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Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... Two.
12&12 p.141,
Tradition Three
On the
A.A. calendar it was
Year Two.
2.
... two.
BB p.109,
To Wives
3.
... two.
BB p.112,
To Wives
Suppose, however, that your
husband fits the
description of
number
two.
4.
... two about
himself which will place you ...
12&12 p.62,
Step Five
Before
long, your
listener
may well tell a
story or
two
about himself which will place you even more at
ease.
5.
... two alcoholic
employees, who produce as much ...
BB p.149,
To Employers
6.
... two alternatives:
One was to go on ...
BB p.25,
There Is A Solution
We were in a
position where
life was
becoming impossible, and if we had
passed into the
region from
which there is no
return through
human aid, we had but
two alternatives: One was to
go on to the
bitter end,
blotting out the
consciousness of our
intolerable situation
as
best we could; and the other, to
accept spiritual help.
7.
... two, and
a veteran of foreign wars, ...
BB p.1,
Bill's Story
8.
... Two, and
learn that the sole authority ...
12&12 p.132,
Tradition Two
9.
... two and
three, where the alcoholic sickness ...
BB p.140,
To Employers
10.
... two bottles
a day, and often three, ...
BB p.5,
Bill's Story
"
Bathtub"
gin,
two bottles a
day, and often
three, got to be
routine.
11.
... two bottles,
and -- oblivion.
BB p.6,
Bill's Story
So
two bottles, and --
oblivion.
12.
... two cars
in the garage, began to ...
12&12 p.23,
Step One
Alcoholics who still had their
health, their
families,
their
jobs, and even
two cars in the
garage,
began to
recognize their
alcoholism.
13.
... two classes
known in A.A. slang as ...
12&12 p.135,
Tradition Two
14.
... two concepts
which are sometimes poles apart.
12&12 p.174,
Tradition Nine
It is the
difference between the
spirit of
vested authority and the
spirit
of
service,
two concepts which are sometimes
poles apart.
15.
... two contrasting
ideas -- attraction and promotion -- work ...
12&12 p.181,
Tradition Eleven
Let's see how these
two contrasting ideas --
attraction and
promotion --
work out.
16.
Two days
later, a future fellow of ...
BB p.157,
A Vision For You
17.
... two directions.
BB p.125,
The Family Afterward
At the
beginning of
recovery a
man will take, as a
rule, one of
two directions.
18.
... two disastrous
pitfalls.
12&12 p.53,
Step Four
19.
... two emotions
quite as unhealthy as the ...
12&12 p.44,
Step Four
Demands made upon other people for too much
attention,
protection,
and
love can only
invite domination or
revulsion in the
protectors themselves --
two emotions quite as
unhealthy as the
demands
which
evoked them.
20.
... two examples:
12&12 p.141,
Tradition Three
21.
Two --
For our group purpose there is ...
12&12 p.189,
Tradition Two (Long)
Two -- For our
group purpose there is but one
ultimate authority -- a
loving God as He may
express Himself in our
group
conscience.
22.
Two --
For our group purpose there is ...
BB p.562(564),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
Two -- For our
group purpose there is but one
ultimate authority -- a
loving God as He may
express Himself in our
group
conscience.
23.
... two friends.
BB p.156,
A Vision For You
But
life was not
easy for the
two friends.
24.
... two friends
spoke of their spiritual experience ...
BB p.157,
A Vision For You
The
two friends spoke of their
spiritual experience and told him about the
course of
action they
carried out.
25.
... two friends
told him about their drinking ...
BB p.157,
A Vision For You
For an
hour, the
two friends told him about their
drinking experiences.
26.
... Two gently
and very gradually began to ...
12&12 p.27,
Step Two
27.
... two he
became worse.
BB p.109,
To Wives
Though once like
number two
he
became worse.
28.
... two hours
talking about alcoholism, the malady, ...
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.
29.
... Two is
the rallying point for all ...
12&12 p.33,
Step Two
Therefore,
Step Two is the
rallying point for all of
us.
30.
... two larger
centers.
BB p.162,
A Vision For You
Little clusters of
twos and
threes and
fives of us have
sprung up in
other
communities, through
contact with our
two larger centers.
31.
... two men
had appeared in court, persuading ...
BB p.9,
Bill's Story
32.
... two men
set to work almost frantically ...
BB xvii,
Foreword to Second Edition
33.
... two million.
BB p.162,
A Vision For You (Note)
34.
... two million
have recovered through A.A.
12&12 p.15,
Foreword (Note)
(*) In
2003, it is
estimated that over
two million have
recovered
through
A.A.
35.
... two million
or more, with nearly 100,800 ...
BB xxiii,
Foreword to Fourth Edition
36.
... two months
ago and the result was ...
BB p.9,
Bill's Story
That was
two months ago and
the
result was
self-
evident.
37.
... two months
he was in a hospital, ...
BB p.32,
More About Alcoholism
38.
... two more
years.
BB p.6,
Bill's Story
39.
... Two, most
A.A. newcomers are confronted with ...
12&12 p.25,
Step Two
The
moment they
read Step Two, most
A.A. newcomers are
confronted with a
dilemma, sometimes a
serious one.
40.
... two of
the greatest reservoirs of power ...
BB p.569(571),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
41.
"Two of
the members of Alcoholics Anonymous ...
BB p.42,
More About Alcoholism
42.
... two of
them, the First Step and ...
12&12 p.113,
Step Twelve
Maybe we are doing
fine on only
two of them, the
First Step and that
part of the
Twelfth where we "
carry the
message."
43.
... two of
you men, whose stories I ...
BB p.43,
More About Alcoholism
As to
two of you
men, whose
stories I have
heard, there
is no
doubt in my
mind that
you were
100%
hopeless,
apart from
divine help.
44.
... two or
three alcoholics gathered together for ...
12&12 p.146,
Tradition Four
45.
... two or
three alcoholics gathered together for ...
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.
46.
... two or
three alcoholics gathered together for ...
BB p.563(565),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
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.
47.
... two or
three high hurdles, the course ...
12&12 p.47,
Step Four
48.
... two others,
and in confidence laid the ...
12&12 p.142,
Tradition Three
49.
... two out
of three -- began to return ...
BB xx,
Foreword to Second Edition
But
great numbers of these
-- about
two out of
three --
began to
return as
time passed.
50.
... two people:
one devoted secretary and myself.
12&12 p.162,
Tradition Seven
"Our
office staff,"
Bill says, "
consisted of
two people: one
devoted secretary and myself.
51.
... two personal
stories and think: "Yes, that ...
BB xii,
Preface
If you have a
drinking problem, we
hope that you may
pause in
reading one of
the
forty-
two personal stories and
think: "Yes, that
happened
to me"; or, more
important, "Yes, I've
felt like that"; or, most
important, "Yes, I
believe this
program can
work for me too."
52.
... two points,
yet, there it was.
BB p.54,
We Agnostics
We could not
prove life in
the
sense that you can
prove
a
straight line is the
shortest distance between
two points,
yet, there it was.
53.
... two principal
reasons: the large numbers of ...
BB xx,
Foreword to Second Edition
54.
... Two right
now.
12&12 p.26,
Step Two
Second, to get
sober and to
stay sober, you don't have to
swallow all of
Step Two right now.
55.
... "two-step" illusion.
12&12 p.113,
Step Twelve
The
best-
intentioned of
us can
fall for the "
two-
step"
illusion.
56.
... "two-stepping."
12&12 p.113,
Step Twelve
57.
... "two-stepping" to
"twelve-stepping," if we are willing ...
12&12 p.113,
Step Twelve
Well, we
surely have a
chance if we
switch from
"
two-
stepping" to "
twelve-
stepping," if we are
willing to
receive that
grace of
God which can
sustain and
strengthen
us in any
catastrophe.
58.
... two Steps
we were engaged in reflection.
12&12 p.34,
Step Three
59.
... two stories
were written, with new titles; ...
BB xi,
Preface
"
Bill's
Story," "
Doctor Bob's
Nightmare," and one other
personal history from the
first edition were
retained intact;
three were
edited and one of
these was
retitled; new
versions of
two stories were
written, with
new
titles;
thirty completely new
stories
were
added; and the
story section was
divided into
three parts, under the same
headings that are used now.
60.
... two storm
signals: A group ought not ...
12&12 p.147,
Tradition Four
In
charting this
enormous expanse of
freedom, we
found it
necessary to
post only
two storm signals: A
group ought not do
anything which would
greatly injure A.A. as a
whole, nor ought it
affiliate itself with anything or anybody else.
61.
... two struggling,
nameless groups of alcoholics trying ...
12&12 p.141,
Tradition Three
62.
... two successive
days, so drunk he could ...
BB p.136,
To Employers
Not
long afterward he had
called me from
Hartford on
two successive days, so
drunk he could
hardly speak.
63.
... two that
originally appeared in Part III ...
BB xii,
Preface
One new
story has been
added
to
Part I, and
two that
originally appeared in
Part III have been
repositioned there;
six stories have been
deleted.
64.
... two that
were transferred to Part I).
BB xii,
Preface
65.
... Two we
saw that since we could ...
12&12 p.107,
Step Twelve
In
Step Two we saw that since
we could not
restore ourselves to
sanity, some
Higher Power must necessarily do so if we were to
survive.
66.
... two weeks
later, Ed stole by night ...
12&12 p.144,
Tradition Three
About
two weeks later,
Ed stole by
night into an
A.A. member's
house and,
unknown to the
family, went to
bed.
67.
... two weeks
of drinking, he had placed ...
BB p.137,
To Employers
After
two weeks of
drinking, he had
placed his
toe on the
trigger of a
loaded shotgun -- the
barrel was in his
mouth.
68.
Two: Your
husband is showing lack of ...
BB p.109,
To Wives
Two: Your
husband is
showing lack of
control, for he is
unable to
stay on the
water wagon even when he
wants to.
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