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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
RECOVERED occurs
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1.
... recovered.
BB p.17,
There Is A Solution
Nearly all have
recovered.
2.
... recovered.
BB p.29,
There Is A Solution
3.
... recovered.
BB p.90,
Working With Others
If he says yes, then his
attention should be
drawn to you as a
person who
has
recovered.
4.
... recovered.
BB p.113,
To Wives
He
knows that
thousands
of
men, much like himself, have
recovered.
5.
... recovered.
BB xxv(xxiii),
The Doctor's Opinion
This
man and over one
hundred others
appear to
have
recovered.
6.
... recovered alcoholics.
BB xv,
Foreword to Second Edition
7.
... recovered alcoholics
carried their message to still ...
12&12 p.17,
Foreword
8.
... recovered, and
have been given the power ...
BB p.132,
The Family Afterward
We have
recovered, and have been
given the
power to
help others.
9.
... recovered, but
holds a relatively unimportant job, ...
BB p.146,
To Employers
10.
... recovered from
a gastric hemorrhage and seemed ...
BB xxxi(xxix),
The Doctor's Opinion
11.
... recovered from
a hopeless condition of mind ...
BB p.20,
There Is A Solution
Doubtless you are
curious to
discover how
and why, in the
face of
expert opinion to the
contrary, we have
recovered
from a
hopeless condition of
mind and
body.
12.
... recovered from
a seemingly hopeless state of ...
BB xiii,
Foreword to First Edition
We, of
Alcoholics Anonymous, are more than one
hundred men and
women who have
recovered from a
seemingly hopeless state of
mind and
body.
13.
... recovered from
serious drinking, are miracles of ...
BB p.133,
The Family Afterward
We, who have
recovered from
serious drinking, are
miracles of
mental health.
14.
... recovered immediately
and became A.A. number three.
BB xvii,
Foreword to Second Edition
15.
... recovered in
A.A., they can become the ...
12&12 p.112,
Step Twelve
And if these are
facts of
life for the many
alcoholics who have
recovered in
A.A., they can
become the
facts of
life for many more.
16.
... recovered is
the main purpose of this ...
BB xiii,
Foreword to First Edition
To
show other
alcoholics
precisely how we have
recovered is the
main purpose of this book.
17.
... recovered long
ago.
BB p.45,
We Agnostics
If a
mere code of
morals or a
better philosophy of
life were
sufficient to
overcome
alcoholism, many of us would have
recovered long ago.
18.
... recovered, of
their chance.
BB p.96,
Working With Others
He often says that if he had
continued to
work on them, he might have
deprived many others, who have since
recovered, of their
chance.
19.
... recovered on
their own resources.
12&12 p.22,
Step One
It was a
statistical fact that
alcoholics almost
never recovered on their
own resources.
20.
... recovered through
A.A.
12&12 p.15,
Foreword (Note)
(*) In
2003, it is
estimated that over
two million have
recovered through
A.A.
Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous
and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
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