From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
MOVE occurs
10 times
(
Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
1.
... move closer
to the ideal we have ...
12&12 p.101,
Step Eleven
It ought to be
followed by a
good look at where we
stand now, and a
further look at what might
happen in
our
lives were we able to
move closer to the
ideal we have been
trying to
glimpse.
2.
... move forward.
12&12 p.54,
Step Four
3.
... move from
darkness into light, to see ...
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.
4.
... "move in
a mysterious way His wonders ...
12&12 p.105,
Step Eleven
He will also
report that out of every
season of
grief or
suffering, when the
hand of
God seemed heavy or even
unjust, new
lessons for
living were
learned, new
resources of
courage were
uncovered, and that finally,
inescapably, the
conviction came that
God does "
move in a
mysterious way His
wonders to
perform."
5.
... move out
from ourselves toward others and ...
12&12 p.76,
Step Seven
The
Seventh Step is where
we make the
change in our
attitude which
permits us,
with
humility as our
guide, to
move out from
ourselves
toward others and
toward God.
6.
... move toward
God's will for us.
12&12 p.69,
Step Six
This is the
exact point at
which we
abandon limited
objectives, and
move toward God's will for us.
7.
... move toward
humility must consist of recognizing ...
12&12 p.58,
Step Five
8.
... move toward
it.
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.
9.
... move toward
their correction.
12&12 p.43,
Step Four
10.
... move your
work in here?
12&12 p.136,
Tradition Two
So why don't you
move your
work in here?
Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous
and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
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