
lived before.
BB p.43,
More About Alcoholism
I have since been brought into a way of
living infinitely more
satisfying and, I
hope,
more
useful than the
life I
lived before.
95.
... life in
him.
12&12 p.36,
Step Three
96.
... life in
the sense that you can ...
BB p.54,
We Agnostics
We could not
prove life in
the
sense that you can
prove
a
straight line is the
shortest distance between
two points,
yet, there it was.
97.
... life in
the world of big business.
BB p.136,
To Employers
Among many
employers nowadays, we
think of one
member who has
spent much of
his
life in the
world of
big business.
98.
... life, in
which he so gloried, is ...
12&12 p.25,
Step Two
His
whole philosophy of
life, in which he so
gloried, is
threatened.
99.
... life instead
of how much you can ...
BB p.120,
To Wives
You, as well as your
husband, ought to
think of what you can
put into
life instead of how much you can take out.
100.
... life is
a vale of tears, though ...
BB p.133,
The Family Afterward
We cannot
subscribe to the
belief that this
life is a
vale of
tears, though it once
was just that for many of us.
101.
... life is
all about.
BB p.49,
We Agnostics
People of
faith have a
logical idea of what
life is all about.
102.
... life is
good.
BB p.151,
A Vision For You
It is
joyous intimacy
with
friends and a
feeling that
life is
good.
103.
... life is
measured against that of other ...
BB p.123,
The Family Afterward
Today's
life is
measured against that of other
years and, when it
falls short, the
family may be
unhappy.
104.
... life is
not a dead end, not ...
12&12 p.107,
Step Twelve
He has been
set on a
path which
tells him he is really
going somewhere, that
life is not a
dead end, not something to be
endured or
mastered.
105.
... life is
not a theory.
BB p.83,
Into Action
The
spiritual life is not
a
theory.
106.
... life is
still unmanageable even though he ...
12&12 p.39,
Step Three
Of
course the
sponsor points out that our
friend's
life is still
unmanageable even though he is
sober, that after all, only a
bare start on
A.A.'s
program has been made.
107.
... life is
when lived on a spiritual ...
BB p.116,
To Wives
We have elsewhere
remarked how much
better life is when
lived on a
spiritual plane.
108.
... life itself.
BB p.151,
A Vision For You
The
less people
tolerated
us, the more we
withdrew from
society, from
life itself.
109.
... life itself
to us, it is imperative ...
12&12 p.177,
Tradition Ten
Since
recovery from
alcoholism is
life itself
to us, it is
imperative that we
preserve in
full strength our
means of
survival.
110.
... life little
by little.
BB p.102,
Working With Others
While you were
drinking, you were
withdrawing from
life little by
little.
111.
... life more
bearable.
BB p.97,
Working With Others
And even though he
continues to
drink, the
family will find
life more
bearable.
112.
... life --
of course we did.
BB p.54,
We Agnostics
But we
believed in
life --
of
course we did.
113.
... life of
our Fellowship requires the preservation ...
12&12 p.150,
Tradition Five
114.
... life of
sane and happy usefulness.
BB p.130,
The Family Afterward
115.
... life of
the Fellowship itself.
12&12 p.15,
Foreword
116.
... life of
the world is dependent upon ...
12&12 p.181,
Tradition Eleven
117.
... life of
this world.
BB p.102,
Working With Others
Now you are
getting back into the
social life of this
world.
118.
... life --
or else.
BB p.44,
We Agnostics
But after a while we had to
face the
fact that we
must find a
spiritual basis of
life -- or else.
119.
... life originated
out of nothing, means nothing, ...
BB p.49,
We Agnostics
120.
... life over
to a newfound Providence, then ...
12&12 p.35,
Step Three
Now if this is not
turning one's will and
life over to a
newfound Providence, then what is it?
121.
... life over
to God as we understood ...
BB p.60,
How It Works
Being
convinced, we were at
Step Three, which is that we
decided to
turn our will and
our
life over to
God as we
understood Him.
122.
... life over
to the care of whatever ...
12&12 p.35,
Step Three
No
matter how much one
wishes to
try,
exactly how can he
turn his
own will and his
own life over to the
care of whatever
God he
thinks there is?
123.
... life over
to the care, protection, and ...
12&12 p.35,
Step Three
Isn't it
true that in all
matters touching upon
alcohol, each of them has
decided to
turn his or her
life over to the
care,
protection, and
guidance of
Alcoholics
Anonymous?
124.
... life over
to the Higher Power?
12&12 p.39,
Step Three
So how,
exactly, can the
willing person continue to
turn his will and
his
life over to the
Higher
Power?
125.
... life preservers,
they almost invariably got well.
12&12 p.22,
Step One
But a few did, and when these
laid hold of
A.A. principles with all the
fervor with which the
drowning seize life preservers, they almost
invariably got well.
126.
... life rather
than give?
BB p.122,
The Family Afterward
Is he not
unconsciously trying to see what he can take from the
family life rather than
give?
127.
... life's responsibilities
with his own resources, never ...
12&12 p.43,
Step Four
128.
... life rigidly
by this kind of prayer, ...
12&12 p.103,
Step Eleven
129.
... life run
on self-will can hardly be ...
BB p.60,
How It Works
The
first requirement
is that we be
convinced that any
life run on
self-will can
hardly be a
success.
130.
... life seem
so worth while to us ...
BB p.124,
The Family Afterward
Showing others who
suffer
how we were
given help is the
very thing which makes
life seem so
worth while to us now.
131.
... life seems
the only normal one.
BB xxviii(xxvi),
The Doctor's Opinion
To them, their
alcoholic life seems the only
normal one.
132.
... life so
as to shield him from ...
BB p.120,
To Wives
We
never,
never try to
arrange a
man's
life so as to
shield him from
temptation.
133.
... life so
he will be shielded from ...
BB p.147,
To Employers
He will
appreciate knowing you are not
bothering your
head about
him, that you are not
suspicious nor are you
trying to
run his
life so he will be
shielded from
temptation to
drink.
134.
... life story.
BB p.73,
Into Action
But they had not
learned enough of
humility,
fearlessness and
honesty, in the
sense we find
it
necessary, until they told someone else all
their
life story.
135.
... life successfully,
as we became conscious of ...
BB p.63,
How It Works
136.
... life such
obedience brings.
12&12 p.174,
Tradition Nine
So we of
A.A. do
obey spiritual principles,
first because we
must, and
ultimately because we
love
the
kind of
life such
obedience brings.
137.
... life's terms,
I cannot be happy.
BB p.417(449),
Acceptance
Until I could
accept my
alcoholism, I could not
stay sober;
unless I
accept life completely on
life's
terms, I cannot be
happy.
138.
... life that
he talks or thinks of ...
BB p.126,
The Family Afterward
He may either
plunge into a
frantic attempt to get on
his
feet in
business, or
he may be so
enthralled by his new
life that he
talks or
thinks of
little else.
139.
... life that
is incredibly more wonderful as ...
BB p.8,
Bill's Story
I was to
know happiness,
peace, and
usefulness,
in a way of
life that is
incredibly more
wonderful as
time passes.
140.
... life, that
our Creator expects us fully ...
12&12 p.65,
Step Six
141.
... life, that
she doesn't know what it's ...
BB p.128,
The Family Afterward
He may tell
mother, who has been
religious all her
life, that
she doesn't
know what it's all about, and that she
had
better get his
brand of
spirituality while there is
yet time.
142.
... life; that
such a change could hardly ...
BB p.567(569),
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience
He finally
realizes that he has
undergone a
profound alteration in his
reaction to
life; that such a
change could
hardly have
been brought about by himself alone.
143.
... life; that
unless he is now willing ...
12&12 p.50,
Step Four
By now the
newcomer has
probably arrived at the
following conclusions: that his
character defects,
representing instincts gone astray, have been the
primary cause of his
drinking and his
failure
at
life; that
unless he is
now
willing to
work hard at the
elimination of
the
worst of these
defects, both
sobriety and
peace of
mind will still
elude him; that all the
faulty
foundation of his
life
will have to be
torn out and
built anew on
bedrock.
144.
... life, that
we were in full flight ...
BB xxvi(xxiv),
The Doctor's Opinion
It did not
satisfy us to be told that we could not
control our
drinking
just because we were
maladjusted to
life, that we were in
full flight from
reality, or were
outright mental defectives.
145.
... life their
road will be smoother.
BB p.114,
To Wives
If such
women adopt a
spiritual way of
life their
road will be
smoother.
146.
... life, though
your husband continues to drink.
BB p.111,
To Wives
It is
possible to have a
full and
useful life, though your
husband continues to
drink.
147.
... life through
drinking and we certainly do ...
BB p.38,
More About Alcoholism
We have not
lost everything in
life through
drinking and we
certainly do not
intend
to.
148.
... life through
work and self-sacrifice for others, ...
BB p.15,
Bill's Story
149.
... life to
conditions as they are?
12&12 p.52,
Step Four
If I am
unable to
change
the
present state of
affairs, am I
willing to
take the
measures necessary to
shape my
life to
conditions as they
are?
150.
... life to
find one much better.
BB p.120,
To Wives
You will
lose the
old life to find one much
better.
151.
... life to
his employer and business associates.
12&12 p.186,
Tradition Twelve
152.
... life to
suit ourselves.
BB p.88,
Into Action
We do not
tire so
easily,
for we are not
burning up
energy foolishly as we did
when we were
trying to
arrange life to
suit ourselves.
153.
... life to
the care and direction of ...
BB p.158,
A Vision For You
On the
third day the
lawyer gave his
life to the
care and
direction of his
Creator,
and said he was
perfectly willing to do anything
necessary.
154.
... life, toward
our fellows and toward God's ...
BB p.25,
There Is A Solution
155.
... life --
unacceptable to me, and I can ...
BB p.417(449),
Acceptance
When I am
disturbed, it is because I find some
person, place, thing or
situation -- some
fact of my
life --
unacceptable
to me, and I can find no
serenity until I
accept that
person, place,
thing or
situation as being
exactly the way it is
supposed to be at this
moment.
156.
... life until
self-searching becomes a regular habit, ...
12&12 p.88,
Step Ten
For the
wise have always
known that no one can make much of his
life until
self-
searching becomes a
regular habit, until he is
able to
admit and
accept
what he
finds, and until he
patiently and
persistently tries to
correct what is
wrong.
157.
... life, usually
for the first time in ...
12&12 p.96,
Step Eleven
158.
... life was
becoming impossible, and if we ...
BB p.25,
There Is A Solution
We were in a
position where
life was
becoming impossible, and if we had
passed into the
region from
which there is no
return through
human aid, we had but
two alternatives: One was
to go on to the
bitter end,
blotting out the
consciousness of our
intolerable situation
as
best we could; and the other, to
accept spiritual help.
159.
... life was
by no means a bad ...
BB p.43,
More About Alcoholism
My
old manner of
life was by no
means a
bad one, but I would not
exchange its best moments for the
worst I have now.
160.
... life was
not easy for the two ...
BB p.156,
A Vision For You
But
life was not
easy for the
two friends.
161.
... life, we
are no longer deeply disturbed ...
12&12 p.105,
Step Eleven
The
moment we
catch even a
glimpse of
God's will, the
moment we
begin to see
truth,
justice, and
love as the
real and
eternal things in
life, we are
no
longer deeply disturbed by all the
seeming evidence to the
contrary that
surrounds
us in
purely human affairs.
162.
... life we
try to build.
12&12 p.49,
Step Four
These
fears are the
termites that
ceaselessly devour the
foundations of whatever
sort of
life we
try to
build.
163.
... life were
sufficient to overcome alcoholism, many ...
BB p.44,
We Agnostics
164.
... life where
I shall be stupid, boring ...
BB p.152,
A Vision For You
But am I to be
consigned to a
life where I shall be
stupid,
boring and
glum, like some
righteous people I see?
165.
... life where
this same principle is involved.
12&12 p.86,
Step Nine
Many a
razor-
edged question can
arise in other
departments of
life
where this same
principle is
involved.
166.
... life which
brought us to this apparently ...
12&12 p.132,
Tradition Two
What are these
facts of
A.A.
life which brought us to this
apparently impractical principle?
167.
... life which
does not include his family ...
BB p.129,
The Family Afterward
He will
perceive that his
spiritual growth is
lopsided, that for an
average man like himself, a
spiritual life which does
not
include his
family obligations may not be so
perfect after all.
168.
... life which
includes deep resentment leads only ...
BB p.66,
How It Works
169.
... life which
knows no alcohol, he may ...
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.
170.
... life which
we could never face up ...
12&12 p.113,
Step Twelve
These were
problems of
life which we could
never face up to.
171.
... life which
we specified, as a greedy ...
12&12 p.31,
Step Two
Sometimes it's because
God has not
delivered us the
good things
of
life which we
specified, as a
greedy child makes an
impossible
list for
Santa Claus.
172.
... life will
be placed on a much ...
BB p.86,
Into Action
173.
... life will
change.
BB p.84,
Into Action
Our
whole attitude and
outlook upon
life will
change.
174.
... life will
emerge when they are overcome.
BB p.117,
To Wives
A
better way of
life will
emerge when they are
overcome.
175.
... life will
have to be torn out ...
12&12 p.50,
Step Four
By now the
newcomer has
probably arrived at the
following conclusions: that his
character defects,
representing instincts gone astray, have been the
primary cause of his
drinking and his
failure
at
life; that
unless he is
now
willing to
work hard at the
elimination of
the
worst of these
defects, both
sobriety and
peace of
mind will still
elude him; that all the
faulty
foundation of his
life
will have to be
torn out and
built anew on
bedrock.
176.
Life will
mean something at last.
BB p.152,
A Vision For You
Life will
mean something at
last.
177.
Life will
take on new meaning.
BB p.89,
Working With Others
Life will take on new
meaning.
178.
... life with
everyone?
12&12 p.156,
Tradition Six
So why shouldn't we
