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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... seriously."
12&12 p.149,
Tradition Four
Once the
card was
unfolded, a
single pungent sentence leaped to the
eye: "Don't take
yourself too
damn seriously."
2.
... seriously affected.
12&12 p.116,
Step Twelve
And even if they
failed us, we could be
understanding and not too
seriously affected.
3.
... seriously affected,
even those who may be ...
12&12 p.85,
Step Nine
As soon as we
begin to
feel
confident in our new way of
life and have
begun, by our
behavior and
example, to
convince those about us that we are
indeed changing for the
better, it is usually
safe to
talk in
complete frankness with those who have been
seriously affected, even those
who may be only a
little or not at all
aware of what we have done to them.
4.
... seriously alcoholic
as we were, we believe ...
BB p.25,
There Is A Solution
If you are as
seriously alcoholic as we were, we
believe there is no
middle-of-the-
road solution.
5.
... seriously disturbed,
our first need was to ...
12&12 p.47,
Step Four
We
learned that if we were
seriously disturbed, our
first need was to
quiet that
disturbance,
regardless of who or what we
thought caused it.
6.
... seriously harm
the one to whom we ...
12&12 p.86,
Step Nine
That will
arise in the
occasional situation
where to make a
full revelation would
seriously
harm the one to whom we are
making amends.
7.
... seriously his
periods of crankiness, depression, or ...
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.
8.
... seriously ill,
bodily and mentally.
BB p.7,
Bill's Story
Best of all, I
met a
kind doctor who
explained that though
certainly selfish and
foolish, I had been
seriously
ill,
bodily and
mentally.
9.
... seriously think
of giving them up, at ...
12&12 p.67,
Step Six
Nearly anyone could
submit
a
good list of such
defects as these, and few of us would
seriously think of
giving them up, at
least until
they
cause us
excessive
misery.
10.
... seriously thought
of rewriting the laws of ...
12&12 p.155,
Tradition Six
We
seriously thought of
rewriting the
laws of the
land, and having it
declared
that
alcoholics are
sick
people.
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