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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... practice.
12&12 p.181,
Tradition Eleven
It is the
opposite in many
ways of
usual promotional practice.
2.
... practice a
genuine humility.
12&12 p.192,
Tradition Twelve (Long)
It
reminds us that we are to place
principles before
personalities; that we are
actually to
practice a
genuine humility.
3.
... practice a
genuine humility.
BB p.566(568),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
It
reminds us that we are to place
principles before
personalities; that we are
actually to
practice a
genuine humility.
4.
... practice A.A.'s
Twelve Steps.
12&12 p.112,
Step Twelve
We
know this because we see
monotony,
pain, and even
calamity turned to
good use by those who
keep on
trying to
practice A.A.'s
Twelve Steps.
5.
... practice all
Twelve Steps of the program ...
12&12 p.106,
Step Twelve
Here we
begin to
practice all
Twelve Steps of the
program in our
daily lives so that we and those about us may find
emotional sobriety.
6.
... practice and
humility, they had deluded themselves ...
12&12 p.60,
Step Five
Lacking both
practice and
humility, they had
deluded themselves and were able to
justify the most
arrant nonsense on the
ground that
this was what
God had told them.
7.
... practice beneficial.
BB p.134,
The Family Afterward
Many of us have
noticed a
tendency to
eat sweets and have
found this
practice beneficial.
8.
... practice enables
us to lend a hand, ...
BB p.162,
A Vision For You
This
practice enables us to
lend a
hand, at the same
time avoiding certain alluring distractions of the
road,
about which any
traveling man can
inform you.(*)
9.
... practice has
become grooved, it will be ...
12&12 p.89,
Step Ten
Once this
healthy practice
has
become grooved, it
will be so
interesting and
profitable that the
time it
takes won't be
missed.
10.
... practice, it
can be suggested that he ...
12&12 p.50,
Step Four
Since
Step Four is but the
beginning of a
lifetime
practice, it can be
suggested that he
first
have a
look at those
personal flaws which are
acutely troublesome and
fairly obvious.
11.
... practice justice
and courtesy, perhaps going out ...
12&12 p.93,
Step Ten
With those we
dislike we can
begin to
practice justice and
courtesy,
perhaps
going out of our way to
understand and
help them.
12.
... practice of
A.A.'s Twelve Steps, they have ...
12&12 p.15,
Foreword
Many people,
nonalcoholics,
report that as a
result of
the
practice of
A.A.'s
Twelve Steps, they have been
able to
meet other
difficulties of
life.
13.
... practice of
admitting one's defects to another ...
12&12 p.56,
Step Five
This
practice of
admitting one's
defects
to another
person is, of
course, very
ancient.
14.
... practice of
it can mean to us.
12&12 p.70,
Step Seven
Since this
Step so
specifically concerns
itself with
humility, we should
pause here to
consider what
humility is and what the
practice of it can
mean to us.
15.
... practice of
Step Three.
12&12 p.41,
Step Three
Once we have
come into
agreement with these
ideas,
it is really
easy to
begin
the
practice of
Step Three.
16.
... practice of
that devotion as never before.
12&12 p.98,
Step Eleven
It is to be
hoped that every
A.A. who has a
religious connection which
emphasizes meditation
will
return to the
practice
of that
devotion as
never
before.
17.
... practice of
the Twelve Steps in our ...
12&12 p.107,
Step Twelve
18.
... practice of
these principles in all our ...
12&12 p.111,
Step Twelve
What about the
practice of these
principles in all our
affairs?
19.
... practice spiritual
principles, there is a much ...
BB p.97,
Working With Others
Should they
accept and
practice spiritual principles, there is a much
better chance that the
head of the
family will
recover.
20.
... practice the
A.A. program unless they have ...
12&12 p.24,
Step One
The
answer is that few people will
sincerely try to
practice the
A.A. program unless they have
hit bottom.
21.
... practice the
rest of A.A.'s program as ...
12&12 p.27,
Step Two
To
acquire it, I had only to
stop fighting and
practice the
rest of
A.A.'s
program as
enthusiastically as I could.
22.
... practice the
very precepts he knows so ...
BB p.93,
Working With Others
Perhaps your
story will
help
him see where he has
failed to
practice the very
precepts he
knows so well.
23.
... practice these
principles in all our affairs."
12&12 p.106,
Step Twelve
"Having had a
spiritual awakening as the
result of
these
steps, we
tried to
carry this
message to
alcoholics, and to
practice
these
principles in all our
affairs."
24.
... practice these
principles in all our affairs," ...
12&12 p.114,
Step Twelve
Our
basic troubles are
the same as
everyone else's, but when an
honest effort is made "to
practice these
principles in all our
affairs," well-
grounded A.A.'s
seem to have the
ability, by
God's
grace, to take these
troubles in
stride and
turn them into
demonstrations of
faith.
25.
... practice these
principles in all our affairs.
BB p.60,
How It Works
12. Having had a
spiritual
awakening as the
result
of these
steps, we
tried to
carry this
message to
alcoholics, and to
practice
these
principles in all our
affairs.
26.
... practice, we
usually find a solitary self-appraisal ...
BB p.72,
Into Action
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