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Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... lost.
12&12 p.147,
Tradition Four
The
A.A. group would have to
stick to
its course or be
hopelessly
lost.
2.
... lost.
BB p.13,
Bill's Story
I
admitted for the
first
time that of myself I was
nothing; that without Him I was
lost.
3.
... lost.
BB p.46,
We Agnostics
There was a
feeling of
awe
and
wonder, but it was
fleeting and soon
lost.
4.
... lost a
peace.
12&12 p.47,
Step Four
We had to
drink because our
nation had
won a
war or
lost a
peace.
5.
... lost all
and is locked up.
BB p.62,
How It Works
He is like the
retired business man who
lolls in the
Florida sunshine in the
winter complaining of the
sad state of the
nation; the
minister who
sighs over the
sins of the
twentieth century;
politicians
and
reformers who are
sure all would be
Utopia if the
rest of the
world would only
behave; the
outlaw safe cracker who
thinks society has
wronged him; and the
alcoholic who has
lost all
and is
locked up.
6.
... lost all
perspective, and therefore all genuine ...
12&12 p.45,
Step Four
Here, of
course, we have
lost all
perspective, and
therefore all
genuine humility.
7.
... lost and
frightened and purposeless.
12&12 p.105,
Step Eleven
8.
... lost anyhow.
BB p.80,
Into Action
He saw that he had to place the
outcome in
God's
hands or he would soon
start drinking again, and
all would be
lost anyhow.
9.
... lost both
home and business.
BB p.143,
To Employers
We all had to place
recovery above
everything, for without
recovery we would have
lost
both
home and
business.
10.
... lost control.
BB p.23,
There Is A Solution
11.
... lost everything
in life through drinking and ...
BB p.38,
More About Alcoholism
We have not
lost everything in
life through
drinking and we
certainly do not
intend
to.
12.
... lost everything
worthwhile in life and was ...
BB xxxi(xxix),
The Doctor's Opinion
He had
lost everything
worthwhile in
life and
was only
living, one might say, to
drink.
13.
... lost faith.
12&12 p.29,
Step Two
Finally, when all our
score cards read '
zero,' and we saw that one more
strike would
put us out of the
game forever, we had to
look for our
lost faith.
14.
... lost in
the dust of our chase ...
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
But
whenever we had to
choose between
character
and
comfort, the
character-
building was
lost in the
dust of our
chase after what we
thought
was
happiness.
15.
... lost it.
12&12 p.28,
Step Two
Consider next the
plight of those who once had
faith, but have
lost it.
16.
... lost it
as the result of a ...
BB p.4,
Bill's Story
I
found a
job; then
lost it as the
result of a
brawl with a
taxi driver.
17.
... lost money
-- but some became very rich.
BB p.2,
Bill's Story
Many people
lost money -- but
some
became very
rich.
18.
... lost money
in stocks through ignorance of ...
BB p.2,
Bill's Story
I had
developed a
theory that most people
lost money in
stocks through
ignorance of
markets.
19.
... Lost Nearly
All"), eight stories were retained; ...
BB xii,
Preface
In
Part III ("They
Lost Nearly All"),
eight stories were
retained;
five new
ones were
added.
20.
... lost nothing.
12&12 p.171,
Tradition Eight
Everybody gains, and we
have
lost nothing.
21.
... lost or
rejected faith than to those ...
12&12 p.28,
Step Two
Sometimes
A.A. comes harder to those who have
lost
or
rejected faith than to
those who
never had any
faith at all, for they
think
they have
tried faith and
found it
wanting.
22.
... lost out
because God deserted us.
12&12 p.31,
Step Two
More often, though, we had
met up with some
major calamity, and to our
way of
thinking lost out
because
God deserted us.
23.
... lost the
ability to control our drinking.
BB p.30,
More About Alcoholism
We
alcoholics are
men and
women who have
lost the
ability to
control our
drinking.
24.
... lost the
faith that moves mountains, without ...
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.
25.
... lost the
power of choice in drink.
BB p.24,
There Is A Solution
The
fact is that most
alcoholics, for
reasons
yet obscure, have
lost the
power of
choice in
drink.
26.
... lost the
power to choose whether he ...
BB p.34,
More About Alcoholism
Whether such a
person can
quit upon a
nonspiritual
basis depends upon the
extent to which he has already
lost the
power to
choose whether he will
drink
or not.
27.
... lost the
race by only a narrow ...
BB p.158,
A Vision For You
He
lost the
race by only a
narrow margin.
28.
... lost their
effectiveness in helping alcoholics.
12&12 p.178,
Tradition Ten
29.
... lost their
egoism and fear; they only ...
BB p.73,
Into Action
They only
thought they had
lost their
egoism and
fear; they only
thought they
had
humbled themselves.
30.
... lost their
legs; they never grow new ...
BB p.30,
More About Alcoholism
We are like
men who have
lost
their
legs; they
never grow new
ones.
31.
... lost their
self-confidence, their reliance upon things ...
BB xxviii(xxvi),
The Doctor's Opinion
These
allergic types can
never safely use
alcohol in any
form at all;
and once having
formed the
habit and
found they cannot
break it, once having
lost their
self-
confidence, their
reliance upon things
human, their
problems pile up on them and
become astonishingly difficult to
solve.
32.
... lost through
drinking.
BB p.35,
More About Alcoholism
His
family was
re-
assembled, and he
began to
work as a
salesman for the
business he had
lost
through
drinking.
33.
... lost time.
BB p.126,
The Family Afterward
He is
straining every
nerve to make up for
lost time.
34.
... lost to
the comfort of any conviction ...
12&12 p.28,
Step Two
He
thinks himself
lost to
the
comfort of any
conviction at all.
35.
... lost to
this world because I did ...
BB p.137,
To Employers
Here were
three exceptional men lost to this
world because I did
not
understand alcoholism as I do now.
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