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From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
TALKING occurs
12 times
5 in BB • 7 in 12&12
Definition in Merriam-Webster Online
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1.
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.
You
draw more and
more into
yourself and you
think everyone is
talking about
conditions at your
home.
3.
Of
far more importance was the
fact that
he was the
first living human with whom I had
ever talked, who
knew what he was
talking about in
regard to
alcoholism from
actual experience.
4.
... talking about
once remarked that pain was ...
12&12
Step Ten, p.93
Someone who
knew what he was
talking about
once remarked that
pain was the
touchstone of all
spiritual progress.
5.
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.
6.
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.
7.
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.
8.
As we've been
talking,
five short words have been
running through my
mind.
9.
... talking freely
and easily, and without exhibitionism, ...
12&12
Step Four, p.46
10.
You've
got a
nerve to
come in
here talking religion!'
11.
On
talking to a
man there, I
would be
amazingly lifted
up and
set on my
feet.
12.
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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