From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... needed.
12&12 p.35,
Step Three
2.
... needed.
12&12 p.36,
Step Three
3.
... needed a
great big alcoholic center, a ...
12&12 p.147,
Tradition Four
They figured the town needed a great big alcoholic center, a kind of pilot plant A.A. groups could duplicate everywhere.
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
6.
... needed and
wanted God.
BB p.12,
Bill's Story
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.
BB p.171,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
No beer or liquor was sold in the neighborhood, except at
the State liquor agency where perhaps one might procure a pint if he could convince the
agent that he really needed it.
10.
... 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.
11.
... 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.
12.
... 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.
13.
... needed postage
stamps.
12&12 p.177,
Tradition Ten
A corporation director who had just voted a company expenditure of a hundred thousand dollars would appear at an
A.A. business meeting and blow his top over an outlay of twenty-five dollars' worth of needed postage stamps.
14.
... 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.
15.
... needed support.
12&12 p.97,
Step Eleven
And when we turn away from meditation and prayer, we
likewise deprive our minds, our emotions, and our
intuitions of vitally
needed support.
16.
... needed that
ten thousand dollars.
12&12 p.164,
Tradition Seven
17.
... needed the
money for groceries, but that ...
12&12 p.162,
Tradition Seven
18.
... needed this
help.
BB p.116,
To Wives
19.
... needed to
ask ourselves but one short ...
BB p.47,
We Agnostics
20.
... needed to
be publicized.
12&12 p.186,
Tradition Twelve
21.
... 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.
22.
... needed to
change ourselves to meet conditions, ...
12&12 p.47,
Step Four
23.
... needed to
commence spiritual growth, to effect ...
BB p.47,
We Agnostics
At the start, this was all we needed to commence spiritual growth, to effect our first conscious relation with
God as we understood Him.
24.
... 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.
25.
... 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.
26.
... needed to
produce the essential psychic change.
BB xxix(xxvii),
The Doctor's Opinion
27.
... 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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