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Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... sober?
12&12 p.45,
Step Four
If we were
pretty nice
people all along,
except for our
drinking, what
need is there
for a
moral inventory
now that we are
sober?
2.
... sober.
12&12 p.57,
Step Five
Most of us would
declare that without a
fearless admission of
our
defects to another
human being we could not
stay
sober.
3.
... sober.
12&12 p.143,
Tradition Three
4.
... sober.
BB p.9,
Bill's Story
He was sober.
5.
... sober.
BB p.36,
More About Alcoholism
I had
eaten there many
times
during the
months I was
sober.
6.
... sober.
BB p.82,
Into Action
Sometimes we
hear an
alcoholic say that the only thing he
needs to do is to
keep sober.
7.
... sober A.A.
member has been granted a ...
12&12 p.64,
Step Six
It is
plain for
everybody to see that each
sober A.A. member has been
granted a
release from this very
obstinate and
potentially fatal obsession.
8.
... sober and
able to be of this ...
BB p.127,
The Family Afterward
They should be
thankful he is
sober and able to be of this
world
once more.
9.
... sober and
happy in our A.A. work.
12&12 p.112,
Step Twelve
We are
sober and
happy in our
A.A. work.
10.
... sober and
help other alcoholics.
BB xxiv,
Foreword to Fourth Edition
In any
meeting, anywhere,
A.A.'s
share experience,
strength,
and
hope with each other, in
order to
stay sober and
help other
alcoholics.
11.
... sober and
help other alcoholics to achieve ...
Grapevine,
Preamble
12.
... sober and
in good spirits.
BB p.116,
To Wives
Discuss this with him when he is
sober and in
good spirits.
13.
... sober and
to stay sober, you don't ...
12&12 p.26,
Step Two
Second, to get
sober and to
stay sober, you don't have to
swallow all of
Step Two right now.
14.
... sober, and
winning back the esteem of ...
12&12 p.92,
Step Ten
Now that we're in
A.A. and
sober, and
winning back the
esteem of our
friends and
business associates, we
find that we still
need to
exercise special vigilance.
15.
... sober at
all.
12&12 p.70,
Step Seven
For without some
degree of
humility, no
alcoholic
can
stay sober at all.
16.
... sober at
all; others will relapse periodically ...
12&12 p.56,
Step Five
Some people are
unable to
stay sober at all; others will
relapse periodically
until they really
clean house.
17.
... sober at
once and remained that way; ...
BB xx,
Foreword to Second Edition
Of
alcoholics who
came
to
A.A. and really
tried,
50% got
sober at once and
remained that way;
25%
sobered up after some
relapses, and among the
remainder, those who
stayed on with
A.A. showed improvement.
18.
... sober breath.
BB p.4,
Bill's Story
Mercifully, no one could
guess that I was to have no
real
employment for
five years, or
hardly draw a
sober breath.
19.
... sober but
a few months, he saw ...
BB p.154,
A Vision For You
Still
physically weak,
and
sober but a few
months,
he saw that his
predicament was
dangerous.
20.
... sober, considerate,
and helpful, regardless of what ...
BB p.99,
Working With Others
These things will
come to
pass
naturally and in
good time provided, however, the
alcoholic continues
to
demonstrate that he can be
sober,
considerate, and
helpful,
regardless of
what anyone says or does.
21.
... sober day
by day.
BB p.570(572),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
Learning to
depend upon
a
higher power and
absorb himself in his
work with
other
alcoholics, he
remains sober day by
day.
22.
... sober, does
he not work hard and ...
BB p.139,
To Employers
When
sober, does he not
work
hard and have a
knack of
getting things done?
23.
... sober fact
that it does not work ...
12&12 p.166,
Tradition Eight
We do not
decry professionalism in other
fields, but we
accept the
sober fact that it does not
work for us.
24.
... sober, father
usually obeyed.
BB p.131,
The Family Afterward
When
sober,
father usually
obeyed.
25.
... sober for
a long stretch, we could ...
BB p.33,
More About Alcoholism
Most of us have
believed that if we
remained sober for a
long stretch, we could
thereafter
drink normally.
26.
... sober for
a year or more, becoming ...
BB p.34,
More About Alcoholism
27.
... sober, for
there will be no home ...
BB p.82,
Into Action
Certainly he
must keep sober, for there will be no
home if he doesn't.
28.
... sober for
years, often pay dearly for ...
12&12 p.56,
Step Five
Even
A.A. oldtimers,
sober for
years, often
pay dearly for
skimping this
Step.
29.
... sober himself.
BB xvi,
Foreword to Second Edition
Prior to his
journey to
Akron, the
broker had
worked hard with many
alcoholics on the
theory
that only an
alcoholic could
help an
alcoholic, but he
had
succeeded only in
keeping sober himself.
30.
... sober, it
can be understood why we ...
12&12 p.160,
Tradition Seven
When you
add to this the
habitual supposition
that people ought to
give money to
alcoholics trying to
stay sober, it can be
understood
why we
thought we
deserved a
pile of
folding money.
31.
... sober, keep
in emotional balance, and live ...
12&12 p.88,
Step Ten
32.
... sober --
month after month.
12&12 p.144,
Tradition Three
Ed not only
stayed, he
stayed sober --
month after
month.
33.
... sober nowadays,
don't we often try to ...
12&12 p.100,
Step Eleven
And though
sober nowadays,
don't we often
try to do much the same thing?
34.
... sober only
by the grace of God ...
12&12 p.92,
Step Ten
As an
insurance against "
big-
shot-
ism" we can often
check ourselves
by
remembering that we are
today sober only by the
grace of
God and that any
success we may be having is far more His
success than ours.
35.
... sober, or
even alive, unless he passes ...
12&12 p.133,
Tradition Two
Alone now, he
reflects that he may not be able to
stay sober, or even
alive,
unless he
passes on to other
alcoholics what was so
freely given him.
36.
... sober --
paid our own way.
12&12 p.160,
Tradition Seven
They
figured that it was
high time we now --
sober --
paid our
own way.
37.
... sober six
months now?
BB p.154,
A Vision For You
After all, had he not been
sober six months now?
38.
... sober, some
others had.
12&12 p.137,
Tradition Two
Although
none of the
alcoholics we
boarded seemed to get
sober, some
others had.
39.
... sober, that
after all, only a bare ...
12&12 p.39,
Step Three
Of
course the
sponsor points out that our
friend's
life is still
unmanageable even though he is
sober, that after all, only a
bare
start on
A.A.'s
program has been made.
40.
... sober, that
motive became secondary.
BB p.159,
A Vision For You
Though they
knew they
must help other
alcoholics if
they would
remain sober,
that
motive became secondary.
41.
... sober the
rest of his life.
BB p.40,
More About Alcoholism
He was
positive that this
humiliating experience,
plus the
knowledge he had
acquired, would
keep him
sober the
rest of his
life.
42.
... sober, though
he's been in here eight ...
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.
43.
... sober; unless
I accept life completely on ...
BB p.417(449),
Acceptance
Until I could
accept my
alcoholism, I could not
stay sober;
unless I
accept life completely on
life's
terms, I cannot be
happy.
44.
... sober up
drunks and hand them currency ...
12&12 p.147,
Tradition Four
Beginning on the
ground
floor there would be a
club;
in the
second story they
would
sober up
drunks and
hand them
currency for their
back
debts; the
third deck would
house an
educational project --
quite
noncontroversial, of
course.
45.
... sober, you
don't have to swallow all ...
12&12 p.26,
Step Two
Second, to get
sober and to
stay sober, you don't have to
swallow all of
Step Two right now.
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