From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... received, and
a willingness to try for ...
12&12 p.95,
Step Ten
An honest regret for harms done, a genuine gratitude for blessings received, and a willingness to try for better things tomorrow will be the permanent assets we shall seek.
2.
... received, and
learned that many knew of ...
BB p.156,
A Vision For You
3.
... received and
sleep in good conscience.
12&12 p.95,
Step Ten
Having so considered our day, not omitting to take due note of things well done, and having searched our hearts with neither fear nor favor, we can truly thank God for the blessings we have
received and sleep in good conscience.
4.
... received anything
or not.
12&12 p.109,
Step Twelve
And then he discovers that by the divine paradox of this kind of giving he has found his own reward, whether his brother has yet received anything or not.
5.
... received back
into his community in full ...
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.
6.
... received, freely
give."
12&12 p.166,
Tradition Eight
7.
... received; freely
give..." is the core of ...
12&12 p.110,
Step Twelve
8.
... received from
God.
12&12 p.60,
Step Five
It is worth noting that people of very high spiritual development almost always insist on checking with friends or
spiritual advisers
the guidance they feel
they have received from God.
9.
... received into
its membership a salesman we ...
12&12 p.143,
Tradition Three
Not long after the man with the double stigma knocked for admission, A.A.'s other group received into its membership a salesman
we shall call Ed.
10.
... received is
a free gift, and yet ...
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.
11.
... received the
gift of faith, a faith ...
12&12 p.30,
Step Two
12.
... received the
money and used the incident ...
BB p.80,
Into Action
He subsequently denied having received the money and used the incident as a basis for discrediting the man.
13.
... received when
a prominent doctor in Chicago ...
BB p.140,
To Employers
I well remember the shock I received when a prominent doctor in Chicago told me of cases where pressure of the
spinal fluid actually ruptured the brain.
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