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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
WILLINGNESS occurs
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1.
... willingness.
12&12 p.34,
Step Three
There is only one
key, and it is called
willingness.
2.
... willingness.
12&12 p.35,
Step Three
Though
self-will may
slam it
shut again, as it
frequently does, it will always
respond the
moment we again
pick up the
key of
willingness.
3.
... willingness.
12&12 p.40,
Step Three
All by himself, and in the
light of his
own circumstances, he
needs to
develop the
quality of
willingness.
4.
... willingness and honesty to try repeatedly Step ...
12&12 p.63,
Step Six
He
goes on to
explain that
any
person capable of
enough willingness and
honesty to
try repeatedly Step Six on all his
faults -- without
any
reservations whatever -- has
indeed come a
long way
spiritually, and
is therefore
entitled to be called a
man who is
sincerely trying to
grow in the
image and
likeness of his
own Creator.
5.
... willingness as being indispensable.
BB p.76,
Into Action
We have
emphasized willingness as being
indispensable.
6.
... willingness even to begin.
12&12 p.47,
Step Four
This
required great willingness even to
begin.
7.
... willingness has been achieved to cast out ...
12&12 p.35,
Step Three
Already a
willingness has been
achieved to
cast out one's
own will and one's
own ideas about the
alcohol problem in
favor of those
suggested by
A.A.
8.
... willingness he had never before been able ...
BB xvi,
Foreword to Second Edition
But when the
broker gave him
Dr.
Silkworth's
description of
alcoholism and
its hopelessness, the
physician began to
pursue the
spiritual remedy for his
malady with a
willingness he had
never
before been able to
muster.
9.
... willingness, he is the only one who ...
12&12 p.40,
Step Three
When he
acquires willingness, he is the only one who can make the
decision to
exert himself.
10.
... willingness, honesty and humility to establish and ...
BB p.13,
Bill's Story
11.
Willingness, honesty and open mindedness are the ...
BB p.568(570),
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience
12.
... willingness I might build what I saw ...
BB p.12,
Bill's Story
Upon a
foundation of
complete willingness I might
build what I saw in my
friend.
13.
... willingness in the lock and have the ...
12&12 p.35,
Step Three
Once we have
placed the
key
of
willingness in the
lock and
have the
door ever so
slightly open, we find that
we can always
open it some more.
14.
... willingness, patience and labor.
BB p.163,
A Vision For You
To
duplicate, with such
backing, what we have
accomplished is only a
matter of
willingness,
patience and
labor.
15.
... willingness, the door opens almost of itself, ...
12&12 p.34,
Step Three
Once
unlocked by
willingness, the
door opens almost of itself, and
looking through it, we shall see a
pathway beside which is an
inscription.
16.
... willingness to admit when the fault is ...
12&12 p.91,
Step Ten
In all these
situations we
need self-
restraint,
honest analysis of what is
involved, a
willingness to
admit when the
fault is ours,
and an
equal willingness to
forgive when the
fault is
elsewhere.
17.
... willingness to approach these individuals, admitting my ...
BB p.13,
Bill's Story
18.
... willingness to believe in a Power greater ...
BB p.46,
We Agnostics
We
found that as soon as we were able to
lay aside prejudice and
express
even a
willingness to
believe in a
Power greater than ourselves, we
commenced to get
results,
even though it was
impossible for any of us to
fully define or
comprehend that
Power,
which is
God.
19.
... willingness to clean house is still largely ...
12&12 p.60,
Step Five
Until we
actually sit down
and
talk aloud about what we
have so
long hidden, our
willingness to
clean house is still
largely theoretical.
20.
... willingness to confide and your full confidence ...
12&12 p.61,
Step Five
The
real tests of the
situation are your
own willingness to
confide and your
full confidence in the
one with whom you
share your
first accurate self-
survey.
21.
... willingness to face and rectify errors and ...
BB p.124,
The Family Afterward
We
grow by our
willingness to
face and
rectify errors and
convert them into
assets.
22.
... willingness to forgive when the fault is ...
12&12 p.91,
Step Ten
In all these
situations we
need self-
restraint,
honest analysis of what is
involved, a
willingness to
admit when the
fault is ours,
and an
equal willingness to
forgive when the
fault is
elsewhere.
23.
... willingness to get rid of such overwhelming ...
12&12 p.73,
Step Seven
How can we
possibly summon the
resolution and
the
willingness to get
rid of
such
overwhelming compulsions and
desires?
24.
... willingness to have Him with me -- and ...
BB p.12,
Bill's Story
There had been a
humble willingness to have Him with me -- and He
came.
25.
... willingness to make amends as fast and ...
12&12 p.87,
Step Nine
But all of them do
require a
complete willingness to make
amends as
fast and as far as
may be
possible in a
given set of
conditions.
26.
... willingness to make these sacrifices that gives ...
12&12 p.184,
Tradition Twelve
It is
A.A.'s
proved willingness to make these
sacrifices that
gives
people their
high confidence in our
future.
27.
... willingness to move forward.
12&12 p.54,
Step Four
It will be the
first tangible evidence of our
complete willingness to
move forward.
28.
... willingness to remedy your own defects, there ...
BB p.118,
To Wives
If you both
show a
willingness
to
remedy your
own defects, there will be
little need to
criticize each other.
29.
... willingness to repair what he can and ...
12&12 p.119,
Step Twelve
The
alcoholic,
realizing what his
wife has
endured, and now
fully understanding how much he himself did to
damage her and his
children,
nearly always
takes up his
marriage responsibilities with a
willingness to
repair what he can
and to
accept what he can't.
30.
... willingness to take inventory, and exert ourselves ...
12&12 p.49,
Step Four
Once we have a
complete willingness to take
inventory,
and
exert ourselves to do the
job thoroughly, a
wonderful light falls upon this
foggy scene.
31.
... willingness to try for better things tomorrow ...
12&12 p.95,
Step Ten
An
honest regret for
harms done, a
genuine gratitude for
blessings
received, and a
willingness to
try for
better things
tomorrow will
be the
permanent assets
we shall
seek.
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