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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... worked.
12&12 p.39,
Step Three
Whether in
Alaska or on the
Salerno beachhead, their
dependence upon a
Higher Power worked.
2.
... worked!
BB p.9,
Bill's Story
It worked!
3.
... worked a
period of months on some ...
BB xxix(xxvii),
The Doctor's Opinion
I have had many
men who had, for
example,
worked a
period of
months on some
problem or
business deal which was to be
settled
on a
certain date,
favorably to them.
4.
... worked and
why yours seem to work ...
BB p.93,
Working With Others
But he will be
curious to
learn why his
own convictions have not
worked and why yours
seem to
work so well.
5.
... worked for
A.A. real cheap.
12&12 p.168,
Tradition Eight
They could
regain some
measure of
virtue, it was
thought, if they
worked for
A.A. real cheap.
6.
... worked-for promotion.
12&12 p.113,
Step Twelve
We
fail to get a
worked-for
promotion.
7.
... worked hard
with many alcoholics on the ...
BB xvi,
Foreword to Second Edition
Prior to his
journey to
Akron, the
broker had
worked hard with many
alcoholics on the
theory
that only an
alcoholic could
help an
alcoholic, but he
had
succeeded only in
keeping sober himself.
8.
... worked in
others, and we had come ...
BB p.25,
There Is A Solution
But we saw that it really
worked in others, and we
had
come to
believe in the
hopelessness and
futility of
life as we had
been
living it.
9.
... worked on
a farm for a month ...
BB p.3,
Bill's Story
I had had some
success at
speculation, so we had a
little money, but we once
worked on a
farm for a
month to
avoid drawing on our
small capital.
10.
... worked the
Twelfth Step for a fee.
12&12 p.166,
Tradition Eight
This has always been so
obvious that only a very
few
A.A.'s have ever
worked the
Twelfth Step for a
fee.
11.
... worked under
all conditions.
12&12 p.31,
Step Two
This was not only
faith; it was
faith that
worked under all
conditions.
12.
... worked with
him, reviewing carefully what had ...
BB p.35,
More About Alcoholism
On each of these
occasions we
worked with him,
reviewing carefully what had
happened.
13.
... worked with
me.
BB p.14,
Bill's Story
Particularly was it
imperative to
work with
others as he had
worked with me.
14.
... worked with
them, we began to feel ...
BB p.53,
We Agnostics
When others
showed us that "
God-
sufficiency"
worked with them, we
began to
feel like those who had
insisted the
Wrights would
never fly.
15.
... worked with
us.
BB p.95,
Working With Others
We have no
monopoly on
God;
we
merely have an
approach that
worked with us.
16.
... worked with
us.
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.
17.
... worked with
you.
BB p.95,
Working With Others
Show him how they
worked with
you.
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