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Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... true.
12&12 p.125,
Step Twelve
To a
certain extent, that
is
true.
2.
... true?
BB p.38,
More About Alcoholism
It's
strong language --
but isn't it
true?
3.
... true.
BB p.55,
We Agnostics
We had seen
spiritual release, but
liked to tell
ourselves it wasn't
true.
4.
... true.
BB p.162,
A Vision For You
To some
extent this is already
true.
5.
... true alcoholic, as our behavior patterns vary.
BB p.22,
There Is A Solution
6.
... true alcoholics.
BB p.44,
We Agnostics
At
first some of us
tried to
avoid the
issue,
hoping against
hope we were not
true alcoholics.
7.
... true alcoholics after a while.
BB p.109,
To Wives
Of those who
keep on, a
good
number will
become true alcoholics after a while.
8.
True ambition is not what we thought ...
12&12 p.124,
Step Twelve
True ambition is not what
we
thought it was.
9.
True ambition is the deep desire to ...
12&12 p.124,
Step Twelve
10.
... true and important for the A.A.'s who ...
12&12 p.119,
Step Twelve
11.
... true, apparently, ever since man had first ...
12&12 p.22,
Step One
And this had been
true,
apparently, ever since
man
had
first crushed grapes.
12.
... true basis of intolerance?
12&12 p.140,
Tradition Three
After all, isn't
fear the
true
basis of
intolerance?
13.
... true brotherhood we had small comprehension.
12&12 p.53,
Step Four
14.
... true, but is positive that he will ...
BB p.109,
To Wives
He
admits this is
true, but
is
positive that he will do
better.
15.
... true, but it doesn't fully apply.
BB p.38,
More About Alcoholism
Some of you are
thinking: "Yes, what you tell us
is
true, but it doesn't
fully
apply.
16.
... true catalog of our defects and had ...
12&12 p.59,
Step Five
How could we be
certain that we had made a
true catalog of our
defects and had really
admitted them, even to ourselves?
17.
True, each physician in such a group ...
12&12 p.150,
Tradition Five
True, each
physician in
such a
group might have his
own specialty.
18.
... true even when we believed that God ...
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
This was
true even when we
believed that
God existed.
19.
... true fellowship.
12&12 p.175,
Tradition Nine
20.
... true for the alcoholic!
BB p.14,
Bill's Story
And how
appallingly true for the
alcoholic!
21.
True, founders and their friends are sometimes ...
12&12 p.133,
Tradition Two
True,
founders and their
friends are sometimes
wiser and more
humble than
this.
22.
... true freedom of the human spirit, to ...
12&12 p.73,
Step Seven
To get
completely away from our
aversion to the
idea of being
humble, to
gain a
vision of
humility as the
avenue to
true freedom of the
human spirit, to be
willing to
work for
humility as
something to be
desired for itself,
takes most of us a
long,
long time.
23.
... true from the false.
BB xxviii(xxvi),
The Doctor's Opinion
The
sensation is so
elusive that, while they
admit it is
injurious, they
cannot after a
time differentiate the
true
from the
false.
24.
True humility and an open mind can ...
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.
25.
... true if he has, in fact, behaved ...
12&12 p.78,
Step Eight
This is
especially true
if he has, in
fact,
behaved
badly at all.
26.
... true independence of the spirit.
12&12 p.36,
Step Three
27.
... true, it would follow that life originated ...
BB p.49,
We Agnostics
28.
... true kinship with man and God.
12&12 p.57,
Step Five
It was the
beginning of
true kinship with
man and
God.
29.
... true leaders in A.A. are but trusted ...
12&12 p.191,
Tradition Nine (Long)
30.
... true leaders in A.A. are but trusted ...
BB p.565(567),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
31.
True leadership, we find, depends upon able ...
12&12 p.124,
Step Twelve
True leadership, we
find,
depends upon able
example and not upon
vain displays of
power or
glory.
32.
... true love of man and God the ...
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
33.
True, most of us thought good character ...
12&12 p.71,
Step Seven
True, most of us
thought good character was
desirable, but
obviously good character was something one
needed to get on with the
business of being
self-
satisfied.
34.
... true motive was to feel superior by ...
12&12 p.94,
Step Ten
Or, the
person concerned not being
present, we
thought we were
helping others to
understand him, when in
actuality our
true motive was to
feel superior by
pulling him
down.
35.
... true motives were.
12&12 p.94,
Step Ten
But in other
instances only the
closest scrutiny will
reveal what our
true motives were.
36.
... true nature of his malady, that person ...
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.
37.
... true of certain nonalcoholic people who, though ...
BB p.39,
More About Alcoholism
That may be
true of
certain
nonalcoholic people who, though
drinking foolishly and
heavily at the
present
time, are able to
stop or
moderate, because their
brains and
bodies have not
been
damaged as ours were.
38.
... true of women.
BB p.33,
More About Alcoholism
This is
particularly true of
women.
39.
... true only if one is willing to ...
BB p.124,
The Family Afterward
That is
true only if one is
willing to
turn the
past to
good account.
40.
... true partnership with another human being.
12&12 p.53,
Step Four
The
primary fact that we
fail to
recognize is our
total inability to
form a
true partnership with another
human being.
41.
... true progress.
12&12 p.49,
Step Four
42.
... true purpose and direction.
12&12 p.124,
Step Twelve
But
today, in well-
matured
A.A.'s, these
distorted drives have been
restored
to something like their
true purpose and
direction.
43.
... true purpose of our lives, produced another ...
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
44.
... true religious feeling.
12&12 p.32,
Step Two
45.
True, some of the projects to which ...
12&12 p.171,
Tradition Eight
True, some of the
projects
to which
A.A.'s have
attached themselves have been
ill-
conceived, but that makes
not the
slightest difference with the
principle involved.
46.
... true that few subjects have been the ...
12&12 p.166,
Tradition Eight
Despite this
certainty, it is nevertheless
true that few
subjects have been
the
cause of more
contention within our
Fellowship than
professionalism.
47.
... true that in all matters touching upon ...
12&12 p.35,
Step Three
Isn't it
true that in all
matters touching upon
alcohol, each of them has
decided to
turn his or her
life over to the
care,
protection, and
guidance of
Alcoholics
Anonymous?
48.
... true that our first printing gave many ...
BB p.567(569),
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience
49.
... true that the best mathematical minds had ...
BB p.51,
We Agnostics
Was it not
true that the
best
mathematical minds
had
proved man could
never fly?
50.
... true that we like to let greed ...
12&12 p.66,
Step Six
Isn't it
true that we like to let
greed masquerade as
ambition?
51.
... true that you and your husband have ...
BB p.119,
To Wives
It is
probably true that
you and your
husband have been
living too much alone, for
drinking many
times isolates the
wife of an
alcoholic.
52.
... true the many articles of faith which ...
BB p.47,
We Agnostics
But I cannot
accept as
surely true the many
articles of
faith which are
so
plain to him."
53.
... true this is, few realize.
BB p.23,
There Is A Solution
How
true this is, few
realize.
54.
... true throughout the material world.
BB p.49,
We Agnostics
55.
... true to some extent, in fact, to ...
BB xxvi(xxiv),
The Doctor's Opinion
These things were
true to some
extent, in
fact, to a
considerable extent
with some of us.
56.
... true tolerance and see what real love ...
12&12 p.92,
Step Ten
Finally, we
begin to see that all people,
including ourselves, are to some
extent emotionally ill as well as
frequently wrong, and then we
approach
true tolerance and see
what
real love for our
fellows actually means.
57.
... true voice of Alcoholics Anonymous.
12&12 p.135,
Tradition Two
58.
... true voice, welling up out of my ...
12&12 p.138,
Tradition Two
Here was the
true voice,
welling up out of my
friends.
59.
... True when this book was first published.
BB p.34,
More About Alcoholism (Note)
(*)
True when this book was
first published.
60.
... true whether we had been believers or ...
12&12 p.75,
Step Seven
And this was
true whether we had been
believers or
unbelievers.
61.
... true with many of our men, it ...
BB p.120,
To Wives
Though it is
infinitely better that he have no
relapse at all, as has been
true with many of our
men, it is by
no
means a
bad thing in some
cases.
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