From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
1.
... sponsor already
has the advantage of knowing ...
12&12 p.61,
Step Five
2.
... sponsor, but
not necessarily so.
12&12 p.61,
Step Five
3.
... sponsor continues,
"Take, for example, my own ...
12&12 p.26,
Step Two
4.
... sponsor's ear
alone.
12&12 p.185,
Tradition Twelve
Enthusiastic over the
spectacular recovery of a brother alcoholic, we'd sometimes discuss those intimate and harrowing aspects of his
case meant for his sponsor's ear alone.
5.
... sponsor, "is
a very good question indeed.
12&12 p.26,
Step Two
6.
... sponsor or
spiritual adviser, earnestly asking God's ...
12&12 p.86,
Step Nine
Do we lay the matter before our sponsor or spiritual adviser, earnestly asking God's help and guidance -- meanwhile resolving to do the right
thing when it becomes clear, cost what it may?
7.
... sponsor or
spiritual adviser, we make a ...
12&12 p.89,
Step Ten
Then there are those occasions when alone, or in
the company of our sponsor
or spiritual adviser,
we make a careful review of our progress
since the last time.
8.
... sponsor points
out that our friend's life ...
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.
9.
... sponsor probably
points out that the newcomer ...
12&12 p.46,
Step Four
The sponsor probably points out that the newcomer has some assets
which can be noted along
with his liabilities.
10.
... sponsor probably
says, "Take it easy.
12&12 p.26,
Step Two
11.
... sponsor promptly
proves by talking freely and ...
12&12 p.46,
Step Four
This the sponsor promptly
proves by talking freely and easily, and without exhibitionism, about his own defects, past and present.
12.
... sponsor sold
me one idea, and that ...
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.
13.
... sponsor usually
laughs.
12&12 p.26,
Step Two
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