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Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... need.
12&12 p.102,
Step Eleven
Having
opened our
channel
as
best we can, we
try to
ask for
those right things of which we and
others are in the
greatest need.
2.
... need.
12&12 p.181,
Tradition Eleven
3.
... need a
bodyguard nor is he confined.
BB p.26,
There Is A Solution
He does not
need a
bodyguard nor is he
confined.
4.
... need a
mental uplift, I often think ...
BB xxxi(xxix),
The Doctor's Opinion
5.
... need a
moral inventory.
12&12 p.45,
Step Four
6.
... need always
maintain personal anonymity at the ...
12&12 p.180,
Tradition Eleven
7.
... need always
maintain personal anonymity at the ...
BB p.562(564),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
8.
... need and
inquired if she had a ...
BB p.156,
A Vision For You
9.
... need be.
BB p.97,
Working With Others
You have to
act the
Good Samaritan every day, if
need be.
10.
... need bracing
air and an abundance of ...
12&12 p.98,
Step Eleven
11.
... need comforting.
12&12 p.46,
Step Four
12.
... need every
human being has for practical ...
12&12 p.56,
Step Five
13.
... need, fearing
we shall never have enough.
12&12 p.49,
Step Four
14.
... need for
a list of the more ...
12&12 p.48,
Step Four
15.
... need for
all of A.A.'s Twelve Steps ...
12&12 p.113,
Step Twelve
We
temporarily cease
to
grow because we
feel satisfied that there is
no need for all of
A.A.'s
Twelve Steps for us.
16.
... need for
continuous effectiveness and permanent unity.
BB p.561(563),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
17.
... need for
moral inventory, confession of personality ...
BB xvi,
Foreword to Second Edition
18.
... need fresh
interests and a great cause ...
BB p.119,
To Wives
19.
... need God.
BB p.116,
To Wives
But it was a
silly idea that
we were too
good to
need God.
20.
... need have
difficulty with the spirituality of ...
BB p.568(570),
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience
We
find that
no one need have
difficulty with the
spirituality of the
program.
21.
... need have
no apprehension.
BB p.102,
Working With Others
22.
... need him.
12&12 p.133,
Tradition Two
He
needs other alcoholics as
much as they
need him.
23.
... need is
a key, and the decision ...
12&12 p.34,
Step Three
All we
need is a
key, and the
decision to
swing the
door open.
24.
... need is
a truly open mind.
12&12 p.26,
Step Two
Third, all you
really need is a
truly open mind.
25.
... need is
the open mind."
12&12 p.26,
Step Two
Again I
say, all you
need is the
open mind."
26.
... need is
there for a moral inventory ...
12&12 p.45,
Step Four
If we were
pretty nice people all
along,
except for our
drinking,
what
need is there for a
moral inventory now that we are
sober?
27.
... need it,
and I won't have it!
12&12 p.143,
Tradition Three
This
group doesn't
need it,
and I won't have it!
28.
... need it
badly.
BB p.180,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
29.
... need it
before daylight.
BB p.8,
Bill's Story
I would
need it
before daylight.
30.
... need it
to carry green recruits through ...
BB p.102,
Working With Others
31.
... need look
no further for Utopia.
BB p.16,
Bill's Story
Most of us
feel we
need look no further for
Utopia.
32.
... need medical
attention.
BB p.21,
There Is A Solution
33.
... need more
action, without which we find ...
BB p.76,
Into Action
34.
... need no
inventory are confronted with quite ...
12&12 p.46,
Step Four
35.
... need no
longer be square pegs in ...
12&12 p.124,
Step Twelve
Service,
gladly rendered,
obligations
squarely met,
troubles well accepted or
solved with
God's
help, the
knowledge that at
home or in
the
world outside we are
partners in a
common effort, the
well-
understood fact that in
God's
sight all
human beings are
important, the
proof that
love freely given surely brings a
full return, the
certainty that
we are
no longer isolated and
alone in
self-
constructed prisons, the
surety that we
need no longer be
square pegs in
round holes but can
fit and
belong in
God's
scheme of
things -- these are
the
permanent and
legitimate satisfactions of
right
living for which
no amount of
pomp and
circumstance,
no heap of
material possessions, could
possibly be
substitutes.
36.
... need no
others.
12&12 p.174,
Tradition Nine
37.
... need not,
and often should not show ...
BB p.148,
To Employers
He
need not, and
often should
not
show it to his
alcoholic prospect.
38.
... need not,
and probably should not emphasize ...
BB p.76,
Into Action
To some
people we
need not,
and
probably should not
emphasize the
spiritual
feature on our
first approach.
39.
... need not
be alarmed.
BB p.120,
To Wives
40.
... need not
be disconcerted.
BB p.44,
We Agnostics
Our
experience shows
that you
need not be
disconcerted.
41.
... need not
be discouraged when we fall ...
12&12 p.91,
Step Ten
We
need not be
discouraged when we
fall
into the
error of our
old ways, for these
disciplines are not
easy.
42.
... need not
be worried.
BB p.50,
We Agnostics
Experience has
taught
us that these are
matters about which, for our
purpose, we
need not be
worried.
43.
... need not
discuss your husband at length, ...
BB p.115,
To Wives
44.
... need not
follow all of the program.
BB p.94,
Working With Others
Your
candidate may
give
reasons why he
need not
follow all of the
program.
45.
... need not
pass this way," and Fear ...
12&12 p.49,
Step Four
Pride says, "You
need not
pass this
way," and
Fear says, "You
dare not
look!"
46.
... need not
remind him of his spiritual ...
BB p.120,
To Wives
You
need not
remind him of
his
spiritual deficiency -- he
will know of it.
47.
... need of
help really deluged us.
BB xviii,
Foreword to Second Edition
48.
... need only
recognize that we did act ...
12&12 p.94,
Step Ten
49.
... need our
help would be broken.
12&12 p.175,
Tradition Nine
Our
communications lines with
those who
need our
help would be
broken.
50.
... need protection
from their father, it is ...
BB p.115,
To Wives
51.
... need self-restraint,
honest analysis of what is ...
12&12 p.91,
Step Ten
52.
... need something
much better in order to ...
12&12 p.92,
Step Ten
53.
... need the
counsel and love of a ...
BB p.119,
To Wives
They
need the
counsel and
love of a
woman who has
gone through what you have.
54.
... need the
light of God's reality, the ...
12&12 p.97,
Step Eleven
We all
need the
light of
God's
reality, the
nourishment of His
strength, and the
atmosphere of His
grace.
55.
... need them."
12&12 p.164,
Tradition Seven
We're
going to
need them."
56.
... need this
information to put yourself in ...
BB p.90,
Working With Others
You
need this
information to
put yourself in his
place, to
see how you would
like him to
approach you if the
tables
were
turned.
57.
... need to
authorize workers to serve us.
12&12 p.174,
Tradition Nine
58.
... need to
be as sure as possible ...
12&12 p.119,
Step Twelve
59.
... need to
be solid A.A.'s and long ...
12&12 p.119,
Step Twelve
60.
... need to
be "taught a lesson," when ...
12&12 p.94,
Step Ten
61.
... need to
begin.
BB p.163,
A Vision For You
We
believe and
hope it
contains all you
will need to
begin.
62.
... need to
bring anyone else into this?"
12&12 p.59,
Step Five
Why do we
need to
bring anyone else into this?"
63.
... need to
concentrate not so much on ...
BB p.417(449),
Acceptance
I
need to
concentrate
not so
much on what
needs to
be
changed in the
world as
on what
needs to be
changed in me and in my
attitudes.
64.
... need to
consider another's conception of God.
BB p.46,
We Agnostics
65.
... need to
continue taking personal inventory, and ...
12&12 p.108,
Step Twelve
By this
time, at
Step Ten, we had
begun to
get a
basis for
daily living, and we
keenly realized that we
would
need to
continue taking personal inventory, and that when we were in the
wrong we
ought to
admit it
promptly.
66.
... need to
criticize each other.
BB p.118,
To Wives
67.
... need to
cross-examine themselves ruthlessly to determine ...
12&12 p.52,
Step Four
68.
... need to
determine what his individual character ...
12&12 p.48,
Step Four
69.
... need to
discourage A.A.'s who wish to ...
12&12 p.171,
Tradition Eight
We
see that we have
no right or
need to
discourage A.A.'s who
wish to
work as
individuals in these
wider fields.
70.
... need to
eliminate these hangovers.
12&12 p.88,
Step Ten
71.
... need to
encourage him to play once ...
BB p.146,
To Employers
You may
need to
encourage
him to
play once in a
while.
72.
... need to
exercise special vigilance.
12&12 p.92,
Step Ten
73.
... need to
fetch ourselves up sharply.
12&12 p.78,
Step Eight
74.
... need to
give constantly of ourselves without ...
12&12 p.116,
Step Twelve
75.
... need to
go forward.
12&12 p.93,
Step Ten
Out of them we
receive the
stimulation we
need to
go forward.
76.
... need to
make a brand new venture ...
12&12 p.68,
Step Six
77.
... need to
praise ourselves.
12&12 p.192,
Tradition Eleven (Long)
There is
never need to
praise ourselves.
78.
... need to
praise ourselves.
BB p.565(567),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
There is
never need to
praise ourselves.
79.
... need to
quit living by ourselves with ...
12&12 p.55,
Step Five
80.
... need to
raise our eyes toward perfection, ...
12&12 p.68,
Step Six
81.
... need to
share with this person facts ...
12&12 p.61,
Step Five
82.
... need to
take care of such problems.
BB p.87,
Into Action
We
usually conclude the
period of
meditation
with a
prayer that we be
shown all
through the
day what our
next step is to be, that we be
given
whatever we
need to
take care of
such problems.
83.
... need to
tell me.
BB p.7,
Bill's Story
They did not
need to
tell me.
84.
... need to
undergo drastic revisions.
12&12 p.114,
Step Twelve
85.
... need to
use a little more discretion ...
12&12 p.84,
Step Nine
But
even in these
cases, we
may
need to
use a
little more discretion than we did with the
family.
86.
... need to
wander morbidly around in the ...
12&12 p.89,
Step Ten
This doesn't
mean we
need to
wander morbidly around in the
past.
87.
... need to
work for.
12&12 p.45,
Step Four
This
being so, we
think it
logically follows that
sobriety --
first,
last, and all the
time -- is the
only
thing we
need to
work for.
88.
... need us.
12&12 p.131,
Tradition One
89.
... need was
to quiet that disturbance, regardless ...
12&12 p.47,
Step Four
We
learned that if we were
seriously disturbed,
our
first need was to
quiet that
disturbance,
regardless of who or what we
thought caused it.
90.
... need when
we take Step Nine.
12&12 p.83,
Step Nine
91.
... need, will
see these pages, and we ...
BB p.29,
There Is A Solution
Our
hope is that
many alcoholic men and
women,
desperately in
need,
will see these
pages, and we
believe that it is only by
fully disclosing ourselves and our
problems that they
will be
persuaded to
say, "
Yes, I am
one of them too; I
must have this
thing."
92.
... need your
companionship and your help.
BB p.111,
To Wives
They
need your
companionship and your
help.
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