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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... order.
12&12 p.77,
Step Eight
This is a very
large order.
2.
... order!
BB p.60,
How It Works
Many of us
exclaimed, "What an
order!
3.
... order.
BB p.77,
Into Action
At the
moment we are
trying to
put our
lives in
order.
4.
... order.
BB p.164,
A Vision For You
The
answers will
come, if
your
own house is in
order.
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
She went to
court and got an
order for his
arrest.
7.
... order of
things, were the essential requirements.
BB p.14,
Bill's Story
8.
... order to
be praised.
12&12 p.124,
Step Twelve
We no
longer seek fame and
honor in
order to be
praised.
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
We no
longer strive to
dominate or
rule those about
us in
order to
gain self-
importance.
11.
... 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.
12.
... 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.
13.
... order to
recover they must acquire an ...
BB p.567(569),
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience
14.
... order to
save himself he must carry ...
BB xvi,
Foreword to Second Edition
He
suddenly realized
that in
order to
save himself
he
must carry his
message to another
alcoholic.
15.
... 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.
16.
... 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.
Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous
and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
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