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Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... whole.
12&12 p.15,
Foreword
2.
... whole."
12&12 p.146,
Tradition Four
"Each
group should be
autonomous except in
matters affecting other
groups or
A.A. as a
whole."
3.
... whole.
12&12 p.164,
Tradition Seven
4.
... whole.
12&12 p.175,
Tradition Nine
5.
... whole.
12&12 p.189,
Tradition One (Long)
One -- Each
member of
Alcoholics Anonymous
is but a
small part of a
great whole.
6.
... whole.
12&12 p.192,
Tradition Nine (Long)
7.
... whole.
BB p.562(564),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
8.
... whole.
BB p.563(565),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
9.
... whole.
BB p.565(567),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
10.
... whole.
BB xxix(xxvii),
The Doctor's Opinion
11.
... whole A.A. program will rest upon how ...
12&12 p.34,
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."
12.
... whole and so survive?"
BB p.561(563),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
13.
... whole are reflected in new customs and ...
BB xxiv,
Foreword to Fourth Edition
14.
... whole area of human relations, and having ...
12&12 p.81,
Step Eight
Having
carefully surveyed this
whole area of
human relations, and having
decided exactly what
personality traits in us
injured and
disturbed
others, we can now
commence to
ransack memory for the
people to whom we have
given offense.
15.
... whole areas from turmoil, small offices had ...
12&12 p.161,
Tradition Seven
16.
... whole attitude and outlook upon life will ...
BB p.84,
Into Action
Our
whole attitude and
outlook upon
life will
change.
17.
... whole attitude toward life, toward our fellows ...
BB p.25,
There Is A Solution
18.
... whole chapter could be written.
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.
19.
... whole could survive and function effectively.
BB xix,
Foreword to Second Edition
20.
... whole day, or maybe a whole year.
12&12 p.91,
Step Ten
One
unkind tirade or one
willful snap judgment can
ruin our
relation with another
person for a
whole day, or maybe a
whole year.
21.
... whole deportment shouts at the new prospect ...
BB p.18,
There Is A Solution
That the
man who is
making
the
approach has had the same
difficulty, that he
obviously knows what he is
talking about, that his
whole deportment shouts at the new
prospect
that he is a
man with a
real answer, that he has no
attitude of
Holier Than
Thou,
nothing whatever
except the
sincere desire to be
helpful; that
there are no
fees to
pay, no
axes to
grind, no people to
please, no
lectures to be
endured -- these are the
conditions we have
found
most
effective.
22.
... whole eastern United States in a year.
BB p.3,
Bill's Story
23.
... whole emphasis of Step Seven is on ...
12&12 p.76,
Step Seven
24.
... whole families reassembled, to see the alcoholic ...
12&12 p.110,
Step Twelve
To
watch the
eyes of
men and
women open with
wonder as they
move from
darkness into
light, to see their
lives quickly fill with new
purpose and
meaning, to see
whole families reassembled, to see the
alcoholic outcast received back into his
community in
full citizenship, and above all to
watch these people
awaken to
the
presence of a
loving
God in their
lives -- these
things are the
substance of what we
receive as we
carry A.A.'s
message to the
next alcoholic.
25.
... whole family, either by a rule of ...
12&12 p.81,
Step Eight
What
happens when we
try to
dominate the
whole family, either by a
rule of
iron or by a
constant outpouring of
minute directions for just how their
lives should be
lived from
hour to
hour?
26.
... whole Fellowship.
BB p.574,
Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form)
27.
... whole-heartedly met a few simple requirements.
BB p.50,
We Agnostics
This
happened soon after they
whole-
heartedly met a few
simple requirements.
28.
... whole is threatened.
12&12 p.146,
Tradition Four
29.
... whole lifetime geared to self-centeredness cannot be ...
12&12 p.73,
Step Seven
A
whole lifetime geared to
self-
centeredness cannot be
set
in
reverse all at once.
30.
... whole, nor ought it affiliate itself with ...
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.
31.
... whole, or A.A. dies.
12&12 p.129,
Tradition One
We
stay whole, or
A.A. dies.
32.
... whole pattern of living as eagerly as ...
12&12 p.111,
Step Twelve
33.
... whole pattern of our lives.
12&12 p.80,
Step Eight
We can go far
beyond those things which were
superficially wrong
with us, to see those
flaws which were
basic,
flaws which sometimes
were
responsible for the
whole pattern of our
lives.
34.
... whole peoples.
12&12 p.130,
Tradition One
35.
... whole philosophy of life, in which he ...
12&12 p.25,
Step Two
His
whole philosophy of
life, in which he so
gloried, is
threatened.
36.
... whole public.
12&12 p.187,
Tradition Twelve
37.
... whole range of our needs is well ...
12&12 p.102,
Step Eleven
And we
think that the
whole
range of our
needs is well
defined by that
part of
Step Eleven which says: "...
knowledge of His will for us and the
power to
carry that out."
38.
... whole -- should never be organized at all.
12&12 p.172,
Tradition Nine
Today, we are able to say with
assurance that
Alcoholics Anonymous
--
A.A. as a
whole -- should
never be
organized at all.
39.
... whole show.'
12&12 p.153,
Tradition Five
"'Well,' said I, 'I
think you're just a
conceited Irishman who
thinks he can
run the
whole show.'
40.
... whole show; is forever trying to arrange ...
BB p.60,
How It Works
Each
person is like an
actor who
wants to
run the
whole show; is
forever trying to
arrange the
lights, the
ballet, the
scenery and the
rest of the
players in his
own way.
41.
... whole situation has long since been adjusted.
BB p.79,
Into Action
Of
course she did not, and the
whole situation has
long since been
adjusted.
42.
... whole Society and under which we may ...
12&12 p.187,
Tradition Twelve
As we
lay aside these very
human aspirations, we
believe that each of us
takes
part in the
weaving of a
protective mantle which
covers our
whole Society and under which we may
grow and
work in
unity.
43.
... whole Society has sprung and flowered.
12&12 p.22,
Step One
The
principle that we shall find no
enduring strength until
we
first admit complete defeat is the
main taproot from which our
whole Society has
sprung and
flowered.
44.
... whole Society in its world affairs.
BB p.574,
Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form)
45.
... whole story, for in this case not ...
12&12 p.158,
Tradition Six
But that wasn't the
whole story, for in this
case not only
was an
A.A. member to
break his
anonymity at a
public level, he was to
link the
name Alcoholics Anonymous
to this
particular educational project in
the
minds of
millions.
46.
... whole story unless it will serve some ...
BB p.92,
Working With Others
47.
... whole; that no personal sacrifice is too ...
12&12 p.130,
Tradition One
48.
... whole, that's quite a different matter.
12&12 p.177,
Tradition Ten
But when it
comes to
A.A. as a
whole, that's quite a
different matter.
49.
... whole these marriages are very good ones.
12&12 p.119,
Step Twelve
On the
whole these
marriages are very
good ones.
50.
... whole thing was nothing but a mass ...
BB p.54,
We Agnostics
Could we still say the
whole thing was
nothing but a
mass of
electrons,
created out of
nothing,
meaning nothing,
whirling on to a
destiny of
nothingness?
51.
... whole trouble had been the misuse of ...
12&12 p.40,
Step Three
Our
whole trouble had been
the
misuse of
willpower.
52.
... whole truth, and he got it.
BB p.26,
There Is A Solution
He
begged the
doctor to
tell him the
whole truth, and
he got it.
53.
... whole truth nor have we followed their ...
BB p.73,
Into Action
We have
seldom told them the
whole truth nor have we
followed their
advice.
54.
... whole, we were pretty good women, capable ...
BB p.116,
To Wives
55.
... whole weight of the A.A. name behind ...
12&12 p.155,
Tradition Six
56.
... whole without conferring with the trustees of ...
12&12 p.189,
Tradition Four (Long)
And no
group,
regional committee, or
individual should ever take any
action that might
greatly affect A.A. as a
whole without
conferring with
the
trustees of the
General Service Board.
57.
... whole without conferring with the trustees of ...
BB p.563(565),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
And no
group,
regional committee, or
individual should ever take any
action that might
greatly affect A.A. as a
whole without
conferring with
the
trustees of the
General Service Board.
58.
... whole world abound.
12&12 p.48,
Step Four
59.
... whole, would suffice as a higher power.
12&12 p.107,
Step Twelve
For the
time being, we who were
atheist or
agnostic discovered that our
own group, or
A.A. as a
whole, would
suffice as a
higher power.
60.
... whole year.
12&12 p.91,
Step Ten
One
unkind tirade or one
willful snap judgment can
ruin our
relation with another
person for a
whole day, or maybe a
whole year.
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