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Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... world.
12&12 p.38,
Step Three
A.A.'s
entered the
services and were
scattered all over the
world.
2.
... world.
12&12 p.70,
Step Seven
Humility, as a
word and as
an
ideal, has a very
bad time of it in our
world.
3.
... world?
12&12 p.97,
Step Eleven
What about all the
accidents,
sickness,
cruelty, and
injustice in the
world?
4.
... world.
12&12 p.105,
Step Eleven
5.
... world.
12&12 p.121,
Step Twelve
6.
... world.
12&12 p.17,
Foreword
7.
... world.
12&12 p.156,
Tradition Six
We might
transform the
world.
8.
... world.
12&12 p.157,
Tradition Six
His
connection with
A.A.
would be
valuable, because the
Fellowship stood high in
public favor and hadn't an
enemy in
the
world.
9.
... world.
12&12 p.168,
Tradition Eight
Eight tons of
books and
literature per month do not
package and
channel
themselves all over the
world.
10.
... world.
12&12 p.176,
Tradition Ten
11.
... world.
BB p.21,
There Is A Solution
He may be one of the
finest fellows in the
world.
12.
... world.
BB p.49,
We Agnostics
13.
... world.
BB p.74,
Into Action
We
must be
entirely honest with somebody if we
expect to
live long or
happily in this
world.
14.
... world.
BB p.102,
Working With Others
Now you are
getting back into the
social life of this
world.
15.
... world.
BB p.131,
The Family Afterward
16.
... world.
BB p.132,
The Family Afterward
He may bring new
hope and new
courage to many a
priest,
minister, or
rabbi, who
gives his all to
minister to
our
troubled world.
17.
... world.
BB xvii,
Foreword to Second Edition
It was now
time, the
struggling groups thought, to place their
message and
unique experience before the
world.
18.
... world.
BB xxiii,
Foreword to Fourth Edition
19.
... world.
BB xxiv,
Foreword to Fourth Edition
20.
... world --
a society which said it wished ...
12&12 p.182,
Tradition Eleven
Here was something
rare in the
world -- a
society which said it
wished to
publicize its principles and
its work, but not
its individual members.
21.
... world abound.
12&12 p.48,
Step Four
22.
... world about
it, the way it lives ...
12&12 p.15,
Foreword
They
outline the
means by
which
A.A. maintains its unity and
relates itself to the
world
about it, the way it
lives and
grows.
23.
... world about
us, and with Him who ...
12&12 p.125,
Step Twelve
For it is only by
accepting and
solving our
problems that
we can
begin to get
right
with ourselves and with the
world about us, and with
Him who
presides over us all.
24.
... world about
us we saw personalities destroying ...
12&12 p.130,
Tradition One
25.
... world affairs.
BB p.574,
Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form)
26.
... world and
its people really dominated us.
BB p.66,
How It Works
We
began to see that the
world and
its people really
dominated us.
27.
... world and
its people were often quite ...
BB p.66,
How It Works
The
first thing
apparent
was that this
world and
its
people were often quite
wrong.
28.
... world and
life as we see it, ...
BB p.49,
We Agnostics
When, however, the
perfectly logical assumption is
suggested that
underneath the
material
world and
life as we see it,
there is an All
Powerful,
Guiding,
Creative Intelligence,
right
there our
perverse streak comes to the
surface and we
laboriously set out to
convince ourselves it isn't so.
29.
... world, are
going to back away from ...
12&12 p.177,
Tradition Ten
Nor does it
mean that the
members of
Alcoholics Anonymous, now
restored
as
citizens of the
world,
are
going to back away from their
individual responsibilities to
act as they see the
right upon
issues of our
time.
30.
... world arteries
would no longer carry the ...
12&12 p.129,
Tradition One
Without
unity, the
heart of
A.A. would
cease to
beat; our
world arteries would no
longer carry the
life-
giving grace of
God; His
gift to us would be
spent aimlessly.
31.
... world as
on what needs to be ...
BB p.417(449),
Acceptance
I
need to
concentrate
not so much on what
needs to be
changed in the
world as on
what
needs to be
changed
in me and in my
attitudes.
32.
... world at
large?
12&12 p.112,
Step Twelve
33.
... world because
I did not understand alcoholism ...
BB p.137,
To Employers
Here were
three exceptional men lost to this
world because I did
not
understand alcoholism as I do now.
34.
... world's best
professionals, whether medical or religious.
12&12 p.166,
Tradition Eight
Almost no
recovery from
alcoholism has ever been brought about by the
world's
best professionals, whether
medical or
religious.
35.
... world but
his family?
BB p.128,
The Family Afterward
If he
means to
right his
past wrongs, why all this
concern for
everyone in
the
world but his
family?
36.
... world by
mistake.
BB p.417(449),
Acceptance
37.
... world came
into view.
BB p.12,
Bill's Story
A new
world came into
view.
38.
... world center,
referring you to the nearest ...
BB p.573(575),
Appendix VI, How to Get in Touch With A.A.
39.
... world clearing
house for the Al-Anon Family ...
BB p.573(575),
Appendix VI, How to Get in Touch With A.A.
40.
... world ever
made a worse mess of ...
12&12 p.71,
Step Seven
But we are
sure that no
class
of people in the
world ever made a
worse mess of
trying to
live by this
formula than
alcoholics.
41.
... world has
been replaced by a great ...
BB p.130,
The Family Afterward
42.
... world have
set their approval upon us.
BB p.569(571),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
43.
... world he
presents his stage character.
BB p.73,
Into Action
44.
... world I
was important.
BB p.2,
Bill's Story
I'd
prove to the
world I was
important.
45.
... world if
he only manages well?
BB p.61,
How It Works
Is he not a
victim of the
delusion that he can
wrest
satisfaction and
happiness out of this
world
if he only
manages well?
46.
... world, immense
and favorable publicity of every ...
12&12 p.180,
Tradition Eleven
47.
... world in
the eye.
BB p.75,
Into Action
We can
look the
world in the
eye.
48.
... world in
which we lived.
12&12 p.108,
Step Twelve
In
Step Eight, we
continued our
housecleaning, for we saw that we were not only
in
conflict with ourselves, but also with people
and
situations in the
world in which we
lived.
49.
... world is
dependent upon publicized leadership.
12&12 p.181,
Tradition Eleven
50.
... world is
full of people like him.
BB p.109,
To Wives
This
world is
full of people
like him.
51.
... world itself
-- into protective parents.
12&12 p.115,
Step Twelve
We had
failed to see that though
adult in
years we were still
behaving childishly,
trying to
turn everybody --
friends,
wives,
husbands, even the
world itself -- into
protective parents.
52.
... world's libraries
and places of worship are ...
12&12 p.98,
Step Eleven
53.
... world, no
matter what your present circumstances!
BB p.100,
Working With Others
54.
... world of
alcoholism where everything is distorted ...
BB p.108,
To Wives
55.
... world of
big business.
BB p.136,
To Employers
Among many
employers nowadays, we
think of one
member who has
spent much of
his
life in the
world of
big business.
56.
... world of
ignorance and misunderstanding.
BB p.20,
There Is A Solution
Back of them is a
world of
ignorance and
misunderstanding.
57.
... world of
meaning when we think about ...
12&12 p.43,
Step Four
Simple examples like the
following take on a
world
of
meaning when we
think
about them.
58.
... world of
ours has made more material ...
BB p.51,
We Agnostics
This
world of ours has made more
material progress in the
last century than in all
the
millenniums which went before.
59.
... world of
spiritual make-believe have eventually seen ...
BB p.130,
The Family Afterward
Those of us who have
spent much
time in the
world of
spiritual make-
believe
have
eventually seen the
childishness of it.
60.
... world of
the alcoholic.
BB xvii,
Foreword to Second Edition
61.
... world of
the Spirit.
BB p.84,
Into Action
We have
entered the
world
of the
Spirit.
62.
... world of
warring individuals, warring theological systems, ...
BB p.46,
We Agnostics
63.
... world, once
his liquor problem is solved, ...
BB p.118,
To Wives
It is the most
natural thing in the
world, once his
liquor problem is
solved, to
feel that he will now
measure
up to that
cherished vision.
64.
... world once
more.
BB p.127,
The Family Afterward
They should be
thankful he is
sober and able to be of this
world once more.
65.
... world outside
have to be maintained.
12&12 p.168,
Tradition Eight
Right contacts with the
world outside have to be
maintained.
66.
... world outside
we are partners in a ...
12&12 p.124,
Step Twelve
Service,
gladly rendered,
obligations
squarely met,
troubles well
accepted or
solved with
God's
help, the
knowledge that at
home or in the
world outside we are
partners in
a
common effort, the
well-
understood fact
that in
God's
sight all
human beings are
important, the
proof that
love freely given surely brings a
full return, the
certainty that we are no
longer isolated and alone
in
self-
constructed prisons, the
surety that we
need no
longer be
square pegs in
round holes but can
fit and
belong in
God's
scheme of things -- these
are the
permanent and
legitimate satisfactions of
right
living for which no
amount
of
pomp and
circumstance, no
heap of
material possessions, could
possibly be
substitutes.
67.
... world owed
us a living, then the ...
12&12 p.115,
Step Twelve
When we had
taken the
opposite tack and had
insisted, like
infants
ourselves, that people
protect and take
care of us or that the
world owed us a
living, then the
result had been
equally unfortunate.
68.
... world, people
who rose above their problems.
BB p.55,
We Agnostics
Yet we had been seeing another
kind of
flight, a
spiritual liberation
from this
world, people who
rose above their
problems.
69.
... world, recovery
begins when one alcoholic talks ...
BB xxii,
Foreword to Third Edition
Each
day, somewhere in the
world,
recovery begins when one
alcoholic
talks with another
alcoholic,
sharing experience,
strength,
and
hope.
70.
... world's religions,
I parted right there.
BB p.10,
Bill's Story
With
ministers, and the
world's
religions, I
parted right there.
71.
... world-renowned hospital,
recently made this statement to ...
BB p.43,
More About Alcoholism
One of these
men,
staff member of a
world-
renowned hospital,
recently made this
statement to some of us: "What you say about the
general hopelessness
of the
average alcoholic's
plight is, in
my
opinion,
correct.
72.
... world riddled
with envy.
12&12 p.67,
Step Six
We
live in a
world riddled with
envy.
73.
... world service
affairs.
BB p.575,
Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form)
74.
... World Service
and revises the three sections ...
BB xii,
Preface
75.
... world service
leadership, once exercised by the ...
BB p.575,
Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form)
76.
... world service
matters should be exercised by ...
BB p.574,
Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form)
77.
... World Service
Office, 1600 Corporate Landing Parkway, ...
BB p.121,
To Wives (Note)
78.
... World Service
provide a group of related ...
BB p.574,
Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form)
79.
... world services.
12&12 p.175,
Tradition Nine
80.
... World Services,
Inc., and our monthly magazine, ...
BB p.573(575),
Appendix VI, How to Get in Touch With A.A.
81.
... world services
should always reside in the ...
BB p.574,
Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form)
82.
... world, statements
just like this are heard ...
12&12 p.64,
Step Six
In
A.A. meetings all over
the
world,
statements
just like this are
heard daily.
83.
... world, that
outward appearances are not inward ...
BB p.48,
We Agnostics
84.
... world, then
such a Higher Power was ...
12&12 p.108,
Step Twelve
85.
... world tide
of alcoholism, defeated drinkers will ...
BB p.153,
A Vision For You
Our
hope is that when this
chip of a book is
launched on
the
world tide of
alcoholism,
defeated drinkers will
seize upon it,
to
follow its suggestions.
86.
... world to
play the role He assigns.
BB p.68,
How It Works
We are in the
world to
play
the
role He
assigns.
87.
... world's troubles
on our shoulders.
BB p.132,
The Family Afterward
We
try not to
indulge in
cynicism over the
state of
the
nations, nor do we
carry the
world's
troubles on our
shoulders.
88.
... World War
II broke out, this spiritual ...
12&12 p.38,
Step Three
89.
... World War
record.
BB p.35,
More About Alcoholism
90.
... world, we
have made only a scratch.
BB xxi,
Foreword to Second Edition
So far, upon the
total problem of several
million
actual and
potential alcoholics in the
world, we
have made only a
scratch.
91.
... world we
live in.
12&12 p.37,
Step Three
92.
... world, we
still vainly tried to be ...
12&12 p.117,
Step Twelve
Even when our
fortunes had not
ebbed that much and we nevertheless
found ourselves alone in the
world, we still
vainly tried to be
secure by some
unhealthy kind of
domination or
dependence.
93.
... world where
we can quiet down for ...
12&12 p.89,
Step Ten
Many of us also like the
experience of an
occasional retreat from
the
outside world where we
can
quiet down for an
undisturbed day or so of
self-
overhaul and
meditation.
94.
... world which
does not understand the difference ...
12&12 p.33,
Step Two
They are
abetted in this
blindness by a
world which
does not
understand the
difference between
sane drinking and
alcoholism.
95.
... world will
then turn happy and be ...
12&12 p.71,
Step Seven
The
world will then
turn happy and be
free to
concentrate on
culture
and
character.
96.
... world wires;
inquiries poured in again and ...
BB xviii,
Foreword to Second Edition
News of this got on the
world
wires;
inquiries poured in again and many people went to the
bookstores to get the book "
Alcoholics Anonymous."
97.
... world with
fine doctors, psychologists, and practitioners ...
BB p.133,
The Family Afterward
98.
... world would
only behave; the outlaw safe ...
BB p.62,
How It Works
He is like the
retired business man who
lolls in the
Florida sunshine in the
winter complaining of the
sad state of the
nation; the
minister who
sighs over the
sins of the
twentieth century;
politicians
and
reformers who are
sure all would be
Utopia if the
rest of the
world would only
behave; the
outlaw safe cracker who
thinks society has
wronged him; and the
alcoholic who has
lost all
and is
locked up.
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