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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... result.
12&12 p.40,
Step Three
Nothing short of
continuous action upon
these as a way of
life can bring the much-
desired result.
2.
... result.
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
3.
... result.
12&12 p.173,
Tradition Nine
We've
tried it
lots of
times, but
utter failure is always the
result.
4.
... result.
BB p.78,
Into Action
If our
manner is
calm,
frank, and
open, we will be
gratified with the
result.
5.
... result.
BB p.140,
To Employers
You, as a
business man,
want to
know the
necessities before
considering the
result.
6.
... result always had been the same.
12&12 p.115,
Step Twelve
Though we were sometimes quite
unconscious of
this, the
result always had been the same.
7.
... result, but the surface of the problem ...
BB p.19,
There Is A Solution
If we
keep on the way we are
going there is
little doubt that much
good will
result, but the
surface of the
problem would
hardly be
scratched.
8.
... result from his personal disobedience to spiritual ...
12&12 p.174,
Tradition Nine
9.
... result from this publication.
12&12 p.184,
Tradition Twelve
10.
... result from this publication.
BB xiii,
Foreword to First Edition
It is
important that we
remain anonymous because
we are too few, at
present to
handle the
overwhelming
number of
personal appeals which may
result from
this
publication.
11.
... result had been equally unfortunate.
12&12 p.115,
Step Twelve
When we had
taken the
opposite tack and had
insisted, like
infants
ourselves, that people
protect and take
care of us or that the
world owed us a
living, then the
result had been
equally unfortunate.
12.
... result has been exactly the same: Our ...
12&12 p.166,
Tradition Eight
Every
time we have
tried to
professionalize our
Twelfth Step, the
result has been
exactly the same:
Our
single purpose has
been
defeated.
13.
... result is an unshakable foundation for life.
12&12 p.98,
Step Eleven
But when they are
logically related and
interwoven,
the
result is an
unshakable foundation
for
life.
14.
... result of a brawl with a taxi ...
BB p.4,
Bill's Story
I
found a
job; then
lost it as the
result of a
brawl with a
taxi driver.
15.
... result of all was the change in ...
12&12 p.75,
Step Seven
During this
process of
learning more about
humility, the most
profound result of all was
the
change in our
attitude toward God.
16.
... result of excellent and continuous publicity freely ...
12&12 p.17,
Foreword
17.
... result of instincts in collision, which cause ...
12&12 p.80,
Step Eight
To
define the
word "
harm" in a
practical way, we
might call it the
result of
instincts in
collision,
which
cause physical,
mental,
emotional, or
spiritual damage to
people.
18.
... result of noting the behavior and needs ...
12&12 p.16,
Foreword
The
basic principles of
A.A., as they are
known today, were
borrowed mainly from the
fields of
religion and
medicine,
though some
ideas upon which
success finally
depended
were the
result of
noting
the
behavior and
needs of
the
Fellowship itself.
19.
... result of practicing all the Steps, we ...
12&12 p.106,
Step Twelve
Our
Twelfth Step also says
that as a
result of
practicing all the
Steps,
we have each
found something called a
spiritual awakening.
20.
... result of purposeful forgetting.
12&12 p.79,
Step Eight
21.
... result of the practice of A.A.'s Twelve ...
12&12 p.15,
Foreword
Many people,
nonalcoholics,
report that as a
result of the
practice of
A.A.'s
Twelve Steps, they have been
able to
meet other
difficulties of
life.
22.
... result of their philosophy.
BB p.569(571),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
Dr. G.
Kirby Collier,
psychiatrist:
"I have
felt that
A.A. is a
group unto themselves and their
best results can be had under
their
own guidance, as a
result of their
philosophy.
23.
... result of these steps, we tried to ...
12&12 p.106,
Step Twelve
"Having had a
spiritual awakening as the
result of
these
steps, we
tried to
carry this
message to
alcoholics, and to
practice these
principles in all our
affairs."
24.
... result of these steps, we tried to ...
BB p.60,
How It Works
12. Having had a
spiritual
awakening as the
result
of these
steps, we
tried to
carry this
message to
alcoholics, and to
practice these
principles in all our
affairs.
25.
... result of unfortunate birth and uncontrollable circumstances?
12&12 p.97,
Step Eleven
26.
... result of yesterday's and sometimes today's excesses ...
12&12 p.88,
Step Ten
That is the
emotional hangover, the
direct result of
yesterday's and
sometimes
today's
excesses of
negative emotion --
anger,
fear,
jealousy, and the like.
27.
... result respecting any other problem we could ...
12&12 p.76,
Step Seven
If that
degree of
humility could
enable us to
find the
grace by which such a
deadly obsession could be
banished, then there
must
be
hope of the same
result respecting any other
problem we could
possibly
have.
28.
... result that Middletown now has a group, ...
12&12 p.133,
Tradition Two
He
visits preachers,
doctors,
editors,
policemen, and
bartenders ... with the
result that
Middletown now has
a
group, and he is the
founder.
29.
... result there was sometimes outside interference in ...
12&12 p.161,
Tradition Seven
Now and then,
grateful benefactors had
endowed
clubhouses, and as a
result there was sometimes
outside interference
in our
affairs.
30.
... result was fine.
12&12 p.186,
Tradition Twelve
31.
... result was nil until we let go ...
BB p.58,
How It Works
Some of us have
tried to
hold
on to our
old ideas and the
result was
nil until we let go
absolutely.
32.
... result was self-evident.
BB p.9,
Bill's Story
That was
two months ago and
the
result was
self-
evident.
33.
... result was that our husbands seemed to ...
BB p.106,
To Wives
The
unexpected result
was that our
husbands seemed to like it.
34.
... result was the same -- all of us ...
12&12 p.124,
Step Twelve
The
result was the same -- all of us had
nearly perished in a
sea of
alcohol.
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