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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
SIX occurs
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1.
... Six?
12&12 p.68,
Step Six
Many will at once
ask, "How can we
accept the
entire implication of
Step Six?
2.
... Six.
12&12 p.108,
Step Twelve
Yet we
knew we had to make a
settlement with the
fundamental principle
of
Step Six.
3.
... Six.
BB p.76,
Into Action
If we can
answer to our
satisfaction, we then
look at
Step Six.
4.
Six --
An A.A. group ought never endorse, ...
BB p.562(564),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
5.
... six hundred
men.
BB p.136,
To Employers
6.
... Six is
still difficult, but not at ...
12&12 p.68,
Step Six
Seen in this
light,
Step
Six is still
difficult,
but not at all
impossible.
7.
... Six, many
of us balked -- for the ...
12&12 p.108,
Step Twelve
At
Step Six, many of us
balked -- for the
practical reason that we
did not
wish to have all our
defects of
character removed, because we still
loved some of them too much.
8.
... six months.
BB p.156,
A Vision For You
But he's a
grand chap when
he's
sober, though he's been in here
eight times in the
last six months.
9.
Six months
earlier, the broker had been ...
BB xv,
Foreword to Second Edition
10.
... six months
later, a well man.
BB p.141,
To Employers
Had they
fired me
first, and
had they then
taken steps to
see that I was
presented with the
solution contained in
this book, I might have
returned to them
six months later, a well
man.
11.
... six months
later these three had succeeded ...
BB p.159,
A Vision For You
A
year and
six months later these
three had
succeeded with
seven more.
12.
... six months
now?
BB p.154,
A Vision For You
After all, had he not been
sober six months now?
13.
Six of
the stories in Part II ...
BB xii,
Preface
Six of the
stories in
Part II have been
carried over,
eleven new
ones have been
added, and
eleven taken out.
14.
... Six on
all his faults -- without any ...
12&12 p.63,
Step Six
He
goes on to
explain that
any
person capable of
enough willingness and
honesty to
try repeatedly Step Six on all his
faults -- without
any
reservations whatever -- has
indeed come a
long way
spiritually, and
is therefore
entitled to be called a
man who is
sincerely trying to
grow in the
image and
likeness of his
own Creator.
15.
Six --
Problems of money, property, and authority ...
12&12 p.190,
Tradition Six (Long)
16.
... six stories
have been deleted.
BB xii,
Preface
One new
story has been
added
to
Part I, and
two that
originally appeared in
Part III have been
repositioned there;
six
stories have been
deleted.
17.
... six weeks
before.
BB p.137,
To Employers
I had
discharged him for
drinking six weeks before.
18.
... Six --
"Were entirely ready to have God ...
12&12 p.65,
Step Six
So
Step Six -- "Were
entirely ready to have
God remove all these
defects of
character" --
is
A.A.'s way of
stating the
best possible attitude one can take in
order to make a
beginning
on this
lifetime job.
19.
Six years
ago one of our number ...
BB p.162,
A Vision For You
Six years ago one of our
number was a
patient there.
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