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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
NEEDS occurs
21 times
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1.
... needs.
BB p.20,
There Is A Solution
Our very
lives, as
ex-
problem drinkers,
depend upon our
constant thought of others and how we may
help meet their
needs.
2.
... needs.
BB p.131,
The Family Afterward
3.
... needs.
BB p.141,
To Employers
It may be just the
jolt he
needs.
4.
... needs, and
our most desperate ones, too.
12&12 p.36,
Step Three
5.
... needs and
work for them.
BB p.70,
How It Works
We
think of their
needs and
work for them.
6.
... needs are
cared for.
BB p.98,
Working With Others
He
clamors for this or that,
claiming he cannot
master
alcohol until his
material needs are
cared for.
7.
... needs hospitalization,
he should have it, but ...
BB p.91,
Working With Others
If your
man needs hospitalization, he should have it, but not
forcibly unless he is
violent.
8.
... needs is
well defined by that part ...
12&12 p.102,
Step Eleven
And we
think that the
whole
range of our
needs is well
defined by that
part of
Step Eleven which says: "...
knowledge of His will for us and the
power to
carry that out."
9.
... needs no
God to explain it.
BB p.49,
We Agnostics
10.
... needs of
the Fellowship itself.
12&12 p.16,
Foreword
The
basic principles of
A.A., as they are
known today, were
borrowed mainly from the
fields of
religion and
medicine,
though some
ideas upon which
success finally
depended
were the
result of
noting
the
behavior and
needs of
the
Fellowship itself.
11.
... needs other
alcoholics as much as they ...
12&12 p.133,
Tradition Two
He
needs other
alcoholics as much as they
need him.
12.
... needs the
least possible organization."
12&12 p.172,
Tradition Nine
13.
... needs the
least possible organization.
12&12 p.191,
Tradition Nine (Long)
14.
... needs the
least possible organization.
BB p.565(567),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
15.
... needs to
be changed in me and ...
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.
16.
... needs to
be changed in the world ...
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.
17.
... needs to
be looked after and extricated ...
12&12 p.118,
Step Twelve
18.
... needs to
develop the quality of willingness.
12&12 p.40,
Step Three
All by himself, and in the
light of his
own circumstances, he
needs to
develop the
quality of
willingness.
19.
... needs to
do is to keep sober.
BB p.82,
Into Action
Sometimes we
hear an
alcoholic say that the only thing he
needs to do is to
keep sober.
20.
... needs were
met or not.
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
Seldom did we
look at
character-
building as
something
desirable in itself, something we
would like to
strive for whether our
instinctual needs were
met or not.
21.
... needs your
help.
BB p.90,
Working With Others
Don't
deal with him when he is very
drunk,
unless he is
ugly and the
family needs your
help.
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