From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... message.
12&12 p.110,
Step Twelve
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
5.
... message.
12&12 p.181,
Tradition Eleven
6.
... message.
BB p.77,
Into Action
7.
... message.
BB p.136,
To Employers
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
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
10.
... message could
be transmitted in the mail ...
BB xviii,
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
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
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
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
16.
... message to
more than 5,000 alcoholic men ...
BB p.171,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
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
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
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
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
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
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