From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
RETURN occurs
13 times
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1.
... return.
12&12 p.120,
Step Twelve
2.
... return.
BB p.143,
To Employers
It might be well to have a
long chat with him on his
return.
3.
... return as
time passed.
BB xx,
Foreword to Second Edition
But
great numbers of these
-- about
two out of
three --
began to
return as
time passed.
4.
... return of
happiness and security.
BB p.123,
The Family Afterward
The
family of an
alcoholic longs for the
return of
happiness and
security.
5.
... return, talk
with him.
BB p.144,
To Employers
On your
employee's
return,
talk with him.
6.
... return, the
certainty that we are no ...
12&12 p.124,
Step Twelve
Service,
gladly rendered,
obligations
squarely met,
troubles well
accepted or
solved with
God's
help, the
knowledge that at
home or in the
world outside we are
partners in
a
common effort, the
well-
understood fact
that in
God's
sight all
human beings are
important, the
proof that
love freely given surely brings a
full return, the
certainty that we are no
longer isolated and alone
in
self-
constructed prisons, the
surety that we
need no
longer be
square pegs in
round holes but can
fit and
belong in
God's
scheme of things -- these
are the
permanent and
legitimate satisfactions of
right
living for which no
amount
of
pomp and
circumstance, no
heap of
material possessions, could
possibly be
substitutes.
7.
... return through
human aid, we had but ...
BB p.25,
There Is A Solution
We were in a
position where
life was
becoming impossible, and if we had
passed into the
region from
which there is no
return through
human aid, we had but
two alternatives: One was
to go on to the
bitter end,
blotting out the
consciousness of our
intolerable situation
as
best we could; and the other, to
accept spiritual help.
8.
... return to
alcohol.
BB xxxi(xxix),
The Doctor's Opinion
A
long time has
passed with no
return to
alcohol.
9.
... return to
health.
BB xxv(xxiii),
The Doctor's Opinion
10.
... return to
the practice of that devotion ...
12&12 p.98,
Step Eleven
It is to be
hoped that every
A.A. who has a
religious connection which
emphasizes meditation
will
return to the
practice of that
devotion
as
never before.
11.
... return to
the subject matter of this ...
BB p.143,
To Employers
To
return to the
subject matter of this book: It
contains full suggestions by which the
employee may
solve his
problem.
12.
... return to
the surest help of all ...
12&12 p.103,
Step Eleven
Just saying it over and over will often
enable us
to
clear a
channel choked up with
anger,
fear,
frustration, or
misunderstanding, and
permit us to
return to the
surest help of all -- our
search for
God's will, not our
own, in the
moment of
stress.
13.
... return to
us convinced.
12&12 p.23,
Step One
After a few such
experiences, often
years before the
onset of
extreme difficulties,
he would
return to us
convinced.
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