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Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... yet."
12&12 p.66,
Step Six
Even then the
best of us will
discover to our
dismay that
there is always a
sticking point, a
point at which we say,
"No, I can't
give this up
yet."
2.
... yet.
12&12 p.111,
Step Twelve
3.
... yet.
BB p.31,
More About Alcoholism
Science may one
day accomplish this, but it hasn't done so
yet.
4.
... yet a
long way from making good ...
BB p.82,
Into Action
But he is
yet a
long way from
making good to the
wife or
parents whom for
years he has so
shockingly
treated.
5.
... yet acquired
much actual humility.
12&12 p.58,
Step Five
But while this was a
humiliating experience, it didn't
necessarily mean that we
had
yet acquired much
actual humility.
6.
Yet Alcoholics
Anonymous is an exception.
12&12 p.173,
Tradition Nine
7.
Yet all
reasons for not drinking were ...
BB p.36,
More About Alcoholism
Yet all
reasons for not
drinking were
easily pushed aside in
favor of the
foolish idea that he could take
whiskey if only he
mixed it
with
milk!
8.
... yet be
a potential alcoholic.
BB p.34,
More About Alcoholism
Though you may be able to
stop for a
considerable period,
you may
yet be a
potential alcoholic.
9.
... yet be
unaffected.
BB p.74,
Into Action
Such
parts of our
story we
tell to someone who will
understand,
yet be
unaffected.
10.
... yet...," but
we should not say to ...
12&12 p.69,
Step Six
Perhaps we shall be
obliged in some
cases still to say, "This I cannot
give up
yet...," but we should
not say to ourselves, "This I will
never give up!"
11.
Yet can
we?
12&12 p.66,
Step Six
Yet can we?
12.
... yet continuous,
it disturbed my wife.
BB p.2,
Bill's Story
Though my
drinking was not
yet continuous, it
disturbed my
wife.
13.
... yet dazed
from his hospital experience, has ...
BB p.160,
A Vision For You
Many a
man,
yet dazed from his
hospital experience, has
stepped
over the
threshold of that
home into
freedom.
14.
... yet definite
satisfaction.
12&12 p.67,
Step Six
15.
Yet early
next morning he searches madly ...
BB p.21,
There Is A Solution
16.
... yet erratic
people could live and work ...
12&12 p.18,
Foreword
But it was by no
means sure
that such
great numbers of
yet erratic people could
live and
work together with
harmony and
good effect.
17.
... yet find
a way to do so.
BB p.110,
To Wives
He
clings to the
notion
that he will
yet find a way to do so.
18.
... yet found
a happy solution.
BB p.104,
To Wives
Among us are
wives,
relatives and
friends
whose
problem has been
solved, as well as some who have not
yet found a
happy solution.
19.
... yet found
no answer may begin to ...
BB xxi,
Foreword to Second Edition
Yet it is our
great hope that all those who have as
yet found no
answer may
begin to find one
in the
pages of this book and will
presently join us on the
high road to a new
freedom.
20.
... yet given
to those ever-urgent questions, "How ...
BB p.561(563),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
21.
Yet he
got drunk again.
BB p.36,
More About Alcoholism
22.
Yet he
had no control whatever over ...
BB p.26,
There Is A Solution
Yet he had no
control
whatever over
alcohol.
23.
Yet, he
is alcoholic.
BB p.39,
More About Alcoholism
24.
... yet he
spends long hours helping other ...
BB p.119,
To Wives
You have been
starving for his
companionship,
yet he
spends long hours helping other
men and their
families.
25.
Yet if
A.A.'s experience means anything at ...
12&12 p.56,
Step Five
Yet if
A.A.'s
experience means anything
at all, this is not only
unwise, but is
actually a
perilous resolve.
26.
Yet in
ancient times material progress was ...
BB p.51,
We Agnostics
27.
Yet, in
other moments, we found ourselves ...
BB p.46,
We Agnostics
Yet, in other
moments, we
found ourselves
thinking,
when
enchanted by a
starlit night, "Who, then,
made all this?"
28.
Yet it
is only a step.
12&12 p.98,
Step Eleven
29.
Yet it
is our great hope that ...
BB xxi,
Foreword to Second Edition
Yet it is our
great hope that all those who have as
yet found no
answer may
begin to find one
in the
pages of this book and will
presently join us on the
high road to a new
freedom.
30.
Yet it
is true that our first ...
BB p.567(569),
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience
31.
Yet its
elements are simple.
BB p.57,
We Agnostics
32.
... yet keep
God out of our lives.
12&12 p.34,
Step Three
We can have
faith,
yet keep God out of our
lives.
33.
Yet let
him drink for a day, ...
BB p.21,
There Is A Solution
34.
Yet many
of us still hung back.
12&12 p.59,
Step Five
Yet many of us still
hung
back.
35.
Yet no
alcoholic, soberly analyzing his destructive ...
12&12 p.33,
Step Two
36.
Yet not
a single one of them ...
12&12 p.170,
Tradition Eight
Yet not a
single one of them
had been
hired to do
A.A.'s
Twelfth Step work.
37.
... yet obscure,
have lost the power of ...
BB p.24,
There Is A Solution
The
fact is that most
alcoholics, for
reasons
yet obscure, have
lost the
power of
choice in
drink.
38.
Yet often
such men had spectacular and ...
BB p.113,
To Wives
39.
... yet others
"Catholic" or "Protestant."
12&12 p.147,
Tradition Four
There would be
real danger
should we
commence to call some
groups "
wet," others "
dry," still others "
Republican" or "
Communist," and
yet others
"
Catholic" or "
Protestant."
40.
... yet reached.
BB p.561(563),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
41.
... yet realistic,
stocktaking is immensely reassuring.
12&12 p.46,
Step Four
42.
... yet received
anything or not.
12&12 p.109,
Step Twelve
And then he
discovers that by the
divine paradox of this
kind of
giving he has
found his
own reward, whether his
brother
has
yet received anything
or not.
43.
... yet relinquish,
we ought nevertheless to quit ...
12&12 p.108,
Step Twelve
So we
decided that while we still had some
flaws of
character that we
could not
yet relinquish, we ought nevertheless to
quit our
stubborn,
rebellious hanging on to
them.
44.
... yet sometimes
more durable, satisfactions when the ...
12&12 p.112,
Step Twelve
45.
Yet such
a failure wouldn't jeopardize their ...
12&12 p.151,
Tradition Five
46.
... yet, there
it was.
BB p.54,
We Agnostics
We could not
prove life in
the
sense that you can
prove
a
straight line is the
shortest distance between
two points,
yet, there it was.
47.
Yet these
instincts, so necessary for our ...
12&12 p.42,
Step Four
48.
Yet they
got well.
BB p.110,
To Wives
Yet they got well.
49.
... yet they
recognize at once that A.A. ...
12&12 p.130,
Tradition One
50.
... yet time.
BB p.32,
More About Alcoholism
But the
difficulty is that few
alcoholics have
enough desire to
stop while there is
yet time.
51.
... yet time.
BB p.128,
The Family Afterward
He may tell
mother, who has been
religious all her
life, that
she doesn't
know what it's all about, and that she
had
better get his
brand of
spirituality while there is
yet time.
52.
... yet unresolved
problem left over from yesterday.
12&12 p.102,
Step Eleven
53.
... yet usually,
at least in some small ...
12&12 p.107,
Step Twelve
What he has
received is a
free gift, and
yet usually, at
least in some
small part, he has made himself
ready to
receive it.
54.
... yet was
flat on his back nevertheless.
BB p.40,
More About Alcoholism
The
story he told is most
instructive, for here was a
chap absolutely convinced he had to
stop drinking, who had no
excuse
for
drinking, who
exhibited splendid judgment and
determination in all his other
concerns,
yet was
flat on his back nevertheless.
55.
Yet, we
believe we can make some ...
BB p.86,
Into Action
56.
Yet we
do go to great extremes ...
BB p.98,
Working With Others
Yet we do go to
great extremes to
provide each
other with these very things, when such
action is
warranted.
57.
... yet we
do take them.
12&12 p.74,
Step Seven
These
initial steps along
the
road are
taken grudgingly,
yet we do take
them.
58.
Yet we
find that's what we have ...
12&12 p.160,
Tradition Seven
Yet we find that's what we have to be.
59.
Yet we
found it impossible.
BB p.34,
More About Alcoholism
60.
Yet we
had been seeing another kind ...
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.
61.
Yet we
knew we had to make ...
12&12 p.108,
Step Twelve
Yet we
knew we had to make a
settlement with the
fundamental principle
of
Step Six.
62.
... yet, when
in reality we have already ...
12&12 p.85,
Step Nine
Or we may just
procrastinate,
telling ourselves the
time is
not
yet, when in
reality we
have already
passed up many a
fine chance to
right a
serious wrong.
63.
Yet you
must not expect too much.
BB p.118,
To Wives
Yet you
must not
expect too much.
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