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Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... little.
BB p.21,
There Is A Solution
2.
... little.
BB p.102,
Working With Others
While you were
drinking, you were
withdrawing from
life
little by
little.
3.
... little.
BB p.128,
The Family Afterward
Little by
little,
mother and
children will
see they
ask too much, and
father will see he
gives too
little.
4.
... little.
BB p.164,
A Vision For You
We
realize we
know only a
little.
5.
... little.
BB p.569(571),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
If we do not do so, we shall
stand convicted of
emotional
sterility and of having
lost the
faith that
moves mountains, without
which
medicine can do
little.
6.
... little.
BB xxvi(xxiv),
The Doctor's Opinion
As
laymen, our
opinion as
to
its soundness may, of
course,
mean little.
7.
... little at
a time.
12&12 p.93,
Step Ten
The
idea that we can be
possessively loving of
a few, can
ignore the many, and can
continue to
fear or
hate anybody, has to be
abandoned, if only a
little
at a
time.
8.
... little by
little.
BB p.102,
Working With Others
While you were
drinking, you were
withdrawing from
life
little by
little.
9.
... little by
little I became interested in ...
BB p.2,
Bill's Story
My
work took me about
Wall Street and
little by
little I
became interested in the
market.
10.
Little by
little, mother and children will ...
BB p.127,
The Family Afterward
Little by
little,
mother and
children will
see they
ask too much, and
father will see he
gives too
little.
11.
Little by
little the family may see ...
BB p.99,
Working With Others
Little by
little the
family may see their
own defects and
admit them.
12.
... little can
be done for him.
BB p.22,
There Is A Solution
We are not
sure why, once a
certain point is
reached,
little can be done
for him.
13.
... little card
about golf-score size.
12&12 p.149,
Tradition Four
It all went on a
little card
about
golf-
score size.
14.
... little chance
he can recover by himself.
BB p.92,
Working With Others
But
insist that if he is
severely afflicted,
there may be
little chance
he can
recover by himself.
15.
... little charity,
in the ordinary sense of ...
BB p.98,
Working With Others
For the
type of
alcoholic
who is able and
willing to get well,
little charity, in the
ordinary sense of the
word, is
needed or
wanted.
16.
... little children;
let the solving of these ...
BB xxviii(xxvi),
The Doctor's Opinion
If any
feel that as
psychiatrists directing a
hospital for
alcoholics we
appear
somewhat
sentimental, let them
stand with us a while on the
firing line, see the
tragedies, the
despairing wives, the
little children; let the
solving of these
problems become a
part of their
daily work, and even of their
sleeping moments, and the
most
cynical will not
wonder that we have
accepted and
encouraged
this
movement.
17.
Little clusters
of twos and threes and ...
BB p.162,
A Vision For You
Little clusters of
twos and
threes and
fives of us have
sprung up in
other
communities, through
contact with our
two larger centers.
18.
... little company.
BB p.149,
To Employers
19.
... little complaint,
and often in good cheer.
12&12 p.114,
Step Twelve
We have seen
A.A.'s
suffer lingering and
fatal illness with
little complaint, and often in
good
cheer.
20.
... little control
over the amount you take, ...
BB p.44,
We Agnostics
If, when you
honestly want
to, you find you cannot
quit entirely, or if when
drinking, you have
little control over the
amount you
take, you are
probably alcoholic.
21.
... little cracked
about religion.
BB p.9,
Bill's Story
So that was it --
last summer an
alcoholic crackpot; now, I
suspected, a
little cracked about
religion.
22.
... little difference.
BB p.50,
We Agnostics
23.
... little doc
said.
12&12 p.151,
Tradition Five
'
Nothing too
promising,' the
little doc said.
24.
... little doubt
that a mighty purpose and ...
BB p.10,
Bill's Story
25.
... little doubt
that much good will result, ...
BB p.19,
There Is A Solution
If we
keep on the way we are
going there is
little doubt that much
good will
result, but the
surface of
the
problem would
hardly
be
scratched.
26.
... little else.
12&12 p.157,
Tradition Six
That made
good newspaper
copy, but
little else.
27.
... little else.
BB p.54,
We Agnostics
In one
form or another we had been
living by
faith and
little else.
28.
... little else.
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.
29.
... little financial
assistance.
BB p.96,
Working With Others
If he is, you might
try to
help
him about
getting a
job, or
give him a
little financial assistance.
30.
... little further.
12&12 p.66,
Step Six
Some who
feel they have done well may
dispute this, so let's
try to
think it through a
little further.
31.
... little gathering
of men and women, happy ...
BB p.159,
A Vision For You
Seeing much of each other,
scarce an
evening passed that
someone's
home did not
shelter a
little gathering of
men and
women,
happy in their
release, and
constantly
thinking how they might
present their
discovery
to some
newcomer.
32.
... little good
can come to any alcoholic ...
12&12 p.21,
Step One
33.
... little good
if you point that out ...
BB p.119,
To Wives
It will do
little good if you
point that out and
urge more
attention for
yourself.
34.
... little headway
in this new adventure of ...
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.
35.
... little hope
of his recovery.
BB xxix(xxvii),
The Doctor's Opinion
This is
repeated over and over, and
unless this
person can
experience an
entire psychic change there is very
little hope of his
recovery.
36.
... little I
became interested in the market.
BB p.2,
Bill's Story
My
work took me about
Wall Street and
little by
little I
became interested in the
market.
37.
... little idea
how prevalent this problem is.
BB p.149,
To Employers
38.
... little impression
upon the problem as a ...
BB xxix(xxvii),
The Doctor's Opinion
39.
... little in
glory.
12&12 p.133,
Tradition Two
Being on the
human side, the
founder and his
friends
may
bask a
little in
glory.
40.
... little jokes
about an alcoholic's drinking exploits.
BB p.145,
To Employers
41.
... little money.
BB p.7,
Bill's Story
I went to
town regularly
and even made a
little money.
42.
... little money,
but we once worked on ...
BB p.3,
Bill's Story
I had had some
success at
speculation, so we had a
little money, but we once
worked on a
farm for a
month to
avoid drawing on our
small capital.
43.
... little more
closely.
BB p.53,
We Agnostics
That was
natural, but let us
think a
little more
closely.
44.
... little more
discretion than we did with ...
12&12 p.84,
Step Nine
But even in these
cases, we may
need to use a
little more
discretion than we did with the
family.
45.
... little, mother
and children will see they ...
BB p.127,
The Family Afterward
Little by
little,
mother and
children will
see they
ask too much, and
father will see he
gives too
little.
46.
... little mottoes
which are apropos.
BB p.135,
The Family Afterward
We have
three little mottoes which are
apropos.
47.
... little need
to criticize each other.
BB p.118,
To Wives
If you both
show a
willingness to
remedy
your
own defects, there will
be
little need to
criticize each other.
48.
... little New
York office which meanwhile had ...
BB xviii,
Foreword to Second Edition
This brought a
rush of
800 frantic inquiries into
the
little New
York office which
meanwhile had
been
established.
49.
... little now
and then, began to evaporate.
12&12 p.75,
Step Seven
The
notion that we would still
live our
own lives,
God helping a
little now and then,
began to
evaporate.
50.
... little of
where I went or what ...
BB p.41,
More About Alcoholism
I
know little of where I went
or what I said and did.
51.
... little or
not at all aware of ...
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.
52.
... little or
nothing can be accomplished.
BB p.18,
There Is A Solution
Until such an
understanding is
reached,
little or
nothing can be
accomplished.
53.
Little or
nothing, we saw at last.
BB p.54,
We Agnostics
Little or
nothing, we saw
at
last.
54.
... little or
nothing when drinking, and I ...
BB p.7,
Bill's Story
I could
eat little or
nothing when
drinking, and
I was
forty pounds under
weight.
55.
... little permanent
effect unless at once followed ...
BB p.64,
How It Works
Though our
decision was a
vital and
crucial step, it could have
little permanent effect unless at once
followed by
a
strenuous effort to
face, and to be
rid of, the
things in ourselves which had been
blocking us.
56.
... little plans
and designs.
BB p.63,
How It Works
Established on such a
footing we
became less and
less interested in ourselves, our
little plans and
designs.
57.
... little ruefully,
how much store we used ...
12&12 p.100,
Step Eleven
When such
thoughts break
in, we might
recall, a
little ruefully, how much
store we used to
set by
imagination as it
tried
to
create reality out of
bottles.
58.
... little serious
or effective thought during the ...
BB p.37,
More About Alcoholism
We now see that when we
began to
drink deliberately,
instead of
casually, there was
little serious or
effective thought during
the
period of
premeditation of what the
terrific consequences
might be.
59.
... little sobriety
or contentment for us.
12&12 p.43,
Step Four
Without a
willing and
persistent effort to do
this, there can be
little sobriety or
contentment for us.
60.
... little studies
of A.A.'s Twelve Steps now ...
12&12 p.125,
Step Twelve
These
little studies of
A.A.'s
Twelve Steps now
come to a
close.
61.
... little superior
to the next fellow, or ...
12&12 p.66,
Step Six
Who, for
example, doesn't like to
feel just a
little superior to the
next fellow, or even quite a
lot superior?
62.
... little the
family may see their own ...
BB p.99,
Working With Others
Little by
little the
family may see their
own defects and
admit them.
63.
... little time
to consider it, my own ...
12&12 p.137,
Tradition Two
"Although I
asked Charlie
for a
little time to
consider it, my
own mind was about made up.
64.
... little to
laugh about that I can ...
BB p.157,
A Vision For You
Said the
future Fellow Anonymous: "
Damn little to
laugh about that I can
see."
65.
... little trouble
in giving up liquor entirely ...
BB p.20,
There Is A Solution
66.
... little use
if our attitude is one ...
BB p.103,
Working With Others
Some
day we
hope that
Alcoholics Anonymous
will
help the
public to a
better realization of
the
gravity of the
alcoholic problem, but we
shall be of
little use if our
attitude is one of
bitterness or
hostility.
67.
... little use
to argue and only makes ...
BB p.126,
The Family Afterward
It is of
little use to
argue
and only makes the
impasse worse.
68.
... little vicarious
pleasure from the atmosphere of ...
BB p.101,
Working With Others
69.
... little whether
it was repaid or not?
12&12 p.51,
Step Four
Did I
recklessly borrow money,
caring little whether it was
repaid or not?
70.
... little whether
our resentments were justified or ...
12&12 p.90,
Step Ten
It
mattered little whether
our
resentments were
justified or not.
71.
... little whether
we had sat on the ...
12&12 p.123,
Step Twelve
72.
... little while
hoping, always hoping.
BB p.105,
To Wives
Our
friends have
counseled chucking the
men and we have done so with
finality, only to be back in a
little while
hoping, always
hoping.
73.
... little work.
BB p.15,
Bill's Story
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