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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... begin.
12&12 p.47,
Step Four
2.
... begin?
12&12 p.99,
Step Eleven
But what about the
rest of us who,
less fortunate, don't even
know how to
begin?
3.
... begin.
BB p.163,
A Vision For You
We
believe and
hope it
contains all you will
need to
begin.
4.
... begin in
a casual or natural way.
12&12 p.85,
Step Nine
These
conversations can
begin in a
casual or
natural way.
5.
... begin making
certain kinds of direct amends ...
12&12 p.83,
Step Nine
6.
... begin somewhere.
BB p.47,
We Agnostics
That was
growth, but if we
wished to
grow we had to
begin somewhere.
7.
... begin the
practice of Step Three.
12&12 p.41,
Step Three
Once we have
come into
agreement with these
ideas,
it is really
easy to
begin the
practice of
Step Three.
8.
... begin to
achieve some measure of importance ...
12&12 p.91,
Step Ten
We
must be quite as
careful
when we
begin to
achieve
some
measure of
importance and
material
success.
9.
... begin to
do it.
12&12 p.35,
Step Three
Fortunately, we who have
tried it, and with
equal misgivings, can
testify
that anyone, anyone at all, can
begin to do it.
10.
... begin to
dominate them.
BB p.27,
There Is A Solution
Ideas,
emotions, and
attitudes which were once the
guiding forces of the
lives of these
men are
suddenly cast to one
side, and a
completely new
set of
conceptions and
motives begin to
dominate them.
11.
... begin to
dwell on the hopeless feature ...
BB p.92,
Working With Others
If you are
satisfied that he is a
real alcoholic,
begin to
dwell on the
hopeless feature of the
malady.
12.
... begin to
feel confident in our new ...
12&12 p.85,
Step Nine
As soon as we
begin to
feel confident in our new way of
life and have
begun, by our
behavior and
example, to
convince those about us that we are
indeed changing for the
better, it is usually
safe to
talk in
complete frankness with those who have been
seriously affected, even
those who may be only a
little or not at all
aware of what we have done to them.
13.
... begin to
feel the nearness of our ...
BB p.75,
Into Action
We
begin to
feel the
nearness of our
Creator.
14.
... begin to
find one in the pages ...
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.
15.
... begin to
get right with ourselves and ...
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.
16.
... begin to
have a spiritual experience.
BB p.75,
Into Action
We may have had
certain spiritual beliefs, but
now we
begin to have a
spiritual experience.
17.
... begin to
learn right relations with people ...
12&12 p.117,
Step Twelve
Through it we
begin to
learn
right relations with
people who
understand us; we don't have to be
alone any more.
18.
... begin to
make our peace, and so ...
12&12 p.108,
Step Twelve
We had to
begin to make our
peace, and so we
listed the
people we had
harmed and
became willing to
set things
right.
19.
... begin to
open to the immense values ...
12&12 p.74,
Step Seven
20.
... begin to
practice all Twelve Steps of ...
12&12 p.106,
Step Twelve
Here we
begin to
practice
all
Twelve Steps of the
program in our
daily lives so that we and those about us may find
emotional sobriety.
21.
... begin to
practice justice and courtesy, perhaps ...
12&12 p.93,
Step Ten
With those we
dislike we can
begin to
practice justice and
courtesy,
perhaps
going out of our way to
understand and
help them.
22.
... begin to
see and feel.
12&12 p.27,
Step Two
The
minute I
stopped arguing, I could
begin to see
and
feel.
23.
... begin to
see that all people, including ...
12&12 p.92,
Step Ten
Finally, we
begin to see that all people,
including ourselves, are to some
extent emotionally ill as well as
frequently wrong, and then we
approach
true tolerance and see
what
real love for our
fellows actually means.
24.
... begin to
see truth, justice, and love ...
12&12 p.105,
Step Eleven
The
moment we
catch even a
glimpse of
God's will, the
moment we
begin to see
truth,
justice, and
love as the
real and
eternal things in
life, we are
no
longer deeply disturbed by all the
seeming evidence to the
contrary that
surrounds
us in
purely human affairs.
25.
... begin to
suspect it had never been ...
12&12 p.119,
Step Twelve
They may even
begin to
suspect it had
never been any
good in the
first place.
26.
... begin to
swallow, let alone digest.
12&12 p.113,
Step Twelve
Then perhaps
life, as it has a way of doing,
suddenly hands us a
great big lump that we can't
begin to
swallow, let alone
digest.
27.
... begin to
think that A.A. doesn't pay ...
12&12 p.113,
Step Twelve
We
begin to
think that
A.A. doesn't
pay off after all.
28.
... begin to
use it rightly.
12&12 p.40,
Step Three
It is when we
try to make our will
conform with
God's that we
begin to use it
rightly.
29.
... begin, we
ask God to direct our ...
BB p.86,
Into Action
30.
... begin with.
12&12 p.78,
Step Eight
We've
repeatedly strained the
patience of
our
best friends to a
snapping point, and have
brought out the very
worst in those who didn't
think much of us to
begin with.
31.
... begin with
indifference.
12&12 p.112,
Step Twelve
Our
troubles sometimes
begin with
indifference.
32.
... begin with,
the situation is aggravated.
12&12 p.118,
Step Twelve
And if she had a
strong maternal instinct to
begin with, the
situation
is
aggravated.
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