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Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
ACCEPTED occurs
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1.
... accepted a sum of money from a ...
BB p.80,
Into Action
While
drinking, he
accepted a
sum of
money from a
bitterly-
hated business rival,
giving him no
receipt for it.
2.
... accepted and brings still greater confusion.
12&12 p.111,
Step Twelve
Then we are
hurt and
confused when the
advice is
rejected, or when it is
accepted and brings still
greater
confusion.
3.
... accepted and encouraged this movement.
BB xxviii(xxvi),
The Doctor's Opinion
If any
feel that as
psychiatrists directing a
hospital for
alcoholics we
appear
somewhat
sentimental, let them
stand with us a while on the
firing line, see the
tragedies, the
despairing wives, the
little children; let the
solving of these
problems
become a
part of their
daily work, and even of their
sleeping moments, and the
most
cynical will not
wonder that we have
accepted
and
encouraged this
movement.
4.
... accepted by 1950 that they were confirmed ...
BB xix,
Foreword to Second Edition
Though
none of these
principles had the
force
of
rules or
laws, they had
become so
widely accepted by
1950 that they were
confirmed by our
first International Conference held at
Cleveland.
5.
... accepted dad's new way of living and ...
BB p.134,
The Family Afterward
This may
hang on for
months,
long after their
mother has
accepted dad's new way of
living and
thinking.
6.
... accepted his devastating weakness and all its ...
12&12 p.21,
Step One
7.
... accepted many things on faith which seemed ...
BB p.47,
We Agnostics
That was
great news to us,
for we had
assumed we could not make use of
spiritual principles
unless we
accepted many
things on
faith which
seemed difficult to
believe.
8.
... accepted or solved with God's help, the ...
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.
9.
... accepted, our bankruptcy as going human concerns ...
12&12 p.21,
Step One
10.
... accepted our lot, then we found we ...
12&12 p.122,
Step Twelve
When, with
God's
help, we
calmly accepted our
lot, then we
found we could
live at
peace with ourselves and
show others who still
suffered the same
fears that
they could get over them, too.
11.
... accepted our solution which, as you know, ...
BB p.145,
To Employers
In
fact, he may say almost anything if he has
accepted our
solution which, as
you
know,
demands rigorous honesty.
12.
... accepted the plan outlined in this book.
BB xxxi(xxix),
The Doctor's Opinion
He
accepted the
plan outlined in this book.
13.
... accepted the principles and procedure that had ...
BB p.139,
To Employers
Without much
ado, he
accepted
the
principles and
procedure that had
helped
us.
14.
... accepted them, the effect was electric.
BB p.14,
Bill's Story
These were
revolutionary and
drastic proposals, but
the
moment I
fully accepted them, the
effect was
electric.
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