From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... word.
12&12 p.106,
Step Twelve
2.
... word.
12&12 p.110,
Step Twelve
3.
... word.
12&12 p.146,
Tradition Four
4.
... word.
BB xiv,
Foreword to First Edition
5.
... word about
sex relations.
BB p.134,
The Family Afterward
6.
... word and
as an ideal, has a ...
12&12 p.70,
Step Seven
7.
... word and
trying to take in the ...
12&12 p.99,
Step Eleven
As beginners in meditation, we might now reread this prayer several times very slowly, savoring every word and trying to take in the deep meaning of each phrase and idea.
8.
... word "blame"
from our speech and thought.
12&12 p.47,
Step Four
9.
... word "dependence"
is as distasteful to many ...
12&12 p.38,
Step Three
We realize that the word
"dependence" is as distasteful to many psychiatrists and psychologists as it is to alcoholics.
10.
... word "fear"
is bracketed alongside the difficulties ...
BB p.67,
How It Works
Notice that the word "fear" is bracketed alongside the difficulties with Mr. Brown, Mrs. Jones, the employer, and the
wife.
11.
... word for
that, too; we call it ...
12&12 p.67,
Step Six
When gluttony is less than
ruinous, we have a milder
word for that, too; we call it
"taking our comfort."
12.
... word "God"
brought up a particular idea ...
BB p.45,
We Agnostics
To others, the word "God" brought up a particular idea of Him with which someone
had tried to impress them
during childhood.
13.
... word God
still aroused a certain antipathy.
BB p.12,
Bill's Story
14.
... word "harm"
in a practical way, we ...
12&12 p.80,
Step Eight
To define the word "harm" in a practical way, we might call it the result of instincts in collision, which cause physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual
damage to people.
15.
... word, in
the mind of a rationalizing ...
12&12 p.69,
Step Six
16.
... word, is
needed or wanted.
BB p.98,
Working With Others
For the type of alcoholic
who is able and willing to
get well, little charity, in the ordinary sense of the word, is needed or wanted.
17.
... word itself
is often intensely disliked.
12&12 p.70,
Step Seven
18.
... word may
be, we call this plain ...
BB p.37,
More About Alcoholism
19.
... word of
mouth.
BB xviii,
Foreword to Second Edition
New groups started up and it was found, to the astonishment of everyone, that A.A.'s message could be transmitted in the mail as
well as by word of mouth.
20.
... word-of-mouth method
was too limited.
12&12 p.186,
Tradition Twelve
21.
... word often
misunderstood.
12&12 p.58,
Step Five
Another great dividend we may expect from
confiding our defects
to another human being is humility -- a word often misunderstood.
22.
... word on
this subject, but so far ...
BB p.144,
To Employers
By no means do we offer it as the last word on this subject, but so far as we are concerned, it
has worked with us.
23.
... word serenity
and we will know peace.
BB p.84,
Into Action
24.
... word somehow
touches about every aspect of ...
BB p.67,
How It Works
25.
... word 'spiritual'
out of my mouth than ...
12&12 p.153,
Tradition Five
26.
... word, the
alpha and the omega, the ...
BB p.49,
We Agnostics
Instead of regarding
ourselves as intelligent agents, spearheads of God's ever advancing Creation, we agnostics
and atheists chose to believe that our human intelligence was the last
word, the alpha and the omega, the beginning and end of all.
27.
... word was
said.
12&12 p.142,
Tradition Three
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