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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... greatest assets
that our Society has.
BB xix,
Foreword to Second Edition
Today the
remarkable unity of
A.A. is one of the
greatest assets that our
Society has.
2.
... greatest credits
of all.
12&12 p.93,
Step Ten
Even when we have
tried hard
and
failed, we may
chalk
that up as one of the
greatest credits of all.
3.
... greatest enemies
of us alcoholics are resentment, ...
BB p.145,
To Employers
4.
... greatest exertion
of will.
12&12 p.105,
Step Eleven
All of us, without
exception,
pass through
times when we can
pray only with the
greatest exertion of will.
5.
... greatest friends.
12&12 p.63,
Step Six
So
declares a well-
loved
clergyman who
happens
to be one of
A.A.'s
greatest friends.
6.
... greatest need.
12&12 p.102,
Step Eleven
Having
opened our
channel
as
best we can, we
try to
ask for those
right things of
which we and others are in the
greatest need.
7.
... greatest peace,
partnership, and brotherhood with all ...
12&12 p.77,
Step Eight
8.
... greatest possession
you have -- the key to ...
BB p.124,
The Family Afterward
Cling to the
thought that,
in
God's
hands, the
dark past is the
greatest possession you have
-- the
key to
life and
happiness for others.
9.
... greatest protection.
12&12 p.183,
Tradition Eleven
10.
... greatest reservoirs
of power known to man, ...
BB p.569(571),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
11.
... greatest rewards
of meditation and prayer is ...
12&12 p.105,
Step Eleven
Perhaps one of the
greatest rewards of
meditation
and
prayer is the
sense of
belonging that
comes to
us.
12.
... greatest safeguard
that Alcoholics Anonymous can ever ...
12&12 p.187,
Tradition Twelve
We are
sure that
humility,
expressed by
anonymity, is the
greatest
safeguard that
Alcoholics Anonymous
can ever have.
13.
... greatest thing
we have been able to ...
BB p.570(572),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
Dr.
John F.
Stouffer,
Chief Psychiatrist,
Philadelphia General
Hospital,
citing his
experience with
A.A., said:
"The
alcoholics we get here at
Philadelphia General
are mostly those who cannot
afford private treatment, and
A.A. is by far the
greatest thing
we have been able to
offer them.
14.
... greatest workers
and intimate friends?
12&12 p.140,
Tradition Three
How could we
know that
thousands of these sometimes
frightening people were to make
astonishing recoveries and
become our
greatest workers and
intimate friends?
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