From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
SUDDENLY occurs
12 times
(
Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
Click
to display the full page from the Big Book
1.
... suddenly cast
to one side, and a ...
BB p.27,
There Is A Solution
Ideas,
emotions, and
attitudes which were once the
guiding forces of the
lives of these
men are
suddenly cast to one
side, and a
completely new
set of
conceptions and
motives begin to
dominate them.
2.
... suddenly finds
himself easily able to control ...
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.
3.
... suddenly found
themselves saved from death, but ...
12&12 p.131,
Tradition One
Like us, they had
suddenly found themselves
saved from
death, but still
floating
upon a
perilous sea.
4.
... suddenly gone
peaceable, and become one great ...
12&12 p.177,
Tradition Ten
Maybe this
sounds as though the
alcoholics in
A.A. had
suddenly gone peaceable, and
become one
great big happy family.
5.
... suddenly hands
us a great big lump ...
12&12 p.113,
Step Twelve
Then perhaps
life, as it has a way of doing,
suddenly hands us a
great big lump that we can't
begin to
swallow, let alone
digest.
6.
... suddenly leap.
BB p.6,
Bill's Story
Somehow I
managed to
drag
my
mattress to a
lower floor,
lest I
suddenly leap.
7.
... suddenly realize
that God is doing for ...
BB p.84,
Into Action
We will
suddenly realize
that
God is doing for us what we could not do for
ourselves.
8.
... suddenly realized
that in order to save ...
BB xvi,
Foreword to Second Edition
He
suddenly realized that
in
order to
save himself he
must carry his
message to another
alcoholic.
9.
... suddenly realizing
that we did not know ...
12&12 p.57,
Step Five
It was as if we were
actors on a
stage,
suddenly realizing that we did not
know a
single line of our
parts.
10.
... suddenly taken
from the scrap heap to ...
BB p.11,
Bill's Story
Then he had, in
effect, been
raised from the
dead,
suddenly taken from the
scrap heap to a
level of
life better than the
best he had
ever
known!
11.
"Suddenly the
thought crossed my mind that ...
BB p.36,
More About Alcoholism
"
Suddenly the
thought crossed my
mind that if I were
to
put an
ounce of
whiskey in my
milk it couldn't
hurt me on a
full stomach.
12.
... suddenly to
life again, often begins to ...
BB p.131,
The Family Afterward
Father,
coming suddenly to
life again, often
begins to
assert himself.
Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous
and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.
The A.A. Preamble, copyright ©
The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission.
Permission to reprint does not in any way imply affiliation with or
endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous or The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.
Top
Copyright © 2005-2008, Recovery Press LLC; All Rights Reserved.
