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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
SOBRIETY occurs
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1.
... sobriety.
12&12 p.39,
Step Three
They
simply will not
budge;
they make him
desperately unhappy and
threaten his
newfound sobriety.
2.
... sobriety.
12&12 p.62,
Step Five
This
feeling of being at one with
God and
man, this
emerging from
isolation
through the
open and
honest
sharing of our
terrible
burden of
guilt, brings us
to a
resting place where we may
prepare ourselves for the
following Steps toward a
full and
meaningful sobriety.
3.
... sobriety.
12&12 p.83,
Step Nine
There will be those who ought to be
dealt with just
as soon as we
become reasonably confident
that we can
maintain our
sobriety.
4.
... sobriety.
12&12 p.106,
Step Twelve
Here we
begin to
practice
all
Twelve Steps of the
program in our
daily lives so that we and those about us may find
emotional sobriety.
5.
... sobriety?
12&12 p.111,
Step Twelve
Can we
love the
whole pattern of
living as
eagerly as we do the
small segment of it we
discover
when we
try to
help other
alcoholics achieve sobriety?
6.
... sobriety.
12&12 p.151,
Tradition Five
The only thing that
matters is that he is an
alcoholic who has
found a
key to
sobriety.
7.
... sobriety.
12&12 p.153,
Tradition Five
But as he
calmed down, he
began to
listen while I
tried to
show him that
humility was the
main key to
sobriety.
8.
... sobriety.
12&12 p.154,
Tradition Five
Years later, this
tough Irish customer liked to say, "My
sponsor sold me one
idea, and that was
sobriety.
9.
... sobriety.
BB p.100,
Working With Others
Ask them to
remember, when
they are
impatient, the
blessed fact of his
sobriety.
10.
... sobriety.
BB p.118,
To Wives
Your
husband knows he
owes you more than
sobriety.
11.
... sobriety.
BB p.119,
To Wives
The
fact is that he should
work with other people to
maintain his
own sobriety.
12.
... sobriety.
BB p.146,
To Employers
This
work is
necessary to
maintain his
sobriety.
13.
... sobriety.
BB p.152,
A Vision For You
He will
presently try the
old game again, for he isn't
happy about his
sobriety.
14.
... sobriety.
Grapevine,
Preamble
15.
... sobriety and
a contented, useful life.
12&12 p.40,
Step Three
More
sobriety brought about by the
admission of
alcoholism and by
attendance at a few
meetings is very
good indeed, but it is
bound to be
a far
cry from
permanent
sobriety and a
contented,
useful life.
16.
... sobriety and
a mighty happy life.'
12&12 p.152,
Tradition Five
"Of
course, my
answer was
'My
own sobriety and a
mighty happy life.'
17.
... sobriety, and
emotional turmoil before serenity.
12&12 p.94,
Step Ten
How
heartily we
A.A.'s can
agree with him, for we
know
that the
pains of
drinking had to
come before
sobriety, and
emotional
turmoil before
serenity.
18.
... sobriety, and
often the difference between life ...
BB p.561(563),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
To those now in
its fold,
Alcoholics Anonymous
has made the
difference between
misery and
sobriety, and often
the
difference between
life and
death.
19.
... sobriety and
peace of mind than this ...
12&12 p.55,
Step Five
But
scarcely any
Step is
more
necessary to
longtime sobriety and
peace of
mind than this one.
20.
... sobriety and
peace of mind will still ...
12&12 p.50,
Step Four
By now the
newcomer has
probably arrived at the
following conclusions: that his
character defects,
representing instincts gone astray, have been the
primary cause of his
drinking and his
failure
at
life; that
unless he is
now
willing to
work hard at the
elimination of
the
worst of these
defects, both
sobriety and
peace of
mind will still
elude him; that all the
faulty
foundation of his
life
will have to be
torn out and
built anew on
bedrock.
21.
... sobriety and
self-discipline had qualified him to ...
BB p.32,
More About Alcoholism
Then he
fell victim to a
belief which
practically
every
alcoholic has -- that his
long period of
sobriety and
self-
discipline had
qualified him to
drink as
other
men.
22.
... sobriety begins
to be taken as a ...
BB p.128,
The Family Afterward
As soon as his
sobriety begins to be
taken as a
matter of
course, the
family may
look at their
strange new
dad with
apprehension, then with
irritation.
23.
... sobriety brought
about by the admission of ...
12&12 p.39,
Step Three
More
sobriety brought about by the
admission of
alcoholism and by
attendance at a few
meetings is very
good indeed, but it is
bound to be
a far
cry from
permanent
sobriety and a
contented,
useful life.
24.
... sobriety --
first, last, and all the time ...
12&12 p.45,
Step Four
This being so, we
think it
logically follows that
sobriety --
first,
last, and all the
time -- is the
only thing we
need to
work
for.
25.
... sobriety for
problem drinkers.
12&12 p.16,
Foreword
They
think that the
Twelve
Steps can
mean more than
sobriety for
problem drinkers.
26.
Sobriety had
to be its sole objective.
12&12 p.147,
Tradition Four
Sobriety had to be
its sole objective.
27.
... sobriety --
if any -- will be precarious.
12&12 p.21,
Step One
Until he so
humbles himself, his
sobriety -- if any -- will be
precarious.
28.
... sobriety is
enough.
BB p.82,
Into Action
We
feel a
man is
unthinking when he says that
sobriety is
enough.
29.
... sobriety may
call themselves an A.A. group ...
12&12 p.146,
Tradition Four
30.
... sobriety may
call themselves an A.A. group, ...
12&12 p.189,
Tradition Three (Long)
Any
two or
three alcoholics gathered together for
sobriety may
call themselves an
A.A. group,
provided that, as a
group, they have no other
affiliation.
31.
... sobriety may
call themselves an A.A. group, ...
BB p.563(565),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
Any
two or
three alcoholics gathered together for
sobriety may
call themselves an
A.A. group,
provided that, as a
group, they have no other
affiliation.
32.
... sobriety no
matter how isolated you are.
BB p.573(575),
Appendix VI, How to Get in Touch With A.A.
If there is
none nearby, you
will be
invited to
carry
on a
correspondence which will do much to
insure your
sobriety no
matter how
isolated you
are.
33.
... sobriety or
contentment for us.
12&12 p.43,
Step Four
Without a
willing and
persistent effort to do
this, there can be
little sobriety or
contentment for
us.
34.
... sobriety, progress,
and any real ability to ...
12&12 p.48,
Step Four
But all who are in the
least reasonable will
agree upon
one
point: that there is
plenty wrong with us
alcoholics about which
plenty will have to be done if we are to
expect sobriety,
progress, and any
real ability to
cope with
life.
35.
... sobriety than
anything else.
BB p.129,
The Family Afterward
During those
first days of
convalescence, this will do more to
insure his
sobriety than
anything else.
36.
... sobriety that
we've had.
12&12 p.139,
Tradition Three
We just
want to be
sure that
you get the same
great chance for
sobriety that we've
had.
37.
... sobriety, the
aim of our services is ...
12&12 p.175,
Tradition Nine
Just as the
aim of each
A.A. member is
personal sobriety, the
aim of our
services is to bring
sobriety
within reach of all who
want it.
38.
... sobriety, they
still haven't much chance of ...
12&12 p.70,
Step Seven
Nearly all
A.A.'s have
found, too, that
unless they
develop much more of this
precious quality than may
be
required just for
sobriety, they still haven't much
chance of
becoming truly happy.
39.
... sobriety time
behind them was sufficient to ...
BB xvii,
Foreword to Second Edition
40.
... sobriety unless
we give it away.
12&12 p.151,
Tradition Five
It is the
great paradox of
A.A. that we
know we can
seldom keep the
precious gift of
sobriety unless we
give it away.
41.
... sobriety, we
are in a short time ...
BB p.33,
More About Alcoholism
Commencing to
drink
after a
period of
sobriety,
we are in a
short time as
bad as ever.
42.
... sobriety which
renewed my wife's hope.
BB p.5,
Bill's Story
Nevertheless, I still
thought I could
control the
situation,
and there were
periods of
sobriety which
renewed my
wife's
hope.
43.
... sobriety within
reach of all who want ...
12&12 p.175,
Tradition Nine
Just as the
aim of each
A.A. member is
personal sobriety, the
aim of our
services is to bring
sobriety
within reach of all who
want it.
44.
... sobriety would
be some place like the ...
BB p.101,
Working With Others
His only
chance for
sobriety
would be some place like the
Greenland Ice Cap, and even there an
Eskimo might
turn up with a
bottle of
scotch and
ruin everything!
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