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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
STAND occurs
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1.
... stand?
12&12 p.66,
Step Six
But when we
face up to the
less violent aspects of these very same
defects, then where do we
stand?
2.
... stand a
better chance of getting what ...
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
With a
proper display of
honesty and
morality,
we'd
stand a
better chance of
getting what we
really
wanted.
3.
... stand almost
any amount of battering.
12&12 p.146,
Tradition Four
When
A.A.'s
Traditions
were
first published, in
1946, we had
become sure that an
A.A. group could
stand almost any
amount of
battering.
4.
... stand before
his Creator guilty of such ...
BB p.80,
Into Action
After
consulting with his
wife and
partner he
came to the
conclusion that
it was
better to take those
risks than to
stand before his
Creator guilty of such
ruinous slander.
5.
... stand convicted
of emotional sterility and of ...
BB p.569(571),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
If we do not do so, we shall
stand convicted of
emotional
sterility and of having
lost the
faith that
moves mountains, without
which
medicine can do
little.
6.
... stand firm
in the face of difficult ...
12&12 p.104,
Step Eleven
7.
... stand for
it.
BB p.103,
Working With Others
Drinkers will not
stand
for it.
8.
... stand it
if we hate deeply.
12&12 p.92,
Step Ten
We can't
stand it if we
hate
deeply.
9.
... stand now,
and a further look at ...
12&12 p.101,
Step Eleven
It ought to be
followed by a
good look at where we
stand now, and a
further look at what might
happen in
our
lives were we able to
move closer to the
ideal we have been
trying to
glimpse.
10.
... stand on
our feet; we don't crawl ...
BB p.83,
Into Action
As
God's people we
stand on our
feet; we don't
crawl before
anyone.
11.
... stand ready
to do anything which will ...
12&12 p.24,
Step One
We
stand ready to do anything
which will
lift the
merciless obsession
from us.
12.
... stand this
God stuff!
12&12 p.143,
Tradition Three
Cried Ed, "I can't
stand this
God stuff!
13.
... stand today.
12&12 p.146,
Tradition Four
These very
deviations created a
vast process of
trial and
error which, under the
grace of
God, has brought us to where we
stand today.
14.
... stand together
on this Step.
12&12 p.33,
Step Two
Whether
agnostic,
atheist, or
former believer, we can
stand together on this
Step.
15.
... stand up
under fire, and endure the ...
12&12 p.38,
Step Three
Would they be able to take
discipline,
stand up under
fire, and
endure the
monotony and
misery of
war?
16.
... stand with
us a while on the ...
BB xxviii(xxvi),
The Doctor's Opinion
If any
feel that as
psychiatrists directing a
hospital for
alcoholics we
appear
somewhat
sentimental, let them
stand with us a while on the
firing line, see the
tragedies, the
despairing wives, the
little children; let the
solving of these
problems
become a
part of their
daily work, and even of their
sleeping moments, and the
most
cynical will not
wonder that we have
accepted and
encouraged
this
movement.
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