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From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)

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MEANT   occurs   13 times    (Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
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1.
... meant!   12&12 p.144, Tradition Three
He'd sent a telegram for money, and everybody knew what that meant!


2.
... meant business.   BB p.5, Bill's Story   Go to page 5 in the Big Book
Before then, I had written lots of sweet promises, but my wife happily observed that this time I meant business.


3.
... meant destruction of self-centeredness.   BB p.14, Bill's Story   Go to page 14 in the Big Book
It meant destruction of self-centeredness.

4.
... meant for his sponsor's ear alone.   12&12 p.185, Tradition Twelve
Enthusiastic over the spectacular recovery of a brother alcoholic, we'd sometimes discuss those intimate and harrowing aspects of his case meant for his sponsor's ear alone.


5.
... meant I would have to throw several ...   BB p.42, More About Alcoholism   Go to page 42 in the Big Book
It meant I would have to throw several lifelong conceptions out of the window.

6.
... meant, of course, that we had been ...   12&12 p.147, Tradition Four
This meant, of course, that we had been given the courage to declare each A.A. group an individual entity, strictly reliant on its own conscience as a guide to action.

7.
... meant, of course, that we had substituted ...   12&12 p.30, Step Two
This all meant, of course, that we had substituted negative for positive thinking.

8.
... meant, of course, that we were still ...   12&12 p.121, Step Twelve
This all meant, of course, that we were still far off balance.

9.
... meant reliance, not defiance.   12&12 p.31, Step Two
Belief meant reliance, not defiance.


10.
... meant ruin to them?   BB p.107, To Wives   Go to page 107 in the Big Book
Why could they not see that drink meant ruin to them?


11.
... meant to be alcoholic.(*)   BB p.155, A Vision For You   Go to page 155 in the Big Book
Painfully aware of being somehow abnormal, the man did not fully realize what it meant to be alcoholic.(*)


12.
... meant to be suggestive only.   BB p.164, A Vision For You   Go to page 164 in the Big Book
Our book is meant to be suggestive only.

13.
... meant to others.   12&12 p.82, Step Eight
Whenever our pencil falters, we can fortify and cheer ourselves by remembering what A.A. experience in this Step has meant to others.


Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.  The A.A. Preamble, copyright © The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission.  Permission to reprint does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous or The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.

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