From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... sit down
and talk aloud about what ...
12&12 p.60,
Step Five
Until we actually sit down and talk aloud about what we have so
long hidden, our willingness to clean house is still largely theoretical.
2.
... sit down
with some member of the ...
12&12 p.84,
Step Nine
After coming from our first meeting, or perhaps after we have finished reading the book "Alcoholics Anonymous," we usually want to sit down with some member of the family and readily admit the damage we have done by our drinking.
3.
... sit down
with the family and frankly ...
BB p.83,
Into Action
We ought to sit down with the family and frankly analyze the past as we now see it, being very careful not to criticize them.
4.
... sit hopefully
at a table, a bottle ...
BB p.154,
A Vision For You
Of course he couldn't drink, but why not sit hopefully at a table, a bottle of ginger ale before him?
5.
... sit in
A.A. meetings and listen, not ...
12&12 p.110,
Step Twelve
We sit in A.A. meetings and listen, not
only to receive something ourselves,
but to give the reassurance and support
which our presence can bring.
6.
... sit in
the meeting place, saying, "This ...
12&12 p.173,
Tradition Nine
Groups have tried to expel members, but the banished have come back to sit in the meeting place, saying, "This is life for us;
you can't keep us out."
7.
... sit quietly
on the sidelines patiently awaiting ...
12&12 p.135,
Tradition Two
The elder statesman is
the one who sees the wisdom of the group's decision, who holds no resentment over his reduced status, whose judgment, fortified by
considerable experience, is sound, and
who is willing to sit quietly on the sidelines
patiently awaiting developments.
8.
... sit quietly
when in doubt, asking only ...
BB p.13,
Bill's Story
I was to sit quietly when
in doubt, asking only for
direction and strength to meet my problems as He would have me.
9.
... sit with
a long face in places ...
BB p.102,
Working With Others
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