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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... direct amends divides those we should approach ...
12&12 p.83,
Step Nine
After we have made the
list of people we have
harmed, have
reflected carefully upon each
instance, and have
tried to
possess ourselves of the
right attitude in which to
proceed, we will see that the
making of
direct amends divides those we
should
approach into several
classes.
2.
... direct amends from the day we join ...
12&12 p.83,
Step Nine
3.
... direct amends to such people wherever possible, ...
12&12 p.83,
Step Nine
"Made
direct amends to such
people
wherever possible,
except when to do
so would
injure them or others."
4.
... direct amends to such people wherever possible, ...
BB p.59,
How It Works
9. Made
direct amends to
such people
wherever possible,
except when to do
so would
injure them or others.
5.
... direct amends to those concerned, except when ...
12&12 p.108,
Step Twelve
We
followed this up in
Step Nine by
making direct amends to those
concerned,
except when it would
injure them or other people.
6.
... direct, and use, without a reasonable assumption ...
BB p.48,
We Agnostics
Simply because it is
impossible to
explain
what we see,
feel,
direct, and
use, without a
reasonable assumption as a
starting point.
7.
... direct comment and counsel on our situation, ...
12&12 p.60,
Step Five
The
benefit of
talking
to another
person is that we can get his
direct comment and
counsel on our
situation,
and there can be no
doubt in our
minds what that
advice is.
8.
... direct conflict with the new way of ...
BB p.124,
The Family Afterward
We
think that such a
view is
self-
centered and in
direct conflict with the new way
of
living.
9.
... direct contact as possible.
12&12 p.109,
Step Twelve
10.
... direct guidance we may receive while we ...
12&12 p.60,
Step Five
While the
comment or
advice of others may be by no
means infallible, it is
likely to be far more
specific than any
direct guidance we may
receive
while we are still so
inexperienced in
establishing contact
with a
Power greater than
ourselves.
11.
... direct linkage among self-examination, meditation, and prayer.
12&12 p.98,
Step Eleven
12.
... direct or govern is the essence of ...
12&12 p.172,
Tradition Nine
13.
... direct our attention to what He would ...
BB p.68,
How It Works
We
ask Him to
remove our
fear and
direct our
attention to what He would have us be.
14.
... direct our thinking, especially asking that it ...
BB p.86,
Into Action
15.
... direct personal contact at all.
12&12 p.83,
Step Nine
There will be other
cases where
action ought to be
deferred, and still others in which by the very
nature of the
situation we
shall
never be able to make
direct personal contact at all.
16.
... direct result of unfortunate birth and uncontrollable ...
12&12 p.97,
Step Eleven
17.
... direct result of yesterday's and sometimes today's ...
12&12 p.88,
Step Ten
That is the
emotional hangover, the
direct result of
yesterday's and
sometimes
today's
excesses of
negative emotion --
anger,
fear,
jealousy, and the like.
18.
... direct some of your thought to the ...
BB p.119,
To Wives
We
suggest that you
direct
some of your
thought to the
wives of his new
alcoholic
friends.
19.
... direct the group.
12&12 p.134,
Tradition Two
In no
sense whatever can
its
members govern or
direct the
group.
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