From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
GUIDANCE occurs
14 times
(
Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
Click
to display the full page from the Big Book
1.
... guidance.
12&12 p.104,
Step Eleven
He may have
forgotten the
possibility that his
own wishful thinking and the
human tendency to
rationalize have
distorted his so-called
guidance.
2.
... guidance.
12&12 p.137,
Tradition Two
Racing back to
Brooklyn
on the
subway, I had a
seeming flash of
divine guidance.
3.
... guidance and protection.
12&12 p.43,
Step Four
4.
... guidance, as a result of their philosophy.
BB p.569(571),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
Dr. G.
Kirby Collier,
psychiatrist:
"I have
felt that
A.A. is a
group unto themselves and their
best results can be had under
their
own guidance, as a
result of their
philosophy.
5.
... guidance for our lives to just about ...
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.
6.
... guidance from God as we were increasingly ...
12&12 p.109,
Step Twelve
The
persistent use of
meditation and
prayer, we
found, did
open the
channel so that where there had been a
trickle, there now was a
river which
led to
sure power and
safe guidance from
God as we were
increasingly better
able to
understand Him.
7.
... guidance in all matters great or small.
12&12 p.103,
Step Eleven
8.
... guidance in each questionable situation, for sanity, ...
BB p.70,
How It Works
To
sum up about
sex: We
earnestly pray for the
right ideal, for
guidance in each
questionable situation, for
sanity, and
for the
strength to do the
right thing.
9.
... guidance -- meanwhile resolving to do the right ...
12&12 p.86,
Step Nine
Do we
lay the
matter before
our
sponsor or
spiritual adviser,
earnestly asking God's
help and
guidance --
meanwhile resolving to do the
right
thing when it
becomes clear,
cost what it may?
10.
... guidance of Alcoholics Anonymous?
12&12 p.35,
Step Three
Isn't it
true that in all
matters touching upon
alcohol, each of them has
decided to
turn his or her
life over to the
care,
protection, and
guidance of
Alcoholics Anonymous?
11.
... guidance of God when it was all ...
12&12 p.60,
Step Five
How many
times have we
heard
well-
intentioned people
claim the
guidance of
God when it was all too
plain
that they were
sorely mistaken.
12.
... guidance on matters ranging all the way ...
12&12 p.103,
Step Eleven
13.
... guidance they feel they have received from ...
12&12 p.60,
Step Five
It is
worth noting that
people of very
high spiritual development
almost always
insist on
checking with
friends or
spiritual advisers
the
guidance they
feel they
have
received from
God.
14.
... guidance we may receive while we are ...
12&12 p.60,
Step Five
While the
comment or
advice of others may be by no
means infallible, it is
likely to be far more
specific than any
direct
guidance we may
receive
while we are still so
inexperienced in
establishing contact
with a
Power greater than
ourselves.
Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous
and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.
The A.A. Preamble, copyright ©
The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission.
Permission to reprint does not in any way imply affiliation with or
endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous or The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.
Top
Copyright © 2005-2008, Recovery Press LLC; All Rights Reserved.
