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Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... human accomplishments, a creative energy that deeply ...
12&12 p.117,
Step Twelve
2.
... human affairs.
12&12 p.105,
Step Eleven
The
moment we
catch even a
glimpse of
God's will, the
moment we
begin to see
truth,
justice, and
love as the
real and
eternal things in
life, we are
no
longer deeply disturbed by all the
seeming evidence to the
contrary that
surrounds
us in
purely human affairs.
3.
... human affairs from top to bottom.
12&12 p.94,
Step Ten
4.
... human affairs was negligible, the Brotherhood of ...
BB p.11,
Bill's Story
Judging from what I had seen in
Europe and since, the
power of
God in
human affairs was
negligible,
the
Brotherhood of
Man a
grim jest.
5.
... human aid.
BB p.128,
The Family Afterward
They often
forget father
was
beyond human aid.
6.
... human aid, and unless locked up, may ...
BB p.24,
There Is A Solution
7.
... human aid, we had but two alternatives: ...
BB p.25,
There Is A Solution
We were in a
position where
life was
becoming impossible, and if we had
passed into the
region from
which there is no
return through
human aid, we had but
two alternatives: One was
to go on to the
bitter end,
blotting out the
consciousness of our
intolerable situation
as
best we could; and the other, to
accept spiritual help.
8.
... human aspirations, we believe that each of ...
12&12 p.187,
Tradition Twelve
As we
lay aside these very
human aspirations, we
believe that each of us
takes part in the
weaving of a
protective
mantle which
covers our
whole Society and under which
we may
grow and
work in
unity.
9.
... human being.
12&12 p.53,
Step Four
The
primary fact that we
fail to
recognize is our
total inability to
form a
true partnership with another
human being.
10.
... human being.
12&12 p.59,
Step Five
We'd have to have
outside help if we were
surely to
know and
admit the
truth about ourselves -- the
help of
God and another
human being.
11.
... human being.
12&12 p.79,
Step Eight
It had been
embarrassing enough when in
confidence
we had
admitted these things to
God, to ourselves, and to another
human being.
12.
... human being.
12&12 p.108,
Step Twelve
We
knew we would have to
quit
the
deadly business of
living alone with our
conflicts, and in
honesty
confide these to
God and
another
human being.
13.
... human being all his natural drives.
12&12 p.65,
Step Six
So far as we
know, it is
nowhere on the
record that
God has
completely removed from any
human being
all his
natural drives.
14.
... human being becomes a battleground for the ...
12&12 p.44,
Step Four
Whenever a
human being
becomes a
battleground
for the
instincts, there can be no
peace.
15.
... human being can provide such a defense.
BB p.43,
More About Alcoholism
Except in a few
rare cases, neither he nor any other
human being can
provide such a
defense.
16.
... human being could seem to do the ...
12&12 p.63,
Step Six
I
simply couldn't
stop drinking, and no
human being
could
seem to do the
job for
me.
17.
... human being determined to depend completely upon ...
12&12 p.43,
Step Four
18.
... human being experiences, at some time in ...
12&12 p.117,
Step Twelve
19.
... human being has for practical insight and ...
12&12 p.56,
Step Five
20.
... human being he could.
12&12 p.101,
Step Eleven
Then he
asked for the
grace
to bring
love,
forgiveness,
harmony,
truth,
faith,
hope,
light, and
joy to every
human being he could.
21.
... human being, however good, is exempt from ...
12&12 p.42,
Step Four
No
human being, however
good,
is
exempt from these
troubles.
22.
... human being in the world.
12&12 p.121,
Step Twelve
23.
... human being is humility -- a word often ...
12&12 p.58,
Step Five
Another
great dividend we
may
expect from
confiding our
defects to
another
human being is
humility -- a
word often
misunderstood.
24.
... human being the exact nature of our ...
12&12 p.55,
Step Five
"
Admitted to
God, to
ourselves, and to another
human being the
exact nature of our
wrongs."
25.
... human being the exact nature of our ...
BB p.59,
How It Works
5.
Admitted to
God, to
ourselves, and to another
human being the
exact nature of our
wrongs.
26.
... human being, the exact nature of our ...
BB p.72,
Into Action
This
requires action on
our
part, which, when
completed, will
mean that we
have
admitted to
God, to
ourselves, and to another
human being, the
exact nature of our
defects.
27.
... human being we could not stay sober.
12&12 p.56,
Step Five
Most of us would
declare that without a
fearless admission of
our
defects to another
human being we could not
stay sober.
28.
... human being we know.
12&12 p.77,
Step Eight
First, we take a
look backward and
try to
discover where we have been at
fault;
next we make a
vigorous attempt to
repair the
damage we have
done; and
third, having thus
cleaned away the
debris of
the
past, we
consider how,
with our
newfound knowledge of ourselves, we may
develop the
best possible relations with
every
human being we
know.
29.
... human being without any demand for reward.
12&12 p.32,
Step Two
In no
deep or
meaningful
sense had we ever
taken stock of ourselves, made
amends to those we had
harmed, or
freely given to any other
human being
without any
demand for
reward.
30.
... human beings.
12&12 p.42,
Step Four
Without them we wouldn't be
complete human beings.
31.
... human beings.
12&12 p.97,
Step Eleven
But
certainly there wasn't any
evidence of a
God who
knew or
cared about
human beings.
32.
... human beings.
12&12 p.172,
Tradition Nine
Therefore, every
nation, in
fact every
form of
society, has to be a
government administered by
human beings.
33.
... human beings are important, the proof that ...
12&12 p.124,
Step Twelve
Service,
gladly rendered,
obligations
squarely met,
troubles well
accepted or
solved with
God's
help, the
knowledge that at
home or in the
world outside we are
partners in
a
common effort, the
well-
understood fact
that in
God's
sight all
human beings are
important, the
proof that
love freely given surely brings a
full return, the
certainty that we are no
longer isolated and alone
in
self-
constructed prisons, the
surety that we
need no
longer be
square pegs in
round holes but can
fit and
belong in
God's
scheme of things -- these
are the
permanent and
legitimate satisfactions of
right
living for which no
amount
of
pomp and
circumstance, no
heap of
material possessions, could
possibly be
substitutes.
34.
Human beings are never quite alike, so ...
12&12 p.48,
Step Four
Human beings are
never quite
alike, so each of
us, when
making an
inventory, will
need to
determine what his
individual character
defects are.
35.
... human beings don't suffer these defects at ...
12&12 p.66,
Step Six
Of
course, most
human beings don't
suffer these
defects at these
rock-
bottom levels.
36.
... human beings have nearly always been the ...
12&12 p.80,
Step Eight
37.
Human beings that we are, we squabble.
12&12 p.177,
Tradition Ten
Human beings that we are, we
squabble.
38.
... human beings, we had taken these satisfactions ...
12&12 p.71,
Step Seven
Instead of
regarding the
satisfaction of our
material desires as the
means by which we could
live and
function as
human beings, we had
taken these
satisfactions to be the
final end and
aim of
life.
39.
... human concerns is complete.
12&12 p.21,
Step One
40.
... human defects of these people, and sometimes ...
BB p.50,
We Agnostics
Instead, we
looked at the
human defects of these people,
and sometimes used their
shortcomings as a
basis of
wholesale condemnation.
41.
... human difficulties, the chief block to true ...
12&12 p.49,
Step Four
42.
... human emotion -- jealousy.
BB p.82,
Into Action
Keep it always in
sight that
we are
dealing with that most
terrible human emotion --
jealousy.
43.
... human failings -- the Seven Deadly Sins of ...
12&12 p.48,
Step Four
44.
... human frailties of various faiths may be, ...
BB p.49,
We Agnostics
We have
learned that whatever the
human frailties of
various faiths may be, those
faiths have
given purpose and
direction to
millions.
45.
... human health measures.
BB p.133,
The Family Afterward
But this does not
mean that we
disregard human health measures.
46.
... human heart which had done the impossible.
BB p.11,
Bill's Story
Here was something at
work in a
human heart which had done the
impossible.
47.
... human if we didn't.
BB p.69,
How It Works
We'd
hardly be
human if we
didn't.
48.
... human intelligence was the last word, the ...
BB p.49,
We Agnostics
49.
... human lives, are facts as old as ...
BB p.55,
We Agnostics
For
faith in a
Power greater than ourselves, and
miraculous demonstrations of that
power in
human lives, are
facts as
old as
man himself.
50.
... human need.
12&12 p.181,
Tradition Eleven
51.
... human opinions running to extremes -- absurd extremes, ...
BB p.68,
How It Works
Here we find
human opinions running to
extremes --
absurd extremes, perhaps.
52.
... human power could have relieved our alcoholism.
BB p.60,
How It Works
(b) That
probably no
human
power could have
relieved
our
alcoholism.
53.
... human power is needed to produce the ...
BB xxix(xxvii),
The Doctor's Opinion
One
feels that something more than
human power is
needed to
produce the
essential psychic change.
54.
... human problems this same readiness to change ...
BB p.52,
We Agnostics
We had to
ask ourselves why we shouldn't
apply to our
human problems this same
readiness to
change our
point of
view.
55.
... human protection and care.
12&12 p.116,
Step Twelve
If we really
depended upon
God, we couldn't very well
play God to our
fellows nor would we
feel the
urge wholly to
rely on
human protection and
care.
56.
... human relations, and having decided exactly what ...
12&12 p.81,
Step Eight
Having
carefully surveyed this
whole area of
human relations, and having
decided exactly what
personality traits in us
injured and
disturbed
others, we can now
commence to
ransack memory for the
people to whom we have
given offense.
57.
... human relations are beginning to wonder how ...
12&12 p.16,
Foreword
58.
... human resources, as marshalled by the will, ...
BB p.45,
We Agnostics
Our
human resources, as
marshalled by the will, were not
sufficient; they
failed
utterly.
59.
... human resources, they found that a new ...
BB p.50,
We Agnostics
In the
face of
collapse
and
despair, in the
face of
the
total failure of their
human resources, they
found that a new
power,
peace,
happiness, and
sense of
direction flowed into them.
60.
... human sickness can.
BB p.18,
There Is A Solution
An
illness of this
sort --
and we have
come to
believe
it an
illness --
involves those about us in a way no other
human sickness can.
61.
... human side, the founder and his friends ...
12&12 p.133,
Tradition Two
Being on the
human side, the
founder and his
friends
may
bask a
little in
glory.
62.
... human spirit, to be willing to work ...
12&12 p.73,
Step Seven
To get
completely away from our
aversion to the
idea of being
humble, to
gain a
vision of
humility as the
avenue to
true freedom of the
human spirit, to be
willing to
work for
humility as
something to be
desired for itself,
takes most of us a
long,
long time.
63.
... human tendency to rationalize have distorted his ...
12&12 p.104,
Step Eleven
64.
... human, their problems pile up on them ...
BB xxviii(xxvi),
The Doctor's Opinion
These
allergic types can
never safely use
alcohol in any
form at all;
and once having
formed the
habit and
found they cannot
break it, once having
lost their
self-
confidence, their
reliance upon things
human, their
problems pile up on them and
become astonishingly difficult to
solve.
65.
... human, too, and cannot possibly meet our ...
12&12 p.53,
Step Four
If we
lean too
heavily on
people, they will
sooner or
later fail us, for they are
human, too, and cannot
possibly meet our
incessant demands.
66.
... human understanding, you have perhaps made a ...
BB p.94,
Working With Others
If your
talk has been
sane,
quiet and
full of
human understanding, you
have perhaps made a
friend.
67.
... human will had failed.
BB p.11,
Bill's Story
His
human will had
failed.
68.
... human will is of no value whatever.
12&12 p.40,
Step Three
69.
... human willpower could break it.
12&12 p.22,
Step One
70.
... human wreckage he has left in his ...
12&12 p.77,
Step Eight
Every
A.A. has
found that he
can make
little headway
in this new
adventure of
living until he
first backtracks and really makes an
accurate and
unsparing
survey of the
human wreckage he has
left in his
wake.
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