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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... ways.
12&12 p.77,
Step Eight
To a
degree, he has already done this when
taking moral inventory, but now the
time
has
come when he ought to
redouble his
efforts to
see how many people he has
hurt, and in what
ways.
2.
... ways.
BB p.17,
There Is A Solution
Unlike the
feelings of
the
ship's
passengers,
however, our
joy in
escape
from
disaster does not
subside as we go our
individual ways.
3.
... ways.
BB p.38,
More About Alcoholism
He
shuts himself up in an
asylum,
hoping to
mend his
ways.
4.
... ways, for
these disciplines are not easy.
12&12 p.91,
Step Ten
We
need not be
discouraged when we
fall
into the
error of our
old
ways, for these
disciplines are not
easy.
5.
... ways have
proved bitterly disappointing, they have ...
12&12 p.28,
Step Two
Since both
ways have
proved
bitterly disappointing, they have
concluded there is no place whatever for them to
go.
6.
... ways in
which fear conspired with pride ...
12&12 p.79,
Step Eight
These were some of the
ways in which
fear conspired with
pride to
hinder our
making a
list of all the people
we had
harmed.
7.
... ways in
which men have discovered God.
BB p.28,
There Is A Solution
8.
... ways of
drinking.
BB xxx(xxviii),
The Doctor's Opinion
9.
... ways of
thinking and doing are the ...
BB p.118,
To Wives
His
ways of
thinking and
doing are the
habits of
years.
10.
... ways of
usual promotional practice.
12&12 p.181,
Tradition Eleven
11.
... ways to
make A.A. more effective, how ...
12&12 p.178,
Tradition Ten
Let it be
noted, too, that they were almost always
concerned with
ways to
make
A.A. more
effective,
how to do the most
good for the most
alcoholics.
12.
... ways, was
what had defeated us, we ...
BB p.64,
How It Works
13.
... ways we
are set in conflict not ...
12&12 p.44,
Step Four
In these
ways we are
set in
conflict not only with ourselves, but with other
people who have
instincts, too.
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