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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
NEEDED occurs
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1.
... needed.
12&12 p.35,
Step Three
We can
further add that a
beginning, even the
smallest, is all that is
needed.
2.
... needed.
12&12 p.36,
Step Three
Power flows just where it is
needed.
3.
... needed a
great big alcoholic center, a ...
12&12 p.147,
Tradition Four
4.
... needed a
lot of money; that A.A. ...
12&12 p.153,
Tradition Five
Suppose my
answer had to
be that
A.A. needed a
lot of
money; that
A.A. went in for
education,
hospitals, and
rehabilitation?
5.
... needed an
overhauling there.
BB p.68,
How It Works
Many of us
needed an
overhauling there.
6.
... needed and
wanted God.
BB p.12,
Bill's Story
For a
brief moment, I had
needed and
wanted God.
7.
... needed care.
12&12 p.170,
Tradition Eight
Now and then,
A.A. members
have
bought farms or
rest homes where
badly beat-up
topers could find
needed care.
8.
... needed, if
we kept close to Him ...
BB p.63,
How It Works
Being all
powerful, He
provided what we
needed, if
we
kept close to Him and
performed His
work well.
9.
... needed it,
when our real motive was ...
12&12 p.94,
Step Ten
We "
constructively criticized" someone who
needed it, when our
real motive was to
win a
useless argument.
10.
... needed money,
we could become immensely rich.
12&12 p.164,
Tradition Seven
Moreover, at the
slightest intimation to the
general public from our
trustees that we
needed money, we could
become immensely rich.
11.
... needed or
wanted.
BB p.98,
Working With Others
For the
type of
alcoholic
who is able and
willing to get well,
little charity, in the
ordinary sense of the
word, is
needed or
wanted.
12.
... needed postage
stamps.
12&12 p.177,
Tradition Ten
13.
... needed power
wasn't there.
BB p.45,
We Agnostics
We could
wish to be
moral, we
could
wish to be
philosophically comforted, in
fact, we could
will these things with all our might, but the
needed
power wasn't there.
14.
... needed support.
12&12 p.97,
Step Eleven
15.
... needed that
ten thousand dollars.
12&12 p.164,
Tradition Seven
We
needed that
ten thousand dollars.
16.
... needed the
money for groceries, but that ...
12&12 p.162,
Tradition Seven
Lois really
needed the
money for
groceries, but
that didn't
stop me.
17.
... needed this
help.
BB p.116,
To Wives
At
first, some of us did not
believe we
needed this
help.
18.
... needed to
ask ourselves but one short ...
BB p.47,
We Agnostics
We
needed to
ask ourselves but
one
short question.
19.
... needed to
be publicized.
12&12 p.186,
Tradition Twelve
Our
work, as such,
needed to
be
publicized.
20.
... needed to
be told what alcoholism was, ...
12&12 p.155,
Tradition Six
People
needed to be told what
alcoholism was, so we'd
educate the
public, even
rewrite school and
medical textbooks.
21.
... needed to
change ourselves to meet conditions, ...
12&12 p.47,
Step Four
It
never occurred to us
that we
needed to
change
ourselves to
meet conditions, whatever they were.
22.
... needed to
commence spiritual growth, to effect ...
BB p.47,
We Agnostics
23.
... needed to
consider the others, and in ...
12&12 p.131,
Tradition One
Each
needed to
consider
the others, and in
abiding faith they
knew they
must find their
real strength.
24.
... needed to
get on with the business ...
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
True, most of us
thought good character was
desirable, but
obviously good character was something one
needed to get on with the
business of being
self-
satisfied.
25.
... needed to
produce the essential psychic change.
BB xxix(xxvii),
The Doctor's Opinion
One
feels that something more than
human power is
needed to
produce the
essential psychic change.
26.
... needed vast
sums of money to the ...
12&12 p.161,
Tradition Seven
As
A.A. emerged from
its infancy into
adolescence, we
swung
from the
idea that we
needed
vast sums of
money to the
notion that
A.A. shouldn't have any.
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