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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
WONDERFUL occurs
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1.
... wonderful.
BB p.17,
There Is A Solution
But there
exists among us a
fellowship, a
friendliness, and an
understanding which is
indescribably wonderful.
2.
... wonderful.
BB p.61,
How It Works
3.
... wonderful as
time passes.
BB p.8,
Bill's Story
I was to
know happiness,
peace, and
usefulness,
in a way of
life that is
incredibly more
wonderful
as
time passes.
4.
... wonderful energy
it releases and the eager ...
12&12 p.109,
Step Twelve
5.
... wonderful excuse
for avoiding an inventory.
12&12 p.45,
Step Four
We also
clutch at another
wonderful excuse for
avoiding an
inventory.
6.
... wonderful Fellowship
we had, how well we ...
12&12 p.152,
Tradition Five
I
explained what a
wonderful Fellowship we had,
how well we
understood each other.
7.
... wonderful friend
of A.A., died in the ...
BB p.572(574),
Appendix V, The Religious View on A.A.
(*)
Father Ed, an
early and
wonderful friend of
A.A.,
died in the
spring of
1960.
8.
... wonderful is
the feeling that we do ...
12&12 p.124,
Step Twelve
Still more
wonderful is the
feeling that we do not have to be
specially distinguished among our
fellows in
order to be
useful and
profoundly happy.
9.
... wonderful light
falls upon this foggy scene.
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.
10.
... wonderful revelation.
12&12 p.40,
Step Three
To all of us, this was a most
wonderful revelation.
11.
... wonderful supply.
12&12 p.99,
Step Eleven
We won't have far to
seek; the
great men and
women of all
religions have
left us a
wonderful supply.
12.
... wonderful thing.
BB p.116,
To Wives
When we do that, we find it
solves our
problems too; the
ensuing
lack of
fear,
worry and
hurt feelings is a
wonderful
thing.
13.
... wonderful thing
had happened.
12&12 p.149,
Tradition Four
When that
lifted, a
wonderful thing had
happened.
14.
... wonderful thing
to feel a part.
BB p.15,
Bill's Story
We
commenced to make many
fast friends and a
fellowship has
grown up
among us of which it is a
wonderful thing to
feel a
part.
15.
... wonderful ties,
for you will escape disaster ...
BB p.152,
A Vision For You
You will be
bound to them with new and
wonderful ties, for you will
escape disaster together and you will
commence shoulder to
shoulder your
common journey.
16.
... wonderful world,
no matter what your present ...
BB p.100,
Working With Others
Follow the
dictates of a
Higher Power and you will
presently live in a new
and
wonderful world, no
matter what your
present circumstances!
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