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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
DISCOVER occurs
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1.
... discover a chink in the walls their ...
12&12 p.46,
Step Four
The
problem is to
help them
discover a
chink in the
walls their
ego has
built, through which the
light
of
reason can
shine.
2.
... discover a greater challenge in the lesser ...
12&12 p.114,
Step Twelve
But also like others, we often
discover a
greater challenge in the
lesser and more
continuous problems of
life.
3.
... discover a prospect for Alcoholics Anonymous, find ...
BB p.90,
Working With Others
When you
discover a
prospect for
Alcoholics
Anonymous, find out all you can about him.
4.
... discover how and why, in the face ...
BB p.20,
There Is A Solution
Doubtless you are
curious to
discover how and
why, in the
face of
expert
opinion to the
contrary, we have
recovered from a
hopeless condition of
mind and
body.
5.
... discover how dependent we really are, and ...
12&12 p.36,
Step Three
In this
area it is
startling to
discover how
dependent we really are, and how
unconscious of that
dependence.
6.
... discover one that suits if only you ...
12&12 p.27,
Step Two
If you don't
care for the one I've
suggested, you'll be
sure to
discover one that
suits if
only you
look and
listen.
7.
... discover that we do receive guidance for ...
12&12 p.104,
Step Eleven
We
discover that we do
receive guidance for our
lives to just about the
extent that we
stop making demands upon
God to
give it to us on
order and on our
terms.
8.
... discover the fatal nature of our situation.
12&12 p.24,
Step One
Under the
lash of
alcoholism, we are
driven
to
A.A., and there we
discover
the
fatal nature of our
situation.
9.
... discover the obstacles in our path.
BB p.72,
Into Action
We have been
trying to get a new
attitude, a new
relationship with our
Creator, and to
discover the
obstacles in our
path.
10.
... discover the person in whom we are ...
12&12 p.60,
Step Five
Our
next problem will be to
discover the
person in whom
we are to
confide.
11.
... discover the truth about the stock-in-trade.
BB p.64,
How It Works
It is an
effort to
discover
the
truth about the
stock-in-
trade.
12.
... discover they have a basis upon which ...
BB p.99,
Working With Others
The most
incompatible people
discover they have a
basis upon
which they can
meet.
13.
... discover to our dismay that there is ...
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."
14.
... discover what can be done about alcoholism ...
12&12 p.180,
Tradition Eleven
Employers learn that
great corporations have
set their
approval upon us,
and
wish to
discover what can
be done about
alcoholism in their
own firms.
15.
... discover what these liabilities in each of ...
12&12 p.42,
Step Four
Step Four is our
vigorous and
painstaking effort to
discover what these
liabilities in each of us have been, and are.
16.
... discover when we try to help other ...
12&12 p.111,
Step Twelve
Can we
love the
whole pattern of
living as
eagerly as we do the
small segment of it we
discover when
we
try to
help other
alcoholics achieve sobriety?
17.
... discover where we have been at fault; ...
12&12 p.77,
Step Eight
First, we take a
look backward and
try to
discover where we have been at
fault;
next we make a
vigorous attempt to
repair the
damage we have
done; and
third, having thus
cleaned away the
debris of
the
past, we
consider how,
with our
newfound knowledge of ourselves, we may
develop the
best possible relations with
every
human being we
know.
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and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
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