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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
STRANGE occurs
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1.
... strange alcoholic
might bring.
12&12 p.142,
Tradition Three
We are much more
afraid of what people might say
than the
trouble this
strange alcoholic might bring.
2.
... strange and
refreshing spectacle.
12&12 p.165,
Tradition Seven
3.
... strange as
this may seem to those ...
BB xxix(xxvii),
The Doctor's Opinion
On the other
hand -- and
strange as this may
seem to those
who do not
understand -- once a
psychic change has
occurred, the very same
person who
seemed doomed, who had so many
problems he
despaired of
ever
solving them,
suddenly finds himself
easily able to
control his
desire for
alcohol, the
only
effort necessary
being that
required to
follow a few
simple rules.
4.
... strange energy
so few people understand, meets ...
12&12 p.36,
Step Three
5.
... strange mental
blank spots.
BB p.42,
More About Alcoholism
I saw that will
power and
self-
knowledge would not
help in those
strange mental blank spots.
6.
... strange new
dad with apprehension, then with ...
BB p.128,
The Family Afterward
As soon as his
sobriety begins to be
taken as a
matter of
course, the
family may
look at their
strange new
dad with
apprehension, then with
irritation.
7.
... strange or
different, that his character defects ...
12&12 p.46,
Step Four
They
comfort the
melancholy one by
first showing him that his
case is
not
strange or
different,
that his
character defects are
probably not
more
numerous or
worse
than those of anyone else in
A.A.
8.
... strange paradox.
12&12 p.130,
Tradition One
Those who
look closely soon
have the
key to this
strange paradox.
9.
... strange place,
discredited and almost broke.
BB p.154,
A Vision For You
Bitterly discouraged, he
found
himself in a
strange place,
discredited and almost
broke.
10.
... strange proposition
that this universe originated in ...
BB p.10,
Bill's Story
Few people really are, for that
means blind faith in the
strange proposition that this
universe originated
in a
cipher and
aimlessly rushes nowhere.
11.
... strange sensation.
BB xxxi(xxix),
The Doctor's Opinion
One
year later he called to
see me, and I
experienced a very
strange sensation.
12.
... strange that
lots of us have had ...
12&12 p.31,
Step Two
So it's not
strange that
lots
of us have had our
day at
defying God Himself.
13.
... strange that
our Society has concluded that ...
12&12 p.151,
Tradition Five
Under these
compulsions of
self-
preservation,
duty, and
love, it is not
strange that our
Society has
concluded that it has but one
high mission -- to
carry the
A.A. message to those who don't
know there's a way out.
14.
... strange that
we often let these far ...
12&12 p.65,
Step Six
Since most of us are
born with an
abundance of
natural desires, it isn't
strange that
we often let these far
exceed their
intended purpose.
15.
... strange to
say, is usually that he ...
BB p.23,
There Is A Solution
And the
truth,
strange to
say, is usually that he has no more
idea why he took
that
first drink than you
have.
16.
... strange world
of alcoholism where everything is ...
BB p.108,
To Wives
Perhaps your
husband has been
living in that
strange world of
alcoholism where
everything is
distorted and
exaggerated.
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