From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... open.
12&12 p.34,
Step Three
2.
... open.
12&12 p.185,
Tradition Twelve
Between these lines, it is
easy to read our fear that large numbers of incoming people might break our anonymity wide open.
3.
... open and
honest sharing of our terrible ...
12&12 p.62,
Step Five
This feeling of being at
one with God and man, this emerging from isolation through the
open and honest sharing of our terrible burden of guilt, brings us to a resting place where we may prepare ourselves for the following Steps toward a full and meaningful sobriety.
4.
... open end
we have left.
12&12 p.69,
Step Six
5.
... open invitation
to a drunk on a ...
12&12 p.167,
Tradition Eight
Even more important, an empty club couldn't answer its telephone, but it was an
open invitation to a drunk on a binge who possessed a spare key.
6.
... open it
some more.
12&12 p.35,
Step Three
Once we have placed the key of willingness in the
lock and have the door ever so slightly open, we find that we can always open it some more.
7.
... open mind.
12&12 p.26,
Step Two
8.
... open mind."
12&12 p.26,
Step Two
9.
... open mind.
12&12 p.27,
Step Two
Time after time, my instructors held up to me the basic principle of all scientific progress: search and research, again and again, always with the open mind.
10.
... open mind
can lead us to faith, ...
12&12 p.33,
Step Two
True humility and an open mind can lead us to faith, and every A.A. meeting is an assurance
that God will restore us to sanity if we
rightly relate ourselves to Him.
11.
... open minded
on spiritual matters as we ...
BB p.48,
We Agnostics
Faced with alcoholic destruction, we soon became as open minded on spiritual matters as we had tried to be
on other questions.
12.
... open-minded to
conviction and as willing to ...
12&12 p.24,
Step One
Then, and only then, do we become as open-minded to conviction and as willing to listen as the dying can be.
13.
... open-mindedness.
12&12 p.68,
Step Six
If we would gain any real advantage in the use of this Step on problems other than alcohol, we shall need to make a brand new venture into open-mindedness.
14.
... open mindedness
are the essentials of recovery.
BB p.568(570),
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience
15.
... open the
channel so that where there ...
12&12 p.109,
Step Twelve
The persistent use of meditation and prayer, we
found, did open the channel so that where there had been a trickle, there now was a river which led to sure power and safe guidance from God as we were increasingly better able to understand Him.
16.
... open to
being branded fanatics or religious ...
BB p.77,
Into Action
17.
... open to
interested friends and the public, ...
12&12 p.186,
Tradition Twelve
Consequently, many groups began to hold meetings which were
open to interested friends and the public, so
that the average citizen
could see for himself just what A.A. was all about.
18.
... open to
the chance of making foolish, ...
12&12 p.60,
Step Five
Surely, then, a novice ought not lay himself open to the chance of making foolish, perhaps tragic, blunders in this fashion.
19.
... open to
the immense values which have ...
12&12 p.74,
Step Seven
Our eyes begin to open to the immense values which have come straight out of painful ego-puncturing.
20.
... open, we
believe, to all men.
BB p.46,
We Agnostics
21.
... open, we
find that we can always ...
12&12 p.35,
Step Three
Once we have placed the key of willingness in the
lock and have the door ever so slightly open, we find that we can always open it some more.
22.
... open, we
will be gratified with the ...
BB p.78,
Into Action
23.
... open window,
or the medicine cabinet where ...
BB p.6,
Bill's Story
Again I swayed dizzily before an open window, or the medicine cabinet where
there was poison, cursing
myself for a weakling.
24.
... open with
wonder as they move from ...
12&12 p.110,
Step Twelve
To watch the eyes of men and women open with wonder as they move from darkness into light, to see their lives quickly fill with new purpose and meaning, to see whole families reassembled,
to see the alcoholic outcast received back into his community in
full citizenship, and
above all to watch these people awaken to the presence of a loving God in their lives -- these things are the substance
of what we receive as we carry A.A.'s message to the next alcoholic.
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