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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... start.
12&12 p.147,
Tradition Four
In
imagination the
gleaming center was to go
up several
stories more, but
three would do for a
start.
2.
... start.
BB p.58,
How It Works
With all the
earnestness at our
command, we
beg of you to be
fearless and
thorough
from the very
start.
3.
... start.
BB p.145,
To Employers
If he
feels free to
discuss his
problems with
you, if he
knows you
understand and will not be
upset by anything he
wishes to
say, he will
probably be off to a
fast start.
4.
... start and that your motive in going ...
BB p.102,
Working With Others
But be
sure you are on
solid
spiritual ground before
you
start and that your
motive in
going is
thoroughly good.
5.
... start at the top and come through ...
12&12 p.148,
Tradition Four
Some would
start at the
top and
come through to the
bottom,
becoming club members; others
started in
the
club,
pitched a
binge, were
hospitalized, then
graduated to
education
on the
third floor.
6.
... start drinking again.
BB xvi,
Foreword to Second Edition
The
broker had
gone to
Akron on a
business venture which had
collapsed,
leaving him
greatly in
fear that he might
start drinking again.
7.
... start drinking again, and all would be ...
BB p.80,
Into Action
He saw that he had to place the
outcome in
God's
hands or he would soon
start drinking again, and
all would be
lost anyhow.
8.
... start drinking without developing the phenomenon of ...
BB xxx(xxviii),
The Doctor's Opinion
All these, and many others, have one
symptom in
common: they cannot
start drinking without
developing the
phenomenon of
craving.
9.
... start easily and will soon become eager.
12&12 p.62,
Step Five
When your
mission is
carefully explained,
and it is seen by the
recipient of your
confidence how
helpful
he can really be, the
conversation will
start easily and will soon
become eager.
10.
... start fresh with him?
BB p.145,
To Employers
Can you
charge this off as you would a
bad account and
start fresh with him?
11.
... start from that point.
BB p.12,
Bill's Story
I saw that
growth could
start from that
point.
12.
... start is made, then the great advantages ...
12&12 p.78,
Step Eight
But if a
willing start is
made, then the
great advantages of doing this will so
quickly reveal themselves
that the
pain will be
lessened as one
obstacle
after another
melts away.
13.
... start life anew.
BB p.114,
To Wives
But sometimes you
must start
life anew.
14.
... start like this.
12&12 p.99,
Step Eleven
Well, we might start like this.
15.
... start of a new millennium.
BB xxiii,
Foreword to Fourth Edition
16.
... start of a third at Cleveland.
BB xvii,
Foreword to Second Edition
17.
... start off as a moderate drinker; he ...
BB p.21,
There Is A Solution
He may
start off as a
moderate drinker; he may
or may not
become a
continuous hard drinker; but at some
stage of
his
drinking career he
begins to
lose all
control of his
liquor consumption, once he
starts to
drink.
18.
... start on A.A.'s program has been made.
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.
19.
... start on the new basis, but just ...
BB p.120,
To Wives
Perhaps your
husband will make a
fair start on the new
basis, but just as things are
going beautifully he
dismays you by
coming home drunk.
20.
... start out as an evangelist or reformer.
BB p.89,
Working With Others
Don't
start out as an
evangelist or
reformer.
21.
... start out by forgiving them, one and ...
12&12 p.78,
Step Eight
If we are now about to
ask forgiveness for ourselves, why shouldn't we
start out by
forgiving them,
one and all?
22.
... start their journey, that all will not ...
BB p.122,
The Family Afterward
Let
families realize,
as they
start their
journey, that all will not be
fair weather.
23.
... start, this was all we needed to ...
BB p.47,
We Agnostics
24.
... start to withdraw again just because your ...
BB p.102,
Working With Others
Don't
start to
withdraw
again just because your
friends drink liquor.
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