From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... meditation.
12&12 p.89,
Step Ten
Many of us also like the experience of an
occasional retreat
from the outside world
where we can quiet down for
an undisturbed day or so
of self-overhaul and meditation.
2.
... meditation.
12&12 p.102,
Step Eleven
3.
... meditation?
12&12 p.102,
Step Eleven
And how does it fit in with meditation?
4.
... meditation.
12&12 p.103,
Step Eleven
If at these points our emotional disturbance
happens to be great, we will more surely keep our balance, provided we remember, and repeat to ourselves, a particular prayer or phrase that has appealed to
us in our reading or meditation.
5.
... meditation?"
12&12 p.144,
Tradition Three
6.
... meditation.
BB p.85,
Into Action
7.
... meditation.
BB p.87,
Into Action
8.
... meditation and
prayer?
12&12 p.24,
Step One
9.
... meditation and
prayer.
12&12 p.97,
Step Eleven
Of course we finally did
experiment, and when unexpected results followed, we felt different; in fact we knew different; and so we
were sold on meditation and prayer.
10.
... meditation, and
prayer.
12&12 p.98,
Step Eleven
11.
... meditation and
prayer across the centuries is, ...
12&12 p.98,
Step Eleven
12.
... meditation and
prayer as obstinately as the ...
12&12 p.97,
Step Eleven
But we recoiled from meditation and prayer as obstinately as the scientist who refused to
perform a certain experiment lest it prove his pet theory wrong.
13.
... meditation and
prayer as something not really ...
12&12 p.96,
Step Eleven
So it isn't surprising that we often tend to slight serious meditation and prayer as something not really necessary.
14.
... meditation and
prayer is the sense of ...
12&12 p.105,
Step Eleven
Perhaps one of the greatest rewards of meditation and prayer is the sense of belonging that comes to us.
15.
... meditation and
prayer, we found, did open ...
12&12 p.109,
Step Twelve
The persistent use of
meditation and prayer, we found, did open the channel so that where there had been a trickle, there now was a river which led to sure power and safe guidance from God as we were increasingly better able to understand Him.
16.
... meditation and
prayer, we likewise deprive our ...
12&12 p.97,
Step Eleven
And when we turn away from
meditation and prayer, we likewise deprive our minds, our emotions, and our
intuitions of vitally
needed support.
17.
... meditation and
then they can take part ...
BB p.134,
The Family Afterward
When this happens, they can be invited to join in morning meditation and then
they can take part in the daily discussion without rancor or bias.
18.
... meditation are
our principal means of conscious ...
12&12 p.96,
Step Eleven
19.
... meditation, debate
has no place.
12&12 p.100,
Step Eleven
20.
... meditation is
in reality intensely practical.
12&12 p.101,
Step Eleven
21.
... meditation is
like that, too; it helps ...
12&12 p.100,
Step Eleven
Well, meditation is like that, too; it helps to envision our spiritual
objective before we try to move toward it.
22.
Meditation is
our step out into the ...
12&12 p.98,
Step Eleven
23.
Meditation is
something which can always be ...
12&12 p.101,
Step Eleven
24.
... meditation, perhaps
our very first attempt at ...
12&12 p.101,
Step Eleven
This much could be a fragment of what is called
meditation, perhaps our very first attempt at a mood, a flier into the realm of spirit, if you like.
25.
... meditation that
our Creator show us the ...
BB p.83,
Into Action
So we clean house with the
family, asking each morning in meditation that our Creator show us the way of patience, tolerance, kindliness and love.
26.
... meditation to
improve our conscious contact with ...
12&12 p.96,
Step Eleven
"Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying
only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out."
27.
... meditation to
improve our conscious contact with ...
BB p.59,
How It Works
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us
and the power to carry that
out.
28.
... meditation, we
ask God what we should ...
BB p.69,
How It Works
29.
... meditation, we
might now reread this prayer ...
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.
30.
... meditation what
you can do each day ...
BB p.164,
A Vision For You
31.
... meditation will
return to the practice of ...
12&12 p.98,
Step Eleven
It is to be hoped that every
A.A. who has a religious connection which emphasizes meditation will return to the practice of that devotion
as never before.
32.
... meditation with
a prayer that we be ...
BB p.87,
Into Action
We usually conclude the
period of meditation with a
prayer that we be shown all
through the day what our next step is to be, that we be given whatever we need to take care of such problems.
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