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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... old 24th
Street Clubhouse.
12&12 p.163,
Tradition Seven
2.
... old acquaintance
stuck a tousled and aching ...
12&12 p.162,
Tradition Seven
3.
... old affair
and angrily cast its ashes ...
BB p.124,
The Family Afterward
Then, under one
provocation or another, the
aggrieved one would
unearth the
old affair and
angrily cast its ashes about.
4.
... old affair,
he was afraid it would ...
BB p.80,
Into Action
If he
opened that
old affair, he was
afraid it
would
destroy the
reputation of his
partner,
disgrace his
family and take away his
means
of
livelihood.
5.
... old age?
12&12 p.121,
Step Twelve
How could we ever take
care of those
awful debts,
possess a
decent home,
educate the
kids, and
set something by for
old age?
6.
... old, an
event occurred demonstrating this principle.
12&12 p.135,
Tradition Two
7.
... old as
man himself.
BB p.55,
We Agnostics
For
faith in a
Power greater than ourselves, and
miraculous demonstrations of that
power in
human lives, are
facts as
old as
man himself.
8.
... old attitudes
toward our instincts need to ...
12&12 p.114,
Step Twelve
9.
... old, baffling
malady, alcoholism.
12&12 p.15,
Foreword
10.
... old block.
12&12 p.123,
Step Twelve
But now we see ourselves as
chips off the same
old block.
11.
... old boy
was on fire all right.
BB p.9,
Bill's Story
Yes, the
old boy was on
fire all
right.
12.
... old buildings
will eventually be replaced by ...
BB p.123,
The Family Afterward
13.
... old business
associates remained skeptical for a ...
BB p.15,
Bill's Story
14.
... old days.
BB p.102,
Working With Others
Why
sit with a
long face in
places where there is
drinking,
sighing about
the
good old days.
15.
... old days
will soon be back, they ...
BB p.123,
The Family Afterward
The
good old days will soon be back, they
think.
16.
... old fierce
determination to win came back.
BB p.4,
Bill's Story
17.
... old financial
statement.
12&12 p.136,
Tradition Two
18.
... old folks
were right after all."
BB p.159,
A Vision For You
I
guess the
old folks were
right after all."
19.
... old game
again, for he isn't happy ...
BB p.152,
A Vision For You
He will
presently try the
old game again, for he isn't
happy about his
sobriety.
20.
... old hospital
in despair.
BB p.15,
Bill's Story
Many
times I have
gone to my
old hospital in
despair.
21.
... old ideas
and the result was nil ...
BB p.58,
How It Works
Some of us have
tried to
hold
on to our
old ideas and the
result was
nil until we let
go
absolutely.
22.
... old ideas
for new, by the complete ...
BB p.52,
We Agnostics
Is not our
age characterized by the
ease with which we
discard
old ideas for new, by the
complete readiness with
which we
throw away the
theory or
gadget which does
not
work for something new which does?
23.
... old, insidious
insanity -- that first drink.
BB p.154,
A Vision For You
Again it was the
old,
insidious insanity --
that
first drink.
24.
... old life,
and the beginning of his ...
12&12 p.26,
Step Two
And so it is: the
beginning of the
end of his
old life, and the
beginning of
his
emergence into a new one.
25.
... old life
to find one much better.
BB p.120,
To Wives
You will
lose the
old life to find one much
better.
26.
... old manner
of life was by no ...
BB p.43,
More About Alcoholism
My
old manner of
life was by no
means a
bad one, but I would not
exchange its best moments for the
worst I have now.
27.
... old pangs
of anxious apartness.
12&12 p.57,
Step Five
But we soon
discovered that while we weren't
alone any more in a
social sense, we still
suffered
many of the
old pangs of
anxious apartness.
28.
... old perplexities,
but our own experience does ...
12&12 p.117,
Step Twelve
29.
... old pleasures
were gone.
BB p.151,
A Vision For You
The
old pleasures were
gone.
30.
... old prejudice.
BB p.12,
Bill's Story
31.
... old problems
will still be with you.
BB p.117,
To Wives
Many of the
old problems
will still be with you.
32.
... old public
health and social problem, alcoholism ...
BB p.571(573),
Appendix IV, The Lasker Award
33.
... old relationship
is to be resumed it ...
BB p.99,
Working With Others
If their
old relationship is to be
resumed it
must be on a
better basis, since the
former did not
work.
34.
... old riddle
of alcoholism, He can solve ...
BB p.116,
To Wives
If
God can
solve the
age-
old riddle of
alcoholism, He
can
solve your
problems
too.
35.
... old school
friend asked if he might ...
BB p.8,
Bill's Story
The
cheery voice of an
old school friend asked if he might
come over.
36.
... old scrapes,
helping to settle family differences, ...
BB p.161,
A Vision For You
37.
... old, some
perhaps forgotten, and some still ...
12&12 p.77,
Step Eight
38.
... old story
and airplane travel was in ...
BB p.52,
We Agnostics
Only
thirty years later the
conquest of the
air was almost an
old story and
airplane travel was in
full swing.
39.
... old sweet
selves, only to dash the ...
BB p.107,
To Wives
For a while they would be their
old sweet selves, only to
dash the new
structure of
affection to
pieces once
more.
40.
... old threadbare
idea that this time we ...
BB p.24,
There Is A Solution
If these
thoughts occur,
they are
hazy and
readily
supplanted with the
old
threadbare idea that
this
time we shall
handle
ourselves like other people.
41.
... old tombstone:
BB p.1,
Bill's Story
42.
... old ways,
for these disciplines are not ...
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.
43.
... old Winchester
Cathedral came back again.
BB p.10,
Bill's Story
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