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Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... meet.
BB p.99,
Working With Others
The most
incompatible people
discover they have a
basis
upon which they can
meet.
2.
... meet.
BB xxxii(xxx),
The Doctor's Opinion
I see him now and then and he is as
fine a
specimen of
manhood as one
could
wish to
meet.
3.
... meet an
occasional emergency, but at first ...
12&12 p.96,
Step Eleven
To be
sure, we
feel it is
something that might
help us to
meet an
occasional emergency, but at
first
many of us are
apt to
regard
it as a somewhat
mysterious skill of
clergymen, from
which we may
hope to get a
secondhand benefit.
4.
... meet and
transcend their other pains and ...
12&12 p.31,
Step Two
We saw them
meet and
transcend their other
pains
and
trials.
5.
... meet and
work together?
BB xviii,
Foreword to Second Edition
6.
... meet any
emergency.
12&12 p.70,
Step Seven
Without it, they cannot
live to much
useful purpose, or, in
adversity, be able to
summon the
faith that can
meet any
emergency.
7.
... meet conditions,
whatever they were.
12&12 p.47,
Step Four
It
never occurred to us
that we
needed to
change
ourselves to
meet conditions, whatever they were.
8.
... meet frequently
so that newcomers may find ...
BB p.15,
Bill's Story
We
meet frequently so
that
newcomers may find the
fellowship they
seek.
9.
... meet God
alone than with one who ...
BB p.63,
How It Works
But it is
better to
meet God alone than with one who might
misunderstand.
10.
... meet life's
responsibilities with his own resources, ...
12&12 p.43,
Step Four
11.
... meet my
problems as He would have ...
BB p.13,
Bill's Story
I was to
sit quietly when in
doubt,
asking only for
direction and
strength
to
meet my
problems as He
would have me.
12.
... meet other
difficulties of life.
12&12 p.16,
Foreword
Many people,
nonalcoholics,
report that as a
result of
the
practice of
A.A.'s
Twelve Steps, they have been
able to
meet other
difficulties of
life.
13.
... meet our
incessant demands.
12&12 p.53,
Step Four
If we
lean too
heavily on
people, they will
sooner or
later fail us, for they are
human, too, and cannot
possibly meet our
incessant demands.
14.
... meet our
newly recognized responsibilities to the ...
12&12 p.112,
Step Twelve
15.
... meet some
of us as you trudge ...
BB p.164,
A Vision For You
We shall be with you in the
Fellowship of the
Spirit, and you will
surely meet some of us as you
trudge the
Road of
Happy Destiny.
16.
... meet such
conditions.
BB p.97,
Working With Others
Occasionally you will have to
meet such
conditions.
17.
... meet; suppose
we suggest how they may ...
BB p.123,
The Family Afterward
Suppose we tell you some of the
obstacles a
family will
meet;
suppose we
suggest how they may be
avoided -- even
converted
to
good use for others.
18.
... meet the
acid test: how well does ...
12&12 p.37,
Step Three
This
brave philosophy,
wherein each
man plays God,
sounds good in the
speaking, but it still has to
meet the
acid test: how well does it
actually work?
19.
... meet the
most stubborn resistance or, worse ...
12&12 p.173,
Tradition Nine
He and all like him who "
view with
alarm for the
good of
A.A."
meet the most
stubborn resistance or,
worse still,
laughter.
20.
... meet their
needs.
BB p.20,
There Is A Solution
Our very
lives, as
ex-
problem drinkers,
depend upon our
constant thought of others and how we may
help meet their
needs.
21.
... meet them,
still has an alcoholic mind; ...
BB p.101,
Working With Others
An
alcoholic who cannot
meet them, still has an
alcoholic mind; there is
something the
matter with his
spiritual status.
22.
... meet these
calamities which come to so ...
12&12 p.113,
Step Twelve
Have we
alcoholics in
A.A.
got, or can we get, the
resources to
meet these
calamities which
come to so many?
23.
... meet these
conditions every day.
BB p.101,
Working With Others
We
meet these
conditions
every
day.
24.
... meet these
new friends in your own ...
BB p.152,
A Vision For You
You are
going to
meet these
new
friends in your
own community.
25.
... meet these
responsibilities.
BB p.137,
To Employers
26.
... meet upon
the common ground of tolerance, ...
BB p.122,
The Family Afterward
27.
... meet us
more than halfway on the ...
12&12 p.84,
Step Nine
Even our
severest and most
justified critics will
frequently meet us more
than
halfway on the
first
trial.
28.
... meet your
friends.
BB p.114,
To Wives
If your
husband is a
drinker, you
probably worry over what other people are
thinking and you
hate to
meet your
friends.
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