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Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... living.
12&12 p.36,
Step Three
Let's
examine for a
moment this
idea of
dependence at the
level of
everyday living.
2.
... living.
12&12 p.71,
Step Seven
3.
... living.
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
4.
... living.
12&12 p.95,
Step Ten
5.
... living.
12&12 p.114,
Step Twelve
Only by this
means can we
improve our
chances for
really
happy and
useful
living.
6.
... living.
BB p.124,
The Family Afterward
We
think that such a
view is
self-
centered and in
direct conflict with the
new way of
living.
7.
... living alone
with our conflicts, and in ...
12&12 p.108,
Step Twelve
We
knew we would have to
quit
the
deadly business of
living alone with our
conflicts, and in
honesty
confide these to
God and
another
human being.
8.
... living and
thinking.
BB p.50,
We Agnostics
They
flatly declare that
since they have
come to
believe in a
Power greater than themselves, to take a
certain attitude toward that
Power, and to do
certain simple things,
there has been a
revolutionary change in their way of
living
and
thinking.
9.
... living and
thinking.
BB p.134,
The Family Afterward
This may
hang on for
months,
long after their
mother has
accepted dad's new way of
living and
thinking.
10.
... living, and
we keenly realized that we ...
12&12 p.108,
Step Twelve
By this
time, at
Step Ten, we had
begun to get a
basis for
daily living, and we
keenly realized that we would
need
to
continue taking personal inventory, and
that when we were in the
wrong we ought to
admit it
promptly.
11.
... living as
eagerly as we do the ...
12&12 p.111,
Step Twelve
Can we
love the
whole pattern of
living as
eagerly as we do the
small segment of it we
discover
when we
try to
help other
alcoholics achieve sobriety?
12.
... living as
we cleaned up the past.
BB p.84,
Into Action
We
vigorously commenced this way of
living
as we
cleaned up the
past.
13.
... living by
faith and little else.
BB p.54,
We Agnostics
In one
form or another we had been
living by
faith and
little else.
14.
... living by
ourselves with those tormenting ghosts ...
12&12 p.55,
Step Five
If we have
swept the
searchlight of
Step Four back and
forth over our
careers, and it has
revealed in
stark relief those
experiences
we'd rather not
remember, if we have
come to
know how
wrong thinking and
action have
hurt us and others,
then the
need to
quit living by ourselves with those
tormenting ghosts of
yesterday gets more
urgent
than ever.
15.
... Living Church,
observes editorially: "The basis of ...
BB p.572(574),
Appendix V, The Religious View on A.A.
16.
... living Creator
with whom we may form ...
BB p.28,
There Is A Solution
If what we have
learned and
felt and seen
means anything at
all, it
means that all of us, whatever our
race,
creed, or
color are the
children of a
living Creator with whom we
may
form a
relationship upon
simple and
understandable terms
as soon as we are
willing and
honest enough to
try.
17.
... living death.
BB p.150,
To Employers
They have a new
attitude, and they have been
saved from a
living death.
18.
... living example
of my friend there remained ...
BB p.12,
Bill's Story
19.
... living for
many, alcoholic or not.
12&12 p.16,
Foreword
They see in them a way to
happy and
effective living for many,
alcoholic or not.
20.
... living for
which no amount of pomp ...
12&12 p.124,
Step Twelve
Service,
gladly rendered,
obligations
squarely met,
troubles well
accepted or
solved with
God's
help, the
knowledge that at
home or in the
world outside we are
partners in
a
common effort, the
well-
understood fact
that in
God's
sight all
human beings are
important, the
proof that
love freely given surely brings a
full return, the
certainty that we are no
longer isolated and alone
in
self-
constructed prisons, the
surety that we
need no
longer be
square pegs in
round holes but can
fit and
belong in
God's
scheme of things -- these
are the
permanent and
legitimate satisfactions of
right
living for which no
amount
of
pomp and
circumstance, no
heap of
material possessions, could
possibly be
substitutes.
21.
... living has
its advantages for all.
BB xiii,
Foreword to First Edition
And besides, we are
sure that our way of
living has
its advantages for all.
22.
... living, he
should proceed to put those ...
BB p.98,
Working With Others
When your
prospect has made such
reparation as he can to his
family, and has
thoroughly explained
to them the new
principles by which he is
living, he should
proceed to
put those
principles into
action at
home.
23.
... living in
a large community.
BB p.163,
A Vision For You
We
know of an
A.A. member who was
living in a
large community.
24.
... living in
our accustomed style.
BB p.4,
Bill's Story
By the
following spring
we were
living in our
accustomed style.
25.
... living in
that strange world of alcoholism ...
BB p.108,
To Wives
Perhaps your
husband has been
living in that
strange world of
alcoholism where
everything is
distorted and
exaggerated.
26.
... living in
trying to do something about ...
12&12 p.112,
Step Twelve
Can we find a new
joy of
living
in
trying to do something about all these things?
27.
... living infinitely
more satisfying and, I hope, ...
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.
28.
... living is
a most powerful health restorative.
BB p.133,
The Family Afterward
29.
... living is
not a one-way street.
BB p.81,
Into Action
Our
design for
living is not
a one-way
street.
30.
... living is
still out of reach.
12&12 p.43,
Step Four
Without a
searching and
fearless moral inventory, most of us have
found that the
faith which
really
works in
daily living is still out of
reach.
31.
... living is
the theme of A.A.'s Twelfth ...
12&12 p.106,
Step Twelve
The
joy of
living is the
theme of
A.A.'s
Twelfth Step, and
action is
its key word.
32.
... living is
the theme of A.A.'s Twelfth ...
12&12 p.125,
Step Twelve
Understanding is the
key to
right principles and
attitudes, and
right action is the
key to
good living; therefore the
joy of
good living is the
theme of
A.A.'s
Twelfth Step.
33.
... living is
"Yes, all of these things ...
12&12 p.112,
Step Twelve
The
A.A. answer to these
questions about
living is
"Yes, all of these things are
possible."
34.
... 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.
35.
Living modestly,
my wife and I saved ...
BB p.2,
Bill's Story
Living modestly, my
wife and I
saved $
1,000.
36.
... living, one
might say, to drink.
BB xxxi(xxix),
The Doctor's Opinion
He had
lost everything
worthwhile in
life and
was only
living, one might say, to
drink.
37.
... living, rather
than something unusual or set ...
12&12 p.90,
Step Ten
And at
length our
inventories become a
regular part of
everyday living, rather than
something
unusual or
set apart.
38.
... living than
he has.
12&12 p.118,
Step Twelve
She
naturally feels that
for
years she has made a far
better job of
living than he has.
39.
... living" that
really works.
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.
40.
... living that
works in rough going.
BB p.15,
Bill's Story
It is a
design for
living
that
works in
rough going.
41.
... living, then
the result had been equally ...
12&12 p.115,
Step Twelve
When we had
taken the
opposite tack and had
insisted, like
infants
ourselves, that people
protect and take
care of us or that the
world owed us a
living, then the
result had been
equally unfortunate.
42.
... living; therefore
the joy of good living ...
12&12 p.125,
Step Twelve
Understanding is the
key to
right principles and
attitudes, and
right action is the
key to
good living; therefore the
joy of
good living is the
theme of
A.A.'s
Twelfth Step.
43.
... living, thus
relieving much worry and suffering.
BB p.159,
A Vision For You
They
experienced a few
distressing failures,
but in those
cases they made an
effort to bring the
man's
family into a
spiritual
way of
living, thus
relieving much
worry and
suffering.
44.
... living to
practical use, day by day, ...
12&12 p.88,
Step Ten
But when we
approach Step
Ten we
commence to
put our
A.A. way of
living to
practical use,
day by
day, in
fair weather or
foul.
45.
... living together
has come, it will be ...
BB p.99,
Working With Others
When the
time for
living together has
come, it will be
apparent to both
parties.
46.
... living too
much alone, for drinking many ...
BB p.119,
To Wives
It is
probably true that
you and your
husband have been
living too much alone, for
drinking many
times isolates the
wife of an
alcoholic.
47.
... living until
he first backtracks and really ...
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.
48.
Living upon
a basis of unsatisfied demands, ...
12&12 p.76,
Step Seven
49.
... living was
so unsatisfactory.
BB p.51,
We Agnostics
50.
... living, we
had a feeling of uselessness, ...
BB p.52,
We Agnostics
We were having
trouble with
personal relationships, we couldn't
control our
emotional natures, we were a
prey to
misery and
depression, we
couldn't make a
living, we had a
feeling of
uselessness,
we were
full of
fear, we were
unhappy, we couldn't
seem
to be of
real help to other
people -- was not a
basic solution of these
bedevilments more
important than whether we should see
newsreels of
lunar flight?
51.
... living we
really have, even under pressure ...
BB p.15,
Bill's Story
The
joy of
living we really
have, even under
pressure and
difficulty.
52.
... living were
learned, new resources of courage ...
12&12 p.105,
Step Eleven
He will also
report that out of every
season of
grief or
suffering, when the
hand of
God seemed heavy or even
unjust, new
lessons for
living were
learned, new
resources of
courage were
uncovered, and that finally,
inescapably, the
conviction came that
God does "
move in a
mysterious way His
wonders to
perform."
53.
... living which
answered all my problems.
BB p.13,
Bill's Story
My
friend promised when
these things were done I would
enter upon a new
relationship with my
Creator; that I would have the
elements of a way of
living
which
answered all my
problems.
54.
... living which
demands rigorous honesty.
BB p.58,
How It Works
55.
... living with
an alcoholic is almost sure ...
BB p.122,
The Family Afterward
A
doctor said to us, "
Years
of
living with an
alcoholic is almost
sure to
make any
wife or
child neurotic.
56.
... living with
us as practicing alcoholics difficult ...
12&12 p.81,
Step Eight
Such a
roster of
harms done
others -- the
kind that make
daily living with us as
practicing alcoholics
difficult and often
unbearable -- could be
extended almost
indefinitely.
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