From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... right. ..."
12&12 p.23,
Step One
2.
... right.
12&12 p.46,
Step Four
3.
... right.
12&12 p.49,
Step Four
4.
... right.
12&12 p.93,
Step Ten
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
7.
... right.
BB p.3,
Bill's Story
Perhaps they were right.
8.
... right.
BB p.9,
Bill's Story
9.
... right.
BB p.61,
How It Works
10.
... right.
BB p.80,
Into Action
11.
... right.
BB p.83,
Into Action
12.
... right.
BB p.87,
Into Action
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
Understanding is the key to right principles and attitudes, and right action is the key to good living; therefore the joy of good living is the theme of A.A.'s Twelfth Step.
16.
... right after
all.
BB p.11,
Bill's Story
17.
... right after
all."
BB p.159,
A Vision For You
18.
... right all
such matters to the utmost ...
BB p.13,
Bill's Story
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
21.
... right, and
surely God-given.
12&12 p.42,
Step Four
So these desires -- for the sex relation, for material and emotional
security, and for companionship -- are perfectly necessary and
right, and surely God-given.
22.
... right, and
were quick to say that ...
12&12 p.97,
Step Eleven
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
25.
... right answer
for that one.
12&12 p.153,
Tradition Five
26.
... right answer
will come, if we want ...
BB p.69,
How It Works
27.
... right answers
come after we have tried ...
BB p.86,
Into Action
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
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
32.
... right but,
by the description, none too ...
BB p.156,
A Vision For You
33.
... right, but
hung on to some of ...
BB p.73,
Into Action
34.
... right, but
I don't see what good ...
BB p.157,
A Vision For You
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
37.
Right contacts
with the world outside have ...
12&12 p.168,
Tradition Eight
38.
... right dependence
upon God, we were still ...
12&12 p.121,
Step Twelve
When a job still looked like a mere means of getting money rather than an opportunity for service, when the acquisition of money for
financial independence looked more important than a right dependence upon God, we were still the victims of unreasonable fears.
39.
... right down
to fundamentals.
BB p.120,
To Wives
40.
... right down
to this: No man should ...
BB p.148,
To Employers
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
44.
... right," he
said.
BB p.158,
A Vision For You
45.
... right here
and now.
BB p.16,
Bill's Story
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
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
52.
... right kind
of man, the kind who ...
BB p.149,
To Employers
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
55.
... right now.
12&12 p.26,
Step Two
56.
... right objectives.
12&12 p.100,
Step Eleven
Perhaps the real trouble was our almost total inability to point imagination toward the right objectives.
57.
... "Right of
Appeal" ought to prevail, so ...
BB p.574,
Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form)
V. Throughout our structure, a traditional "Right of Appeal" ought to prevail, so that minority
opinion will be heard and personal grievances receive careful consideration.
58.
... "Right of
Decision."
BB p.574,
Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form)
III. To insure effective leadership,
we should endow each element of A.A. -- the Conference, the General
Service Board and its service corporations, staffs,
committees, and executives -- with a traditional "Right of Decision."
59.
... "Right of
Participation," allowing a voting representation ...
BB p.574,
Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form)
IV. At all responsible levels, we ought to maintain a traditional
"Right of Participation," allowing a voting representation in reasonable proportion
to the responsibility that each must discharge.
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
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
64.
... right principles
and attitudes, and right action ...
12&12 p.125,
Step Twelve
Understanding is the key to right principles and attitudes, and right action is the key to good living; therefore the joy of good living is the theme of A.A.'s Twelfth Step.
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
67.
... right size.
12&12 p.122,
Step Twelve
68.
... right the
wrong.
BB p.77,
Into Action
69.
... right them
if we could.
BB p.83,
Into Action
70.
... right then.
BB p.11,
Bill's Story
71.
... right there.
BB p.10,
Bill's Story
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
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
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
Do we lay the matter before our sponsor or spiritual adviser, earnestly asking God's help and guidance -- meanwhile resolving to do the right thing when it becomes clear, cost what it may?
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
83.
... right to
be wrong.
12&12 p.149,
Tradition Four
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
As he gained confidence, he felt it
right to explain his new way of life to his employer and business associates.
86.
... right to
go further.
BB p.81,
Into Action
87.
... right to
involve another person.
BB p.81,
Into Action
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
90.
... right to
save our own skin at ...
BB p.74,
Into Action
91.
... right to
take this job."
12&12 p.158,
Tradition Six
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
We believe there isn't a fellowship on earth which
lavishes more devoted care upon its individual members; surely there is none which more jealously guards the individual's
right to think, talk, and act as he wishes.
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
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.
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