From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... order.
12&12 p.77,
Step Eight
2.
... order!
BB p.60,
How It Works
3.
... order.
BB p.77,
Into Action
4.
... order.
BB p.164,
A Vision For You
5.
... order and
on our terms.
12&12 p.104,
Step Eleven
We discover that we do receive guidance for our
lives to just about the extent that we stop making demands upon God to give it to us on order and on our
terms.
6.
... order for
his arrest.
BB p.79,
Into Action
7.
... order of
things, were the essential requirements.
BB p.14,
Bill's Story
Belief in the power of God, plus enough willingness, honesty and humility to establish and maintain
the new order of things, were the essential
requirements.
8.
... order to
be praised.
12&12 p.124,
Step Twelve
9.
... order to
be useful and profoundly happy.
12&12 p.124,
Step Twelve
Still more wonderful is the feeling
that we do not have to be specially distinguished among our
fellows in order to be useful and profoundly happy.
10.
... order to
gain self-importance.
12&12 p.124,
Step Twelve
11.
... order to
get more liquor for the ...
BB p.177,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
My phobia for sleeplessness demanded that I get drunk every night, but in order to get more liquor for the next night, I had to stay sober during the day, at least up to four o'clock.
12.
... order to
keep our balance.
12&12 p.92,
Step Ten
Although these attitudes are common enough, we A.A.'s find we need something much better in order to keep our balance.
13.
... order to
make a beginning on this ...
12&12 p.65,
Step Six
So Step Six -- "Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character" --
is A.A.'s way of stating the best possible attitude one can take in order to make a beginning on this lifetime job.
14.
... order to
recover they must acquire an ...
BB p.567(569),
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience
Though it was not our intention to create such an impression, many alcoholics have nevertheless concluded that in order to
recover they must acquire an immediate and
overwhelming "God-consciousness" followed at once by a vast change in feeling and outlook.
15.
... order to
save himself he must carry ...
BB xvi,
Foreword to Second Edition
16.
... order to
stay alive himself.
12&12 p.24,
Step One
No, the average alcoholic, self-centered in the extreme,
doesn't care for this prospect -- unless he has
to do these things in order
to stay alive himself.
17.
... order to
stay sober and help other ...
BB xxiv,
Foreword to Fourth Edition
In any meeting, anywhere, A.A.'s share experience, strength, and hope with each other, in order to stay sober and help other alcoholics.
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