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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
WORKERS occurs
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1.
... workers."
12&12 p.166,
Tradition Eight
2.
... workers.
12&12 p.168,
Tradition Eight
Neither could
A.A. itself
function without
full-
time workers.
3.
... workers.
BB p.562(564),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
4.
... workers and
intimate friends?
12&12 p.140,
Tradition Three
How could we
know that
thousands of these sometimes
frightening people were to make
astonishing recoveries and
become our
greatest workers and
intimate friends?
5.
... workers nor
could any A.A. member carry ...
12&12 p.167,
Tradition Eight
But when we had
declared that our
Fellowship couldn't
hire service workers nor could any
A.A. member carry our
knowledge into
other
fields, we were
taking the
counsel of
fear,
fear which
today has been
largely dispelled in the
light of
experience.
6.
... workers of
ours who were often doing ...
12&12 p.167,
Tradition Eight
Ignoring the
fact that
these
labors were not
Twelfth Step jobs at all, the
critics attacked as
A.A. professionals these
workers of ours who were often doing
thankless tasks that no one
else could or would do.
7.
... workers, to
be a useful member of ...
12&12 p.53,
Step Four
We have not once
sought to be one in a
family, to be a
friend among
friends, to be a
worker
among
workers, to be a
useful member of
society.
8.
... workers to
serve us.
12&12 p.174,
Tradition Nine
It is
clear now that we ought
never to
name boards to
govern us, but it
is
equally clear that we
shall always
need to
authorize workers to
serve us.
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