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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... program.
12&12 p.107,
Step Twelve
2.
... program.
12&12 p.152,
Tradition Five
"Then,
hesitantly, I
ventured to
talk about the
spiritual side of our
program.
3.
... program.
BB p.94,
Working With Others
Your
candidate may
give
reasons why he
need not
follow all of the
program.
4.
... program.
BB p.113,
To Wives
Avoid urging him to
follow our
program.
5.
... program.
BB p.126,
The Family Afterward
They
criticize,
pointing out how he is
falling down on his
spiritual program.
6.
... program.
BB p.568(570),
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience
We find that no one
need have
difficulty with the
spirituality of the
program.
7.
... program."
BB p.569(571),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
I now
conceive the
psychiatrist's
job to be
the
task of
breaking down
the
patient's
inner resistance so that which is
inside him will
flower, as
under the
activity of the
A.A. program."
8.
... program.
BB xx,
Foreword to Second Edition
Other
thousands came to a
few
A.A. meetings and at
first decided they didn't
want the
program.
9.
... program..."; and
still another, "We saw a ...
12&12 p.180,
Tradition Eleven
One
voice says, "I
read a
piece in the
newspapers..."; another, "We
heard a
radio program..."; and still another, "We saw a
moving picture..." or "We
saw something about
A.A. on
television...."
10.
... program as
a guide for husbands, wives, ...
BB p.121,
To Wives (Note)
11.
... program as
enthusiastically as I could.
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.
12.
... program at
once.
BB p.113,
To Wives
He may not
share your
enthusiasm, but he is
practically sure to
read the book and he may go for the
program at once.
13.
... program can
be practiced with success only ...
12&12 p.40,
Step Three
Then it is
explained that other
Steps of the
A.A. program can be
practiced with
success only when
Step Three is
given a
determined and
persistent trial.
14.
... program can
work for me too."
BB xii,
Preface
If you have a
drinking problem, we
hope that you may
pause in
reading one of
the
forty-
two personal stories and
think: "Yes, that
happened
to me"; or, more
important, "Yes, I've
felt like that"; or, most
important, "Yes, I
believe this
program can
work for me too."
15.
... program come
in.
12&12 p.40,
Step Three
That is just where the
remaining Steps of the
A.A. program come in.
16.
... program day
by day.
BB p.99,
Working With Others
Let the
alcoholic continue his
program day by
day.
17.
... program for
anyone concerned with a drinking ...
BB p.19,
There Is A Solution
This should
suggest a
useful program for anyone
concerned with a
drinking problem.
18.
... program, for
nothing will be so helpful ...
BB p.117,
To Wives
We
urge you to
try our
program, for
nothing will be so
helpful to your
husband
as the
radically changed attitude toward him which
God will
show you how to have.
19.
... program, has
been left untouched in the ...
BB xi,
Preface
20.
... program has
been made.
12&12 p.39,
Step Three
Of
course the
sponsor points out that our
friend's
life is still
unmanageable even though he is
sober, that after all, only a
bare start on
A.A.'s
program has been made.
21.
... program has
brought recovery to those of ...
BB xxii,
Foreword to Third Edition
The
basic principles of
the
A.A. program, it
appears,
hold good for
individuals with
many
different lifestyles, just as the
program has brought
recovery to
those of many
different nationalities.
22.
... program in
our daily lives so that ...
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.
23.
... program, it
appears, hold good for individuals ...
BB xxii,
Foreword to Third Edition
The
basic principles of
the
A.A. program, it
appears,
hold good for
individuals with
many
different lifestyles, just as the
program has brought
recovery to
those of many
different nationalities.
24.
... program, making
a better practical use of ...
BB p.130,
The Family Afterward
Nothing will
help the
man who is off on a
spiritual
tangent so much as the
wife
who
adopts a
sane spiritual program,
making a
better practical use of it.
25.
... program may
be called los Doce Pasos ...
BB xxii,
Foreword to Third Edition
26.
... program of
action.
BB p.9,
Bill's Story
They had told of a
simple religious idea and a
practical program of
action.
27.
... program of
action and rest on our ...
BB p.85,
Into Action
It is
easy to let up on the
spiritual program of
action and
rest on our
laurels.
28.
... program of
action, explaining how you made ...
BB p.94,
Working With Others
Outline the
program of
action,
explaining how
you made a
self-
appraisal, how you
straightened out your
past and why you are now
endeavoring to be
helpful to him.
29.
... program of
action, though entirely sensible, was ...
BB p.42,
More About Alcoholism
But the
program of
action,
though
entirely sensible, was
pretty drastic.
30.
... program of
action which a hundred of ...
BB p.42,
More About Alcoholism
"Then they
outlined the
spiritual answer and
program of
action which a
hundred of them had
followed successfully.
31.
... program of
recovery:
BB p.59,
How It Works
Here are the
steps we took, which are
suggested as a
program of
recovery:
32.
... program of
recovery.
BB p.96,
Working With Others
He has
read this
volume and
says he is
prepared to go through with the
Twelve Steps of the
program of
recovery.
33.
... program of
recovery he can go anywhere ...
BB p.147,
To Employers
If he is
conscientiously following the
program of
recovery he can go anywhere your
business may call him.
34.
... program of
recovery mentioned in the preceding ...
BB p.72,
Into Action
This brings us to the
Fifth Step in the
program of
recovery mentioned in
the
preceding chapter.
35.
... program requires
no willpower; here is one ...
12&12 p.61,
Step Five
No one ought to say the
A.A. program requires no
willpower; here is one place you may
require all you've got.
36.
... program, the
process has begun.
12&12 p.83,
Step Nine
The
moment we tell our
families that we are really
going to
try the
program, the
process has
begun.
37.
... program, they
wondered why they fell.
BB p.73,
Into Action
Having
persevered with the
rest of the
program, they
wondered why they
fell.
38.
... program unless
they have hit bottom.
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.
39.
... program, usually
men and women who are ...
BB p.58,
How It Works
Those who do not
recover are people who cannot or
will not
completely give
themselves to this
simple program, usually
men and
women who are
constitutionally incapable of being
honest
with themselves.
40.
... program will
rest upon how well and ...
12&12 p.34,
Step Three
In
fact, the
effectiveness of the
whole A.A. program will
rest upon how well and
earnestly we have
tried
to
come to "a
decision to
turn our will and our
lives
over to the
care of
God as we
understood Him."
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