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Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... lives.
12&12 p.34,
Step Three
Like all the
remaining Steps,
Step Three calls for
affirmative action, for
it is only by
action that we can
cut away the
self-will which has
always
blocked the
entry
of
God -- or, if you like, a
Higher Power -- into our
lives.
2.
... lives.
12&12 p.34,
Step Three
We can have
faith,
yet keep God out of our
lives.
3.
... lives.
12&12 p.42,
Step Four
4.
... lives.
12&12 p.64,
Step Six
So in a very
complete and
literal way, all
A.A.'s have "
become entirely ready" to have
God remove the
mania for
alcohol from their
lives.
5.
... lives.
12&12 p.80,
Step Eight
We can go far
beyond those things which were
superficially wrong
with us, to see those
flaws which were
basic,
flaws which sometimes
were
responsible for the
whole pattern of our
lives.
6.
... lives.
12&12 p.114,
Step Twelve
We have
learned that the
satisfaction of
instincts cannot be the
sole
end and
aim of our
lives.
7.
... lives.
12&12 p.117,
Step Twelve
8.
... lives.
BB p.29,
There Is A Solution
These
give a
fair cross section of our
membership and a
clear-
cut idea of what has
actually happened in
their
lives.
9.
... lives.
BB p.60,
How It Works
(a) That we were
alcoholic and could not
manage our
own lives.
10.
... lives.
BB p.64,
How It Works
We did
exactly the same thing with our
lives.
11.
... lives.
BB p.65,
How It Works
We went back through our lives.
12.
... lives.
BB p.67,
How It Works
This
short word somehow
touches about every
aspect
of our
lives.
13.
... lives.
BB p.72,
Into Action
Time after
time newcomers have
tried to
keep to themselves
certain facts about their
lives.
14.
... lives.
BB p.89,
Working With Others
Frequent contact with
newcomers and with each other is the
bright spot of our
lives.
15.
... lives.
BB p.116,
To Wives
Now we
try to
put spiritual principles
to
work in every
department of our
lives.
16.
... lives.
BB p.130,
The Family Afterward
17.
... lives.
BB xxviii(xxvi),
The Doctor's Opinion
In
nearly all
cases, their
ideals must be
grounded in a
power greater than themselves, if they are to
re-
create their
lives.
18.
... lives and grows.
12&12 p.15,
Foreword
They
outline the
means by
which
A.A. maintains its unity and
relates itself to the
world
about it, the way it
lives and
grows.
19.
... lives and guarantee us success in the ...
12&12 p.37,
Step Three
20.
... lives and homes were threatened, and that ...
12&12 p.140,
Tradition Three
We were
grim because we
felt
our
lives and
homes were
threatened, and that was no
laughing matter.
21.
... lives, and is a free man.
BB p.26,
There Is A Solution
But this
man still
lives, and
is a
free man.
22.
... lives and sanity.
12&12 p.151,
Tradition Five
For us, if we
neglect those who are still
sick, there is
unremitting
danger to our
own lives and
sanity.
23.
... lives, and strenuously trying to help the ...
12&12 p.96,
Step Eleven
24.
... lives, are facts as old as man ...
BB p.55,
We Agnostics
For
faith in a
Power greater than ourselves, and
miraculous demonstrations of that
power in
human lives, are
facts as
old as
man himself.
25.
... lives are unmanageable.
12&12 p.25,
Step Two
You have
convinced us that we are
alcoholics and that our
lives are
unmanageable.
26.
... lives, as ex-problem drinkers, depend upon our ...
BB p.20,
There Is A Solution
Our very
lives, as
ex-
problem drinkers,
depend upon our
constant thought of others and how we may
help meet their
needs.
27.
... lives as far as memory will reach, ...
12&12 p.81,
Step Eight
Then, as
year by
year we
walk back through our
lives as
far as
memory will
reach,
we shall be
bound to
construct a
long list of people who have, to some
extent or other, been
affected.
28.
... lives as though they were still children, ...
12&12 p.115,
Step Twelve
Where people had
temporarily let us
run their
lives as though they
were still
children, we had
felt very
happy and
secure ourselves.
29.
... lives came when we sought for humility ...
12&12 p.75,
Step Seven
A
great turning point in our
lives came when we
sought for
humility as something we really
wanted, rather than as something we
must have.
30.
... lives could have been saved, had it ...
BB p.103,
Working With Others
A
spirit of
intolerance might
repel
alcoholics whose
lives
could have been
saved, had it not been for such
stupidity.
31.
... lives for the worse.
12&12 p.80,
Step Eight
At the
time of these
occurrences, they may
actually have
given our
emotions violent twists which have since
discolored our
personalities and
altered our
lives for the
worse.
32.
... lives, God helping a little now and ...
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.
33.
... lives had become unmanageable."
12&12 p.21,
Step One
"We
admitted we were
powerless over
alcohol --
that our
lives had
become unmanageable."
34.
... lives had become unmanageable.
BB p.59,
How It Works
1. We
admitted we were
powerless over
alcohol --
that our
lives had
become unmanageable.
35.
... lives have become unmanageable, how could people ...
12&12 p.23,
Step One
Since
Step One
requires an
admission that our
lives
have
become unmanageable, how could people such as these
take this
Step?
36.
... lives have been largely devoted to running ...
12&12 p.74,
Step Seven
Until now, our
lives have been
largely devoted to
running from
pain and
problems.
37.
... lives in a way which is indeed ...
BB p.25,
There Is A Solution
The
central fact of our
lives today is the
absolute certainty that
our
Creator has
entered
into our
hearts and
lives in
a way which is
indeed miraculous.
38.
... lives in order.
BB p.77,
Into Action
At the
moment we are
trying to
put our
lives in
order.
39.
... lives in the first place, then He ...
12&12 p.59,
Step Five
If the
Creator gave us our
lives in the
first place,
then He
must know in every
detail where we have since
gone
wrong.
40.
... lives may be built.
12&12 p.21,
Step One
41.
... lives, may every one of us sense ...
12&12 p.125,
Step Twelve
With each
passing day of our
lives, may every one of us
sense more
deeply the
inner meaning of
A.A.'s
simple prayer:
42.
... lives of a vastly greater variety of ...
BB xxiii,
Foreword to Fourth Edition
43.
... lives of all spiritually centered and truly ...
12&12 p.56,
Step Five
It has been
validated in every
century, and it
characterizes the
lives
of all
spiritually centered and
truly religious people.
44.
... lives of all to come, depend squarely ...
12&12 p.129,
Tradition One
Our
lives, the
lives of all to
come,
depend squarely upon it.
45.
... lives of blameless children, sad wives and ...
BB p.18,
There Is A Solution
46.
... lives of others.
BB p.82,
Into Action
The
alcoholic is like a
tornado roaring his way
through the
lives of others.
47.
... lives of their families and communities.
BB p.15,
Bill's Story
I have seen
men come out of
asylums and
resume a
vital place in the
lives of
their
families and
communities.
48.
... lives of these men are suddenly cast ...
BB p.27,
There Is A Solution
Ideas,
emotions, and
attitudes which were once the
guiding forces of the
lives of these
men are
suddenly cast to one
side, and a
completely new
set of
conceptions and
motives begin to
dominate them.
49.
... lives of your children?
BB p.108,
To Wives
Is it
right to let him
ruin
your
life and the
lives of
your
children?
50.
... lives on a give-and-take basis; we would ...
12&12 p.116,
Step Twelve
It
became clear that if we
ever were to
feel emotionally secure among
grown-up people, we would have to
put our
lives on a
give-and-take
basis; we would
have to
develop the
sense
of being in
partnership or
brotherhood with all those around us.
51.
... lives over to a Higher Power.
12&12 p.38,
Step Three
So it is by
circumstance rather than by any
virtue that we have been
driven to
A.A., have
admitted defeat, have
acquired the
rudiments
of
faith, and now
want to
make a
decision to
turn
our will and our
lives over to a
Higher Power.
52.
... lives over to the care of God ...
12&12 p.34,
Step Three
"Made a
decision to
turn
our will and our
lives over to the
care of
God as we
understood Him."
53.
... lives over to the care of God ...
12&12 p.35,
Step Three
In
fact, the
effectiveness of the
whole A.A. program will
rest upon how
well and
earnestly we have
tried to
come to "a
decision to
turn our will and
our
lives over to the
care of
God as we
understood
Him."
54.
... lives over to the care of God ...
12&12 p.107,
Step Twelve
Consequently, in
Step
Three we
turned our will
and our
lives over to the
care
of
God as we
understood
Him.
55.
... lives over to the care of God ...
BB p.59,
How It Works
3. Made a
decision to
turn
our will and our
lives over to the
care of
God as we
understood Him.
56.
... lives, produced another bad result.
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
57.
... lives quickly fill with new purpose and ...
12&12 p.110,
Step Twelve
To
watch the
eyes of
men and
women open with
wonder as they
move from
darkness into
light, to see their
lives quickly fill with new
purpose and
meaning, to see
whole families reassembled, to see the
alcoholic outcast received back into his
community in
full citizenship, and above all to
watch these people
awaken to
the
presence of a
loving
God in their
lives -- these
things are the
substance of what we
receive as we
carry A.A.'s
message to the
next alcoholic.
58.
... lives should be lived from hour to ...
12&12 p.81,
Step Eight
What
happens when we
try to
dominate the
whole family, either by a
rule of
iron or by a
constant outpouring of
minute directions for just how their
lives should be
lived from
hour to
hour?
59.
... lives so that we and those about ...
12&12 p.106,
Step Twelve
Here we
begin to
practice
all
Twelve Steps of the
program in our
daily lives so that we and those about us may find
emotional sobriety.
60.
... lives stood among people who seemed to ...
12&12 p.57,
Step Five
When we
reached A.A., and for
the
first time in our
lives stood among people who
seemed to
understand, the
sense of
belonging was
tremendously exciting.
61.
... lives that we bring to our A.A. ...
12&12 p.112,
Step Twelve
Can we bring the same
spirit of
love and
tolerance into our
sometimes
deranged family lives that we bring to
our
A.A. group?
62.
... lives, the lives of all to come, ...
12&12 p.129,
Tradition One
Our
lives, the
lives of all to
come,
depend squarely upon it.
63.
... lives, then pride steps in to justify ...
12&12 p.49,
Step Four
64.
... lives -- these things are the substance of ...
12&12 p.110,
Step Twelve
To
watch the
eyes of
men and
women open with
wonder as they
move from
darkness into
light, to see their
lives quickly fill with new
purpose and
meaning, to see
whole families reassembled, to see the
alcoholic outcast received back into his
community in
full citizenship, and above all to
watch these people
awaken to
the
presence of a
loving
God in their
lives -- these
things are the
substance of what we
receive as we
carry A.A.'s
message to the
next alcoholic.
65.
... lives, they commit a most unnatural act.
12&12 p.64,
Step Six
When
men and
women pour so much
alcohol into
themselves that they
destroy their
lives, they
commit a most
unnatural act.
66.
... lives, they present a powerful reason why ...
BB p.51,
We Agnostics
When many
hundreds of people are able to say that
the
consciousness of the
Presence of
God is
today the most
important fact of their
lives, they
present a
powerful reason why one should have
faith.
67.
... lives to just about the extent that ...
12&12 p.104,
Step Eleven
We
discover that we do
receive guidance for our
lives to just about the
extent that we
stop making demands upon
God to
give it to us on
order and on our
terms.
68.
... lives today is the absolute certainty that ...
BB p.25,
There Is A Solution
The
central fact of our
lives today is the
absolute certainty that
our
Creator has
entered
into our
hearts and
lives in
a way which is
indeed miraculous.
69.
... lives touch the sufferer's.
BB p.18,
There Is A Solution
It
engulfs all whose
lives
touch the
sufferer's.
70.
... lives unaccountably transformed, they came to believe ...
12&12 p.28,
Step Two
71.
... lives, we began to see the desirability ...
BB p.116,
To Wives
As our
husbands began to
apply spiritual principles in their
lives,
we
began to see the
desirability of doing so too.
72.
... lives we had more or less fooled ...
12&12 p.59,
Step Five
If all our
lives we had more or
less fooled ourselves, how
could we now be so
sure that we weren't still
self-
deceived?
73.
... lives we happen to be miserly, irresponsible, ...
12&12 p.81,
Step Eight
74.
... lives we thought we led before the ...
12&12 p.45,
Step Four
No
doubt we shall
point with
pride to the
good lives we
thought we
led before the
bottle cut us down.
75.
... lives were constructed?
BB p.54,
We Agnostics
Were not these things the
tissue out of which our
lives were
constructed?
76.
... lives were we able to move closer ...
12&12 p.101,
Step Eleven
It ought to be
followed by a
good look at where we
stand now, and a
further look at what might
happen in
our
lives were we able to
move
closer to the
ideal we have
been
trying to
glimpse.
77.
... lives which were the direct result of ...
12&12 p.97,
Step Eleven
78.
... lives will be fuller for doing so.
BB p.120,
To Wives
Inevitably your
lives
will be
fuller for doing so.
79.
... lives with a woman alcoholic -- whether she ...
BB p.104,
To Wives (Note)
But many of the
suggestions given here may be
adapted to
help the
person who
lives with a
woman alcoholic -- whether she is still
drinking or is
recovering in
A.A.
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