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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
THINKING occurs
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1.
... thinking.
12&12 p.29,
Step Two
Since we were
brighter than most
folks (so we
thought), the
spoils of
victory would be
ours for the
thinking.
2.
... thinking.
12&12 p.30,
Step Two
This all
meant, of
course,
that we had
substituted negative for
positive
thinking.
3.
... thinking.
12&12 p.57,
Step Five
Either we were
shy, and
dared
not
draw near others, or we
were
apt to be
noisy good fellows craving attention and
companionship, but
never getting it -- at
least to our way of
thinking.
4.
... thinking.
12&12 p.60,
Step Five
The
second difficulty
is this: what
comes to us alone may be
garbled by our
own rationalization and
wishful thinking.
5.
... thinking.
12&12 p.119,
Step Twelve
6.
... thinking.
12&12 p.185,
Tradition Twelve
This
phenomenon of
contrast really
set us
thinking.
7.
... thinking?
BB p.35,
More About Alcoholism
Of what is he thinking?
8.
... thinking.
BB p.50,
We Agnostics
They
flatly declare that
since they have
come to
believe in a
Power greater than themselves, to take a
certain attitude toward that
Power, and to do
certain simple things,
there has been a
revolutionary change in their way of
living
and
thinking.
9.
... thinking.
BB p.52,
We Agnostics
10.
... thinking.
BB p.134,
The Family Afterward
This may
hang on for
months,
long after their
mother has
accepted dad's new way of
living and
thinking.
11.
... thinking.
BB p.163,
A Vision For You
We
know what you are
thinking.
12.
... thinking about
humility commences to have a ...
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.
13.
... thinking about
our day we may face ...
BB p.86,
Into Action
In
thinking about our
day we
may
face indecision.
14.
... thinking and
action have hurt us and ...
12&12 p.55,
Step Five
If we have
swept the
searchlight of
Step Four back and
forth over our
careers, and it has
revealed in
stark relief those
experiences
we'd rather not
remember, if we have
come to
know how
wrong thinking and
action have
hurt us and others,
then the
need to
quit living by ourselves with those
tormenting ghosts of
yesterday gets more
urgent
than ever.
15.
... thinking and
depression vanish in a twinkling.
BB p.133,
The Family Afterward
16.
... thinking and
doing are the habits of ...
BB p.118,
To Wives
His
ways of
thinking and doing
are the
habits of
years.
17.
... thinking and
honest appraisal.
12&12 p.54,
Step Four
It will be an
aid to
clear
thinking and
honest appraisal.
18.
... thinking and
the human tendency to rationalize ...
12&12 p.104,
Step Eleven
He may have
forgotten the
possibility that his
own wishful thinking and the
human tendency to
rationalize have
distorted his so-called
guidance.
19.
... thinking and
you hate to meet your ...
BB p.114,
To Wives
If your
husband is a
drinker, you
probably worry over what other people are
thinking and you
hate to
meet your
friends.
20.
... thinking by
the new God-consciousness within.
BB p.13,
Bill's Story
I was to
test my
thinking by
the new
God-
consciousness within.
21.
... thinking, didn't
we?
12&12 p.100,
Step Eleven
Yes, we
reveled in that
sort of
thinking, didn't we?
22.
... thinking, directly
caused by the action of ...
BB p.140,
To Employers
Can it be
appreciated that he has been a
victim of
crooked thinking,
directly caused by the
action of
alcohol on his
brain?
23.
... thinking dominates
an alcoholic who repeats time ...
BB p.35,
More About Alcoholism
24.
... thinking, especially
asking that it be divorced ...
BB p.86,
Into Action
25.
... thinking had
to be abandoned.
BB p.48,
We Agnostics
This
sort of
thinking had to
be
abandoned.
26.
... thinking has
been characteristic of every single ...
BB p.37,
More About Alcoholism
To us it is not far-
fetched, for this
kind of
thinking has been
characteristic of every
single one of us.
27.
... thinking how
they might present their discovery ...
BB p.159,
A Vision For You
Seeing much of each other,
scarce an
evening passed that
someone's
home did not
shelter a
little gathering of
men and
women,
happy in their
release, and
constantly
thinking how they might
present their
discovery
to some
newcomer.
28.
... thinking, imaginative
and likeable?
BB p.139,
To Employers
Is he not usually
brilliant,
fast-
thinking,
imaginative and
likeable?
29.
... thinking is
cleared of wrong motives.
BB p.86,
Into Action
Our
thought-
life will be
placed on a much
higher plane when our
thinking is
cleared of
wrong motives.
30.
... thinking is
fully established in an individual ...
BB p.24,
There Is A Solution
31.
... thinking it
over.
BB p.158,
A Vision For You
He had been thinking it over.
32.
... thinking lost
out because God deserted us.
12&12 p.31,
Step Two
More often, though, we had
met up with some
major calamity, and to our
way of
thinking lost out
because
God deserted us.
33.
... thinking of
ourselves most of the time?
BB p.86,
Into Action
Were we
thinking of ourselves most of the
time?
34.
... thinking of
the disgrace and hard times ...
BB p.116,
To Wives
You may be
afraid your
husband will
lose his
position; you are
thinking of
the
disgrace and
hard times which will
befall you
and the
children.
35.
... thinking of
what we could do for ...
BB p.86,
Into Action
Or were we
thinking of what we could do for others,
of what we could
pack into the
stream of
life?
36.
... thinking or
advice.
BB p.70,
How It Works
37.
... thinking, solid
honesty, and genuine humility.
12&12 p.59,
Step Five
Only by
discussing ourselves,
holding back
nothing, only
by being
willing to take
advice and
accept direction could we
set foot on the
road to
straight thinking,
solid honesty, and
genuine humility.
38.
... thinking takes
no real account of the ...
12&12 p.36,
Step Three
The
trouble is that this
kind of
thinking takes no
real account of the
facts.
39.
... thinking was
soft and mushy when we ...
BB p.53,
We Agnostics
Hence we are at
pains to tell why we
think our
present faith is
reasonable, why
we
think it more
sane and
logical to
believe than not
to
believe, why we say our
former thinking was
soft and
mushy when we
threw up our
hands in
doubt and said, "We don't
know."
40.
... thinking we
believe this universe needs no ...
BB p.49,
We Agnostics
41.
... thinking, when
enchanted by a starlit night, ...
BB p.46,
We Agnostics
Yet, in other
moments, we
found ourselves
thinking, when
enchanted by a
starlit
night, "Who, then, made all this?"
42.
... thinking will,
as time passes, be more ...
BB p.87,
Into Action
Nevertheless, we find that our
thinking will, as
time passes, be more and more
on the
plane of
inspiration.
43.
... thinking: "Yes,
what you tell us is ...
BB p.38,
More About Alcoholism
Some of you are
thinking: "Yes, what you tell us is
true, but it doesn't
fully apply.
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