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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... understood.
BB p.137,
To Employers
That he has not always done so for the
alcoholic
is
easily understood.
2.
... understood as
it is now.
BB p.157,
A Vision For You
The use of
spiritual principles in such
cases
was not so well
understood as it is now.
3.
... understood; better
to forgive than to be ...
12&12 p.101,
Step Eleven
He
thought it
better to
give comfort than to
receive it;
better to
understand than to be
understood;
better to
forgive than to be
forgiven.
4.
... understood by
his friends, and about whom ...
BB xxx(xxviii),
The Doctor's Opinion
There is the
manic-
depressive type, who is,
perhaps, the
least understood
by his
friends, and about whom a
whole chapter could be
written.
5.
... understood each
other.
12&12 p.152,
Tradition Five
I
explained what a
wonderful Fellowship
we had, how well we
understood each other.
6.
... understood fact
that in God's sight all ...
12&12 p.124,
Step Twelve
Service,
gladly rendered,
obligations
squarely met,
troubles well
accepted or
solved with
God's
help, the
knowledge that at
home or in the
world outside we are
partners in
a
common effort, the
well-
understood fact that in
God's
sight all
human beings are
important, the
proof that
love freely given surely brings a
full return, the
certainty that we are no
longer isolated and alone
in
self-
constructed prisons, the
surety that we
need no
longer be
square pegs in
round holes but can
fit and
belong in
God's
scheme of things -- these
are the
permanent and
legitimate satisfactions of
right
living for which no
amount
of
pomp and
circumstance, no
heap of
material possessions, could
possibly be
substitutes.
7.
... understood Him."
12&12 p.34,
Step Three
"Made a
decision to
turn
our will and our
lives over to the
care of
God as we
understood Him."
8.
... understood Him."
12&12 p.35,
Step Three
In
fact, the
effectiveness of the
whole A.A. program will
rest upon how
well and
earnestly we have
tried to
come to "a
decision to
turn our will and
our
lives over to the
care of
God as we
understood Him."
9.
... understood Him.
12&12 p.107,
Step Twelve
Consequently, in
Step
Three we
turned our will
and our
lives over to the
care of
God as we
understood Him.
10.
... understood Him.
BB p.47,
We Agnostics
At the
start, this was all we
needed to
commence spiritual growth, to
effect our
first conscious relation with
God as we
understood Him.
11.
... understood Him.
BB p.59,
How It Works
3. Made a
decision to
turn
our will and our
lives over to the
care of
God as we
understood Him.
12.
... understood Him.
BB p.60,
How It Works
Being
convinced, we were at
Step Three, which is that we
decided to
turn our will and
our
life over to
God as we
understood Him.
13.
... understood Him:
"God, I offer myself to ...
BB p.63,
How It Works
Many of us said to our
Maker, as we
understood Him: "
God, I
offer myself to
Thee -- to
build with me and to do with me as
Thou wilt.
14.
... understood Him,
praying only for knowledge of ...
12&12 p.96,
Step Eleven
"
Sought through
prayer and
meditation to
improve
our
conscious contact
with
God as we
understood Him,
praying only for
knowledge of His will for us and the
power to
carry that out."
15.
... understood Him,
praying only for knowledge of ...
BB p.59,
How It Works
11.
Sought through
prayer and
meditation to
improve our
conscious
contact with
God as we
understood Him,
praying only for
knowledge of His will for us and the
power to
carry that out.
16.
... understood Him,
to do with me as ...
BB p.13,
Bill's Story
There I
humbly offered
myself to
God, as I then
understood Him, to do with me as He would.
17.
... understood Him,
to give me release, my ...
12&12 p.63,
Step Six
18.
... understood his.
BB p.160,
A Vision For You
He
succumbed to that
gay
crowd inside, who
laughed at their
own misfortunes and
understood
his.
19.
... understood, is
a petition to God.
12&12 p.102,
Step Eleven
Prayer, as
commonly
understood, is a
petition
to
God.
20.
... understood not
at all.
12&12 p.32,
Step Two
The
love of
God and
man we
understood not at all.
21.
... understood our
men as we did not!
BB p.106,
To Wives
How
heartbreaking was this
discovery; how
cruel to be
told they
understood our
men as
we did not!
22.
... understood that
our alcoholic work is an ...
BB xiii,
Foreword to First Edition
We would like it
understood that our
alcoholic work is an
avocation.
23.
... understood that
the elders, just to nail ...
12&12 p.148,
Tradition Four
They
understood that the
elders, just to
nail things
down
good, were about to
apply to the
Foundation
for a
charter.
24.
... understood the
nature of the alcoholic illness, ...
BB p.107,
To Wives
Had we
fully understood the
nature of the
alcoholic
illness, we might have
behaved differently.
25.
... understood, there
may be an emotional upset.
BB p.134,
The Family Afterward
Unless the
reason is
understood, there may be an
emotional upset.
26.
... understood --
to love, than to be loved.
12&12 p.99,
Step Eleven
Lord,
grant that I may
seek rather to
comfort than to
be
comforted -- to
understand, than to be
understood -- to
love, than to be
loved.
27.
... understood, to
love than to be loved," ...
12&12 p.103,
Step Eleven
At these
critical moments, if we
remind
ourselves that "it is
better to
comfort than to be
comforted, to
understand than to be
understood, to
love than to be
loved," we will be
following the
intent of
Step Eleven.
28.
... understood what
alcohol could do to a ...
12&12 p.170,
Tradition Eight
A
city wanted an
experienced social worker who
understood what
alcohol could do to a
family.
29.
... understood why
we thought we deserved a ...
12&12 p.160,
Tradition Seven
When you
add to this the
habitual supposition
that people ought to
give money to
alcoholics trying to
stay sober, it can be
understood why
we
thought we
deserved
a
pile of
folding money.
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