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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
NEWCOMER occurs
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1.
... newcomer.
12&12 p.132,
Tradition Two
This, too, is a
puzzler for every
friend and
newcomer.
2.
... newcomer.
BB p.159,
A Vision For You
Seeing much of each other,
scarce an
evening passed that
someone's
home did not
shelter a
little gathering of
men and
women,
happy in their
release, and
constantly
thinking how they might
present their
discovery
to some
newcomer.
3.
... newcomer and
in following his case afterward.
BB p.133,
The Family Afterward
4.
... newcomer appeared
at one of these groups, ...
12&12 p.141,
Tradition Three
A
newcomer appeared at one
of these
groups,
knocked
on the
door and
asked to be
let in.
5.
... newcomer are
aware of the difference long ...
BB p.567(569),
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience
Quite often
friends of the
newcomer are
aware of the
difference long before he
is himself.
6.
... newcomer can
fearlessly, rather than fearfully, look ...
12&12 p.46,
Step Four
As soon as he
begins to be more
objective, the
newcomer can
fearlessly, rather than
fearfully,
look at his
own defects.
7.
... newcomer, every
friend who looks at A.A. ...
12&12 p.129,
Tradition One
Every
newcomer, every
friend
who
looks at
A.A. for the
first time is
greatly puzzled.
8.
... newcomer's family
how that was accomplished.
BB p.100,
Working With Others
If you have been
successful in
solving your
own domestic problems, tell
the
newcomer's
family how
that was
accomplished.
9.
... newcomer's fate
hung in the balance.
12&12 p.142,
Tradition Three
So went the
discussion while the
newcomer's
fate hung in the
balance.
10.
... newcomer feels
sure A.A. is the only ...
12&12 p.35,
Step Three
11.
... newcomer has
probably arrived at the following ...
12&12 p.50,
Step Four
By now the
newcomer has
probably arrived at the
following conclusions: that his
character defects,
representing instincts gone astray, have been the
primary cause of his
drinking and his
failure
at
life; that
unless he is
now
willing to
work hard at the
elimination of
the
worst of these
defects, both
sobriety and
peace of
mind will still
elude him; that all the
faulty
foundation of his
life
will have to be
torn out and
built anew on
bedrock.
12.
... newcomer has
some assets which can be ...
12&12 p.46,
Step Four
The
sponsor probably points out that the
newcomer
has some
assets which can be
noted along with his
liabilities.
13.
... newcomer, "I
know you're telling me the ...
12&12 p.26,
Step Two
"Well," says the
newcomer, "I
know you're
telling me the
truth.
14.
... newcomer in
Alcoholics Anonymous is told, and ...
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
15.
... newcomer in
no way depends upon his ...
12&12 p.151,
Tradition Five
The
unique ability of
each
A.A. to
identify
himself with, and bring
recovery to, the
newcomer in no way
depends upon
his
learning,
eloquence, or on any
special individual skills.
16.
... newcomer, it
can have a very bad ...
12&12 p.166,
Tradition Eight
When an
A.A. talks for
money, whether at a
meeting
or to a
single newcomer, it
can have a very
bad effect on
him, too.
17.
... newcomer plunged
into Twelfth Step work.
12&12 p.142,
Tradition Three
18.
... newcomer that
more is being asked of ...
12&12 p.49,
Step Four
So when
A.A. suggests a
fearless moral inventory, it
must seem to every
newcomer that more
is being
asked of him than he can do.
19.
... newcomer thinks,
is just about the last ...
12&12 p.26,
Step Two
This, the
newcomer thinks,
is just about the
last straw.
20.
... newcomer to
decide himself whether he was ...
12&12 p.141,
Tradition Three
Why did we
leave it to each
newcomer to
decide himself whether
he was an
alcoholic and whether he should
join us?
21.
... newcomer wanted
his family to know immediately ...
12&12 p.185,
Tradition Twelve
As a
rule, the
average
newcomer wanted his
family to
know immediately what he was
trying to do.
22.
... newcomer who
sat next to me.
12&12 p.163,
Tradition Seven
"I
heard all this quite
plainly, as I was
piously
trying to
convert a
newcomer who
sat next to me.
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