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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
PROGRESS occurs
23 times
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1.
... progress.
12&12 p.49,
Step Four
2.
... progress.
12&12 p.68,
Step Six
They are
goals toward which
we
look, and the
measuring sticks by which
we
estimate our
progress.
3.
... progress.
12&12 p.94,
Step Ten
Someone who
knew what he was
talking about once
remarked that
pain was the
touchstone of all
spiritual progress.
4.
... progress.
BB p.60,
How It Works
The
principles we have
set down are
guides to
progress.
5.
... progress.
BB p.78,
Into Action
Rarely do we
fail to make
satisfactory progress.
6.
... progress.
BB p.100,
Working With Others
Both you and the new
man must
walk day by
day in the
path of
spiritual progress.
7.
... progress.
BB p.127,
The Family Afterward
Let them
praise his
progress.
8.
... progress.
BB xx,
Foreword to Second Edition
Without such
support,
A.A.
could have made only the
slowest progress.
9.
... progress, and any real ability to cope ...
12&12 p.48,
Step Four
But all who are in the
least reasonable will
agree upon
one
point: that there is
plenty wrong with us
alcoholics about which
plenty will have to be done if we are to
expect sobriety,
progress, and any
real ability to
cope with
life.
10.
... progress had you not taken action.
BB p.94,
Working With Others
Tell him you once
felt as he does, but you
doubt whether you would have made much
progress had you not
taken action.
11.
... progress in A.A., it amounts to a ...
12&12 p.58,
Step Five
To those who have made
progress in
A.A., it
amounts to a
clear recognition of what
and who we really are,
followed by a
sincere attempt to
become what we could be.
12.
... progress in the building of character.
12&12 p.65,
Step Six
He
asks only that we
try as
best we
know how to make
progress in the
building of
character.
13.
... progress in the last century than in ...
BB p.51,
We Agnostics
This
world of ours has made more
material progress in the
last century than in all the
millenniums which went before.
14.
... progress; it never preceded.
BB p.127,
The Family Afterward
For us,
material well-being always
followed spiritual progress; it
never preceded.
15.
... progress, not for perfection.
12&12 p.91,
Step Ten
We shall
look for
progress,
not for
perfection.
16.
... progress rather than spiritual perfection.
BB p.60,
How It Works
17.
... progress: search and research, again and again, ...
12&12 p.27,
Step Two
Time after
time, my
instructors held up to me
the
basic principle of
all
scientific progress:
search and
research,
again and again, always with the
open mind.
18.
... progress since the last time.
12&12 p.89,
Step Ten
Then there are those
occasions when alone, or in
the
company of our
sponsor or
spiritual adviser, we make a
careful
review of our
progress since
the
last time.
19.
... progress told us there was nothing man ...
12&12 p.29,
Step Two
Scientific progress told
us there was
nothing man
couldn't do.
20.
... progress was painfully slow.
BB p.51,
We Agnostics
21.
... progress we are under heavy pressure and ...
12&12 p.74,
Step Seven
At this
stage of our
progress
we are under
heavy pressure and
coercion to
do the
right thing.
22.
... progress, we saw through these fallacies.
12&12 p.115,
Step Twelve
As we made
spiritual progress, we saw through these
fallacies.
23.
... progress will be rapid.
BB p.134,
The Family Afterward
From that
point on,
progress
will be
rapid.
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