From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... Steps.
12&12 p.70,
Step Seven
Indeed, the attainment
of greater humility is
the foundation principle of each of A.A.'s Twelve Steps.
2.
... Steps.
12&12 p.112,
Step Twelve
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.
3.
... steps.
BB p.46,
We Agnostics
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.
4.
... steps.
BB p.58,
How It Works
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.
5.
... steps.
BB p.75,
Into Action
6.
... steps along
the road are taken grudgingly, ...
12&12 p.74,
Step Seven
7.
... Steps, and
Step Three opens the door.
12&12 p.40,
Step Three
To make this increasingly possible
is the purpose of A.A.'s Twelve Steps, and Step Three opens the door.
8.
... Steps, and
the application of these Steps ...
12&12 p.17,
Foreword
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.
9.
... Steps" and
the "Twelve Traditions" of Alcoholics ...
12&12 p.15,
Foreword
10.
... Steps and
Traditions has been tried.
12&12 p.146,
Tradition Four
11.
... Steps and
tries to teach her how ...
12&12 p.118,
Step Twelve
12.
... Steps are
a group of principles, spiritual ...
12&12 p.15,
Foreword
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.
13.
... Steps are
also used by Al-Anon/Alateen Family ...
12&12 p.118,
Step Twelve (Note)
14.
... Steps are
but suggestions.
12&12 p.26,
Step Two
15.
... Steps are
harder to take than Five.
12&12 p.55,
Step Five
16.
... Steps are
principles for personal recovery.
BB p.574,
Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form)
17.
... Steps as
first written in the earlier ...
12&12 p.17,
Foreword
This present volume proposes to broaden and deepen the understanding of the Twelve Steps as first written in the earlier work.
18.
... Steps ask
us to go contrary to ...
12&12 p.55,
Step Five
All of A.A.'s Twelve Steps ask us to go contrary to our natural desires . . . they
all deflate our egos.
19.
... Steps can
mean more than sobriety for ...
12&12 p.16,
Foreword
20.
... Steps Eight
and Nine.
BB p.76,
Into Action
21.
Steps Eight
and Nine are concerned with ...
12&12 p.77,
Step Eight
22.
... Steps for
the answers.
12&12 p.111,
Step Twelve
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.
23.
... Steps for
us.
12&12 p.113,
Step Twelve
We temporarily cease
to grow because we feel satisfied that there is
no need for all of A.A.'s Twelve Steps for us.
24.
... Steps in
his home, often with fine ...
12&12 p.119,
Step Twelve
25.
... Steps in
our program.
12&12 p.107,
Step Twelve
A.A.'s manner of making ready to receive this gift lies in the practice of the
Twelve Steps in our program.
26.
... steps in
to justify our excesses.
12&12 p.49,
Step Four
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.
27.
... Steps into
action upon all our affairs ...
12&12 p.109,
Step Twelve
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.
28.
... Steps means
the adoption of attitudes and ...
12&12 p.24,
Step One
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.
29.
... Steps now
come to a close.
12&12 p.125,
Step Twelve
30.
... Steps of
the A.A. program can be ...
12&12 p.40,
Step Three
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.
31.
... Steps of
the A.A. program come in.
12&12 p.40,
Step Three
32.
... Steps of
the program in our daily ...
12&12 p.106,
Step Twelve
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.
33.
... Steps of
the program of recovery.
BB p.96,
Working With Others
He has read this volume and
says he is prepared to go through with the Twelve Steps of the program of recovery.
34.
... Steps require
sustained and personal exertion to ...
12&12 p.40,
Step Three
All of the Twelve Steps require sustained and personal exertion to conform to their principles and so, we trust, to God's will.
35.
... Steps state
perfect ideals.
12&12 p.68,
Step Six
36.
... Steps, Step
Three calls for affirmative action, ...
12&12 p.34,
Step Three
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.
37.
... Steps that
summarize the program may be ...
BB xxii,
Foreword to Third Edition
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.
38.
... Steps, these
situations are often set right.(*)
12&12 p.118,
Step Twelve
39.
... Steps, they
have been able to meet ...
12&12 p.15,
Foreword
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.
40.
... Steps to
recovery are suggestions; the Twelve ...
12&12 p.129,
Tradition One
Our Twelve Steps to recovery are suggestions; the Twelve
Traditions which guarantee A.A.'s unity contain not a single "Don't."
41.
... Steps to
recovery, he almost certainly signs ...
12&12 p.174,
Tradition Nine
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.
42.
... steps to
see that I was presented ...
BB p.141,
To Employers
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.
43.
... Steps to
the alcoholic's dilemma was made ...
12&12 p.17,
Foreword
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.
44.
... Steps toward
a full and meaningful sobriety.
12&12 p.62,
Step Five
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.
45.
... steps toward
liberation and strength.
12&12 p.21,
Step One
We perceive that only through utter defeat are we able to take our first steps toward liberation and strength.
46.
... Steps we
could lose those fears, no ...
12&12 p.121,
Step Twelve
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.
47.
... Steps, we
had a spiritual awakening about ...
12&12 p.109,
Step Twelve
48.
... Steps, we
have each found something called ...
12&12 p.106,
Step Twelve
Our Twelfth Step also says that as a result of practicing all
the Steps, we have each found something called a spiritual awakening.
49.
... Steps, we
prepare ourselves for the adventure ...
12&12 p.88,
Step Ten
50.
... steps we
took, which are suggested as ...
BB p.59,
How It Works
51.
... steps, we
tried to carry this message ...
12&12 p.106,
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."
52.
... steps, we
tried to carry this message ...
BB p.60,
How It Works
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.
53.
... Steps we
were engaged in reflection.
12&12 p.34,
Step Three
54.
... steps where
I could get it at ...
BB p.176,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
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