From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... view.
12&12 p.113,
Step Twelve
We naturally congratulate ourselves on what later proves to be a far too easy and superficial point of view.
2.
... view.
BB p.12,
Bill's Story
3.
... view.
BB p.52,
We Agnostics
We had to ask ourselves why we shouldn't apply to our human problems this same readiness to change our point of view.
4.
... view is
self-centered and in direct conflict ...
BB p.124,
The Family Afterward
5.
... view of
A.A. never before possible.
12&12 p.16,
Foreword
The second section of
this volume, though designed for A.A.'s membership, will give such inquirers an inside view of A.A. never before possible.
6.
... view of
each and every one.
BB p.67,
How It Works
We cannot be helpful to all people, but at least God will show us how to take a kindly and tolerant view of each and every one.
7.
... view of
its friends, this is but ...
12&12 p.18,
Foreword
8.
... view of
the principles and forces which ...
12&12 p.18,
Foreword
It is hoped that this volume will afford all who read it a close-up view of the principles and forces which have made Alcoholics Anonymous
what it is.
9.
... view of
the principles by which A.A. ...
12&12 p.15,
Foreword
It presents an explicit view of the principles by which A.A. members recover and by
which their Society functions.
10.
... view of
this absolute humiliation.
12&12 p.21,
Step One
11.
... view, the
spiritual ideas of the Society ...
12&12 p.17,
Foreword
In it alcoholism was described from the alcoholic's point of view, the spiritual ideas of the Society were codified for the first time in the Twelve Steps, and the application of these Steps to the alcoholic's dilemma was made clear.
12.
... view the
way he established his relationship ...
BB p.29,
There Is A Solution
Each individual, in the
personal stories, describes in his own language and from his own point of view the way he established his relationship with God.
13.
... view, though
we cooperate widely with the ...
BB xx,
Foreword to Second Edition
Neither does A.A. take any particular medical point of view, though we cooperate widely with the men of medicine as well as with the
men of religion.
14.
... view will
be our steadfast aim.
12&12 p.82,
Step Eight
15.
... "view with
alarm for the good of ...
12&12 p.173,
Tradition Nine
He and all like him who "view
with alarm for the good of A.A." meet the most stubborn resistance or,
worse still, laughter.
16.
... view with
much concern those A.A. treasuries ...
12&12 p.191,
Tradition Seven (Long)
Then, too, we view with much
concern those A.A. treasuries which continue, beyond prudent reserves, to accumulate funds for no stated A.A. purpose.
17.
... view with
much concern those A.A. treasuries ...
BB p.564(566),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
Then too, we view with much concern those A.A. treasuries which continue, beyond prudent reserves, to accumulate funds for no stated A.A. purpose.
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