From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... taken.
BB p.86,
Into Action
After making our review we
ask God's forgiveness and inquire
what corrective measures should be taken.
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
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
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
13.
... taken grudgingly,
yet we do take them.
12&12 p.74,
Step Seven
14.
... taken in
the midst of such disturbances ...
12&12 p.90,
Step Ten
A spot-check inventory taken in the midst of such disturbances can be of very great help in quieting stormy emotions.
15.
... taken, inevitably
set up a disastrous chain ...
12&12 p.164,
Tradition Seven
Compared to this prospect, the ten thousand dollars under consideration wasn't much, but like the alcoholic's first drink it would, if taken, inevitably set up a disastrous chain reaction.
16.
... taken it.
BB p.5,
Bill's Story
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
21.
... taken remarkable
and unexpected turns for the ...
12&12 p.105,
Step Eleven
Almost any experienced A.A. will tell how his affairs
have taken remarkable
and unexpected turns
for the better as he tried
to improve his conscious contact with God.
22.
... taken root,
slowly at first, then growing ...
BB xxiii,
Foreword to Fourth Edition
In country after country
where the A.A. seed was planted, it has taken root, slowly at first, then growing by leaps and bounds when literature has become available.
23.
Taken separately,
these practices can bring much ...
12&12 p.98,
Step Eleven
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
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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