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Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... taken.
BB p.86,
Into Action
2.
... taken a cure, looks fine, and to ...
BB p.138,
To Employers
He has just
returned from a
three-
months leave of
absence, has
taken a
cure,
looks fine, and to
clinch the
matter, the
board of
directors told him
this was his
last chance."
3.
... taken a square look at some of ...
12&12 p.74,
Step Seven
But when we have
taken a
square look at some of these
defects, have
discussed
them with another, and have
become willing to have them
removed, our
thinking
about
humility commences to have a
wider
meaning.
4.
... taken action.
BB p.94,
Working With Others
Tell him you once
felt as he does, but you
doubt whether you would have made much
progress had you not
taken action.
5.
... taken alone, wouldn't be enough.
12&12 p.108,
Step Twelve
Looking at
Step Five, we
decided that an
inventory,
taken alone,
wouldn't be
enough.
6.
... taken, and we have made peace with ...
12&12 p.89,
Step Ten
When our
inventory is
carefully taken, and we have
made
peace with ourselves, the
conviction follows that
tomorrow's
challenges can be
met as
they
come.
7.
... taken as a matter of course, the ...
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.
8.
... taken at any time of the day, ...
12&12 p.89,
Step Ten
There's the
spot-
check inventory,
taken at any
time of the
day,
whenever we find ourselves
getting tangled up.
9.
... taken away.
BB p.56,
We Agnostics
His
alcoholic problem
was
taken away.
10.
... taken from the scrap heap to a ...
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.
... taken from them.
12&12 p.68,
Step Six
Some people, of
course, may
conclude that they are
indeed ready to have all such
defects taken from them.
12.
... taken from us by so-called acts of ...
12&12 p.31,
Step Two
Loved ones, upon whom we
heartily depended, were
taken from us by so-called
acts of
God.
13.
... taken grudgingly, yet we do take them.
12&12 p.74,
Step Seven
These
initial steps along
the
road are
taken grudgingly,
yet we do take
them.
14.
... taken in the midst of such disturbances ...
12&12 p.90,
Step Ten
15.
... taken, inevitably set up a disastrous chain ...
12&12 p.164,
Tradition Seven
16.
... taken it.
BB p.5,
Bill's Story
Someone had
pushed a
drink
my way, and I had
taken it.
17.
... taken its first step in the formation ...
12&12 p.142,
Tradition Three
18.
... taken out.
BB xii,
Preface
Six of the
stories in
Part II have been
carried over,
eleven new
ones have been
added, and
eleven taken out.
19.
... taken over by the mortgage holder, my ...
BB p.5,
Bill's Story
The
house was
taken over by
the
mortgage holder, my
mother-in-
law died, my
wife and
father-in-
law became ill.
20.
... taken place.
BB xv,
Foreword to Second Edition
Since the
original Foreword to this book was
written in
1939, a
wholesale miracle has
taken place.
21.
... taken remarkable and unexpected turns for the ...
12&12 p.105,
Step Eleven
22.
... taken root, slowly at first, then growing ...
BB xxiii,
Foreword to Fourth Edition
23.
Taken separately, these practices can bring much ...
12&12 p.98,
Step Eleven
Taken separately, these
practices can bring much
relief and
benefit.
24.
... taken sides on any question in an ...
12&12 p.176,
Tradition Ten
25.
... taken steps to see that I was ...
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.
26.
... taken stock of ourselves, made amends to ...
12&12 p.32,
Step Two
In no
deep or
meaningful
sense had we ever
taken stock of ourselves, made
amends to those we had
harmed, or
freely given to any other
human being
without any
demand for
reward.
27.
... taken the opposite tack and had insisted, ...
12&12 p.115,
Step Twelve
When we had
taken the
opposite tack and had
insisted, like
infants
ourselves, that people
protect and take
care of us or that the
world owed us a
living, then the
result had been
equally unfortunate.
28.
... taken these satisfactions to be the final ...
12&12 p.71,
Step Seven
Instead of
regarding the
satisfaction of our
material desires as the
means by which we could
live and
function as
human beings, we had
taken these
satisfactions to be the
final end and
aim of
life.
29.
... taken this step, withholding nothing, we are ...
BB p.75,
Into Action
Once we have
taken this
step,
withholding nothing,
we are
delighted.
30.
... taken very hard knocks to learn this ...
BB p.98,
Working With Others
Some of us have
taken very
hard knocks to
learn this
truth:
Job or no
job --
wife or no
wife -- we
simply do not
stop drinking so
long as we place
dependence upon other people
ahead of
dependence on
God.
31.
... taken you, if I had been able ...
BB p.43,
More About Alcoholism
Had you
offered yourselves as
patients
at this
hospital, I would not have
taken you, if I had been able to
avoid it.
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