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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... necessary.
12&12 p.96,
Step Eleven
So it isn't
surprising that we often
tend to
slight serious meditation and
prayer as something not really
necessary.
2.
... necessary.
12&12 p.118,
Step Twelve
When the
distortion has been
great, however, a
long period of
patient striving may be
necessary.
3.
... necessary.
12&12 p.119,
Step Twelve
4.
... necessary.
BB p.111,
To Wives
Patience and
good temper are most
necessary.
5.
... necessary.
BB p.158,
A Vision For You
On the
third day the
lawyer gave his
life to the
care and
direction of his
Creator,
and said he was
perfectly willing to do anything
necessary.
6.
... necessary.
BB xiii,
Foreword to First Edition
For them, we
hope these
pages
will
prove so
convincing that no
further authentication will be
necessary.
7.
... necessary aid
to our survival.
12&12 p.74,
Step Seven
We may still have no very
high opinion of
humility as a
desirable personal virtue, but we do
recognize it as a
necessary
aid to our
survival.
8.
... necessary and
right, and surely God-given.
12&12 p.42,
Step Four
9.
... necessary being
that required to follow a ...
BB xxix(xxvii),
The Doctor's Opinion
On the other
hand -- and
strange as this may
seem to
those who do not
understand -- once a
psychic change has
occurred, the very same
person who
seemed doomed, who had so many
problems he
despaired of
ever
solving them,
suddenly finds himself
easily able to
control his
desire for
alcohol, the
only
effort necessary being
that
required to
follow
a few
simple rules.
10.
... necessary, but
faith alone can avail nothing.
12&12 p.34,
Step Three
Faith, to be
sure, is
necessary, but
faith alone can
avail nothing.
11.
... necessary, but
if he were in jail ...
BB p.79,
Into Action
We
thought he ought to be
willing to do that if
necessary, but if he were in
jail he
could
provide nothing
for either
family.
12.
... necessary, but
the price seemed high upon ...
BB p.155,
A Vision For You
13.
... necessary evil."
12&12 p.168,
Tradition Eight
Even the
charitably disposed described them
as "a
necessary evil."
14.
... necessary experience.
12&12 p.157,
Tradition Six
Soon they'd
spotted their
man, an
A.A. with the
necessary experience.
15.
... necessary for
our existence, often far exceed ...
12&12 p.42,
Step Four
Yet these
instincts, so
necessary for our
existence, often far
exceed their
proper functions.
16.
... necessary in
his business.
BB p.109,
To Wives
He is
positive he can
handle his
liquor, that it
does him no
harm, that
drinking is
necessary in his
business.
17.
... necessary only
that we make a general ...
12&12 p.84,
Step Nine
At this
first sitting, it
is
necessary only that we make a
general admission of our
defects.
18.
... necessary rules
and regulations?
12&12 p.172,
Tradition Nine
Did anyone ever
hear of a
society which couldn't somehow
discipline its members and
enforce obedience to
necessary rules and
regulations?
19.
... necessary step,
submit to anything to get ...
BB p.142,
To Employers
Will he take every
necessary step,
submit to anything to get
well, to
stop drinking forever?
20.
... necessary that
we extricate from an examination ...
12&12 p.80,
Step Eight
While the
purpose of
making restitution to
others is
paramount, it is
equally necessary that we
extricate from an
examination of our
personal relations every
bit of
information about
ourselves and our
fundamental difficulties that we can.
21.
... necessary, they
can be freely discarded by ...
12&12 p.190,
Tradition Six (Long)
Secondary aids to
A.A., such as
clubs or
hospitals which
require
much
property or
administration, ought to be
incorporated and so
set apart that, if
necessary, they
can be
freely discarded
by the
groups.
22.
... necessary, they
can be freely discarded by ...
BB p.564(566),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
Secondary aids to
A.A., such as
clubs or
hospitals which
require
much
property or
administration, ought to be
incorporated and so
set apart that, if
necessary, they
can be
freely discarded
by the
groups.
23.
... necessary to
advance the cost of treatment, ...
BB p.143,
To Employers
If you
propose such a
procedure to him, it may be
necessary to
advance the
cost of
treatment, but we
believe it should be made
plain that any
expense will
later be
deducted from
his
pay.
24.
... necessary to
go much further.
BB p.72,
Into Action
Many of us
thought it
necessary to go much
further.
25.
... necessary to
longtime sobriety and peace of ...
12&12 p.55,
Step Five
But
scarcely any
Step is
more
necessary to
longtime
sobriety and
peace of
mind than this one.
26.
... necessary to
maintain his sobriety.
BB p.146,
To Employers
This
work is
necessary to
maintain his
sobriety.
27.
... necessary to
post only two storm signals: ...
12&12 p.147,
Tradition Four
In
charting this
enormous expanse of
freedom, we
found it
necessary to
post only
two storm signals: A
group ought not do
anything which would
greatly injure A.A. as a
whole, nor ought it
affiliate itself with anything or anybody else.
28.
... necessary to
raise the bottom the rest ...
12&12 p.23,
Step One
It was
obviously necessary to
raise the
bottom the
rest of us had
hit to the
point where it would
hit them.
29.
... necessary to
shape my life to conditions ...
12&12 p.52,
Step Four
If I am
unable to
change
the
present state of
affairs, am I
willing to
take the
measures necessary to
shape my
life to
conditions as they
are?
30.
... necessary to
us alcoholics.
12&12 p.116,
Step Twelve
This new
outlook was, we
learned, something
especially necessary to us
alcoholics.
31.
... necessary, until
they told someone else all ...
BB p.73,
Into Action
But they had not
learned enough of
humility,
fearlessness and
honesty, in the
sense we find
it
necessary, until they told someone else all their
life story.
32.
... necessary vital
spiritual experience.
BB p.27,
There Is A Solution
This
hope, however, was
destroyed by the
doctor's
telling him that while his
religious convictions
were very
good, in his
case
they did not
spell the
necessary vital spiritual experience.
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