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From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)


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1.
  ... steps.  BB We Agnostics, p.46
As soon as we admitted the possible existence of a Creative Intelligence, a Spirit of the Universe underlying the totality of things, we began to be possessed of a new sense of power and direction, provided we took other simple steps.


2.
  ... steps.  BB How It Works, p.58
If you have decided you want what we have and are willing to go to any length to get it -- then you are ready to take certain steps.


3.
  ... steps.  BB Into Action, p.75
Taking this book down from our shelf we turn to the page which contains the twelve steps.


4.
  ... Steps.  12&12 Contents (Step Five), p.6
Oneness with God and man prepares us for following Steps.


5.
  ... Steps.  12&12 Contents (Step Twelve), p.9
Readiness to receive free gift lies in practice of Twelve Steps.


6.
  ... Steps.  12&12 Contents (Step Twelve), p.9
Monotony, pain and calamity turned to good use by practice of Steps.


7.
  ... Steps.  12&12 Step Seven, p.70
Indeed, the attainment of greater humility is the foundation principle of each of A.A.'s Twelve Steps.


8.
  ... Steps.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.112
We know this because we see monotony, pain, and even calamity turned to good use by those who keep on trying to practice A.A.'s Twelve Steps.


9.
  ... steps along the road are taken grudgingly, ...  12&12 Step Seven, p.74
These initial steps along the road are taken grudgingly, yet we do take them.


10.
  ... Steps, and Step Three opens the door.  12&12 Step Three, p.40
To make this increasingly possible is the purpose of A.A.'s Twelve Steps, and Step Three opens the door.


11.
  ... Steps, and the application of these Steps ...  12&12 Foreword, p.17
In it alcoholism was described from the alcoholic's point of view, the spiritual ideas of the Society were codified for the first time in the Twelve Steps, and the application of these Steps to the alcoholic's dilemma was made clear.


12.
  ... Steps" and the "Twelve Traditions" of Alcoholics ...  12&12 Foreword, p.15
This book deals with the "Twelve Steps" and the "Twelve Traditions" of Alcoholics Anonymous.


13.
  ... Steps and Traditions has been tried.  12&12 Tradition Four, p.146
Over the years, every conceivable deviation from our Twelve Steps and Traditions has been tried.


14.
  ... Steps and tries to teach her how ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.118
Seeing her unhappiness, he recommends A.A.'s Twelve Steps and tries to teach her how to live.


15.
  ... Steps and Twelve Traditions in 1953.  12&12 Introduction, p.14
Alcoholics Anonymous first published Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions in 1953.


16.
  ... Steps and Twelve Traditions, written by Bill ...  12&12 Introduction, p.14
In fact, the 2002 General Service Conference discussed this issue and it was unanimously recommended that: "The text in the book Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, written by Bill W., remain as is, recognizing the Fellowship's feelings that Bill's writing be retained as originally published."


17.
  ... Steps are a group of principles, spiritual ...  12&12 Foreword, p.15
A.A.'s Twelve Steps are a group of principles, spiritual in their nature, which, if practiced as a way of life, can expel the obsession to drink and enable the sufferer to become happily and usefully whole.


18.
  ... Steps are also used by Al-Anon Family ...  12&12 Step Twelve (Note), p.118
(*) In adapted form, the Steps are also used by Al-Anon Family Groups. Not a part of A.A., this worldwide fellowship consists of spouses and other relatives or friends of alcoholics (in A.A. or still drinking). Its headquarters address is 1600 Corporate Landing Pkwy, Virginia Beach, VA 23454-5617.


19.
  ... Steps are but suggestions.  12&12 Step Two, p.26
All of its Twelve Steps are but suggestions.


20.
  ... Steps are concerned with personal relations.  12&12 Contents (Step Eight), p.7
This and the next two Steps are concerned with personal relations.


21.
  ... Steps are harder to take than Five.  12&12 Step Five, p.55
When it comes to ego deflation, few Steps are harder to take than Five.


22.
  ... Steps are only suggestions.  12&12 Contents (Step Two), p.5
A.A. does not demand belief; Twelve Steps are only suggestions.


23.
  ... Steps are principles for personal recovery.  BB Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form), p.574
A.A.'s Twelve Steps are principles for personal recovery.


24.
  ... Steps as first written in the earlier ...  12&12 Foreword, p.17
This present volume proposes to broaden and deepen the understanding of the Twelve Steps as first written in the earlier work.


25.
  ... Steps ask us to go contrary to ...  12&12 Step Five, p.55
All of A.A.'s Twelve Steps ask us to go contrary to our natural desires . . . they all deflate our egos.


26.
  ... Steps can mean more than sobriety for ...  12&12 Foreword, p.16
They think that the Twelve Steps can mean more than sobriety for problem drinkers.


27.
  ... Steps deflate ego.  12&12 Contents (Step Five), p.6
Twelve Steps deflate ego.


28.
  ... Steps Eight and Nine.  BB Into Action, p.76
Let's look at Steps Eight and Nine.


29.
  Steps Eight and Nine are concerned with ...  12&12 Step Eight, p.77
Steps Eight and Nine are concerned with personal relations.


30.
  ... Steps for the answers.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.111
But in the longer run we clearly realize that these are only the pains of growing up, and nothing but good can come from them if we turn more and more to the entire Twelve Steps for the answers.


31.
  ... Steps for us.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.113
We temporarily cease to grow because we feel satisfied that there is no need for all of A.A.'s Twelve Steps for us.


32.
  ... Steps in his home, often with fine ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.119
He persistently tries all of A.A.'s Twelve Steps in his home, often with fine results.


33.
  ... Steps in our program.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.107
A.A.'s manner of making ready to receive this gift lies in the practice of the Twelve Steps in our program.


34.
  ... steps in to justify our excesses.  12&12 Step Four, p.49
When the satisfaction of our instincts for sex, security, and society becomes the sole object of our lives, then pride steps in to justify our excesses.


35.
  ... Steps into action upon all our affairs ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.109
The wonderful energy it releases and the eager action by which it carries our message to the next suffering alcoholic and which finally translates the Twelve Steps into action upon all our affairs is the payoff, the magnificent reality, of Alcoholics Anonymous.


36.
  ... Steps means the adoption of attitudes and ...  12&12 Step One, p.24
For practicing A.A.'s remaining eleven Steps means the adoption of attitudes and actions that almost no alcoholic who is still drinking can dream of taking.


37.
  ... Steps now come to a close.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.125
These little studies of A.A.'s Twelve Steps now come to a close.


38.
  ... Steps of the A.A. program can be ...  12&12 Step Three, p.40
Then it is explained that other Steps of the A.A. program can be practiced with success only when Step Three is given a determined and persistent trial.


39.
  ... Steps of the A.A. program come in.  12&12 Step Three, p.40
That is just where the remaining Steps of the A.A. program come in.


40.
  ... Steps of the program in our daily ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.106
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.


41.
  ... Steps of the program of recovery.  BB Working With Others, p.96
He has read this volume and says he is prepared to go through with the Twelve Steps of the program of recovery.


42.
  ... Steps require sustained and personal exertion to ...  12&12 Step Three, p.40
All of the Twelve Steps require sustained and personal exertion to conform to their principles and so, we trust, to God's will.


43.
  ... Steps state perfect ideals.  12&12 Step Six, p.68
The remaining eleven Steps state perfect ideals.


44.
  ... Steps, Step Three calls for affirmative action, ...  12&12 Step Three, p.34
Like all the remaining Steps, Step Three calls for affirmative action, for it is only by action that we can cut away the self-will which has always blocked the entry of God -- or, if you like, a Higher Power -- into our lives.


45.
  ... Steps that summarize the program may be ...  BB Foreword to Third Edition, p.xxii
The Twelve Steps that summarize the program may be called los Doce Pasos in one country, les Douze Etapes in another, but they trace exactly the same path to recovery that was blazed by the earliest members of Alcoholics Anonymous.


46.
  ... Steps, these situations are often set right.(*)  12&12 Step Twelve, p.118
Nevertheless, under the influence of A.A.'s Twelve Steps, these situations are often set right.(*)


47.
  ... Steps, they have been able to meet ...  12&12 Foreword, p.15
Many people, nonalcoholics, report that as a result of the practice of A.A.'s Twelve Steps, they have been able to meet other difficulties of life.


48.
  ... Steps to recovery are suggestions; the Twelve ...  12&12 Tradition One, p.129
Our Twelve Steps to recovery are suggestions; the Twelve Traditions which guarantee A.A.'s unity contain not a single "Don't."


49.
  ... Steps to recovery, he almost certainly signs ...  12&12 Tradition Nine, p.174
Unless each A.A. member follows to the best of his ability our suggested Twelve Steps to recovery, he almost certainly signs his own death warrant.


50.
  ... Steps to recovery, he signs his own ...  12&12 Contents (Tradition Nine), p.12
Absence of coercion works because unless each A.A. follows suggested Steps to recovery, he signs his own death warrant.


51.
  ... steps to see that I was presented ...  BB To Employers, p.141
Had they fired me first, and had they then taken steps to see that I was presented with the solution contained in this book, I might have returned to them six months later, a well man.


52.
  ... Steps to the alcoholic's dilemma was made ...  12&12 Foreword, p.17
In it alcoholism was described from the alcoholic's point of view, the spiritual ideas of the Society were codified for the first time in the Twelve Steps, and the application of these Steps to the alcoholic's dilemma was made clear.


53.
  ... Steps toward a full and meaningful sobriety.  12&12 Step Five, p.62
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.


54.
  ... steps toward liberation and strength.  12&12 Step One, p.21
We perceive that only through utter defeat are we able to take our first steps toward liberation and strength.


55.
  ... Steps we could lose those fears, no ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.121
But as time passed we found that with the help of A.A.'s Twelve Steps we could lose those fears, no matter what our material prospects were.


56.
  ... Steps, we had a spiritual awakening about ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.109
So, practicing these Steps, we had a spiritual awakening about which finally there was no question.


57.
  ... Steps, we have each found something called ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.106
Our Twelfth Step also says that as a result of practicing all the Steps, we have each found something called a spiritual awakening.


58.
  ... Steps, we prepare ourselves for the adventure ...  12&12 Step Ten, p.88
As we work the first nine Steps, we prepare ourselves for the adventure of a new life.


59.
  ... steps we took, which are suggested as ...  BB How It Works, p.59
Here are the steps we took, which are suggested as a program of recovery:


60.
  ... steps, we tried to carry this message ...  BB How It Works, p.60
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.


61.
  ... steps, we tried to carry this message ...  12&12 Contents (Step Twelve), p.8
Step Twelve -- "Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs."


62.
  ... steps, we tried to carry this message ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.106
"Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs."


63.
  ... Steps we were engaged in reflection.  12&12 Step Three, p.34
In the first two Steps we were engaged in reflection.


64.
  ... steps where I could get it at ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.176
My bootlegger had hidden alcohol at the back steps where I could get it at my convenience.


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