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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... open.
12&12 p.34,
Step Three
All we
need is a
key, and the
decision to
swing the
door open.
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
Let's
dispose of what
appears to be a
hazardous
open end we have
left.
5.
... open invitation
to a drunk on a ...
12&12 p.167,
Tradition Eight
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
Third, all you really
need is
a
truly open mind.
8.
... open mind."
12&12 p.26,
Step Two
Again I say, all you
need is the
open mind."
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
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
Why
lay ourselves
open to being
branded fanatics or
religious bores?
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
20.
... open, we
believe, to all men.
BB p.46,
We Agnostics
It is
open, we
believe, to
all
men.
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
If our
manner is
calm,
frank, and
open, we will be
gratified with the
result.
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.
Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous
and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
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