From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... 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
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
7.
... listen to
a paid twelfth-stepper.
12&12 p.166,
Tradition Eight
8.
... listen to
their stories.
12&12 p.185,
Tradition Twelve
Alcoholics barely dry rushed about bright-eyed, buttonholing anyone who
would listen to their stories.
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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