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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
When I
need a
mental uplift, I often
think of
another
case brought in by a
physician prominent in
New
York.
5.
... need a
moral inventory.
12&12 p.45,
Step Four
Our
present anxieties
and
troubles, we
cry, are
caused by the
behavior
of other people -- people who really
need a
moral inventory.
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
Most
certainly we shall
need bracing air and an
abundance of
food.
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
We
eat,
drink, and
grab for more of
everything
than we
need,
fearing we
shall
never have
enough.
14.
... need for
a list of the more ...
12&12 p.48,
Step Four
Now let's
ponder the
need
for a
list of the more
glaring personality defects all of us have in
varying degrees.
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
Therefore, no
society of
men
and
women ever had a more
urgent need for
continuous effectiveness and
permanent unity.
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
Therefore, you
probably need fresh interests and a
great cause to
live for as much as
your
husband.
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
before daylight.
BB p.8,
Bill's Story
I would
need it before
daylight.
29.
... need it
to carry green recruits through ...
BB p.102,
Working With Others
We often
need it to
carry green recruits through a
severe hangover.
30.
... need look
no further for Utopia.
BB p.16,
Bill's Story
Most of us
feel we
need look no
further for
Utopia.
31.
... need medical
attention.
BB p.21,
There Is A Solution
32.
... need more
action, without which we find ...
BB p.76,
Into Action
Now we
need more
action,
without which we find that "
Faith without
works is
dead."
33.
... need no
inventory are confronted with quite ...
12&12 p.46,
Step Four
The
sponsors of those who
feel they
need no
inventory are
confronted with quite another
problem.
34.
... 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.
35.
... need no
others.
12&12 p.174,
Tradition Nine
36.
... 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.
37.
... 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.
38.
... need not
be alarmed.
BB p.120,
To Wives
If you are
satisfied he really
wants to get over
drinking,
you
need not be
alarmed.
39.
... need not
be disconcerted.
BB p.44,
We Agnostics
Our
experience shows
that you
need not be
disconcerted.
40.
... 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.
41.
... 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.
42.
... need not
discuss your husband at length, ...
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.
43.
... 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.
44.
... 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!"
45.
... 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.
46.
... need of
help really deluged us.
BB xviii,
Foreword to Second Edition
47.
... need only
recognize that we did act ...
12&12 p.94,
Step Ten
Here we
need only
recognize that we did
act or
think badly,
try to
visualize how we might
have done
better, and
resolve with
God's
help to
carry these
lessons over into
tomorrow,
making, of
course, any
amends still
neglected.
48.
... need our
help would be broken.
12&12 p.175,
Tradition Nine
Our
communications lines with those who
need our
help would be
broken.
49.
... need protection
from their father, it is ...
BB p.115,
To Wives
Unless they
actually
need protection from
their
father, it is
best not
to take
sides in any
argument he has with them while
drinking.
50.
... need self-restraint,
honest analysis of what is ...
12&12 p.91,
Step Ten
In all these
situations we
need self-
restraint,
honest analysis of what is
involved, a
willingness to
admit when
the
fault is ours, and an
equal willingness to
forgive when the
fault is
elsewhere.
51.
... need something
much better in order to ...
12&12 p.92,
Step Ten
Although these
attitudes are
common enough, we
A.A.'s find we
need something much
better in
order to
keep our
balance.
52.
... 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.
53.
... 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.
54.
... need them."
12&12 p.164,
Tradition Seven
We're
going to
need them."
55.
... 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.
56.
... need to
authorize workers to serve us.
12&12 p.174,
Tradition Nine
It is
clear now that we ought
never to
name boards to
govern us, but it
is
equally clear that we
shall always
need to
authorize workers to
serve us.
57.
... need to
be as sure as possible ...
12&12 p.119,
Step Twelve
They
need to be as
sure as
possible that no
deep-
lying emotional handicap in either will be
likely to
rise up under
later pressures to
cripple them.
58.
... need to
be solid A.A.'s and long ...
12&12 p.119,
Step Twelve
59.
... need to
be "taught a lesson," when ...
12&12 p.94,
Step Ten
We sometimes
hurt those we
love because they
need to be "
taught a
lesson," when we
really
want to
punish.
60.
... need to
begin.
BB p.163,
A Vision For You
We
believe and
hope it
contains all you will
need to
begin.
61.
... need to
bring anyone else into this?"
12&12 p.59,
Step Five
Why do we need to bring anyone else into this?"
62.
... 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.
63.
... need to
consider another's conception of God.
BB p.46,
We Agnostics
Much to our
relief, we
discovered we did not
need
to
consider another's
conception of
God.
64.
... 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.
65.
... need to
criticize each other.
BB p.118,
To Wives
If you both
show a
willingness to
remedy
your
own defects, there will
be
little need to
criticize each other.
66.
... need to
cross-examine themselves ruthlessly to determine ...
12&12 p.52,
Step Four
But all
alcoholics who have
drunk themselves out of
jobs,
family, and
friends will
need to
cross-
examine themselves
ruthlessly to
determine how their
own personality defects
have thus
demolished their
security.
67.
... need to
determine what his individual character ...
12&12 p.48,
Step Four
Human beings are
never quite
alike, so each of
us, when
making an
inventory, will
need to
determine what his
individual character
defects are.
68.
... 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.
69.
... need to
eliminate these hangovers.
12&12 p.88,
Step Ten
70.
... need to
encourage him to play once ...
BB p.146,
To Employers
You may
need to
encourage
him to
play once in a while.
71.
... need to
exercise special vigilance.
12&12 p.92,
Step Ten
Now that we're in
A.A. and
sober, and
winning back the
esteem of our
friends and
business associates,
we find that we still
need to
exercise special vigilance.
72.
... need to
fetch ourselves up sharply.
12&12 p.78,
Step Eight
Right here we
need to
fetch ourselves up
sharply.
73.
... need to
give constantly of ourselves without ...
12&12 p.116,
Step Twelve
We saw that we would
need to
give constantly of
ourselves without
demands for
repayment.
74.
... need to
go forward.
12&12 p.93,
Step Ten
Out of them we
receive the
stimulation we
need to go
forward.
75.
... need to
make a brand new venture ...
12&12 p.68,
Step Six
If we would
gain any
real advantage in the use of this
Step on
problems other than
alcohol, we shall
need to
make a
brand new
venture
into
open-
mindedness.
76.
... need to
praise ourselves.
12&12 p.192,
Tradition Eleven (Long)
There is
never need to
praise ourselves.
77.
... need to
praise ourselves.
BB p.565(567),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
There is
never need to
praise ourselves.
78.
... need to
quit living by ourselves with ...
12&12 p.55,
Step Five
If we have
swept the
searchlight of
Step Four back and
forth over our
careers, and it has
revealed in
stark relief those
experiences
we'd rather not
remember, if we have
come to
know how
wrong thinking and
action have
hurt us and others,
then the
need to
quit living by ourselves with those
tormenting ghosts of
yesterday gets more
urgent
than ever.
79.
... need to
raise our eyes toward perfection, ...
12&12 p.68,
Step Six
We shall
need to
raise our
eyes toward perfection, and be
ready
to
walk in that
direction.
80.
... need to
share with this person facts ...
12&12 p.61,
Step Five
Perhaps we shall
need to
share with this
person facts about ourselves which no others ought to
know.
81.
... 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.
82.
... need to
tell me.
BB p.7,
Bill's Story
They did not need to tell me.
83.
... need to
undergo drastic revisions.
12&12 p.114,
Step Twelve
84.
... 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.
85.
... 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.
86.
... 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.
87.
... need us.
12&12 p.131,
Tradition One
They
live today in the
Twelve Traditions of
Alcoholics Anonymous,
which --
God willing --
shall
sustain us in
unity
for so
long as He may
need us.
88.
... 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.
89.
... need when
we take Step Nine.
12&12 p.83,
Step Nine
Good judgment, a
careful sense of
timing,
courage, and
prudence -- these are the
qualities we shall
need when
we take
Step Nine.
90.
... 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."
91.
... need your
companionship and your help.
BB p.111,
To Wives
They
need your
companionship and your
help.
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