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From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)


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1.
... together?"   12&12 p.130, Tradition One
What in Heaven's name holds them together?"

2.
... together.   12&12 p.178, Tradition Ten
They were just part and parcel of learning to work and live together.


3.
... together.   BB p.99, Working With Others   Go to page 99 in the Big Book
If there be divorce or separation, there should be no undue haste for the couple to get together.


4.
... together.   BB p.106, To Wives   Go to page 106 in the Big Book
We began to ask medical advice as the sprees got closer together.


5.
... together.   BB p.124, The Family Afterward   Go to page 124 in the Big Book
In the first flush of spiritual experience they forgave each other and drew closer together.


6.
... together?   BB xviii, Foreword to Second Edition   Display entire Foreword to Second Edition
The test that it faced was this: Could these large numbers of erstwhile erratic alcoholics successfully meet and work together?


7.
... together and hang together, else most of ...   BB p.561(563), Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition   Display entire Appendix I
We alcoholics see that we must work together and hang together, else most of us will finally die alone.


8.
... together and you will commence shoulder to ...   BB p.152, A Vision For You   Go to page 152 in the Big Book
You will be bound to them with new and wonderful ties, for you will escape disaster together and you will commence shoulder to shoulder your common journey.

9.
... together as groups became the prime question.   12&12 p.130, Tradition One
So at the outset, how best to live and work together as groups became the prime question.


10.
... together as we are now joined.   BB p.17, There Is A Solution   Go to page 17 in the Big Book
But that in itself would never have held us together as we are now joined.


11.
... together chatting and drinking before your fire.   BB p.110, To Wives   Go to page 110 in the Big Book
You have passed happy evenings together chatting and drinking before your fire.


12.
... together, else most of us will finally ...   BB p.561(563), Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition   Display entire Appendix I
We alcoholics see that we must work together and hang together, else most of us will finally die alone.

13.
... together for sobriety may call themselves an ...   12&12 p.146, Tradition Four
So confident of this had we become that the original statement of A.A. tradition carried this significant sentence: "Any two or three alcoholics gathered together for sobriety may call themselves an A.A. group provided that as a group they have no other affiliation."

14.
... together for sobriety may call themselves an ...   12&12 p.189, Tradition Three (Long)
Any two or three alcoholics gathered together for sobriety may call themselves an A.A. group, provided that, as a group, they have no other affiliation.


15.
... together for sobriety may call themselves an ...   BB p.563(565), Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition   Display entire Appendix I
Any two or three alcoholics gathered together for sobriety may call themselves an A.A. group, provided that, as a group, they have no other affiliation.


16.
... together has come, it will be apparent ...   BB p.99, Working With Others   Go to page 99 in the Big Book
When the time for living together has come, it will be apparent to both parties.


17.
... together in business there will be rivalries ...   BB p.145, To Employers   Go to page 145 in the Big Book
Wherever men are gathered together in business there will be rivalries and, arising out of these, a certain amount of office politics.

18.
... together on this Step.   12&12 p.33, Step Two
Whether agnostic, atheist, or former believer, we can stand together on this Step.


19.
... together or die separately.   BB xix, Foreword to Second Edition   Display entire Foreword to Second Edition
But out of this frightening and at first disrupting experience the conviction grew that A.A.'s had to hang together or die separately.


20.
... together or separately, as much as their ...   BB p.133, The Family Afterward   Go to page 132 in the Big Book
So let each family play together or separately, as much as their circumstances warrant.

21.
... together to solve their common problems and ...   12&12 p.15, Foreword
Alcoholics Anonymous is a worldwide fellowship of more than one hundred thousand(*) alcoholic men and women who are banded together to solve their common problems and to help fellow sufferers in recovery from that age-old, baffling malady, alcoholism.


22.
... together toward an undreamed-of future.   BB p.119, To Wives   Go to page 119 in the Big Book
After all, your family is reunited, alcohol is no longer a problem and you and your husband are working together toward an undreamed-of future.

23.
... together what we could not do separately.   12&12 p.152, Tradition Five
I insisted that few drunks could ever get well on their own steam, but that in our groups we could do together what we could not do separately.

24.
... together with harmony and good effect.   12&12 p.18, Foreword
But it was by no means sure that such great numbers of yet erratic people could live and work together with harmony and good effect.


25.
... together with innumerable others who became our ...   BB xx, Foreword to Second Edition   Display entire Foreword to Second Edition
Another reason for the wide acceptance of A.A. was the ministration of friends -- friends in medicine, religion, and the press, together with innumerable others who became our able and persistent advocates.


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.

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