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From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)

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REACH   occurs   12 times    (Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
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1.
... reach.   12&12 p.43, Step Four
Without a searching and fearless moral inventory, most of us have found that the faith which really works in daily living is still out of reach.


2.
... reach.   BB p.47, We Agnostics   Go to page 47 in the Big Book
Afterward, we found ourselves accepting many things which then seemed entirely out of reach.


3.
... reach.   BB xxiv, Foreword to Fourth Edition   Display entire Foreword to Fourth Edition
The stories added to this edition represent a membership whose characteristics -- of age, gender, race, and culture -- have widened and have deepened to encompass virtually everyone the first 100 members could have hoped to reach.


4.
... reach all important decisions by discussion, vote, ...   BB p.575, Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form)   Display entire Appendix VII
XII. The Conference shall observe the spirit of A.A. tradition, taking care that it never becomes the seat of perilous wealth or power; that sufficient operating funds and reserve be its prudent financial principle; that it place none of its members in a position of unqualified authority over others; that it reach all important decisions by discussion, vote, and, whenever possible, by substantial unanimity; that its actions never be personally punitive nor an incitement to public controversy; that it never perform acts of government, and that, like the Society it serves, it will always remain democratic in thought and action.

5.
... reach into forty foreign lands.(*)   12&12 p.18, Foreword
As A.A. now enters maturity, it has begun to reach into forty foreign lands.(*)


6.
... reach more alcoholics.   BB xii, Preface   Display entire 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.

7.
... reach of all who want it.   12&12 p.175, Tradition Nine
Just as the aim of each A.A. member is personal sobriety, the aim of our services is to bring sobriety within reach of all who want it.

8.
... reach of his help.   12&12 p.133, Tradition Two
He feels a spiritual and ethical compulsion, because hundreds may be suffering within reach of his help.

9.
... reach of our highest expectations.   12&12 p.156, Tradition Six
Providence, through A.A., had brought us within reach of our highest expectations.

10.
... reach quickly as many despairing alcoholics as ...   12&12 p.186, Tradition Twelve
The A.A. groups would have to reach quickly as many despairing alcoholics as they could.


11.
... reach solid ground.   BB p.107, To Wives   Go to page 107 in the Big Book
As animals on a treadmill, we have patiently and wearily climbed, falling back in exhaustion after each futile effort to reach solid ground.

12.
... reach, we shall be bound to construct ...   12&12 p.81, Step Eight
Then, as year by year we walk back through our lives as far as memory will reach, we shall be bound to construct a long list of people who have, to some extent or other, been affected.


Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.  The A.A. Preamble, copyright © The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission.  Permission to reprint does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous or The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.

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