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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... state alcohol
commission wanted a paid researcher.
12&12 p.170,
Tradition Eight
2.
... state drunk
farm wanted a manager who ...
12&12 p.170,
Tradition Eight
3.
... state, Ed
had holed up in a ...
12&12 p.144,
Tradition Three
In a
neighboring state,
Ed had
holed up in a
cheap hotel.
4.
... state is
known as "two-stepping."
12&12 p.113,
Step Twelve
5.
... state legislatures,
and commissions advertised the fact ...
12&12 p.170,
Tradition Eight
6.
... state of
absolute helplessness, you now declare ...
12&12 p.25,
Step Two
7.
... state of
affairs.
12&12 p.106,
Step Twelve
To new
A.A.'s, this often
seems
like a very
dubious and
improbable state of
affairs.
8.
... state of
affairs, am I willing to ...
12&12 p.52,
Step Four
If I am
unable to
change
the
present state of
affairs, am I
willing to
take the
measures necessary to
shape my
life to
conditions as they
are?
9.
... state of
consciousness and being.
12&12 p.107,
Step Twelve
He has been
granted a
gift
which
amounts to a new
state of
consciousness and
being.
10.
... state of
continual disturbance and frustration.
12&12 p.76,
Step Seven
11.
... state of
mental goose-flesh that used to ...
BB p.54,
We Agnostics
What a
state of
mental goose-
flesh that used to bring
on!
12.
... state of
mind and body.
BB xiii,
Foreword to First Edition
We, of
Alcoholics Anonymous, are more than one
hundred men and
women who have
recovered
from a
seemingly hopeless state of
mind and
body.
13.
... state of
mind existed to the extent ...
BB p.27,
There Is A Solution
I have
never seen one
single case recover, where that
state of
mind existed to the
extent that it does in you."
14.
... state of
mind which can be described ...
12&12 p.25,
Step Two
He is in a
state of
mind which
can be
described only as
savage.
15.
... State of
New York where a paper ...
BB p.569(571),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
16.
... state of
our souls here or hereafter?
12&12 p.29,
Step Two
Why should we be
bothered with
theological abstractions and
religious duties, or with
the
state of our
souls here
or
hereafter?
17.
... state of
reasonableness.
BB p.48,
We Agnostics
It finally
beat us into a
state of
reasonableness.
18.
... state of
the nation; the minister who ...
BB p.61,
How It Works
He is like the
retired business man who
lolls in the
Florida sunshine in the
winter complaining of the
sad
state of the
nation; the
minister who
sighs over the
sins of the
twentieth century;
politicians
and
reformers who are
sure all would be
Utopia if the
rest of the
world would only
behave; the
outlaw safe cracker who
thinks society has
wronged him; and the
alcoholic who has
lost all
and is
locked up.
19.
... state of
the nations, nor do we ...
BB p.132,
The Family Afterward
We
try not to
indulge in
cynicism over the
state of
the
nations, nor do we
carry the
world's
troubles on our
shoulders.
20.
... state perfect
ideals.
12&12 p.68,
Step Six
21.
... state preceding
the first drink.
BB p.157,
A Vision For You
There was much
talk about the
mental state preceding the
first drink.
22.
State that
you know about his drinking, ...
BB p.141,
To Employers
State that you
know about his
drinking, and that it
must
stop.
23.
... state, the
wrong-doing of others, fancied or ...
BB p.66,
How It Works
In that
state, the
wrong-doing of others,
fancied or
real, had
power to
actually kill.
24.
... state where
the most powerful desire to ...
BB p.24,
There Is A Solution
At a
certain point in the
drinking of every
alcoholic, he
passes into
a
state where the most
powerful desire to
stop drinking is of
absolutely no
avail.
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