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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
TURN occurs
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1.
... turn again
to the deposed founder and ...
12&12 p.135,
Tradition Two
Let's
turn again to the
deposed founder and his
friends.
2.
... turn away
from meditation and prayer, we ...
12&12 p.97,
Step Eleven
3.
... turn comes
to speak at a meeting, ...
12&12 p.110,
Step Twelve
If our
turn comes to
speak at a
meeting, we again
try to
carry A.A.'s
message.
4.
... turn everybody
-- friends, wives, husbands, even the ...
12&12 p.115,
Step Twelve
We had
failed to see that though
adult in
years we were still
behaving childishly,
trying to
turn everybody --
friends,
wives,
husbands, even the
world itself -- into
protective parents.
5.
... turn for
the better.
BB p.147,
To Employers
So, for one
reason or another, they
cover these
men,
hoping matters will take a
turn for the
better.
6.
... turn, generates
more character defects.
12&12 p.49,
Step Four
7.
... turn happy
and be free to concentrate ...
12&12 p.71,
Step Seven
The
world will then
turn happy and be
free to
concentrate on
culture
and
character.
8.
... turn his
or her life over to ...
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?
9.
... turn his
own will and his own ...
12&12 p.35,
Step Three
No
matter how much one
wishes to
try,
exactly how can he
turn his
own will and his
own life over to the
care of whatever
God he
thinks there is?
10.
... turn his
will and his life over ...
12&12 p.39,
Step Three
So how,
exactly, can the
willing person continue to
turn his will and
his
life over to the
Higher
Power?
11.
... turn in
all things to the Father ...
BB p.14,
Bill's Story
I
must turn in all things to
the
Father of
Light who
presides over us all.
12.
... turn in
its flight like a boomerang ...
BB p.2,
Bill's Story
Out of this
alloy of
drink
and
speculation, I
commenced to
forge the
weapon that one
day would
turn in
its flight like a
boomerang
and all but
cut me to
ribbons.
13.
... turn into
the real thing and are ...
BB p.33,
More About Alcoholism
Potential female alcoholics often
turn into
the
real thing and are
gone beyond recall in a few
years.
14.
... turn may
be footsore and may straggle.
BB p.122,
The Family Afterward
Each in his
turn may be
footsore and may
straggle.
15.
... turn me
into a nonentity.
12&12 p.36,
Step Three
Nothing is
going to
turn me into a
nonentity.
16.
... turn might
work with others.
BB p.14,
Bill's Story
They in
turn might
work with
others.
17.
... turn more
and more to the entire ...
12&12 p.111,
Step Twelve
But in the
longer run we
clearly realize that these
are only the
pains of
growing up, and
nothing but
good can
come from them if we
turn more and more to the
entire Twelve Steps for the
answers.
18.
... turn our
thoughts to someone we can ...
BB p.84,
Into Action
Then we
resolutely turn
our
thoughts to someone we can
help.
19.
... turn our
will and our life over ...
BB p.60,
How It Works
Being
convinced, we were at
Step Three, which is that we
decided to
turn our will and
our
life over to
God as we
understood Him.
20.
... turn our
will and our lives over ...
12&12 p.34,
Step Three
"Made a
decision to
turn
our will and our
lives over to the
care of
God as we
understood Him."
21.
... turn our
will and our lives over ...
12&12 p.34,
Step Three
In
fact, the
effectiveness of the
whole A.A. program will
rest upon how
well and
earnestly we have
tried to
come to "a
decision to
turn our will and
our
lives over to the
care of
God as we
understood
Him."
22.
... turn our
will and our lives over ...
12&12 p.38,
Step Three
So it is by
circumstance rather than by any
virtue that we have been
driven to
A.A., have
admitted defeat, have
acquired the
rudiments
of
faith, and now
want to
make a
decision to
turn
our will and our
lives over to a
Higher Power.
23.
... turn our
will and our lives over ...
BB p.59,
How It Works
3. Made a
decision to
turn
our will and our
lives over to the
care of
God as we
understood Him.
24.
... turn out,
however, that you'll choose someone ...
12&12 p.61,
Step Five
It may
turn out, however, that you'll
choose someone else for the more
difficult and
deeper revelations.
25.
... turn out
to be bogeymen, nothing else.
12&12 p.49,
Step Four
But the
testimony of
A.A.'s
who have really
tried a
moral inventory is that
pride and
fear of this
sort turn out to be
bogeymen,
nothing else.
26.
... turn out
to be firm bedrock upon ...
12&12 p.21,
Step One
27.
... turn out
to be one's sponsor, but ...
12&12 p.61,
Step Five
This
person may
turn out to
be one's
sponsor, but not
necessarily so.
28.
... turn outward
toward our fellow alcoholics who ...
12&12 p.106,
Step Twelve
Here we
turn outward toward our
fellow alcoholics who are still in
distress.
29.
... turn, sought
the same escape with all ...
BB p.28,
There Is A Solution
We, in our
turn,
sought the
same
escape with all the
desperation of
drowning men.
30.
... turn the
past to good account.
BB p.124,
The Family Afterward
That is
true only if one is
willing to
turn the
past to
good account.
31.
... turn the
talk to some phase of ...
BB p.91,
Working With Others
After a while,
turn the
talk
to some
phase of
drinking.
32.
... turn the
trick.
BB p.144,
To Employers
You are
betting, of
course, that your
changed attitude plus the
contents of this book will
turn the
trick.
33.
... turn them
into demonstrations of faith.
12&12 p.114,
Step Twelve
Our
basic troubles are
the same as
everyone else's, but when an
honest effort is made "to
practice these
principles in all our
affairs," well-
grounded A.A.'s
seem to have the
ability, by
God's
grace, to take these
troubles in
stride and
turn them into
demonstrations of
faith.
34.
... turn this
man away, he'll soon die.
12&12 p.142,
Tradition Three
If we
turn this
man away, he'll
soon
die.
35.
... turn to
Him, all will be well ...
12&12 p.105,
Step Eleven
We
know that when we
turn to
Him, all will be well with us, here and
hereafter.
36.
... turn to
the page which contains the ...
BB p.75,
Into Action
Taking this book down from our
shelf we
turn to the
page which
contains the
twelve steps.
37.
... turn up
the root causes.
12&12 p.53,
Step Four
Questions like these, more of which will
come to
mind easily in each
individual
case, will
help turn up the
root causes.
38.
... turn up
with a bottle of scotch ...
BB p.101,
Working With Others
His only
chance for
sobriety would be some place like the
Greenland Ice Cap, and even there an
Eskimo
might
turn up with a
bottle
of
scotch and
ruin everything!
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