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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... goes!"
12&12 p.143,
Tradition Three
2.
... goes along because he must, but later ...
12&12 p.130,
Tradition One
At
first he
goes along
because he
must, but
later he
discovers a way of
life
he really
wants to
live.
3.
... goes annihilation of all the things worth ...
BB p.18,
There Is A Solution
But not so with the
alcoholic illness, for with it there
goes annihilation of all the
things
worth while in
life.
4.
... goes broke.
BB p.64,
How It Works
5.
... goes deep!
BB p.114,
To Wives
The
power of
God goes deep!
6.
... goes for sulking or silent scorn.
12&12 p.91,
Step Ten
The same
goes for
sulking
or
silent scorn.
7.
Goes off his head completely when he's ...
BB p.156,
A Vision For You
Goes off his
head completely when he's
drinking.
8.
... goes on a binge.
BB p.90,
Working With Others
Sometimes it is
wise to
wait
till he
goes on a
binge.
9.
... goes on a spiritual basis or not, ...
BB p.135,
The Family Afterward
Whether the
family goes on a
spiritual basis or not,
the
alcoholic member
has to if he would
recover.
10.
... goes on doing the best she knows ...
12&12 p.118,
Step Twelve
The
wife usually
goes on doing
the
best she
knows how, but
meanwhile the
alcoholic alternately
loves and
hates her
maternal care.
11.
... goes on to explain that any person ...
12&12 p.63,
Step Six
He
goes on to
explain that
any
person capable of
enough willingness and
honesty to
try repeatedly Step Six on all his
faults -- without
any
reservations whatever -- has
indeed come a
long way
spiritually, and
is therefore
entitled to be called a
man who is
sincerely trying to
grow in the
image and
likeness of his
own Creator.
12.
... goes on unabated.
BB p.137,
To Employers
This
kind of
waste goes on
unabated.
13.
... goes on, we can pause where situations ...
12&12 p.102,
Step Eleven
As the
day goes on, we can
pause where
situations must be
met and
decisions made, and
renew
the
simple request: "
Thy will, not
mine, be done."
14.
... goes somewhere; have seen the most impossible ...
BB p.15,
Bill's Story
I have seen
hundreds of
families set their
feet in the
path that really
goes somewhere; have seen the most
impossible domestic situations righted;
feuds and
bitterness of
all
sorts wiped out.
15.
... goes to a doctor who gives him ...
BB p.22,
There Is A Solution
Perhaps he
goes to a
doctor
who
gives him
morphine or
some
sedative with which to
taper off.
16.
... goes to bed so intoxicated he ought ...
BB p.21,
There Is A Solution
He is the
fellow who
goes to
bed so
intoxicated he
ought to
sleep the
clock
around.
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