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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
MEANING occurs
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1.
... meaning.
12&12 p.69,
Step Six
2.
... meaning.
12&12 p.74,
Step Seven
But when we have
taken a
square look at some of these
defects, have
discussed
them with another, and have
become willing to have them
removed, our
thinking
about
humility commences to have a
wider
meaning.
3.
... meaning.
12&12 p.75,
Step Seven
But now the
words "Of myself I am
nothing, the
Father doeth the
works"
began to
carry bright promise and
meaning.
4.
... meaning.
12&12 p.117,
Step Twelve
For those of us who were like that,
A.A. had a very
special meaning.
5.
... meaning.
12&12 p.139,
Tradition Three
This
Tradition is
packed with
meaning.
6.
... meaning.
BB p.89,
Working With Others
Life will take on new
meaning.
7.
... meaning nothing,
whirling on to a destiny ...
BB p.54,
We Agnostics
Could we still say the
whole thing was
nothing but a
mass of
electrons,
created out of
nothing,
meaning nothing,
whirling on to a
destiny of
nothingness?
8.
... meaning of
A.A.'s simple prayer:
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:
9.
... meaning of
each phrase and idea.
12&12 p.99,
Step Eleven
As
beginners in
meditation, we might now
reread this
prayer several
times very
slowly,
savoring every
word and
trying to take in the
deep
meaning of each
phrase and
idea.
10.
... meaning of
it is that he has ...
12&12 p.106,
Step Twelve
When a
man or a
woman has a
spiritual awakening,
the most
important meaning of it is that he has now
become able to do,
feel, and
believe that which he could not do before on his
unaided strength and
resources alone.
11.
... meaning of
"Love thy neighbor as thyself."
BB p.153,
A Vision For You
You will
learn the
full meaning of "
Love thy neighbor as
thyself."
12.
... meaning to
be helpful, his wife commenced ...
BB p.135,
The Family Afterward
Seeing this, and
meaning to be
helpful, his
wife commenced to
admonish
him about it.
13.
... meaning, to
see whole families reassembled, to ...
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.
14.
... meaning when
we think about them.
12&12 p.43,
Step Four
Simple examples like the
following take on a
world of
meaning when we
think about them.
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