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Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... sense.
BB p.13,
Bill's Story
Common sense would thus
become uncommon sense.
2.
... sense.
BB p.77,
Into Action
When it will
serve any
good
purpose, we are
willing
to
announce our
convictions with
tact and
common sense.
3.
... sense.
BB p.85,
Into Action
We have
begun to
develop
this
vital sixth sense.
4.
... sense.
BB p.159,
A Vision For You
After a
bit, he said, "The way you
fellows put this
spiritual stuff makes
sense.
5.
... sense.
BB xxvi(xxiv),
The Doctor's Opinion
But as
ex-
problem drinkers, we can say that his
explanation makes
good
sense.
6.
... sense, and
high character.
BB p.26,
There Is A Solution
7.
... sense and
loving kindness is to let ...
BB p.82,
Into Action
It may be that both will
decide that the way of
good sense and
loving kindness is to let
by-
gones be by-
gones.
8.
... sense and
will power that he still ...
BB p.22,
There Is A Solution
What has
become of the
common sense and will
power that he still sometimes
displays with
respect to
other
matters?
9.
... sense had
we ever taken stock of ...
12&12 p.32,
Step Two
In no
deep or
meaningful
sense had we ever
taken stock of ourselves, made
amends to those we had
harmed, or
freely given to any other
human being
without any
demand for
reward.
10.
... sense he
has been transformed, because he ...
12&12 p.107,
Step Twelve
In a very
real sense he has
been
transformed, because he has
laid hold of a
source of
strength which,
in one way or another, he had
hitherto denied himself.
11.
... sense in
the light of the havoc ...
BB p.23,
There Is A Solution
Sometimes these
excuses have a
certain plausibility,
but
none of them really makes
sense in the
light of the
havoc an
alcoholic's
drinking bout creates.
12.
... sense it
includes meditation.
12&12 p.102,
Step Eleven
Prayer is the
raising of
the
heart and
mind to
God -- and in this
sense it
includes meditation.
13.
... sense more
deeply the inner meaning of ...
12&12 p.125,
Step Twelve
With each
passing day of our
lives, may every one of us
sense more
deeply the
inner meaning of
A.A.'s
simple prayer:
14.
... sense of
being in partnership or brotherhood ...
12&12 p.116,
Step Twelve
It
became clear that if we
ever were to
feel emotionally secure among
grown-up people, we would have to
put our
lives on a
give-and-take
basis; we would
have to
develop the
sense
of being in
partnership or
brotherhood with all those around us.
15.
... sense of
belonging that comes to us.
12&12 p.105,
Step Eleven
Perhaps one of the
greatest rewards of
meditation
and
prayer is the
sense of
belonging that
comes to
us.
16.
... sense of
belonging was tremendously exciting.
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.
17.
... sense of
direction flowed into them.
BB p.50,
We Agnostics
In the
face of
collapse
and
despair, in the
face of
the
total failure of their
human resources, they
found that a new
power,
peace,
happiness, and
sense of
direction flowed into them.
18.
... sense of
ease and comfort which comes ...
BB xxix(xxvii),
The Doctor's Opinion
They are
restless,
irritable and
discontented,
unless
they can again
experience the
sense of
ease and
comfort which
comes at once
by
taking a few
drinks --
drinks which they see others
taking with
impunity.
19.
... sense of
His presence had been blotted ...
BB p.12,
Bill's Story
But soon the
sense of His
presence had been
blotted
out by
worldly clamors,
mostly those
within myself.
20.
... sense of
impending calamity.
BB p.6,
Bill's Story
21.
... sense of
isolation we've always had.
12&12 p.57,
Step Five
For one thing, we shall get
rid of that
terrible sense of
isolation we've always had.
22.
... sense of
persecution, and a desire to ...
12&12 p.53,
Step Four
23.
... sense of
power and direction, provided we ...
BB p.46,
We Agnostics
24.
... sense of
public responsibility.
12&12 p.157,
Tradition Six
It would be a
good thing, they
believed, for the
liquor trade to
show a
sense of
public responsibility.
25.
... sense of
purpose, accompanied by a growing ...
BB p.130,
The Family Afterward
26.
... sense of
real satisfaction when I was ...
BB xxvii(xxv),
The Doctor's Opinion
There was, therefore, a
sense of
real satisfaction when I
was
asked to
contribute
a few
words on a
subject
which is
covered in such
masterly detail in these
pages.
27.
... sense of
relief at finally facing ourselves ...
12&12 p.50,
Step Four
As we
persist, a
brand-new
kind of
confidence is
born, and the
sense of
relief at finally
facing
ourselves is
indescribable.
28.
... sense of
relief that we conclude our ...
12&12 p.85,
Step Nine
29.
... sense of
relief will mount from minute ...
12&12 p.62,
Step Five
Provided you
hold back
nothing, your
sense of
relief will
mount from
minute to
minute.
30.
... sense of
responsibility for others.
BB p.120,
To Wives
Both of you will
awaken to a new
sense of
responsibility
for others.
31.
... sense of
the word.
12&12 p.110,
Step Twelve
This is
Twelfth Step work in the very
best sense of the
word.
32.
... sense of
the word.
BB xiv,
Foreword to First Edition
We are not an
organization in the
conventional sense of the
word.
33.
... sense of
the word, is needed or ...
BB p.98,
Working With Others
For the
type of
alcoholic
who is able and
willing to get well,
little charity, in the
ordinary sense of the
word, is
needed or
wanted.
34.
... sense of
timing, courage, and prudence -- these ...
12&12 p.83,
Step Nine
Good judgment, a
careful sense of
timing,
courage, and
prudence -- these are the
qualities we shall
need when
we take
Step Nine.
35.
... sense of
victory, followed by such a ...
BB p.14,
Bill's Story
There was a
sense of
victory,
followed by such
a
peace and
serenity as I
had
never known.
36.
... sense practically
nobody has it.
12&12 p.65,
Step Six
37.
... sense that
real tolerance of other people's ...
BB p.19,
There Is A Solution
Most of us
sense that
real tolerance of other people's
shortcomings and
viewpoints and a
respect
for their
opinions are
attitudes which make us more
useful to others.
38.
... sense that
these drinkers are abnormal, but ...
BB p.23,
There Is A Solution
In a
vague way their
families and
friends sense that these
drinkers are
abnormal, but
everybody
hopefully awaits the
day when the
sufferer will
rouse himself from his
lethargy and
assert his
power of will.
39.
... sense that
you can prove a straight ...
BB p.54,
We Agnostics
We could not
prove life in
the
sense that you can
prove
a
straight line is the
shortest distance between
two points,
yet, there it was.
40.
... sense the
flow of His Spirit into ...
BB p.85,
Into Action
If we have
carefully followed directions, we
have
begun to
sense the
flow of His
Spirit into us.
41.
... sense, their
will power?
BB p.107,
To Wives
What had
become of their
judgment, their
common
sense, their will
power?
42.
... sense these
things, they will not take ...
BB p.127,
The Family Afterward
If they
sense these things, they will not take so
seriously his
periods of
crankiness,
depression, or
apathy,
which will
disappear when there is
tolerance,
love, and
spiritual understanding.
43.
... sense to
him.
BB p.93,
Working With Others
He can
choose any
conception he
likes,
provided it makes
sense to
him.
44.
... sense we
find it necessary, until they ...
BB p.73,
Into Action
But they had not
learned enough of
humility,
fearlessness and
honesty, in the
sense we find
it
necessary, until they told someone else all
their
life story.
45.
... sense, we
still suffered many of the ...
12&12 p.57,
Step Five
But we soon
discovered that while we weren't
alone any more in a
social sense, we still
suffered many of
the
old pangs of
anxious apartness.
46.
... sense whatever
can its members govern or ...
12&12 p.134,
Tradition Two
In no
sense whatever can
its members govern or
direct the
group.
47.
... sense when
a real tosspot calls a ...
12&12 p.78,
Step Eight
It doesn't make much
sense when a
real tosspot calls a
kettle black.
48.
... sense, which
makes it virtually impossible for ...
BB p.22,
There Is A Solution
We are
equally positive
that once he
takes any
alcohol whatever into his
system, something
happens,
both in the
bodily and
mental sense, which makes it
virtually impossible
for him to
stop.
49.
... sense would
thus become uncommon sense.
BB p.13,
Bill's Story
Common sense would thus
become uncommon sense.
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