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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
HELPFUL occurs
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1.
... helpful.
12&12 p.93,
Step Ten
Whenever we
fail any of
these people, we can
promptly admit it -- to ourselves always, and to them also, when
the
admission would be
helpful.
2.
... helpful.
BB p.67,
How It Works
If we do, we
destroy our
chance of being
helpful.
3.
... helpful.
BB p.102,
Working With Others
Your
job now is to be at the place where you may be of
maximum helpfulness
to others, so
never hesitate to go anywhere if you can be
helpful.
4.
... helpful.
BB p.120,
To Wives
Cheer him up and
ask him how
you can be still more
helpful.
5.
... helpful.
BB p.140,
To Employers
If your
decision is yes, whether the
reason be
humanitarian
or
business or both, then the
following suggestions
may be
helpful.
6.
... helpful.
BB p.146,
To Employers
A
reasonable amount of
latitude will be
helpful.
7.
... helpful and forgiving spirit, confessing our former ...
BB p.77,
Into Action
8.
... helpful books also.
BB p.87,
Into Action
There are many
helpful books
also.
9.
... helpful, but we think we can render ...
BB p.34,
More About Alcoholism
The
experiment of
quitting for a
period of
time will be
helpful, but we
think we can
render an even
greater service to
alcoholic sufferers and
perhaps to the
medical fraternity.
10.
... helpful came along, he found he could ...
12&12 p.186,
Tradition Twelve
When
opportunities to be
helpful came along, he
found he could
talk easily about
A.A. to almost
anyone.
11.
... helpful discussion.
BB p.127,
The Family Afterward
As each
member of a
resentful family begins to see his
shortcomings and
admits
them to the others, he
lays a
basis for
helpful discussion.
12.
... helpful he can really be, the conversation ...
12&12 p.61,
Step Five
When your
mission is
carefully explained,
and it is seen by the
recipient of your
confidence how
helpful he
can really be, the
conversation will
start easily and will soon
become eager.
13.
... helpful, his wife commenced to admonish him ...
BB p.135,
The Family Afterward
Seeing this, and
meaning to be
helpful, his
wife commenced to
admonish
him about it.
14.
... helpful if you do.
BB p.100,
Working With Others
You may
spoil your
chance
of being
helpful if you do.
15.
... helpful interchange.
BB p.162,
A Vision For You
There is a
good bit of
travel between
East and
West and we
foresee a
great increase in this
helpful interchange.
16.
... helpful is our only aim.
BB p.89,
Working With Others
To be
helpful is our only
aim.
17.
... helpful, of course depending upon a doctor's ...
BB p.133,
The Family Afterward
One of the many
doctors who had the
opportunity of
reading
this book in
manuscript form told us that the use of
sweets was often
helpful, of
course depending upon a
doctor's
advice.
18.
... helpful, or of some special problem that ...
12&12 p.102,
Step Eleven
Perhaps we
think of our
day's
work and the
chances it may
afford us to be
useful and
helpful, or of some
special
problem that it may bring.
19.
... helpful rather than critical.
BB p.111,
To Wives
Let him see that you
want to be
helpful rather than
critical.
20.
... helpful, regardless of what anyone says or ...
BB p.99,
Working With Others
These things will
come to
pass
naturally and in
good time provided, however, the
alcoholic continues
to
demonstrate that he can be
sober,
considerate, and
helpful,
regardless of
what anyone says or does.
21.
... helpful, so I spent two hours talking ...
BB p.138,
To Employers
This
seemed to me like an
opportunity to be
helpful,
so I
spent two hours talking about
alcoholism, the
malady,
and
described the
symptoms and
results as
well as I could.
22.
... helpful suggestion only.
BB p.132,
The Family Afterward
We
intend the
foregoing
as a
helpful suggestion
only.
23.
... helpful suggestions.
BB p.145,
To Employers
24.
... helpful; that there are no fees to ...
BB p.18,
There Is A Solution
That the
man who is
making
the
approach has had the same
difficulty, that he
obviously knows what he is
talking about, that his
whole deportment shouts at the new
prospect
that he is a
man with a
real answer, that he has no
attitude of
Holier Than
Thou,
nothing whatever
except the
sincere desire to be
helpful; that
there are no
fees to
pay, no
axes to
grind, no people to
please, no
lectures to be
endured -- these are the
conditions we have
found
most
effective.
25.
... helpful to all people, but at least ...
BB p.67,
How It Works
We cannot be
helpful to all people, but at
least God will
show us how to take a
kindly
and
tolerant view of each
and every one.
26.
... helpful to anyone.
BB p.103,
Working With Others
Experience shows that
such an
attitude is not
helpful to anyone.
27.
... helpful to him?
BB p.67,
How It Works
How can I be helpful to him?
28.
... helpful to him.
BB p.94,
Working With Others
Outline the
program of
action,
explaining how
you made a
self-
appraisal, how you
straightened out your
past and why you are now
endeavoring to be
helpful
to him.
29.
... helpful to such cases.
BB xiv,
Foreword to First Edition
We should like to be
helpful to such
cases.
30.
... helpful to those who are afflicted.
BB xiv,
Foreword to First Edition
We
simply wish to be
helpful to those who are
afflicted.
31.
... helpful to your husband as the radically ...
BB p.117,
To Wives
We
urge you to
try our
program, for
nothing will
be so
helpful to your
husband as the
radically
changed attitude toward him which
God will
show you how to have.
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