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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... rest.
12&12 p.37,
Step Three
2.
... rest and
to punish or expel offenders?
12&12 p.172,
Tradition Nine
3.
... rest and
treatment he will be able ...
BB p.142,
To Employers
If he says yes, does he really
mean it, or down
inside does he
think he is
fooling you, and that after
rest and
treatment he will be
able to get away with a few
drinks now and then?
4.
... rest his
nerves.
BB p.39,
More About Alcoholism
Far from
admitting he was an
alcoholic, he told himself he
came to the
hospital to
rest his
nerves.
5.
... rest homes
and farms for alcoholics, when ...
12&12 p.167,
Tradition Eight
6.
... rest homes
where badly beat-up topers could ...
12&12 p.170,
Tradition Eight
Now and then,
A.A. members
have
bought farms or
rest homes where
badly beat-up
topers could find
needed care.
7.
... rest I
disregarded.
BB p.11,
Bill's Story
For myself, I had
adopted those
parts which
seemed convenient and not too
difficult; the
rest I
disregarded.
8.
... rest of
A.A.'s program as enthusiastically as ...
12&12 p.27,
Step Two
To
acquire it, I had only to
stop fighting and
practice the
rest of
A.A.'s
program as
enthusiastically as I could.
9.
... rest of
his life.
BB p.40,
More About Alcoholism
He was
positive that this
humiliating experience,
plus the
knowledge he had
acquired, would
keep him
sober the
rest of his
life.
10.
... rest of
his life and insists on ...
BB p.129,
The Family Afterward
He may not see at once that he has
barely scratched a
limitless
lode which will
pay dividends only if he
mines
it for the
rest of his
life
and
insists on
giving
away the
entire product.
11.
... rest of
mankind some millennium of their ...
12&12 p.176,
Tradition Ten
12.
... rest of
the answer.
12&12 p.178,
Tradition Ten
Had they been
left to themselves, and had they
stuck to their one
goal, they
might have
found the
rest of
the
answer.
13.
... rest of
the conversation our friend had ...
BB p.27,
There Is A Solution
Let us tell you the
rest of the
conversation our
friend
had with his
doctor.
14.
... rest of
the folks on our brainpower ...
12&12 p.29,
Step Two
Secretly, we
felt we could
float above the
rest of the
folks on our
brainpower
alone.
15.
... rest of
the players in his own ...
BB p.60,
How It Works
Each
person is like an
actor who
wants to
run the
whole show; is
forever trying to
arrange the
lights, the
ballet, the
scenery and the
rest of the
players in his
own way.
16.
... rest of
the players that these are ...
BB p.61,
How It Works
Is it not
evident to all the
rest of the
players that these
are the things he
wants?
17.
... rest of
the program, they wondered why ...
BB p.73,
Into Action
Having
persevered with the
rest of the
program, they
wondered why they
fell.
18.
... rest of
the Twelfth Step?
12&12 p.109,
Step Twelve
Now, what about the
rest of the
Twelfth Step?
19.
... rest of
the world would only behave; ...
BB p.62,
How It Works
He is like the
retired business man who
lolls in the
Florida sunshine in the
winter complaining of the
sad state of the
nation; the
minister who
sighs over the
sins of the
twentieth century;
politicians
and
reformers who are
sure all would be
Utopia if the
rest of the
world would only
behave; the
outlaw safe cracker who
thinks society has
wronged him; and the
alcoholic who has
lost all
and is
locked up.
20.
... rest of
us had gone through.
12&12 p.23,
Step One
They were
spared that
last
ten or
fifteen years of
literal hell the
rest of us had
gone through.
21.
... rest of
us had hit to the ...
12&12 p.23,
Step One
It was
obviously necessary to
raise the
bottom the
rest of us had
hit to the
point where it would
hit them.
22.
... rest of
us were able to see ...
12&12 p.109,
Step Twelve
Looking at those who were only
beginning and still
doubted themselves, the
rest
of us were able to see the
change setting in.
23.
... rest of
us who, less fortunate, don't ...
12&12 p.99,
Step Eleven
But what about the
rest of us who,
less fortunate, don't even
know how to
begin?
24.
... rest on
our laurels.
12&12 p.85,
Step Nine
We will
want to
rest on our
laurels.
25.
... rest on
our laurels.
BB p.85,
Into Action
It is
easy to let up on the
spiritual program of
action and
rest on our
laurels.
26.
... rest quietly
with the thoughts of someone ...
12&12 p.100,
Step Eleven
We
rest quietly with the
thoughts of someone who
knows, so that we may
experience and
learn.
27.
... rest to
earn their livelihood in a ...
12&12 p.155,
Tradition Six
We'd
gather up
derelicts from
skid rows,
sort out those who could
get well, and make it
possible for the
rest to
earn their
livelihood in a
kind of
quarantined confinement.
28.
... rest upon
how well and earnestly we ...
12&12 p.34,
Step Three
In
fact, the
effectiveness of the
whole A.A. program will
rest upon how
well and
earnestly we have
tried to
come to "a
decision to
turn our will and
our
lives over to the
care of
God as we
understood
Him."
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