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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... honest.
BB p.58,
How It Works
There are those, too, who
suffer from
grave emotional and
mental disorders, but many
of them do
recover if they have the
capacity to be
honest.
2.
... honest A.A. to plump for their brand ...
12&12 p.158,
Tradition Six
They'd be out with
lanterns looking for an
honest A.A. to
plump for their
brand of
education.
3.
... honest analysis of what is involved, a ...
12&12 p.91,
Step Ten
In all these
situations we
need self-
restraint,
honest analysis of what is
involved, a
willingness to
admit when
the
fault is ours, and an
equal willingness to
forgive when the
fault is
elsewhere.
4.
... honest and tolerant?
12&12 p.24,
Step One
Who
wishes to be
rigorously honest and
tolerant?
5.
... honest and upright when not drinking.
BB p.141,
To Employers
This is not to say that all
alcoholics are
honest and
upright when not
drinking.
6.
... honest appraisal.
12&12 p.54,
Step Four
It will be an
aid to
clear thinking and
honest appraisal.
7.
... honest appraisal, we found we had been ...
12&12 p.32,
Step Two
We
supposed we had been
serious about
religious
practices when, upon
honest appraisal, we
found we had been only
superficial.
8.
... honest desire to let God take us ...
BB p.70,
How It Works
If we are
sorry for what we have done, and have the
honest desire to let
God take us to
better things, we
believe we will be
forgiven and will have
learned our
lesson.
9.
... honest desire to stop drinking.
BB xiv,
Foreword to First Edition
10.
... honest difference of opinion.
BB p.117,
To Wives
We do not
mean that you have to
agree with your
husband whenever there is an
honest
difference of
opinion.
11.
... honest doubt and prejudice.
BB p.45,
We Agnostics
We have
shared his
honest doubt and
prejudice.
12.
... honest effort is made "to practice these ...
12&12 p.114,
Step Twelve
Our
basic troubles are
the same as
everyone else's, but when an
honest effort is made "to
practice these
principles in all our
affairs," well-
grounded A.A.'s
seem to have the
ability, by
God's
grace, to take these
troubles in
stride and
turn them into
demonstrations of
faith.
13.
... honest enough to try.
BB p.28,
There Is A Solution
If what we have
learned and
felt and seen
means anything at
all, it
means that all of us, whatever our
race,
creed, or
color are the
children of a
living Creator with whom
we may
form a
relationship upon
simple and
understandable terms
as soon as we are
willing and
honest enough to
try.
14.
... honest if he would live at all.
BB p.146,
To Employers
For he
knows he
must be
honest if he would
live at all.
15.
... honest letter.
BB p.83,
Into Action
Some people cannot be seen -- we
send them an
honest letter.
16.
... honest manual labor on my part for ...
BB p.3,
Bill's Story
That was the
last honest manual labor on my
part for many a
day.
17.
... honest regret for harms done, a genuine ...
12&12 p.95,
Step Ten
18.
... honest search of our motives and actions.
12&12 p.79,
Step Eight
It is an
attitude which can only be
changed by a
deep and
honest search of our
motives and
actions.
19.
... honest sharing of our terrible burden of ...
12&12 p.62,
Step Five
This
feeling of being at one with
God and
man, this
emerging from
isolation
through the
open and
honest sharing of our
terrible burden of
guilt, brings us to
a
resting place where we may
prepare ourselves for the
following Steps toward a
full and
meaningful sobriety.
20.
... honest, tolerant, and just, that we ought ...
12&12 p.29,
Step Two
We were still
sure that we ought to be
fairly honest,
tolerant, and just, that we ought to be
ambitious and
hardworking.
21.
... honest with another person, it confirms that ...
12&12 p.60,
Step Five
When we are
honest with another
person, it
confirms that we
have been
honest with ourselves and with
God.
22.
... honest with himself, he must sometimes feel ...
BB xxix(xxvii),
The Doctor's Opinion
Faced with this
problem,
if a
doctor is
honest with
himself, he
must sometimes
feel his
own inadequacy.
23.
... honest with no one else.
BB p.73,
Into Action
Unwilling to be
honest
with these
sympathetic men, we were
honest with no one
else.
24.
... honest with ourselves and with God.
12&12 p.60,
Step Five
When we are
honest with another
person, it
confirms that we
have been
honest with ourselves and with
God.
25.
... honest with somebody if we expect to ...
BB p.73,
Into Action
We
must be
entirely honest with somebody if we
expect
to
live long or
happily in this
world.
26.
... honest with themselves.
BB p.58,
How It Works
Those who do not
recover are people who cannot or
will not
completely give
themselves to this
simple program, usually
men and
women who are
constitutionally incapable of being
honest
with themselves.
27.
... honest with these sympathetic men, we were ...
BB p.73,
Into Action
Unwilling to be
honest
with these
sympathetic men, we were
honest with no one
else.
28.
... honest with yourself about it.
BB p.32,
More About Alcoholism
It will not take
long for you to
decide, if you are
honest with
yourself about it.
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