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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
REASONABLE occurs
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1.
... reasonable amount
of latitude will be helpful.
BB p.146,
To Employers
A
reasonable amount of
latitude will be
helpful.
2.
... reasonable and
understandable that the question is ...
12&12 p.103,
Step Eleven
Of
course, it is
reasonable
and
understandable that the
question is often
asked:
"Why can't we take a
specific and
troubling dilemma straight to
God, and in
prayer secure from Him
sure and
definite answers to our
requests?"
3.
... reasonable approach
and interpretation.
BB p.53,
We Agnostics
We
agnostically inclined would not
feel satisfied with a
proposal which does not
lend
itself to
reasonable approach and
interpretation.
4.
... reasonable assumption
as a starting point.
BB p.48,
We Agnostics
Simply because it is
impossible to
explain
what we see,
feel,
direct,
and use, without a
reasonable assumption as a
starting point.
5.
... reasonable conception
whatever.
BB p.49,
We Agnostics
Actually, we used to have no
reasonable conception
whatever.
6.
... reasonable (or
so it seemed at the ...
12&12 p.155,
Tradition Six
The
moment we saw that we had an
answer for
alcoholism, it
was
reasonable (or so it
seemed at the
time) for us to
feel that we might have the
answer to a
lot of other things.
7.
... reasonable period.
BB p.137,
To Employers
Because of the
employee's
special ability, or of his
own strong personal attachment to
him, the
employer has sometimes
kept such a
man at
work long beyond a
reasonable period.
8.
... reasonable proportion
to the responsibility that each ...
BB p.574,
Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form)
9.
... reasonable --
that our resentments are the "right ...
12&12 p.46,
Step Four
Therefore we
think our
indignation is
justified and
reasonable --
that our
resentments are the "
right kind."
10.
... reasonable, why
we think it more sane ...
BB p.53,
We Agnostics
Hence we are at
pains to tell why we
think our
present faith is
reasonable, why we
think it more
sane and
logical to
believe than not
to
believe, why we say our
former thinking was
soft and
mushy when we
threw up our
hands in
doubt and said, "We don't
know."
11.
... reasonable will
agree upon one point: that ...
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.
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