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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... exactly.
BB p.38,
More About Alcoholism
We, who have been through the
wringer, have to
admit if we
substituted
alcoholism for
jay-
walking, the
illustration would
fit us
exactly.
2.
... exactly as
it pleases, except when A.A. ...
12&12 p.146,
Tradition Four
But in
relation to us, it
means very
simply that every
A.A. group can
manage its affairs exactly as it
pleases,
except when
A.A. as a
whole is
threatened.
3.
... exactly, can
the willing person continue to ...
12&12 p.39,
Step Three
So how,
exactly, can the
willing person continue to
turn his will and
his
life over to the
Higher
Power?
4.
... exactly how
can he turn his own ...
12&12 p.35,
Step Three
No
matter how much one
wishes to
try,
exactly how can he
turn his
own will and his
own life over to the
care of whatever
God he
thinks there is?
5.
... exactly how
it happened.
BB p.36,
More About Alcoholism
We
asked him to tell us
exactly how it
happened.
6.
... exactly how
to relax.
12&12 p.26,
Step Two
I
think I can tell you
exactly how to
relax.
7.
... exactly how,
when, and where our natural ...
12&12 p.43,
Step Four
We
want to find
exactly how,
when, and where our
natural desires have
warped us.
8.
... exactly in
the middle of the wet-dry ...
12&12 p.158,
Tradition Six
A.A. would
land exactly in the
middle of the
wet-
dry controversy.
9.
... exactly like
the individual, must eventually conform ...
12&12 p.146,
Tradition Four
10.
... exactly that.
12&12 p.64,
Step Six
And
God has
proceeded to
do
exactly that.
11.
... exactly that
type.
BB p.44,
We Agnostics
About
half our
original fellowship were of
exactly
that
type.
12.
... exactly the
same: Our single purpose has ...
12&12 p.166,
Tradition Eight
Every
time we have
tried to
professionalize our
Twelfth Step, the
result has been
exactly the
same: Our
single purpose
has been
defeated.
13.
... exactly the
same path to recovery that ...
BB xxii,
Foreword to Third Edition
14.
... exactly the
same thing with our lives.
BB p.64,
How It Works
We did
exactly the same thing with our
lives.
15.
... exactly the
way it is supposed to ...
BB p.417(449),
Acceptance
When I am
disturbed, it is because I find some
person, place, thing or
situation -- some
fact of my
life --
unacceptable
to me, and I can find no
serenity until I
accept that
person, place,
thing or
situation as being
exactly the way it is
supposed
to be at this
moment.
16.
... exactly the
wrong moment, particularly when some ...
BB p.21,
There Is A Solution
17.
... exactly what
happened to you.
BB p.93,
Working With Others
Tell him
exactly what
happened to you.
18.
... exactly what
personality traits in us injured ...
12&12 p.81,
Step Eight
Having
carefully surveyed this
whole area of
human relations, and having
decided exactly what
personality traits in us
injured and
disturbed
others, we can now
commence to
ransack memory for the
people to whom we have
given offense.
19.
... exactly what
this book is about.
BB p.45,
We Agnostics
Well, that's exactly what this book is about.
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