From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... result.
12&12 p.40,
Step Three
2.
... result.
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
This lack of anchorage to
any permanent values, this blindness to
the true purpose of our lives, produced another bad result.
3.
... result.
12&12 p.173,
Tradition Nine
4.
... result.
BB p.78,
Into Action
5.
... result.
BB p.140,
To Employers
6.
... result always
had been the same.
12&12 p.115,
Step Twelve
7.
... result, but
the surface of the problem ...
BB p.19,
There Is A Solution
If we keep on the way we are going there is little doubt that much good will result, but the surface of the problem would hardly be scratched.
8.
... result from
his personal disobedience to spiritual ...
12&12 p.174,
Tradition Nine
His drunkenness and dissolution are not penalties inflicted by
people in authority;
they result from his personal disobedience
to spiritual principles.
9.
... result from
this publication.
12&12 p.184,
Tradition Twelve
Its foreword made this revealing statement: "It is important that we remain
anonymous because we
are too few, at present, to
handle the overwhelming number of
personal appeals which
may result from this publication.
10.
... result from
this publication.
BB xiii,
Foreword to First Edition
It is important that we remain anonymous because we are too few, at present to handle the overwhelming number of
personal appeals which
may result from this publication.
11.
... result had
been equally unfortunate.
12&12 p.115,
Step Twelve
When we had taken the opposite tack and had insisted, like infants ourselves, that
people protect and take care of us or that the world owed us a living, then the result had
been equally unfortunate.
12.
... result has
been exactly the same: Our ...
12&12 p.166,
Tradition Eight
Every time we have tried to professionalize our Twelfth Step, the result has been exactly the same: Our single purpose has been defeated.
13.
... result is
an unshakable foundation for life.
12&12 p.98,
Step Eleven
But when they are logically related and interwoven,
the result is an unshakable foundation
for life.
14.
... result of
a brawl with a taxi ...
BB p.4,
Bill's Story
15.
... result of
all was the change in ...
12&12 p.75,
Step Seven
During this process of learning more about humility, the most profound result of all was
the change in our attitude toward God.
16.
... result of
excellent and continuous publicity freely ...
12&12 p.17,
Foreword
In the next years alcoholics flocked to A.A. by tens of thousands, largely as the
result of excellent and
continuous publicity freely given by magazines and newspapers throughout
the world.
17.
... result of
instincts in collision, which cause ...
12&12 p.80,
Step Eight
To define the word "harm" in a practical way, we might call it the result of instincts in collision, which cause physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual
damage to people.
18.
... result of
noting the behavior and needs ...
12&12 p.16,
Foreword
The basic principles of
A.A., as they are known today, were borrowed mainly from the fields of religion and medicine, though some ideas upon which success finally depended were the
result of noting the behavior and needs of the Fellowship itself.
19.
... result of
practicing all the Steps, we ...
12&12 p.106,
Step Twelve
Our Twelfth Step also says that as a result of practicing all the
Steps, we have each found something called a spiritual awakening.
20.
... result of
purposeful forgetting.
12&12 p.79,
Step Eight
21.
... result of
the practice of A.A.'s Twelve ...
12&12 p.15,
Foreword
Many people, nonalcoholics, report
that as a result of the practice of A.A.'s Twelve Steps, they have been
able to meet other difficulties of life.
22.
... result of
their philosophy.
BB p.569(571),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
Dr. G. Kirby Collier, psychiatrist:
"I have felt that A.A. is a group unto themselves and their best
results can be had under
their own guidance, as a
result of their philosophy.
23.
... result of
these steps, we tried to ...
12&12 p.106,
Step Twelve
"Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of
these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs."
24.
... result of
these steps, we tried to ...
BB p.60,
How It Works
12. Having had a spiritual
awakening as the result
of these steps, we tried to
carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
25.
... result of
unfortunate birth and uncontrollable circumstances?
12&12 p.97,
Step Eleven
What about all those unhappy lives which were the
direct result of unfortunate birth and uncontrollable circumstances?
26.
... result of
yesterday's and sometimes today's excesses ...
12&12 p.88,
Step Ten
That is the emotional hangover, the direct result of yesterday's and sometimes today's excesses of negative emotion -- anger, fear, jealousy, and the like.
27.
... result respecting
any other problem we could ...
12&12 p.76,
Step Seven
If that degree of humility could enable us to
find the grace by which such a deadly obsession could be banished, then there must be
hope of the same result respecting any other problem we could possibly
have.
28.
... result that
Middletown now has a group, ...
12&12 p.133,
Tradition Two
He visits preachers, doctors, editors, policemen, and bartenders ... with the result that Middletown now has a group, and he is the founder.
29.
... result there
was sometimes outside interference in ...
12&12 p.161,
Tradition Seven
Now and then, grateful benefactors had endowed
clubhouses, and as a result there was sometimes outside interference
in our affairs.
30.
... result was
fine.
12&12 p.186,
Tradition Twelve
Provided anonymity
was maintained on these platforms, and reporters present were cautioned against the use of names or pictures, the result was fine.
31.
... result was
nil until we let go ...
BB p.58,
How It Works
Some of us have tried to hold
on to our old ideas and the
result was nil until we let go absolutely.
32.
... result was
self-evident.
BB p.9,
Bill's Story
33.
... result was
that our husbands seemed to ...
BB p.106,
To Wives
34.
... result was
the same -- all of us ...
12&12 p.124,
Step Twelve
35.
... result was
very bad, and that ended ...
BB p.178,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
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