From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
MOVEMENT occurs
9 times
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1.
... movement?
12&12 p.156,
Tradition Six
Was it a
reform movement?
2.
... movement.
BB xxviii(xxvi),
The Doctor's Opinion
If any
feel that as
psychiatrists directing a
hospital for
alcoholics we
appear
somewhat
sentimental, let them
stand with us a while on the
firing line, see the
tragedies, the
despairing wives, the
little children; let the
solving of these
problems
become a
part of their
daily work, and even of their
sleeping moments, and the
most
cynical will not
wonder that we have
accepted and
encouraged
this
movement.
3.
... movement among
alcoholics which started in Baltimore ...
12&12 p.178,
Tradition Ten
4.
... movement, early
A.A. members resolved to keep ...
12&12 p.179,
Tradition Ten
5.
... movement, giving
it unstinted support and endorsement.
12&12 p.17,
Foreword
6.
... movement now
growing up among them.
BB xxviii(xxvi),
The Doctor's Opinion
We
feel, after many
years of
experience, that we have
found nothing which has
contributed more to the
rehabilitation of these
men than the
altruistic
movement now
growing up
among them.
7.
... movement, started
and stayed broke, while its ...
12&12 p.161,
Tradition Seven
8.
... movement that
cannot be duplicated.
BB p.572(574),
Appendix V, The Religious View on A.A.
"I
think that
psychologically speaking there is a
point of
advantage in the
approach that is being made in this
movement that cannot be
duplicated.
9.
... movement which
can and does create a ...
12&12 p.172,
Tradition Nine
How, then, can we have an
unorganized movement which can and does
create
a
service organization for itself?
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