From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... 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
5.
... meaning.
12&12 p.139,
Tradition Three
6.
... meaning.
BB p.89,
Working With Others
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
12.
... meaning to
be helpful, his wife commenced ...
BB p.135,
The Family Afterward
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
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