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From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... order!
BB
How It Works, p.60
2.
... order.
BB
Into Action, p.77
3.
... order.
BB
A Vision For You, p.164
4.
... order.
12&12
Step Eight, p.77
5.
... order and
on our terms.
12&12
Step Eleven, p.104
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
Into Action, p.79
7.
... order of
things, were the essential requirements.
BB
Bill's Story, pp.13-14
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
Step Twelve, p.124
9.
... order to
be useful and profoundly happy.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.124
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
Step Twelve, p.124
11.
... order to
get more liquor for the ...
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.177
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
Step Ten, p.92
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
Step Six, p.65
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
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience, p.567
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
Foreword to Second Edition, p.xvi
16.
... order to
stay alive himself.
12&12
Step One, p.24
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
Foreword to Fourth Edition, p.xxiv
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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