From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... volume.
BB xvii,
Foreword to Second Edition
2.
... volume and
says he is prepared to ...
BB p.96,
Working With Others
He has read this volume and says he is prepared to go through with the Twelve Steps of the program of recovery.
3.
... volume as
joyfully as though you had ...
BB p.113,
To Wives
Being certain he wants to stop, you can go to him with this volume as joyfully as though you had
struck oil.
4.
... volume, describing
the A.A. recovery program, has ...
BB xi,
Preface
Therefore, the first portion of this volume, describing the A.A. recovery program, has been
left untouched in the course of revisions made for the second, third, and fourth editions.
5.
... volume) have
had the same purpose: to ...
BB xii,
Preface
All changes made over the years in the Big Book (A.A. members' fond nickname for this volume) have had the same purpose: to represent the
current membership of
Alcoholics Anonymous more accurately, and thereby
to reach more alcoholics.
6.
... volume it
is best that no one ...
BB p.144,
To Employers
When the man is presented
with this volume it is best
that no one tell him he must abide by its suggestions.
7.
... volume portrays
in some detail the experience ...
12&12 p.18,
Foreword
The Tradition section
of this volume portrays in
some detail the experience which finally
produced the Twelve Traditions and so gave A.A. its present form, substance, and unity.
8.
... volume proposes
to broaden and deepen the ...
12&12 p.17,
Foreword
This present volume proposes to broaden and deepen the understanding of the Twelve Steps as first written in the earlier work.
9.
... volume setting
forth the problem as we ...
BB p.19,
There Is A Solution
10.
... volume, though
designed for A.A.'s membership, will ...
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.
11.
... volume will
afford all who read it ...
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.
12.
... volume will
inform and comfort those who ...
BB p.18,
There Is A Solution
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