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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
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
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
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
12.
... message, sweeping
changes in society as a ...
BB xxiv,
Foreword to Fourth Edition
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
He
suddenly realized
that in
order to
save himself
he
must carry his
message to another
alcoholic.
16.
... message to
other alcoholics!
BB p.89,
Working With Others
This is our
twelfth suggestion:
Carry this
message to other
alcoholics!
17.
... 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.
18.
... message to
still others.
12&12 p.17,
Foreword
19.
... 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."
20.
... 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.
21.
... 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.
22.
... 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.
23.
... 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.
24.
... message to
the next sufferer?
12&12 p.24,
Step One
25.
... message to
the next suffering alcoholic and ...
12&12 p.109,
Step Twelve
26.
... 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.
27.
... message which
can interest and hold these ...
BB xxviii(xxvi),
The Doctor's Opinion
The
message which can
interest and
hold these
alcoholic people
must have
depth and
weight.
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