From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... talking about
alcoholism, the malady, and described ...
BB p.138,
To Employers
This seemed to me like an opportunity to be helpful, so I spent two hours talking about alcoholism, the
malady, and described
the symptoms and results as well as I could.
2.
... talking about
conditions at your home.
BB p.114,
To Wives
You draw more and more into yourself and you think everyone is talking about conditions at
your home.
3.
... talking about
in regard to alcoholism from ...
BB p.180,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
Of far more importance was the fact
that he was the first living human with whom I had
ever talked, who knew what he was talking about in
regard to alcoholism
from actual experience.
4.
... talking about
once remarked that pain was ...
12&12 p.93,
Step Ten
Someone who knew what he
was talking about once remarked that pain was the touchstone of all spiritual progress.
5.
... talking about
problems because we are problem ...
12&12 p.125,
Step Twelve
We have been talking about problems because we are problem people who have found a way up and out, and who wish to share our knowledge of that way with
all who can use it.
6.
... talking about,
that his whole deportment shouts ...
BB p.18,
There Is A Solution
That the man who is making
the approach has had the same difficulty, that he obviously knows what he is
talking about, that his whole
deportment shouts at
the new prospect that he is
a man with a real answer, that he has no attitude of Holier Than Thou, nothing whatever except the sincere desire to be helpful; that there are no fees to pay, no axes to grind, no people to please, no lectures to be endured -- these are the conditions we have found
most effective.
7.
... talking about
the kind of love that ...
12&12 p.106,
Step Twelve
When the Twelfth Step is seen in its full implication, it is really talking about the kind of love that has no price tag
on it.
8.
... talking, five
short words have been running ...
12&12 p.142,
Tradition Three
9.
... talking freely
and easily, and without exhibitionism, ...
12&12 p.46,
Step Four
This the sponsor promptly proves by talking freely and easily, and without exhibitionism, about his own defects, past and present.
10.
... talking religion!'
12&12 p.153,
Tradition Five
11.
... talking to
a man there, I would ...
BB p.15,
Bill's Story
12.
... talking to
another person is that we ...
12&12 p.60,
Step Five
The benefit of talking to
another person is that we
can get his direct comment and counsel on our
situation, and there can be no doubt in our minds what that advice is.
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