From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
TALKING occurs
11 times
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1.
... talking about alcoholism, the malady, and described ...
BB p.138,
To Employers
This
seemed to me like an
opportunity to be
helpful, so I
spent two hours talking about
alcoholism, the
malady, and
described
the
symptoms and
results as well as I could.
2.
... talking about conditions at your home.
BB p.114,
To Wives
You
draw more and more into
yourself and you
think everyone is
talking about
conditions at your
home.
3.
... talking about once remarked that pain was ...
12&12 p.93,
Step Ten
Someone who
knew what he was
talking about once
remarked that
pain was the
touchstone
of all
spiritual progress.
4.
... talking about problems because we are problem ...
12&12 p.125,
Step Twelve
We have been
talking about
problems because we are
problem people who have
found
a way up and out, and who
wish to
share our
knowledge of that
way with all who can use it.
5.
... talking about, that his whole deportment shouts ...
BB p.18,
There Is A Solution
That the
man who is
making
the
approach has had the same
difficulty, that he
obviously knows what he is
talking about, that his
whole
deportment shouts at
the new
prospect that he is a
man with a
real answer, that he has no
attitude of
Holier Than
Thou,
nothing whatever
except the
sincere desire to be
helpful; that
there are no
fees to
pay, no
axes to
grind, no people to
please, no
lectures to be
endured -- these are the
conditions we have
found
most
effective.
6.
... talking about the kind of love that ...
12&12 p.106,
Step Twelve
When the
Twelfth Step is
seen in
its full implication, it is really
talking about the
kind of
love that has no
price tag on it.
7.
... talking, five short words have been running ...
12&12 p.142,
Tradition Three
As we've been
talking,
five short words have been
running through my
mind.
8.
... talking freely and easily, and without exhibitionism, ...
12&12 p.46,
Step Four
9.
... talking religion!'
12&12 p.153,
Tradition Five
You've got a
nerve to
come in
here
talking religion!'
10.
... talking to a man there, I would ...
BB p.15,
Bill's Story
On
talking to a
man there, I
would be
amazingly lifted up and
set on my
feet.
11.
... talking to another person is that we ...
12&12 p.60,
Step Five
The
benefit of
talking to
another
person is that we can get his
direct comment and
counsel on our
situation,
and there can be no
doubt in our
minds what that
advice is.
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