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Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... live.
12&12 p.118,
Step Twelve
Seeing her
unhappiness, he
recommends A.A.'s
Twelve Steps and
tries to
teach her how to
live.
2.
... live.
12&12 p.130,
Tradition One
At
first he
goes along
because he
must, but
later he
discovers a way of
life
he really
wants to
live.
3.
... live.
BB p.117,
To Wives
These
work-
outs should be
regarded as
part of your
education, for thus you will be
learning to
live.
4.
... live.
BB p.130,
The Family Afterward
One more
suggestion: Whether the
family has
spiritual convictions or not, they may do well to
examine the
principles
by which the
alcoholic member is
trying to
live.
5.
... Live
BB p.135,
The Family Afterward
Live and Let Live
6.
... live almost alone.
BB p.105,
To Wives
We
came to
live almost alone.
7.
... live alone with our pressing problems and ...
12&12 p.55,
Step Five
A.A. experience has
taught us we cannot
live alone
with our
pressing problems and the
character defects which
cause or
aggravate them.
8.
... live and be happy.
BB p.96,
Working With Others
To
spend too much
time on any
one
situation is to
deny
some other
alcoholic an
opportunity to
live and be
happy.
9.
... live and function as human beings, we ...
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.
10.
... live, and it had to be a ...
BB p.45,
We Agnostics
We had to find a
power by which we could
live, and it had to be a
Power greater than ourselves.
11.
Live and Let Live
BB p.135,
The Family Afterward
Live and Let Live
12.
Live and let live is the rule.
BB p.118,
To Wives
Live and let
live is the
rule.
13.
... live and work together as groups became ...
12&12 p.130,
Tradition One
14.
... live and work together with harmony and ...
12&12 p.18,
Foreword
But it was by no
means sure
that such
great numbers of
yet erratic people could
live and
work together with
harmony and
good effect.
15.
... live at all.
BB p.146,
To Employers
For he
knows he
must be
honest if he would
live at all.
16.
... live at peace with himself and with ...
12&12 p.76,
Step Seven
Each of us would like to
live at
peace with himself and with his
fellows.
17.
... live at peace with ourselves and show ...
12&12 p.122,
Step Twelve
When, with
God's
help, we
calmly accepted our
lot, then we
found we could
live at
peace with ourselves and
show others who still
suffered the same
fears that
they could get over them, too.
18.
... live by self-propulsion.
BB p.60,
How It Works
Most people
try to
live by
self-
propulsion.
19.
... live by spiritual principles.
BB p.93,
Working With Others
The
main thing is that he be
willing to
believe in a
Power greater than himself
and that he
live by
spiritual principles.
20.
... live by this formula than alcoholics.
12&12 p.71,
Step Seven
But we are
sure that no
class
of people in the
world ever made a
worse mess of
trying to
live by this
formula than
alcoholics.
21.
... live can cooperate fully with their Creator's ...
12&12 p.64,
Step Six
Here their
powerful instinct to
live can
cooperate fully with their
Creator's
desire to
give them new
life.
22.
... live exclusively by our own individual strength ...
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
23.
... live for!
BB xxix(xxvii),
The Doctor's Opinion
I have
everything to
live for!
24.
... live for as much as your husband.
BB p.119,
To Wives
Therefore, you
probably need fresh interests and a
great cause to
live for as much as
your
husband.
25.
... live in.
12&12 p.37,
Step Three
26.
... live in a completely hostile world.
12&12 p.105,
Step Eleven
27.
... live in a large place, there are ...
BB p.152,
A Vision For You
If you
live in a
large place,
there are
hundreds.
28.
... live in a new and wonderful world, ...
BB p.100,
Working With Others
29.
... live in a world riddled with envy.
12&12 p.67,
Step Six
We
live in a
world riddled with
envy.
30.
... live in large cities are overcome by ...
BB p.19,
There Is A Solution
Those of us who
live in
large
cities are
overcome by
the
reflection that
close by
hundreds are
dropping into
oblivion
every
day.
31.
... live in our homes for long at ...
BB p.97,
Working With Others
We
seldom allow an
alcoholic to
live in our
homes for
long at a
time.
32.
... live in thankful contemplation of Him who ...
12&12 p.192,
Tradition Twelve (Long)
This to the
end that our
great
blessings may
never spoil us; that we shall
forever live in
thankful contemplation of Him who
presides over us all.
33.
... live in thankful contemplation of Him who ...
BB p.566(568),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
This to the
end that our
great
blessings may
never spoil us; that we shall
forever live in
thankful contemplation of Him who
presides over us all.
34.
... live in the greatest peace, partnership, and ...
12&12 p.77,
Step Eight
35.
... live in the imminent possibility of a ...
12&12 p.176,
Tradition Ten
We
live in the
imminent possibility of a
fresh holocaust to
determine
how
men shall be
governed,
and how the
products of
nature and
toil shall be
divided among them.
36.
... live is the rule.
BB p.118,
To Wives
Live and let
live is the
rule.
37.
... live it.
BB p.83,
Into Action
We have to live it.
38.
... live long.
BB p.26,
There Is A Solution
In the
doctor's
judgment
he was
utterly hopeless; he could
never regain his
position in
society and he would have to place himself under
lock and
key or
hire a
bodyguard if he
expected to
live long.
39.
... live long or happily in this world.
BB p.74,
Into Action
We
must be
entirely honest with somebody if we
expect to
live long or
happily in this
world.
40.
... live on a spiritual basis are not ...
BB p.44,
We Agnostics
To be
doomed to an
alcoholic death or to
live on a
spiritual basis are not always
easy alternatives to
face.
41.
... live on a spiritual basis, he will ...
BB p.118,
To Wives
If your
husband is
trying
to
live on a
spiritual basis, he will also be doing
everything in his
power to
avoid disagreement or
contention.
42.
... live on self-will and run the show ...
BB p.76,
Into Action
We
attempt to
sweep away
the
debris which has
accumulated out of our
effort to
live on
self-will and
run the
show ourselves.
43.
... live or most of us will surely ...
12&12 p.189,
Tradition One (Long)
A.A. must continue to
live or most of
us will
surely die.
44.
... live or most of us will surely ...
BB p.563(565),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
A.A. must continue to
live or most of
us will
surely die.
45.
... live our own lives, God helping a ...
12&12 p.75,
Step Seven
The
notion that we would still
live our
own lives,
God helping a
little now and
then,
began to
evaporate.
46.
... live serenely today and tomorrow, we certainly ...
12&12 p.88,
Step Ten
47.
... live so happily, we'd show everybody else ...
12&12 p.156,
Tradition Six
Having
learned to
live so
happily, we'd
show everybody else how.
48.
... live, so we had to evolve principles ...
BB xix,
Foreword to Second Edition
49.
... live to become elder statesmen.
12&12 p.135,
Tradition Two
50.
... live to good purpose under all conditions?
12&12 p.88,
Step Ten
51.
... live to much useful purpose, or, in ...
12&12 p.70,
Step Seven
Without it, they cannot
live to much
useful purpose, or, in
adversity, be able to
summon the
faith that can
meet any
emergency.
52.
... live today in the Twelve Traditions of ...
12&12 p.131,
Tradition One
They
live today in the
Twelve Traditions of
Alcoholics Anonymous,
which --
God willing --
shall
sustain us in
unity
for so
long as He may
need us.
53.
... live together.
12&12 p.178,
Tradition Ten
They were just
part and
parcel of
learning to
work and
live together.
54.
... live up to them.
BB p.69,
How It Works
We
asked God to
mold our
ideals and
help us to
live up to them.
55.
... live up to them even though we ...
BB p.62,
How It Works
Many of us had
moral and
philosophical convictions galore, but
we could not
live up to them even though we would
have
liked to.
56.
... live upon spiritual principles we think we ...
BB p.83,
Into Action
57.
... live usefully and walk humbly under the ...
12&12 p.125,
Step Twelve
58.
... live, we had to be free of ...
BB p.66,
How It Works
If we were to
live, we had to be
free of
anger.
59.
... live well today.
12&12 p.88,
Step Ten
When a
drunk has a
terrific hangover because
he
drank heavily yesterday, he cannot
live
well
today.
60.
... live with.
12&12 p.84,
Step Nine
Almost always we
want to go
further and
admit other
defects that have made us
hard
to
live with.
61.
... live with my wife's parents.
BB p.4,
Bill's Story
We went to
live with my
wife's
parents.
62.
... live with some peace of mind in ...
12&12 p.108,
Step Twelve
63.
... live with the other woman forever.
BB p.106,
To Wives
In the
midst of such
pandemonium they may have
rushed out
threatening
to
live with the other
woman
forever.
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