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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... purpose.
12&12 p.42,
Step Four
2.
... purpose.
12&12 p.65,
Step Six
Since most of us are
born with an
abundance of
natural desires, it isn't
strange
that we often let these far
exceed their
intended purpose.
3.
... purpose.
12&12 p.85,
Step Nine
But if we have
prepared ourselves well in
advance, such
reactions
will not
deflect us from our
steady and even
purpose.
4.
... purpose.
12&12 p.91,
Step Ten
5.
... purpose.
12&12 p.151,
Tradition Five
There is another
reason for this
singleness of
purpose.
6.
... purpose."
12&12 p.155,
Tradition Six
7.
... purpose.
12&12 p.165,
Tradition Seven
The
pressure of that
fat treasury would
surely tempt the
board to
invent all
kinds of
schemes to do
good with such
funds, and so
divert A.A. from
its primary purpose.
8.
... purpose.
12&12 p.191,
Tradition Seven (Long)
9.
... purpose.
BB p.92,
Working With Others
10.
... purpose.
BB p.562(564),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
11.
... purpose.
BB p.564(566),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
12.
... purpose, a
member tells this story:
12&12 p.151,
Tradition Five
13.
... purpose, accompanied
by a growing consciousness of ...
BB p.130,
The Family Afterward
14.
... purpose and
action.
12&12 p.130,
Tradition One
15.
... purpose and
devotion to the religion of ...
12&12 p.112,
Step Twelve
And can we bring new
purpose and
devotion to the
religion
of our
choice?
16.
... purpose and
direction.
12&12 p.124,
Step Twelve
But
today, in well-
matured
A.A.'s, these
distorted drives have been
restored
to something like their
true purpose and
direction.
17.
... purpose and
direction to millions.
BB p.49,
We Agnostics
We have
learned that whatever the
human frailties of
various faiths may be, those
faiths have
given purpose and
direction to
millions.
18.
... purpose and
meaning, to see whole families ...
12&12 p.110,
Step Twelve
To
watch the
eyes of
men and
women open with
wonder as they
move from
darkness into
light, to see their
lives quickly fill with new
purpose and
meaning, to see
whole families reassembled, to see the
alcoholic outcast received back into his
community in
full citizenship, and above all to
watch these people
awaken to
the
presence of a
loving
God in their
lives -- these
things are the
substance of what we
receive as we
carry A.A.'s
message to the
next alcoholic.
19.
... purpose and
rhythm underlay all.
BB p.10,
Bill's Story
20.
... purpose for
lack of nourishment, so can ...
12&12 p.97,
Step Eleven
As the
body can
fail its purpose for
lack of
nourishment, so
can the
soul.
21.
... purpose has
been defeated.
12&12 p.166,
Tradition Eight
Every
time we have
tried to
professionalize our
Twelfth Step, the
result has been
exactly the
same: Our
single purpose has
been
defeated.
22.
... purpose is
to be served, past occurrences ...
BB p.125,
The Family Afterward
So we
think that
unless
some
good and
useful purpose is to be
served,
past occurrences should
not be
discussed.
23.
... purpose is
to fit ourselves to be ...
BB p.77,
Into Action
Our
real purpose is to
fit ourselves to be of
maximum
service to
God and the
people about us.
24.
... purpose is
to stay sober and help ...
Grapevine,
Preamble
25.
... purpose of
A.A.
12&12 p.153,
Tradition Five
It was
based foursquare
on the
single purpose of
A.A.
26.
... purpose of
A.A.'s Twelve Steps, and Step ...
12&12 p.40,
Step Three
27.
... purpose of
living.
12&12 p.71,
Step Seven
28.
... purpose of
making restitution to others is ...
12&12 p.80,
Step Eight
While the
purpose of
making
restitution to others is
paramount, it is
equally
necessary that we
extricate from an
examination of our
personal relations every
bit of
information about
ourselves and our
fundamental difficulties that we can.
29.
... purpose of
our lives, produced another bad ...
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
30.
... purpose of
pleasing ourselves and impressing other ...
12&12 p.120,
Step Twelve
We
threw money about in
every
direction with the
purpose of
pleasing ourselves
and
impressing other people.
31.
... purpose of
this book.
BB xiii,
Foreword to First Edition
To
show other
alcoholics
precisely how we have
recovered is the
main purpose of this book.
32.
... purpose of
this book to answer such ...
BB p.20,
There Is A Solution
It is the
purpose of this book to
answer such
questions specifically.
33.
... purpose, or,
in adversity, be able to ...
12&12 p.70,
Step Seven
Without it, they cannot
live to much
useful purpose, or, in
adversity, be able to
summon the
faith that can
meet any
emergency.
34.
... purpose --
that of carrying its message to ...
12&12 p.190,
Tradition Five (Long)
Five -- Each
Alcoholics
Anonymous group ought to
be a
spiritual entity
having but one
primary purpose -- that of
carrying its message to the
alcoholic who still
suffers.
35.
... purpose --
that of carrying its message to ...
BB p.563(565),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
5. Each
Alcoholics Anonymous group ought to be
a
spiritual entity
having but one
primary purpose -- that of
carrying its message to the
alcoholic who still
suffers.
36.
... purpose, the
active voice and the effective ...
BB p.574,
Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form)
37.
... purpose there
is but one ultimate authority ...
12&12 p.132,
Tradition Two
"For our
group purpose there
is but one
ultimate authority -- a
loving God as He may
express Himself
in our
group conscience.
38.
... purpose there
is but one ultimate authority ...
12&12 p.189,
Tradition Two (Long)
Two -- For our
group purpose there is but one
ultimate authority -- a
loving God as He may
express Himself in our
group
conscience.
39.
... purpose there
is but one ultimate authority ...
BB p.562(564),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
Two -- For our
group purpose there is but one
ultimate authority -- a
loving God as He may
express Himself in our
group
conscience.
40.
... purpose there
is but one ultimate authority ...
BB p.563(565),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
2. For our
group purpose
there is but one
ultimate authority -- a
loving God as He may
express Himself
in our
group conscience.
41.
... purpose --
to carry its message to the ...
12&12 p.150,
Tradition Five
"Each
group has but one
primary purpose -- to
carry its message to the
alcoholic
who still
suffers."
42.
... purpose --
to carry its message to the ...
BB p.562(564),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
Five -- Each
group has but
one
primary purpose -- to
carry its message to the
alcoholic
who still
suffers.
43.
... purpose: to
represent the current membership of ...
BB xii,
Preface
All
changes made over the
years in the
Big Book (
A.A. members'
fond nickname for this
volume) have had the same
purpose: to
represent the
current membership of
Alcoholics Anonymous
more
accurately, and thereby to
reach more
alcoholics.
44.
... purpose under
all conditions?
12&12 p.88,
Step Ten
45.
... purpose until
the habit of self-restraint has ...
12&12 p.91,
Step Ten
For we can neither
think nor
act to
good purpose until the
habit of
self-
restraint has
become automatic.
46.
... purpose was
being compromised, and the name ...
12&12 p.170,
Tradition Eight
A.A.'s
sole purpose was being
compromised, and the
name
of
Alcoholics Anonymous was being
misused.
47.
... purpose, we
are willing to announce our ...
BB p.77,
Into Action
When it will
serve any
good
purpose, we are
willing to
announce our
convictions with
tact and
common sense.
48.
... purpose, we
need not be worried.
BB p.50,
We Agnostics
Experience has
taught
us that these are
matters about which, for our
purpose, we
need not be
worried.
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