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


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1.
... message.   12&12 p.110, Step Twelve
If our turn comes to speak at a meeting, we again try to carry A.A.'s message.

2.
... message.   12&12 p.111, Step Twelve
Perhaps this will happen in a succession of cases, and we may be deeply discouraged as to our ability to carry A.A.'s message.

3.
... message."   12&12 p.113, Step Twelve
Maybe we are doing fine on only two of them, the First Step and that part of the Twelfth where we "carry the message."

4.
... message.   12&12 p.130, Tradition One
Neither he nor anybody else can survive unless he carries the A.A. message.

5.
... message.   12&12 p.181, Tradition Eleven
Veteran newsmen, trained doubters that they are, have gone all out to carry A.A.'s message.


6.
... message.   BB p.77, Into Action   Go to page 77 in the Big Book
We may kill a future opportunity to carry a beneficial message.


7.
... message.   BB p.136, To Employers   Go to page 136 in the Big Book
My secretary returned to say that is was not Mr. B___ on the phone; it was Mr. B___'s brother, and he wished to give me a message.


8.
... message and unique experience before the world.   BB xvii, Foreword to Second Edition   Display entire Foreword to Second Edition
It was now time, the struggling groups thought, to place their message and unique experience before the world.

9.
... message before scores of people.   12&12 p.142, Tradition Three
Tirelessly he laid A.A.'s message before scores of people.


10.
... message could be transmitted in the mail ...   BB xviii, Foreword to Second Edition   Display entire Foreword to Second Edition
New groups started up and it was found, to the astonishment of everyone, that A.A.'s message could be transmitted in the mail as well as by word of mouth.


11.
... message of recovery has reached larger numbers ...   BB xxiii, Foreword to Fourth Edition   Display entire Foreword to Fourth Edition
As the message of recovery has reached larger numbers of people, it has also touched the lives of a vastly greater variety of suffering alcoholics.


12.
... message, sweeping changes in society as a ...   BB xxiv, Foreword to Fourth Edition   Display entire Foreword to Fourth Edition
While our literature has preserved the integrity of the A.A. message, sweeping changes in society as a whole are reflected in new customs and practices within the Fellowship.

13.
... message to alcoholics, and to practice these ...   12&12 p.106, Step Twelve
"Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs."


14.
... message to alcoholics, and to practice these ...   BB p.60, How It Works   Go to page 60 in the Big Book
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.


15.
... message to another alcoholic.   BB xvi, Foreword to Second Edition   Display entire Foreword to Second Edition
He suddenly realized that in order to save himself he must carry his message to another alcoholic.


16.
... message to more than 5,000 alcoholic men ...   BB p.171, Doctor Bob's Nightmare   Go to page 171 in the Big Book
To 1950, the year of his death, he carried the A.A. message to more than 5,000 alcoholic men and women, and to all these he gave his medical services without thought of charge.


17.
... message to other alcoholics!   BB p.89, Working With Others   Go to page 89 in the Big Book
This is our twelfth suggestion: Carry this message to other alcoholics!

18.
... message to so many alcoholics that they ...   12&12 p.111, Step Twelve
By a great deal of ardent Twelfth Step work we sometimes carry the message to so many alcoholics that they place us in a position of trust.

19.
... message to still others.   12&12 p.17, Foreword
With the publication of the book "Alcoholics Anonymous" in 1939, the pioneering period ended and a prodigious chain reaction set in as the recovered alcoholics carried their message to still others.

20.
... message to the alcoholic who still suffers."   12&12 p.150, Tradition Five
"Each group has but one primary purpose -- to carry its message to the alcoholic who still suffers."

21.
... message to the alcoholic who still suffers.   12&12 p.190, Tradition Five (Long)
Five -- Each Alcoholics Anonymous group ought to be a spiritual entity having but one primary purpose -- that of carrying its message to the alcoholic who still suffers.


22.
... message to the alcoholic who still suffers.   BB p.562(564), Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition   Display entire Appendix I
Five -- Each group has but one primary purpose -- to carry its message to the alcoholic who still suffers.


23.
... message to the alcoholic who still suffers.   BB p.563(565), Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition   Display entire Appendix I
5. Each Alcoholics Anonymous group ought to be a spiritual entity having but one primary purpose -- that of carrying its message to the alcoholic who still suffers.

24.
... message to the next alcoholic.   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.

25.
... message to the next sufferer?   12&12 p.24, Step One
Who wants to sacrifice time and energy in trying to carry A.A.'s message to the next sufferer?

26.
... message to the next suffering alcoholic and ...   12&12 p.109, Step Twelve
The wonderful energy it releases and the eager action by which it carries our message to the next suffering alcoholic and which finally translates the Twelve Steps into action upon all our affairs is the payoff, the magnificent reality, of Alcoholics Anonymous.

27.
... message to those who don't know there's ...   12&12 p.151, Tradition Five
Under these compulsions of self-preservation, duty, and love, it is not strange that our Society has concluded that it has but one high mission -- to carry the A.A. message to those who don't know there's a way out.


28.
... message which can interest and hold these ...   BB xxviii(xxvi), The Doctor's Opinion   Display entire Doctor's Opinion
The message which can interest and hold these alcoholic people must have depth and weight.


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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