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Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... material."
12&12 p.161,
Tradition Seven
We shall have to
separate the
spiritual from the
material."
2.
... material?
BB p.51,
We Agnostics
We
asked ourselves this: Are not some of us just as
biased and
unreasonable about the
realm of the
spirit as were
the
ancients about the
realm of the
material?
3.
... material achievement.
12&12 p.71,
Step Seven
4.
... material and
emotional security, and for an ...
12&12 p.42,
Step Four
Our
desires for
sex, for
material and
emotional security, and for an
important place in
society often
tyrannize
us.
5.
... material and
emotional security, and for companionship ...
12&12 p.42,
Step Four
6.
... material and
emotional security as well as ...
12&12 p.43,
Step Four
In such a
case, this
imperious urge can
destroy his
chances for
material and
emotional security as well as his
standing in the
community.
7.
... material blessings
that many have come to ...
12&12 p.70,
Step Seven
8.
... material condition
was, but it did matter ...
12&12 p.122,
Step Twelve
It did not
matter too much what our
material condition was, but it
did
matter what our
spiritual condition
was.
9.
... material desires
as the means by which ...
12&12 p.71,
Step Seven
Instead of
regarding the
satisfaction of our
material desires as the
means by which we could
live and
function as
human beings, we had
taken these
satisfactions to be the
final end and
aim of
life.
10.
... material from
the spiritual.
12&12 p.190,
Tradition Six (Long)
We
think, therefore, that any
considerable property
of
genuine use to
A.A. should
be
separately incorporated and
managed, thus
dividing the
material from the
spiritual.
11.
... material from
the spiritual.
BB p.564(566),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
We
think, therefore, that any
considerable property
of
genuine use to
A.A. should
be
separately incorporated and
managed, thus
dividing the
material from the
spiritual.
12.
... material, men's
minds were fettered by superstition, ...
BB p.51,
We Agnostics
13.
... material needs
are cared for.
BB p.98,
Working With Others
He
clamors for this or that,
claiming he cannot
master
alcohol until his
material
needs are
cared for.
14.
... material possessions,
could possibly be substitutes.
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.
15.
... material progress
in the last century than ...
BB p.51,
We Agnostics
This
world of ours has made more
material progress in the
last century than in all the
millenniums which went before.
16.
... material progress
was painfully slow.
BB p.51,
We Agnostics
17.
... material prospects
were.
12&12 p.121,
Step Twelve
But as
time passed we
found that with the
help of
A.A.'s
Twelve Steps we could
lose those
fears, no
matter what our
material prospects were.
18.
... material satisfactions
were not the purpose of ...
12&12 p.71,
Step Seven
19.
... material security.
12&12 p.121,
Step Twelve
20.
... material success.
12&12 p.91,
Step Ten
We
must be quite as
careful
when we
begin to
achieve
some
measure of
importance and
material success.
21.
... material success
founded upon no more than ...
12&12 p.29,
Step Two
"As
material success founded upon no more than these
ordinary attributes began to
come to us, we
felt we were
winning at the
game of
life.
22.
... material things
was concerned, our outlook underwent ...
12&12 p.120,
Step Twelve
23.
... material well-being
always followed spiritual progress; it ...
BB p.127,
The Family Afterward
For us,
material well-being always
followed spiritual progress; it
never preceded.
24.
... material world.
BB p.49,
We Agnostics
25.
... material world
and life as we see ...
BB p.49,
We Agnostics
When, however, the
perfectly logical assumption is
suggested that
underneath the
material world and
life as we see it,
there is an All
Powerful,
Guiding,
Creative Intelligence,
right
there our
perverse streak comes to the
surface and we
laboriously set out to
convince ourselves it isn't so.
26.
... material world,
that outward appearances are not ...
BB p.48,
We Agnostics
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