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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
PEACE occurs
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1.
... peace.
12&12 p.44,
Step Four
Whenever a
human being
becomes a
battleground
for the
instincts, there can be no
peace.
2.
... peace.
12&12 p.47,
Step Four
We had to
drink because our
nation had
won a
war or
lost a
peace.
3.
... peace.
BB p.84,
Into Action
We will
comprehend the
word serenity and we will
know peace.
4.
... peace and
ease.
BB p.75,
Into Action
We can be alone at
perfect peace and
ease.
5.
... peace and
harmony, what was to become ...
12&12 p.130,
Tradition One
If
strong people were
stalemated in the
search
for
peace and
harmony, what
was to
become of our
erratic band of
alcoholics?
6.
... peace and
less brotherhood than before.
12&12 p.37,
Step Three
The
sum of all this
mighty effort is
less peace and
less brotherhood than before.
7.
... peace and
serenity as I had never ...
BB p.14,
Bill's Story
There was a
sense of
victory,
followed by such
a
peace and
serenity as I
had
never known.
8.
... peace, and
so we listed the people ...
12&12 p.108,
Step Twelve
We had to
begin to make our
peace, and so we
listed the people
we had
harmed and
became
willing to
set things
right.
9.
... peace, and
usefulness, in a way of ...
BB p.8,
Bill's Story
I was to
know happiness,
peace, and
usefulness,
in a way of
life that is
incredibly more
wonderful as
time passes.
10.
... peace, happiness,
and sense of direction flowed ...
BB p.50,
We Agnostics
In the
face of
collapse
and
despair, in the
face of
the
total failure of their
human resources, they
found that a new
power,
peace,
happiness, and
sense of
direction flowed into them.
11.
... peace is
a priceless gift.
12&12 p.74,
Step Seven
To those of us who have
hitherto known only
excitement,
depression, or
anxiety
-- in other
words, to all of us -- this
newfound peace is a
priceless gift.
12.
... peace of
mind.
12&12 p.74,
Step Seven
We
enjoy moments in which
there is something like
real peace of
mind.
13.
... peace of
mind.
12&12 p.80,
Step Eight
If we
lie or
cheat, we
deprive others not only of their
worldly goods, but of their
emotional security
and
peace of
mind.
14.
... peace of
mind, and love of which ...
12&12 p.107,
Step Twelve
He
finds himself in
possession of a
degree of
honesty,
tolerance,
unselfishness,
peace of
mind, and
love of which he had
thought himself quite
incapable.
15.
... peace of
mind, as we discovered we ...
BB p.63,
How It Works
16.
... peace of
mind at the expense of ...
12&12 p.84,
Step Nine
While we may be quite
willing to
reveal the very
worst, we
must be
sure to
remember that we cannot
buy
our
own peace of
mind at the
expense of others.
17.
... peace of
mind in a sorely troubled ...
12&12 p.108,
Step Twelve
18.
... peace of
mind than this one.
12&12 p.55,
Step Five
But
scarcely any
Step is
more
necessary to
longtime sobriety and
peace of
mind than this one.
19.
... peace of
mind which can stand firm ...
12&12 p.104,
Step Eleven
20.
... peace of
mind will still elude him; ...
12&12 p.50,
Step Four
By now the
newcomer has
probably arrived at the
following conclusions: that his
character defects,
representing instincts gone astray, have been the
primary cause of his
drinking and his
failure
at
life; that
unless he is
now
willing to
work hard at the
elimination of
the
worst of these
defects, both
sobriety and
peace of
mind will still
elude him; that all the
faulty
foundation of his
life
will have to be
torn out and
built anew on
bedrock.
21.
... peace on
earth and good will to ...
BB p.16,
Bill's Story
Each
day my
friend's
simple talk in our
kitchen multiplies
itself in a
widening circle of
peace on
earth and
good will to
men.
22.
... peace, partnership,
and brotherhood with all men ...
12&12 p.77,
Step Eight
23.
... peace that
could not be deeply shaken ...
12&12 p.116,
Step Twelve
These were the new
attitudes that finally
brought many of us an
inner strength and
peace that could
not be
deeply shaken by
the
shortcomings of others or by any
calamity not of our
own making.
24.
... peace --
that where there is hatred, I ...
12&12 p.99,
Step Eleven
"
Lord, make me a
channel of
thy peace -- that where there
is
hatred, I may bring
love
-- that where there is
wrong, I may bring the
spirit of
forgiveness --
that where there is
discord, I may bring
harmony -- that where there is
error, I may bring
truth --
that where there is
doubt, I may bring
faith -- that where there is
despair, I may bring
hope --
that where there are
shadows, I may bring
light -- that where there is
sadness, I may bring
joy.
25.
... peace was
to be had unless we ...
12&12 p.76,
Step Seven
Therefore, no
peace was to be had
unless we could find a
means
of
reducing these
demands.
26.
... peace with
himself and with his fellows.
12&12 p.76,
Step Seven
Each of us would like to
live at
peace with himself and with his
fellows.
27.
... peace with
ourselves and show others who ...
12&12 p.122,
Step Twelve
When, with
God's
help, we
calmly accepted our
lot, then we
found we could
live at
peace with ourselves and
show others who still
suffered the same
fears that
they could get over them, too.
28.
... peace with
ourselves, the conviction follows that ...
12&12 p.89,
Step Ten
When our
inventory is
carefully taken, and we
have made
peace with ourselves, the
conviction follows that
tomorrow's
challenges can be
met as
they
come.
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