From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... listen.
12&12 p.27,
Step Two
If you don't
care for the one I've
suggested, you'll be
sure to
discover one that
suits
if only you
look and
listen.
2.
... listen as
the dying can be.
12&12 p.24,
Step One
Then, and only then, do we
become as
open-
minded to
conviction and as
willing to
listen as the
dying can be.
3.
... listen; his
fearlessness as he spoke of ...
BB p.10,
Bill's Story
I could almost
hear the
sound
of the
preacher's
voice
as I
sat, on still
Sundays,
way over there on the
hillside; there was that
proffered temperance
pledge I
never signed; my
grandfather's
good natured contempt of some
church folk and their doings; his
insistence that the
spheres really had their
music; but his
denial of the
preacher's
right to tell
him how he
must listen; his
fearlessness as he
spoke
of these things just before he
died; these
recollections welled
up from the
past.
4.
Listen, if
you will, to these three ...
12&12 p.26,
Step Two
Listen, if you will, to these
three statements.
5.
... listen, not
only to receive something ourselves, ...
12&12 p.110,
Step Twelve
We
sit in
A.A. meetings and
listen, not only
to
receive something ourselves, but to
give the
reassurance and
support which our
presence can bring.
6.
... listen politely
to those who would advise ...
12&12 p.37,
Step Three
We'll
listen politely to
those who would
advise us, but all the
decisions are to be ours alone.
7.
... listen to
a paid twelfth-stepper.
12&12 p.166,
Tradition Eight
8.
... listen to
their stories.
12&12 p.185,
Tradition Twelve
9.
... listen while
I tried to show him ...
12&12 p.153,
Tradition Five
But as he
calmed down, he
began to
listen while I
tried to
show him that
humility was the
main key to
sobriety.
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