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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... look!"
12&12 p.49,
Step Four
Pride says, "You
need not
pass this way," and
Fear says,
"You
dare not
look!"
2.
... look.
12&12 p.58,
Step Five
The
objective look at
ourselves we
achieved in
Step Four was, after all, only a
look.
3.
... look.
BB p.9,
Bill's Story
He had that
starry-
eyed
look.
4.
... look after public relations and arrange meetings.
12&12 p.134,
Tradition Two
5.
... look after the place full time.
12&12 p.168,
Tradition Eight
So somebody had to
look after the place
full time.
6.
... look and listen.
12&12 p.27,
Step Two
If you don't
care for the one I've
suggested, you'll be
sure to
discover one that
suits
if only you
look and
listen.
7.
... look, and the measuring sticks by which ...
12&12 p.68,
Step Six
They are
goals toward which
we
look, and the
measuring sticks by which
we
estimate our
progress.
8.
... look around in the night clubs, or ...
BB p.81,
Into Action
He
commences to
look
around in the
night clubs,
or their
equivalent, for something besides
liquor.
9.
... look as though religious people were right ...
BB p.11,
Bill's Story
It
began to
look as though
religious people were
right
after all.
10.
... look at a really good prayer.
12&12 p.99,
Step Eleven
First let's
look at a really
good prayer.
11.
... look at all the good we've done ...
12&12 p.133,
Tradition Two
Besides,
look at all the
good
we've done these
drunks.
12.
... look at character-building as something desirable in ...
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
Seldom did we
look at
character-
building as
something
desirable in itself, something we
would like to
strive for whether our
instinctual needs were
met or not.
13.
... look at his own defects.
12&12 p.46,
Step Four
As soon as he
begins to be more
objective, the
newcomer
can
fearlessly, rather than
fearfully,
look at his
own defects.
14.
... look at how practical it actually is.
12&12 p.35,
Step Three
Let's
look at how
practical it
actually
is.
15.
... look at it from an entirely different ...
BB p.66,
How It Works
We were
prepared to
look
at it from an
entirely different angle.
16.
... look at our assets and liabilities, and ...
12&12 p.88,
Step Ten
17.
... look at ourselves and those about us.
12&12 p.123,
Step Twelve
We have had a much
keener look at ourselves and those about us.
18.
... look at ourselves we achieved in Step ...
12&12 p.58,
Step Five
The
objective look at
ourselves we
achieved in
Step Four was, after all, only a
look.
19.
... look at some of them.
BB p.48,
We Agnostics
Let us have a look at some of them.
20.
... look at some of these defects, have ...
12&12 p.74,
Step Seven
But when we have
taken a
square look at some of these
defects, have
discussed
them with another, and have
become willing to have them
removed, our
thinking
about
humility commences to have a
wider
meaning.
21.
... look at Step Six.
BB p.76,
Into Action
If we can
answer to our
satisfaction, we then
look at
Step Six.
22.
... look at Steps Eight and Nine.
BB p.76,
Into Action
Let's
look at
Steps Eight and
Nine.
23.
... look at the alcoholic in your organization ...
BB p.139,
To Employers
24.
... look at the chapter on alcoholism.
BB p.112,
To Wives
If you
think he will be
shy of
a
spiritual remedy,
ask him to
look at the
chapter on
alcoholism.
25.
... look at the kind of setting in ...
12&12 p.90,
Step Ten
Before we
ask what a
spot-
check inventory is, let's
look at the
kind of
setting in which such an
inventory can do
its work.
26.
... look at the record."
BB p.50,
We Agnostics
27.
... look at the results normal people are ...
12&12 p.37,
Step Three
Should his
own image in the
mirror be too
awful to
contemplate (and it usually is), he might
first take a
look at the
results normal people are
getting from
self-
sufficiency.
28.
... look at their strange new dad with ...
BB p.128,
The Family Afterward
As soon as his
sobriety begins to be
taken as a
matter of
course, the
family may
look at their
strange new
dad with
apprehension, then with
irritation.
29.
... look at those personal flaws which are ...
12&12 p.50,
Step Four
30.
... look at what might happen in our ...
12&12 p.101,
Step Eleven
It ought to be
followed by a
good look at where we
stand now, and a
further
look at what might
happen in
our
lives were we able to
move closer to the
ideal we have been
trying to
glimpse.
31.
... look at what the basic problem is.
12&12 p.43,
Step Four
Before
tackling the
inventory problem in
detail, let's have a
closer
look at what the
basic problem is.
32.
... look at where we stand now, and ...
12&12 p.101,
Step Eleven
It ought to be
followed by a
good look at where we
stand now, and a
further
look at what might
happen in
our
lives were we able to
move closer to the
ideal we have been
trying to
glimpse.
33.
... look back, we feel we had gone ...
BB p.34,
More About Alcoholism
As we
look back, we
feel we
had
gone on
drinking many
years beyond the
point where we could
quit on our
will
power.
34.
... look back, we realize that the things ...
BB p.100,
Working With Others
When we
look back, we
realize that the things which
came to us when we
put ourselves
in
God's
hands were
better than anything we could have
planned.
35.
... look backward and try to discover where ...
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.
36.
... look closely soon have the key to ...
12&12 p.130,
Tradition One
Those who
look closely soon
have the
key to this
strange
paradox.
37.
... look down the line.
BB p.149,
To Employers
Even if you
feel your
organization has no
alcoholic problem, it
might
pay to take another
look
down the
line.
38.
... look easier.
12&12 p.48,
Step Four
39.
... look first at the case of the ...
12&12 p.25,
Step Two
Let's
look first at the
case of the one who says he won't
believe -- the
belligerent one.
40.
... look for our lost faith.
12&12 p.29,
Step Two
Finally, when all our
score cards read '
zero,' and we saw that one more
strike would
put us out of the
game forever, we had to
look for our
lost faith.
41.
... look for progress, not for perfection.
12&12 p.91,
Step Ten
We shall
look for
progress, not for
perfection.
42.
... look for something better.
12&12 p.38,
Step Three
Each of us has had his
own near-
fatal encounter with the
juggernaut of
self-will,
and has
suffered enough
under
its weight to be
willing to
look for something
better.
43.
... look good.
12&12 p.152,
Tradition Five
I had to
agree with the
doctor -- he
certainly
didn't
look good.
44.
... "Look here, Ed.
BB p.147,
To Employers
After
reading this book, a
junior executive can go to
such a
man and say
approximately this, "
Look here,
Ed.
45.
... look in the mirror ought to be ...
12&12 p.37,
Step Three
One
good look in the
mirror ought to be
answer enough for any
alcoholic.
46.
... look like a good thing.
12&12 p.158,
Tradition Six
At
first glance, it did
look like a
good thing.
47.
... look like a purposeless and pointless piece ...
12&12 p.77,
Step Eight
48.
... look like the hole in the doughnut."
12&12 p.36,
Step Three
I'll
look like the
hole in the
doughnut."
49.
... look no further for Utopia.
BB p.16,
Bill's Story
Most of us
feel we
need look no
further for
Utopia.
50.
... look now upon the sea and ponder ...
12&12 p.100,
Step Eleven
Let us
look now upon the
sea
and
ponder what
its mystery is; and let us
lift
our
eyes to the far
horizon,
beyond which we
shall
seek all those
wonders still
unseen.
51.
... look on them as sick people.
BB p.70,
How It Works
We have
begun to
learn tolerance,
patience and
good will
toward all
men, even our
enemies, for we
look on them as
sick people.
52.
... look only at the objections.
12&12 p.142,
Tradition Three
At
first the
elders could
look only at the
objections.
53.
... look over the list of business acquaintances ...
BB p.76,
Into Action
As we
look over the
list of
business acquaintances and
friends we have
hurt, we may
feel diffident about
going to some of them on a
spiritual basis.
54.
... look squarely at the unhappiness this has ...
12&12 p.43,
Step Four
We
wish to
look squarely at the
unhappiness this has
caused others and ourselves.
55.
... look the world in the eye.
BB p.75,
Into Action
We can
look the
world in the
eye.
56.
... look upon.
12&12 p.44,
Step Four
This
perverse soul-
sickness is not
pleasant
to
look upon.
57.
... "Look what you people have done to ...
12&12 p.25,
Step Two
How often have we
heard them
cry out, "
Look what you people
have done to us!
58.
... look within himself.
12&12 p.49,
Step Four
Both his
pride and his
fear
beat him back every
time he
tries to
look within himself.
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