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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... mind.
12&12 p.26,
Step Two
Third, all you really
need is
a
truly open mind.
2.
... mind."
12&12 p.26,
Step Two
Again I say, all you
need is the
open mind."
3.
... mind.
12&12 p.27,
Step Two
Time after
time, my
instructors held up to me
the
basic principle of
all
scientific progress:
search and
research, again and again, always with the
open mind.
4.
... mind."
12&12 p.33,
Step Two
5.
... mind.
12&12 p.74,
Step Seven
We
enjoy moments in which
there is something like
real peace of
mind.
6.
... mind.
12&12 p.80,
Step Eight
If we
lie or
cheat, we
deprive others not only of their
worldly goods, but of their
emotional security
and
peace of
mind.
7.
... mind.
12&12 p.136,
Tradition Two
8.
... mind.
12&12 p.142,
Tradition Three
As we've been
talking,
five
short words have been
running through my
mind.
9.
... mind.
BB p.5,
Bill's Story
It hadn't even
come to
mind.
10.
... mind.
BB p.42,
More About Alcoholism
I
knew from that
moment that
I had an
alcoholic mind.
11.
... mind.
BB p.82,
Into Action
Each might
pray about it, having the other one's
happiness uppermost in
mind.
12.
... mind.
BB p.87,
Into Action
13.
... mind.
BB p.95,
Working With Others
If he is not
interested in your
solution, if he
expects
you to
act only as a
banker
for his
financial difficulties or a
nurse
for his
sprees, you may have to
drop him until he
changes his
mind.
14.
... mind.
BB p.113,
To Wives
The
seed has been
planted
in his
mind.
15.
... mind.
BB p.140,
To Employers
But these
scrapes can
generally be
charged, no
matter how
bad, to the
abnormal action of
alcohol on his
mind.
16.
... mind.
BB p.141,
To Employers
Perhaps you have such a
man in
mind.
17.
... mind.
BB p.157,
A Vision For You
The
man in the
bed was told of
the
acute poisoning from
which he
suffered, how it
deteriorates the
body of
an
alcoholic and
warps
his
mind.
18.
... mind.
BB xxvi(xxiv),
The Doctor's Opinion
In this
statement he
confirms what we who have
suffered alcoholic torture must believe -- that the
body of
the
alcoholic is quite as
abnormal as his
mind.
19.
... mind a
story about one of our ...
BB p.80,
Into Action
This brings to
mind a
story
about one of our
friends.
20.
... mind and
body.
BB p.20,
There Is A Solution
Doubtless you are
curious to
discover how
and why, in the
face of
expert opinion to the
contrary, we have
recovered from a
hopeless condition of
mind and
body.
21.
... mind and
body.
BB xiii,
Foreword to First Edition
22.
... mind and
body are marvelous mechanisms, for ...
BB p.6,
Bill's Story
23.
... mind and
body of the effects of ...
BB p.143,
To Employers
24.
... mind and
emotion, this perverse wish to ...
12&12 p.94,
Step Ten
25.
... mind and
its hidden springs that relapse ...
BB p.26,
There Is A Solution
26.
... mind, and
love of which he had ...
12&12 p.107,
Step Twelve
He
finds himself in
possession of a
degree of
honesty,
tolerance,
unselfishness,
peace of
mind, and
love of which he had
thought himself quite
incapable.
27.
... mind, as
we discovered we could face ...
BB p.63,
How It Works
28.
... mind at
the expense of others.
12&12 p.84,
Step Nine
While we may be quite
willing to
reveal the very
worst, we
must be
sure to
remember that we cannot
buy
our
own peace of
mind at the
expense of others.
29.
... mind, but
she didn't.
12&12 p.31,
Step Two
The
girl we
wanted to
marry had other
notions; we
prayed God that she'd
change her
mind, but she
didn't.
30.
... mind can
lead us to faith, and ...
12&12 p.33,
Step Two
True humility and an
open mind can
lead us to
faith, and every
A.A. meeting is an
assurance that
God will
restore us to
sanity if we
rightly relate ourselves
to Him.
31.
... mind easily
in each individual case, will ...
12&12 p.53,
Step Four
Questions like these, more of which will
come to
mind easily in each
individual
case, will
help turn up the
root causes.
32.
... mind existed
to the extent that it ...
BB p.27,
There Is A Solution
I have
never seen one
single case recover, where that
state of
mind existed to the
extent that it does in you."
33.
... mind" for
himself.
12&12 p.33,
Step Two
34.
... mind how
twisted or violent you may ...
12&12 p.139,
Tradition Three
We aren't a
bit afraid you'll
harm us,
never mind how
twisted or
violent you may be.
35.
... mind, I
went about my business and ...
BB p.40,
More About Alcoholism
"In this
frame of
mind, I
went about my
business and for a
time all was well.
36.
... mind in
a sorely troubled world, then ...
12&12 p.108,
Step Twelve
37.
... mind in
which a malicious individual was ...
BB p.145,
To Employers
38.
... mind, it
was me.
12&12 p.27,
Step Two
It wasn't
A.A. that had the
closed mind, it was me.
39.
... mind meanwhile
what we have told you ...
12&12 p.23,
Step One
Why don't you
try some more
controlled drinking,
bearing in
mind meanwhile what we have told you about
alcoholism?"
40.
... mind of
a chronic alcoholic.
BB p.27,
There Is A Solution
The
doctor said: "You have the
mind of a
chronic alcoholic.
41.
... mind of
a rationalizing alcoholic, could certainly ...
12&12 p.69,
Step Six
42.
... mind of
another the true nature of ...
12&12 p.23,
Step One
It was then
discovered that when one
alcoholic had
planted in
the
mind of another the
true
nature of his
malady, that
person could
never be the
same again.
43.
... mind of
every woman who has an ...
BB p.108,
To Wives
These are some of the
questions which
race through the
mind of every
woman who has an
alcoholic
husband.
44.
... mind of
God.
12&12 p.64,
Step Six
This is a
riddle of our
existence, the
full answer to which may be only in the
mind of
God.
45.
... Mind or
Spirit of Nature but I ...
BB p.12,
Bill's Story
I could go for such
conceptions as
Creative Intelligence,
Universal Mind or
Spirit of
Nature but I
resisted the
thought of a
Czar of the
Heavens,
however
loving His
sway
might be.
46.
... mind, rather
than in his body.
BB p.23,
There Is A Solution
Therefore, the
main problem
of the
alcoholic centers in his
mind, rather
than in his
body.
47.
... mind snapped
shut against such a theory.
BB p.10,
Bill's Story
48.
... mind than
this one.
12&12 p.55,
Step Five
But
scarcely any
Step is
more
necessary to
longtime sobriety and
peace of
mind than this one.
49.
... mind that
if I were to put ...
BB p.36,
More About Alcoholism
"
Suddenly the
thought
crossed my
mind that if I
were to
put an
ounce of
whiskey in my
milk it couldn't
hurt me on a
full stomach.
50.
... mind that
it would be nice to ...
BB p.41,
More About Alcoholism
As I
crossed the
threshold of the
dining room, the
thought came to
mind that it would be
nice to have a
couple of
cocktails with
dinner.
51.
... mind that
until he had been successful ...
BB p.32,
More About Alcoholism
He made up his
mind that until he had been
successful in
business
and had
retired, he would not
touch another
drop.
52.
... mind that
you were 100% hopeless, apart ...
BB p.43,
More About Alcoholism
As to
two of you
men, whose
stories I have
heard, there
is no
doubt in my
mind that
you were
100%
hopeless,
apart from
divine help.
53.
... mind the
musty past; here sat a ...
BB p.11,
Bill's Story
54.
... mind, the
time and place would come ...
BB p.41,
More About Alcoholism
I now
remembered what my
alcoholic friends had
told me, how they
prophesied that if I had an
alcoholic mind, the
time and place would
come -- I
would
drink again.
55.
... mind; there
is something the matter with ...
BB p.101,
Working With Others
An
alcoholic who cannot
meet them, still has an
alcoholic mind; there is
something the
matter with his
spiritual status.
56.
... mind: "They
have deserted me.
12&12 p.144,
Tradition Three
After all his
pleas for
help
had been
rebuffed, these
words rang in his
fevered mind: "They have
deserted me.
57.
... mind to
all spiritual concepts.
BB p.568(570),
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience
58.
... mind to
deter us.
BB p.24,
There Is A Solution
The almost
certain consequences that
follow taking even a
glass of
beer do not
crowd into the
mind to
deter us.
59.
... mind to
go through with the process, ...
BB p.42,
More About Alcoholism
But the
moment I made up my
mind to go through with the
process, I had the
curious
feeling that my
alcoholic condition was
relieved, as in
fact it
proved to be.
60.
... mind to
God -- and in this sense ...
12&12 p.102,
Step Eleven
Prayer is the
raising of
the
heart and
mind to
God -- and in this
sense it
includes meditation.
61.
... mind to
quit drinking altogether.
BB p.39,
More About Alcoholism
He made up his
mind to
quit drinking altogether.
62.
... mind was
about made up.
12&12 p.137,
Tradition Two
"Although I
asked Charlie
for a
little time to
consider it, my
own mind was about made up.
63.
... mind was
the habitual or whoopee drinker.
BB p.149,
To Employers
What our
friend, the
vice president, had in
mind was
the
habitual or
whoopee
drinker.
64.
... mind we've
been dependent upon somebody, usually ...
12&12 p.160,
Tradition Seven
Time out of
mind we've been
dependent upon somebody, usually
money-
wise.
65.
... mind which
accompany it.
BB p.92,
Working With Others
Talk about the
conditions of
body and
mind which
accompany it.
66.
... mind which
can be described only as ...
12&12 p.25,
Step Two
He is in a
state of
mind
which can be
described only as
savage.
67.
... mind which
can stand firm in the ...
12&12 p.104,
Step Eleven
68.
... mind will
still elude him; that all ...
12&12 p.50,
Step Four
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