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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... ready?"
12&12 p.68,
Step Six
The only
question will be "Are we
ready?"
2.
... ready acceptance?
BB p.48,
We Agnostics
Why this
ready acceptance?
3.
... ready; that
we could at last abandon ...
BB p.63,
How It Works
We
thought well before
taking this
step making sure we were
ready; that we could at
last abandon ourselves
utterly
to Him.
4.
... ready to
aim at spiritual and moral ...
12&12 p.68,
Step Six
Therefore, it
seems plain
that few of us can
quickly or
easily become ready to
aim at
spiritual and
moral perfection; we
want to
settle for only as much
perfection as will get us by in
life,
according, of
course, to our
various and
sundry ideas of what will
get us by.
5.
... ready to
do anything which will lift ...
12&12 p.24,
Step One
We
stand ready to do anything
which will
lift the
merciless obsession
from us.
6.
... ready to
do business.
BB p.159,
A Vision For You
I'm
ready to do
business.
7.
... ready to
go to these people, to ...
12&12 p.84,
Step Nine
Then we are
ready to go to these people, to tell them
what
A.A. is, and what we are
trying to do.
8.
... ready to
have all such defects taken ...
12&12 p.68,
Step Six
Some people, of
course, may
conclude that they are
indeed ready to have all such
defects taken from them.
9.
... ready to
have God remove all these ...
12&12 p.63,
Step Six
"Were
entirely ready to
have
God remove all these
defects of
character."
10.
... ready to
have God remove all these ...
12&12 p.65,
Step Six
So
Step Six -- "Were
entirely ready to have
God remove all these
defects of
character" --
is
A.A.'s way of
stating the
best possible attitude one can take in
order to make a
beginning
on this
lifetime job.
11.
... ready to
have God remove all these ...
BB p.59,
How It Works
6. Were
entirely ready to
have
God remove all these
defects of
character.
12.
... ready" to
have God remove the mania ...
12&12 p.64,
Step Six
So in a very
complete and
literal way, all
A.A.'s have "
become entirely ready" to have
God remove the
mania for
alcohol from their
lives.
13.
... ready to
let God remove from us ...
BB p.76,
Into Action
Are we now
ready to let
God remove from us all the things which we have
admitted are
objectionable?
14.
... ready to
receive it.
12&12 p.107,
Step Twelve
What he has
received is a
free gift, and
yet usually, at
least in some
small part, he has made himself
ready to
receive it.
15.
... ready to
receive this gift lies in ...
12&12 p.107,
Step Twelve
16.
... ready to
stop.
BB p.135,
The Family Afterward
He
admitted he was
overdoing these things, but
frankly said that he was not
ready to
stop.
17.
... ready to
take certain steps.
BB p.58,
How It Works
If you have
decided you
want what we have and are
willing to go to any
length
to get it -- then you are
ready to take
certain steps.
18.
... ready to
walk in that direction.
12&12 p.68,
Step Six
We shall
need to
raise our
eyes toward perfection, and be
ready to
walk in that
direction.
19.
... ready" underline
the fact that we want ...
12&12 p.65,
Step Six
The
key words "
entirely ready"
underline the
fact that we
want to
aim at the very
best we
know or can
learn.
20.
... ready, we
say something like this: "My ...
BB p.76,
Into Action
When
ready, we say something like this: "My
Creator, I am now
willing
that you should have all of me,
good and
bad.
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