From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... nature.
12&12 p.29,
Step Two
2.
... nature, a
base necessity of procreation.
BB p.68,
How It Works
3.
... nature and
God alike abhor suicide.
12&12 p.64,
Step Six
4.
... nature and
lack of self-consciousness will do ...
BB p.115,
To Wives
5.
... nature and
toil shall be divided among ...
12&12 p.176,
Tradition Ten
We live in the imminent possibility of a fresh holocaust to determine
how men shall be governed, and how the products of nature and toil shall be divided among them.
6.
... Nature but
I resisted the thought of ...
BB p.12,
Bill's Story
I could go for such conceptions as Creative Intelligence, Universal Mind or Spirit of Nature but I resisted the thought of a
Czar of the Heavens,
however loving His sway
might be.
7.
... nature but
little.
BB p.21,
There Is A Solution
8.
... nature comes
closest to the supernatural, namely ...
BB p.572(574),
Appendix V, The Religious View on A.A.
Edward Dowling, S.J.,(*) of the Queen's Work staff, says, "Alcoholics Anonymous is natural; it
is natural at the point
where nature comes closest to the supernatural, namely in
humiliations and in consequent humility.
9.
... nature, controversial.
BB p.19,
There Is A Solution
10.
... nature of
alcoholism.
BB xvi,
Foreword to Second Edition
11.
... nature of
his illness.
BB p.115,
To Wives
While you need not discuss your husband at length, you can quietly let your friends know the nature of his illness.
12.
... nature of
his malady, that person could ...
12&12 p.23,
Step One
It was then discovered that when one alcoholic had planted in the mind of another the true nature of his malady, that person could never be the same again.
13.
... nature of
huge emotional displacements and rearrangements.
BB p.27,
There Is A Solution
14.
... nature of
our defects.
BB p.72,
Into Action
This requires action on
our part, which, when completed, will mean that we have admitted to
God, to ourselves, and to
another human being, the exact nature of our defects.
15.
... nature of
our situation.
12&12 p.24,
Step One
Under the lash of alcoholism, we are driven
to A.A., and there we discover the fatal nature of our situation.
16.
... nature of
our wrongs."
12&12 p.55,
Step Five
17.
... nature of
our wrongs.
BB p.59,
How It Works
18.
... nature of
sudden and spectacular upheavals.
BB p.567(569),
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience
Yet it is true that our first printing gave many readers the impression
that these personality changes, or religious experiences, must be in
the nature of sudden and spectacular upheavals.
19.
... nature of
the alcoholic illness, we might ...
BB p.107,
To Wives
20.
... nature of
the situation we shall never ...
12&12 p.83,
Step Nine
There will be other cases where action ought to be deferred, and still others in which by the
very nature of the situation we shall never be able to make direct personal contact at all.
21.
... nature to
disclose her secrets.
12&12 p.70,
Step Seven
22.
... nature, which
did not appeal to me ...
BB p.178,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
I learned that it was something of a spiritual nature, which did
not appeal to me very much, but I thought it could
do no harm.
23.
... nature, which,
if practiced as a way ...
12&12 p.15,
Foreword
A.A.'s Twelve Steps are a group of principles, spiritual
in their nature, which, if practiced as a way of life, can expel the obsession to drink and enable the sufferer to become happily and usefully whole.
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