From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
MEDITATION occurs
32 times
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1.
... 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
Prayer is the
raising of
the
heart and
mind to
God -- and in this
sense it
includes meditation.
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
A
quizzical smile on his
lips, he said, "Have you
fellows had your
morning
meditation?"
6.
... meditation.
BB p.85,
Into Action
7.
... meditation.
BB p.87,
Into Action
8.
... meditation and
prayer?
12&12 p.24,
Step One
Who
cares anything about a
Higher Power, let alone
meditation and
prayer?
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
There is a
direct linkage
among
self-
examination,
meditation, and
prayer.
11.
... meditation and
prayer across the centuries is, ...
12&12 p.98,
Step Eleven
The
actual experience
of
meditation and
prayer
across the
centuries is, of
course,
immense.
12.
... meditation and
prayer as obstinately as the ...
12&12 p.97,
Step Eleven
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
For in
meditation,
debate
has no place.
20.
... meditation is
in reality intensely practical.
12&12 p.101,
Step Eleven
And let's always
remember that
meditation is in
reality intensely practical.
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
Meditation is our
step out
into the
sun.
23.
Meditation is
something which can always be ...
12&12 p.101,
Step Eleven
Meditation is something which can always be
further developed.
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
In
meditation, we
ask God what we should do about each
specific matter.
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
Ask Him in your
morning
meditation what you can do each
day for the
man who is still
sick.
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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