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Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... seemed a
fool of the first magnitude.
BB p.137,
To Employers
To him the
alcoholic has often
seemed a
fool of the
first magnitude.
2.
... seemed a
novel idea.
BB p.12,
Bill's Story
My
friend suggested
what then
seemed a
novel idea.
3.
... seemed as
if nothing could be done ...
BB p.159,
A Vision For You
He
suffered horribly
from his
sprees, but it
seemed as if
nothing could be
done for him.
4.
... seemed as
though a great wall had ...
BB p.107,
To Wives
Sometimes they were so
inaccessible that it
seemed as though a
great wall had been
built around them.
5.
... seemed at
first a flimsy reed, has ...
BB p.28,
There Is A Solution
What
seemed at
first a
flimsy reed, has
proved to be the
loving and
powerful hand of
God.
6.
... seemed at
the time) for us to ...
12&12 p.155,
Tradition Six
The
moment we saw that we had an
answer for
alcoholism, it
was
reasonable (or so it
seemed at the
time) for us to
feel that we might have the
answer to a
lot of other things.
7.
... seemed certain.
BB p.113,
To Wives
8.
... seemed convenient
and not too difficult; the ...
BB p.11,
Bill's Story
For myself, I had
adopted those
parts which
seemed convenient and not too
difficult; the
rest I
disregarded.
9.
... seemed difficult
to believe.
BB p.47,
We Agnostics
That was
great news to us,
for we had
assumed we could not make use of
spiritual principles
unless we
accepted many
things on
faith which
seemed
difficult to
believe.
10.
... seemed doomed,
who had so many problems ...
BB xxix(xxvii),
The Doctor's Opinion
On the other
hand -- and
strange as this may
seem to
those who do not
understand -- once a
psychic change has
occurred, the very same
person who
seemed doomed, who had so many
problems he
despaired of
ever
solving them,
suddenly finds himself
easily able to
control his
desire for
alcohol, the
only
effort necessary
being that
required to
follow a few
simple rules.
11.
... seemed entirely
out of reach.
BB p.47,
We Agnostics
Afterward, we
found
ourselves
accepting many things which then
seemed entirely out of
reach.
12.
... seemed heavy
or even unjust, new lessons ...
12&12 p.105,
Step Eleven
He will also
report that out of every
season of
grief or
suffering, when the
hand of
God seemed heavy or even
unjust, new
lessons for
living were
learned, new
resources of
courage were
uncovered, and that finally,
inescapably, the
conviction came that
God does "
move in a
mysterious way His
wonders to
perform."
13.
... seemed high
upon the basis suggested.
BB p.155,
A Vision For You
14.
... seemed impossibly
bad.
12&12 p.30,
Step Two
15.
... seemed inadequate.
BB p.45,
We Agnostics
Perhaps we
rejected this
particular conception
because it
seemed inadequate.
16.
... seemed more
intelligent than that.
BB p.54,
We Agnostics
The
electrons themselves
seemed more
intelligent than
that.
17.
... seemed near
being just that.
BB p.5,
Bill's Story
I
began to
wonder, for such
an
appalling lack of
perspective seemed near being just that.
18.
... seemed quite
rational and well-balanced with respect ...
BB p.26,
There Is A Solution
He
seemed quite
rational
and well-
balanced with
respect to other
problems.
19.
... seemed so
fragile, so easily breakable as ...
12&12 p.139,
Tradition Three
20.
... seemed the
Boss Universal, and he certainly ...
BB p.11,
Bill's Story
If there was a
Devil, he
seemed the
Boss Universal, and he
certainly had me.
21.
... seemed they
had known these strangers always.
BB p.161,
A Vision For You
They
knew they had a
host of
new
friends; it
seemed they
had
known these
strangers always.
22.
... seemed to
be a case of pathological ...
BB xxxi(xxix),
The Doctor's Opinion
23.
... seemed to
be succeeding, we drank to ...
12&12 p.71,
Step Seven
When we
seemed to be
succeeding, we
drank to
dream still
greater dreams.
24.
... seemed to
get sober, some others had.
12&12 p.137,
Tradition Two
Although
none of the
alcoholics we
boarded
seemed to get
sober, some
others had.
25.
... seemed to
lecture.
BB p.121,
To Wives
We may have
seemed to
lecture.
26.
... seemed to
like it.
BB p.106,
To Wives
The
unexpected result
was that our
husbands seemed to like it.
27.
... seemed to
me.
BB p.7,
Bill's Story
This was the
finish, the
curtain, it
seemed to me.
28.
... seemed to
me like an opportunity to ...
BB p.138,
To Employers
This
seemed to me like an
opportunity to be
helpful, so I
spent two hours talking about
alcoholism, the
malady,
and
described the
symptoms and
results as
well as I could.
29.
... seemed to
prove that one alcoholic could ...
BB xvi,
Foreword to Second Edition
This
seemed to
prove that one
alcoholic could
affect
another as no
nonalcoholic could.
30.
... seemed to
understand, the sense of belonging ...
12&12 p.57,
Step Five
When we
reached A.A., and for
the
first time in our
lives stood among people who
seemed to
understand,
the
sense of
belonging
was
tremendously exciting.
31.
... seemed to
win.
BB p.66,
How It Works
As in
war, the
victor only
seemed to
win.
32.
... seemed vitally
important.
BB p.154,
A Vision For You
Had he been
successful in his
enterprise, he would have been
set on his
feet financially which, at the
time,
seemed vitally important.
33.
... seemed wise,
for I showed signs of ...
BB p.13,
Bill's Story
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