From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
RIGHT occurs
97 times
(
Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
Click
to display the full page from the Big Book
1.
... right. ..."
12&12 p.23,
Step One
Following every
spree,
he would say to himself, "Maybe those
A.A.'s were
right. ..."
2.
... right.
12&12 p.46,
Step Four
We
firmly believe that if
only they'd
treat us
better, we'd be all
right.
3.
... right.
12&12 p.49,
Step Four
4.
... right.
12&12 p.93,
Step Ten
It's a
poor day indeed when we haven't done something
right.
5.
... right.
12&12 p.108,
Step Twelve
We had to
begin to make our
peace, and so we
listed the
people we had
harmed and
became willing to
set things
right.
6.
... right.(*)
12&12 p.118,
Step Twelve
Nevertheless, under the
influence of
A.A.'s
Twelve Steps, these
situations
are often
set right.(*)
7.
... right.
BB p.3,
Bill's Story
Perhaps they were right.
8.
... right.
BB p.9,
Bill's Story
Yes, the
old boy was on
fire all
right.
9.
... right.
BB p.61,
How It Works
He
begins to
think life doesn't
treat him
right.
10.
... right.
BB p.80,
Into Action
He
felt that he had done a
wrong he could not
possibly
make
right.
11.
... right.
BB p.83,
Into Action
There may be some
wrongs we can
never fully right.
12.
... right.
BB p.87,
Into Action
Be
quick to see where
religious people are
right.
13.
... right a
serious wrong.
12&12 p.85,
Step Nine
Or we may just
procrastinate,
telling ourselves the
time is
not
yet, when in
reality we
have already
passed up many a
fine chance to
right a
serious wrong.
14.
... right-about-face and
drink like a gentleman, our ...
BB p.31,
More About Alcoholism
If anyone who is
showing inability to
control his
drinking can do the
right-about-
face and
drink like a
gentleman, our
hats are off to him.
15.
... right action
is the key to good ...
12&12 p.125,
Step Twelve
16.
... right after
all.
BB p.11,
Bill's Story
It
began to
look as though
religious people were
right
after all.
17.
... right after
all."
BB p.159,
A Vision For You
I
guess the
old folks were
right after all."
18.
... right all
such matters to the utmost ...
BB p.13,
Bill's Story
I was to
right all such
matters to the
utmost of my
ability.
19.
... right, and
great events will come to ...
BB p.164,
A Vision For You
See to it that your
relationship with Him is
right, and
great events will
come to
pass for you and
countless
others.
20.
... right and
I was wrong; the voice ...
12&12 p.138,
Tradition Two
The
group was
right and I was
wrong; the
voice on the
subway was not the
voice of
God.
21.
... right, and
surely God-given.
12&12 p.42,
Step Four
22.
... right, and
were quick to say that ...
12&12 p.97,
Step Eleven
We
liked A.A. all
right, and were
quick to say that
it had done
miracles.
23.
... right and
what has been wrong, he ...
12&12 p.50,
Step Four
Using his
best judgment of what has been
right and what has been
wrong, he
might make a
rough survey
of his
conduct with
respect to his
primary instincts for
sex,
security, and
society.
24.
... right and
you are wrong."
12&12 p.37,
Step Three
Each
fragment says to the others, "We are
right and you are
wrong."
25.
... right answer
for that one.
12&12 p.153,
Tradition Five
"
Thank heaven I
came up with the
right answer for that one.
26.
... right answer
will come, if we want ...
BB p.69,
How It Works
The
right answer will
come, if we
want it.
27.
... right answers
come after we have tried ...
BB p.86,
Into Action
We are often
surprised how the
right answers come after we have
tried this
for a while.
28.
... right any
new mistakes as we go ...
BB p.84,
Into Action
This
thought brings us to
Step Ten, which
suggests we
continue to
take
personal inventory and
continue
to
set right any new
mistakes as we go along.
29.
... right around
A.A.
12&12 p.140,
Tradition Three
We
built a
fine-
mesh fence right around
A.A.
30.
... right attitude
in which to proceed, we ...
12&12 p.83,
Step Nine
After we have made the
list of people we have
harmed, have
reflected carefully upon each
instance, and have
tried to
possess ourselves of the
right attitude in which to
proceed, we will see that the
making of
direct amends divides those we
should
approach into several
classes.
31.
... right away.
BB p.120,
To Wives
If not, it had
better be
found out
right away.
32.
... right but,
by the description, none too ...
BB p.156,
A Vision For You
Here was a
prospect all
right but, by the
description,
none too
promising.
33.
... right, but
hung on to some of ...
BB p.73,
Into Action
They took
inventory all
right, but
hung on to some of the
worst items in
stock.
34.
... right, but
I don't see what good ...
BB p.157,
A Vision For You
You
fellows know your
stuff all
right, but I don't see
what
good it'll do.
35.
... right, but
unlike a beehive, it was ...
12&12 p.149,
Tradition Four
36.
... right --
but where do we go from ...
12&12 p.25,
Step Two
Yes, you've got us over the
barrel, all
right -- but where do we go from here?"
37.
Right contacts
with the world outside have ...
12&12 p.168,
Tradition Eight
Right contacts with the
world outside have to be
maintained.
38.
... right dependence
upon God, we were still ...
12&12 p.121,
Step Twelve
39.
... right down
to fundamentals.
BB p.120,
To Wives
Then you and your
husband can get
right down to
fundamentals.
40.
... right down
to this: No man should ...
BB p.148,
To Employers
It
boils right down to this:
No
man should be
fired just
because he is
alcoholic.
41.
... right for
saints, but it certainly didn't ...
12&12 p.74,
Step Seven
Character-
building
through
suffering might be all
right for
saints, but it
certainly didn't
appeal to
us.
42.
... right, grown-up
attitudes, very happy results do ...
12&12 p.120,
Step Twelve
43.
... right had
he to involve those dependent ...
BB p.80,
Into Action
What
right had he to
involve those
dependent
upon him?
44.
... right," he
said.
BB p.158,
A Vision For You
"Maybe you're right," he said.
45.
... right here
and now.
BB p.16,
Bill's Story
We have it with us right here and now.
46.
... right here
in this meeting that sometimes ...
12&12 p.138,
Tradition Two
'
Bill, haven't you often said
right here in this
meeting that
sometimes the
good is the
enemy of the
best?
47.
Right here
we need to fetch ourselves ...
12&12 p.78,
Step Eight
Right here we
need to
fetch ourselves up
sharply.
48.
... right his
past wrongs, why all this ...
BB p.128,
The Family Afterward
If he
means to
right his
past wrongs, why all this
concern for
everyone in
the
world but his
family?
49.
... right ideal,
for guidance in each questionable ...
BB p.70,
How It Works
To
sum up about
sex: We
earnestly pray for the
right ideal, for
guidance in each
questionable situation, for
sanity, and
for the
strength to do the
right thing.
50.
... "right kind."
12&12 p.46,
Step Four
Therefore we
think our
indignation is
justified and
reasonable -- that our
resentments are the "
right
kind."
51.
... right kind.
BB p.69,
How It Works
They
think we do not have
enough of it, or that it isn't the
right kind.
52.
... right kind
of man, the kind who ...
BB p.149,
To Employers
The
right kind of
man, the
kind who
recovers, will not
want this
sort of thing.
53.
... right living
for which no amount of ...
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.
54.
... right minds.
BB p.57,
We Agnostics
Even so has
God restored us
all to our
right minds.
55.
... right now.
12&12 p.26,
Step Two
Second, to get
sober and to
stay sober, you don't have to
swallow all of
Step Two right now.
56.
... right objectives.
12&12 p.100,
Step Eleven
57.
... "Right of
Appeal" ought to prevail, so ...
BB p.574,
Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form)
58.
... "Right of
Decision."
BB p.574,
Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form)
59.
... "Right of
Participation," allowing a voting representation ...
BB p.574,
Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form)
60.
... right or
need to discourage A.A.'s who ...
12&12 p.171,
Tradition Eight
We see that we have no
right or
need to
discourage A.A.'s who
wish to
work as
individuals in
these
wider fields.
61.
... right out
of me."
12&12 p.63,
Step Six
It was
lifted right out of
me."
62.
... right out
of the Bible -- a voice ...
12&12 p.137,
Tradition Two
In
fact, it
came right out of the
Bible -- a
voice kept saying to me, 'The
laborer is
worthy of his
hire.'
63.
... right person.
BB p.74,
Into Action
We say this because we are very
anxious that we
talk to the
right person.
64.
... right principles
and attitudes, and right action ...
12&12 p.125,
Step Twelve
65.
... right relations
with people who understand us; ...
12&12 p.117,
Step Twelve
Through it we
begin to
learn
right relations with
people who
understand us; we don't have to be
alone any more.
66.
... right size.
12&12 p.30,
Step Two
They
helped us to get down to our
right size.
67.
... right size.
12&12 p.122,
Step Twelve
He's
willing to
stay right size.
68.
... right the
wrong.
BB p.77,
Into Action
But our
man is
sure to be
impressed with a
sincere
desire to
set right the
wrong.
69.
... right them
if we could.
BB p.83,
Into Action
We don't
worry about them if we can
honestly say to ourselves that we would
right them if we could.
70.
... right then.
BB p.11,
Bill's Story
71.
... right there.
BB p.10,
Bill's Story
With
ministers, and the
world's
religions, I
parted right there.
72.
... right there
our perverse streak comes to ...
BB p.49,
We Agnostics
When, however, the
perfectly logical assumption is
suggested that
underneath the
material
world and
life as we see it,
there is an All
Powerful,
Guiding,
Creative Intelligence,
right there
our
perverse streak comes to the
surface and we
laboriously set out to
convince ourselves it isn't so.
73.
Right there,
Step Two gently and very ...
12&12 p.27,
Step Two
74.
... right thing.
12&12 p.74,
Step Seven
At this
stage of our
progress we are under
heavy
pressure and
coercion
to do the
right thing.
75.
... right thing.
BB p.70,
How It Works
To
sum up about
sex: We
earnestly pray for the
right ideal, for
guidance in each
questionable situation, for
sanity, and
for the
strength to do the
right thing.
76.
... right thing
if you assume them.
BB p.97,
Working With Others
Never avoid these
responsibilities, but be
sure you are doing the
right
thing if you
assume them.
77.
... right thing,
no matter what the personal ...
BB p.79,
Into Action
Reminding ourselves that we have
decided to go to any
lengths to find a
spiritual experience,
we
ask that we be
given strength and
direction
to do the
right thing, no
matter what the
personal consequences may be.
78.
... right thing
when it becomes clear, cost ...
12&12 p.86,
Step Nine
79.
... right things
of which we and others ...
12&12 p.102,
Step Eleven
Having
opened our
channel
as
best we can, we
try to
ask for those
right things of
which we and others are in the
greatest need.
80.
... right thought
or action.
BB p.87,
Into Action
As we go through the
day we
pause, when
agitated or
doubtful, and
ask for the
right thought or
action.
81.
... right to
be self-confident, that it would ...
BB p.40,
More About Alcoholism
I
felt I had every
right to be
self-
confident, that it
would be only a
matter of
exercising my will
power
and
keeping on
guard.
82.
... right to
be wrong.
12&12 p.147,
Tradition Four
Every
group had the
right to
be
wrong.
83.
... right to
be wrong.
12&12 p.149,
Tradition Four
Thus it was that under
Tradition Four an
A.A. group had
exercised its right to be
wrong.
84.
... right to
decide all by ourselves just ...
12&12 p.37,
Step Three
How
persistently we
claim the
right to
decide all by ourselves just what we shall
think and just how we shall
act.
85.
... right to
explain his new way of ...
12&12 p.186,
Tradition Twelve
86.
... right to
go further.
BB p.81,
Into Action
More than that we cannot do; we have no
right to go
further.
87.
... right to
involve another person.
BB p.81,
Into Action
We
feel we ought to say to her that we have no
right to
involve another
person.
88.
... right to
know where he is and ...
BB p.115,
To Wives
Your
desire to
protect
him should not
cause you to
lie to people when they have a
right to
know where he is and what
he is doing.
89.
... right to
let him ruin your life ...
BB p.108,
To Wives
Is it
right to let him
ruin
your
life and the
lives of
your
children?
90.
... right to
save our own skin at ...
BB p.74,
Into Action
We have no
right to
save our
own skin at another
person's
expense.
91.
... right to
take this job."
12&12 p.158,
Tradition Six
"Nevertheless," we
pointed out, "you still have a
legal right to take this
job."
92.
... right to
tell him how he must ...
BB p.10,
Bill's Story
I could almost
hear the
sound
of the
preacher's
voice
as I
sat, on still
Sundays,
way over there on the
hillside; there was that
proffered temperance
pledge I
never signed; my
grandfather's
good natured contempt of some
church folk and their doings; his
insistence that the
spheres really had their
music; but his
denial of the
preacher's
right to tell
him how he
must listen; his
fearlessness as he
spoke of these things just before he
died; these
recollections welled
up from the
past.
93.
... right to
think, talk, and act as ...
12&12 p.129,
Tradition One
94.
... right track.
12&12 p.48,
Step Four
Having
found the
shoes that
fit, he ought to
step into them
and
walk with new
confidence that he is at
last on the
right track.
95.
... right track
without becoming critical of them.
BB p.100,
Working With Others
In this way you can
set them on the
right track without
becoming critical of
them.
96.
... right upon
issues of our time.
12&12 p.177,
Tradition Ten
Nor does it
mean that the
members of
Alcoholics Anonymous, now
restored
as
citizens of the
world,
are
going to back away from their
individual responsibilities to
act as they see the
right upon
issues of our
time.
97.
... right with
ourselves and with the world ...
12&12 p.125,
Step Twelve
For it is only by
accepting and
solving our
problems that
we can
begin to get
right
with ourselves and with the
world about us, and with
Him who
presides over us all.
Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous
and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.
The A.A. Preamble, copyright ©
The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission.
Permission to reprint does not in any way imply affiliation with or
endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous or The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.
Top
Copyright © 2005-2008, Recovery Press LLC; All Rights Reserved.
