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Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... fact.
12&12 p.38,
Step Three
They should have been
weaned long before, and if they have not been, they should
wake up to the
fact.
2.
... fact.
BB p.48,
We Agnostics
3.
... fact, and accepting it?
12&12 p.67,
Step Six
Else why would we
consume such
great amounts of
time wishing for what we have
not, rather than
working for it, or
angrily looking for
attributes we shall
never
have, instead of
adjusting to the
fact, and
accepting it?
4.
... fact and not wishful thinking.
12&12 p.119,
Step Twelve
5.
... fact as we were.
BB p.55,
We Agnostics
He was as much a fact as we were.
6.
... fact, because although he was not an ...
12&12 p.99,
Step Eleven
We won't be
biased or
scared off by that
fact,
because although he was not an
alcoholic he did,
like us, go through the
emotional wringer.
7.
... fact, behaved badly at all.
12&12 p.78,
Step Eight
This is
especially true
if he has, in
fact,
behaved
badly at all.
8.
... fact every form of society, has to ...
12&12 p.172,
Tradition Nine
Therefore, every
nation, in
fact every
form of
society, has to be a
government administered by
human beings.
9.
... fact-facing process.
BB p.64,
How It Works
10.
... fact-finding and a fact-facing process.
BB p.64,
How It Works
11.
... fact for every one of us is ...
BB p.17,
There Is A Solution
The
tremendous fact for
every one of us is that we have
discovered a
common solution.
12.
... Fact for us.
BB p.164,
A Vision For You
This is the
Great Fact for
us.
13.
... fact for what it was, we asked ...
12&12 p.158,
Tradition Six
The
minute we saw this
compromising fact for
what it was, we
asked the
prospective publicity
director how he
felt about
it.
14.
... fact, he may say almost anything if ...
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.
15.
... fact he was tight.
BB p.115,
To Wives
Frequently, you have
felt obliged to tell your
husband's
employer and his
friends that he was
sick,
when as a
matter of
fact he
was
tight.
16.
... fact, his rival was ruined.
BB p.80,
Into Action
In
fact, his
rival was
ruined.
17.
... fact, I have been trying to produce ...
BB p.27,
There Is A Solution
In
fact, I have been
trying
to
produce some such
emotional rearrangement within
you.
18.
... fact, I still do -- all except the ...
12&12 p.26,
Step Two
As a
matter of
fact, I still
do -- all
except the
worship part.
19.
... fact in his life.
12&12 p.63,
Step Six
To him, this
proposition will be no
theory at all; it will be just about the
largest fact in his
life.
20.
... fact is accepted, our bankruptcy as going ...
12&12 p.21,
Step One
21.
... fact is just this, and nothing less: ...
BB p.25,
There Is A Solution
22.
... fact is that he should work with ...
BB p.119,
To Wives
The
fact is that he should
work with other people to
maintain his
own sobriety.
23.
... fact is that most alcoholics, for reasons ...
BB p.24,
There Is A Solution
The
fact is that most
alcoholics, for
reasons
yet obscure, have
lost the
power of
choice in
drink.
24.
... fact, it came right out of the ...
12&12 p.137,
Tradition Two
In
fact, it
came right out of the
Bible -- a
voice kept saying to me, 'The
laborer is
worthy of his
hire.'
25.
... fact it proved to be.
BB p.42,
More About Alcoholism
But the
moment I made up my
mind to go through with the
process, I had the
curious
feeling that my
alcoholic condition was
relieved, as in
fact it
proved to be.
26.
... fact, it was a total liability.
12&12 p.22,
Step One
Then we had been told that so far as
alcohol is
concerned,
self-
confidence was no
good
whatever; in
fact, it was a
total liability.
27.
... fact, many of them are amazing.
BB xxvii(xxv),
The Doctor's Opinion
The
cases we have
followed through have been most
interesting; in
fact, many
of them are
amazing.
28.
... fact mentally ill.
12&12 p.33,
Step Two
Some will be
willing to
term themselves "
problem drinkers," but cannot
endure the
suggestion
that they are in
fact mentally ill.
29.
... fact of his sobriety.
BB p.100,
Working With Others
Ask them to
remember, when
they are
impatient, the
blessed fact of his
sobriety.
30.
... fact of my life -- unacceptable to me, ...
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.
31.
... fact of our lives today is the ...
BB p.25,
There Is A Solution
The
central fact of our
lives today is the
absolute certainty that
our
Creator has
entered
into our
hearts and
lives
in a way which is
indeed miraculous.
32.
... fact of suffering.
12&12 p.74,
Step Seven
We
never wanted to
deal with the
fact of
suffering.
33.
... fact of their lives, they present a ...
BB p.51,
We Agnostics
When many
hundreds of people are able to say that
the
consciousness of the
Presence of
God is
today the most
important
fact of their
lives, they
present a
powerful reason why one should have
faith.
34.
... fact that A.A. had to function.
12&12 p.161,
Tradition Seven
Despite these
misgivings, we had to
recognize the
fact that
A.A. had to
function.
35.
... fact that A.A. is full of people ...
12&12 p.26,
Step Two
It's no
doubt a
fact that
A.A. is
full of people who once
believed as I do.
36.
... fact that A.A. members served them.
12&12 p.170,
Tradition Eight
37.
... fact that alcoholics almost never recovered on ...
12&12 p.22,
Step One
38.
... fact that being in the public eye ...
12&12 p.181,
Tradition Eleven
But we do have to
soberly face the
fact that being in the
public eye is
hazardous,
especially
for us.
39.
... fact that each will have to yield ...
BB p.131,
The Family Afterward
At the very
beginning, the
couple ought to
frankly face the
fact that each will have
to
yield here and there if the
family is
going to
play an
effective part in the new
life.
40.
... fact that however deep his faith and ...
BB p.93,
Working With Others
Admit that he
probably knows more about it than you do, but call to his
attention the
fact that
however
deep his
faith and
knowledge, he could not have
applied it or he would not
drink.
41.
... fact that in God's sight all human ...
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.
42.
... fact that it does not work for ...
12&12 p.166,
Tradition Eight
We do not
decry professionalism in other
fields, but we
accept the
sober fact that it does not
work for us.
43.
... fact that many people annoy us, for ...
12&12 p.67,
Step Six
In a
perverse way we can
actually take
satisfaction from the
fact that many people
annoy us, for
it brings a
comfortable feeling of
superiority.
44.
... fact that millions of the 'good men ...
12&12 p.30,
Step Two
How we
loved to
shout the
damaging fact that
millions of the '
good men of
religion' were still
killing one another off in the
name of
God.
45.
... fact that our behavior when drinking has ...
12&12 p.78,
Step Eight
Moreover, it is usually a
fact that our
behavior when
drinking
has
aggravated the
defects of others.
46.
... fact that these labors were not Twelfth ...
12&12 p.167,
Tradition Eight
Ignoring the
fact that
these
labors were not
Twelfth Step jobs at all, the
critics attacked as
A.A. professionals these
workers of ours who were often doing
thankless tasks that no one
else could or would do.
47.
... fact that we fail to recognize is ...
12&12 p.53,
Step Four
The
primary fact that we
fail to
recognize is our
total inability to
form a
true partnership with another
human being.
48.
... fact that we must find a spiritual ...
BB p.44,
We Agnostics
But after a while we had to
face the
fact that we
must find a
spiritual basis of
life -- or else.
49.
... fact that we want to aim at ...
12&12 p.65,
Step Six
The
key words "
entirely ready"
underline the
fact that we
want to
aim at the very
best we
know or can
learn.
50.
... fact that you went away for treatment ...
BB p.148,
To Employers
If you take it, your
past will be
forgotten and the
fact that
you went away for
treatment will not be
mentioned.
51.
... fact, the effectiveness of the whole A.A. ...
12&12 p.34,
Step Three
In
fact, the
effectiveness of the
whole A.A. program will
rest upon how
well and
earnestly we have
tried to
come to "a
decision to
turn our will and
our
lives over to the
care of
God as we
understood
Him."
52.
... fact, the waking hours are usually well ...
12&12 p.93,
Step Ten
As a
matter of
fact, the
waking hours are usually well
filled with things that are
constructive.
53.
... fact, the wife is forced to become ...
12&12 p.118,
Step Twelve
Very
gradually, and usually without any
realization of the
fact,
the
wife is
forced to
become the
mother of an
erring boy.
54.
... fact, these are the true voice of ...
12&12 p.135,
Tradition Two
55.
... fact, to a considerable extent with some ...
BB xxvi(xxiv),
The Doctor's Opinion
These things were
true to some
extent, in
fact, to a
considerable extent
with some of us.
56.
... fact was we really hadn't cleaned house ...
12&12 p.32,
Step Two
The
fact was we really hadn't
cleaned house so that the
grace of
God could
enter us and
expel the
obsession.
57.
... fact way he told how two men ...
BB p.9,
Bill's Story
In a
matter of
fact way he
told how
two men had
appeared in
court,
persuading the
judge to
suspend his
commitment.
58.
... fact, we could will these things with ...
BB p.45,
We Agnostics
We could
wish to be
moral, we
could
wish to be
philosophically comforted, in
fact, we could
will these things with all our might, but the
needed power wasn't there.
59.
... fact, we felt duty-bound to throw the ...
12&12 p.155,
Tradition Six
60.
... fact we knew different; and so we ...
12&12 p.97,
Step Eleven
61.
... fact we were mainly asking for sympathy ...
12&12 p.94,
Step Ten
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