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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
RECEIVED occurs
13 times
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1.
... received, and
a willingness to try for ...
12&12 p.95,
Step Ten
2.
... received, and
learned that many knew of ...
BB p.156,
A Vision For You
He
found himself
surprisingly well
received, and
learned that many
knew of his
drinking.
3.
... received and
sleep in good conscience.
12&12 p.95,
Step Ten
Having so
considered our
day, not
omitting to take
due note of things well done, and
having
searched our
hearts with neither
fear nor
favor, we can
truly thank God for the
blessings we have
received
and
sleep in
good conscience.
4.
... received anything
or not.
12&12 p.109,
Step Twelve
And then he
discovers that by the
divine paradox of this
kind of
giving he has
found his
own reward, whether his
brother
has
yet received anything or
not.
5.
... received back
into his community in full ...
12&12 p.110,
Step Twelve
To
watch the
eyes of
men and
women open with
wonder as they
move from
darkness into
light, to see their
lives quickly fill with new
purpose and
meaning, to see
whole families reassembled, to see the
alcoholic outcast received back into his
community in
full citizenship, and above all to
watch these people
awaken to
the
presence of a
loving
God in their
lives -- these
things are the
substance of what we
receive as we
carry A.A.'s
message to the
next alcoholic.
6.
... received, freely
give."
12&12 p.166,
Tradition Eight
7.
... received; freely
give..." is the core of ...
12&12 p.110,
Step Twelve
"
Freely ye have
received;
freely give..." is the
core of this
part of
Step Twelve.
8.
... received from
God.
12&12 p.60,
Step Five
It is
worth noting that
people of very
high spiritual development
almost always
insist on
checking with
friends or
spiritual advisers
the
guidance they
feel
they have
received from
God.
9.
... received into
its membership a salesman we ...
12&12 p.143,
Tradition Three
Not
long after the
man with the
double stigma knocked for
admission,
A.A.'s other
group received into
its membership a
salesman
we shall call
Ed.
10.
... received is
a free gift, and yet ...
12&12 p.107,
Step Twelve
What he has
received is a
free
gift, and
yet usually, at
least in some
small part, he has made himself
ready
to
receive it.
11.
... received the
gift of faith, a faith ...
12&12 p.30,
Step Two
When we
began to do that, we
received the
gift of
faith, a
faith which
works.
12.
... received the
money and used the incident ...
BB p.80,
Into Action
He
subsequently denied having
received the
money and used the
incident
as a
basis for
discrediting the
man.
13.
... received when
a prominent doctor in Chicago ...
BB p.140,
To Employers
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