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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
WISH occurs
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1.
... wish.
BB p.34,
More About Alcoholism
This is the
baffling feature of
alcoholism as
we
know it -- this
utter inability to
leave it
alone, no
matter how
great
the
necessity or the
wish.
2.
... wish.
BB p.85,
Into Action
We can
exercise our will
power along this
line all we
wish.
3.
... wish, but it happens that because of ...
BB p.89,
Working With Others
Ministers and
doctors
are
competent and you can
learn much from them if you
wish, but it
happens that because
of your
own drinking experience you can be
uniquely useful to other
alcoholics.
4.
... wish, correspond with you about your special ...
BB p.573(575),
Appendix VI, How to Get in Touch With A.A.
This
headquarters will
give the
location of the
nearest family group and will, if you
wish,
correspond with you about your
special problems.
5.
... wish for the end.
BB p.152,
A Vision For You
He will
wish for the
end.
6.
... wish he could devote himself to his ...
12&12 p.150,
Tradition Five
Every
doctor concerned
would at
times wish he could
devote himself to his
chosen field rather than
work only with the
group.
7.
... wish I had what that man has.
BB p.47,
We Agnostics
When people
presented us with
spiritual approaches,
how
frequently did we all say, "I
wish I had what that
man has.
8.
... wish, make A.A. itself your 'higher power.'
12&12 p.27,
Step Two
You can, if you
wish, make
A.A.
itself your '
higher power.'
9.
... wish, of our sins.
12&12 p.65,
Step Six
That is the
measure of our
character defects, or, if
you
wish, of our
sins.
10.
... wish or will them away by ourselves.
12&12 p.58,
Step Five
And we soon
found that we could not
wish or will them away by ourselves.
11.
... wish them above all else, and be ...
BB p.153,
A Vision For You
Should you
wish them above all else, and be
willing to make use of our
experience, we are
sure
they will
come.
12.
... wish them away any more than alcohol.
BB p.66,
How It Works
We could not
wish them away any more than
alcohol.
13.
... wish to be.
12&12 p.124,
Step Twelve
Not many of us can be
leaders of
prominence, nor do we
wish
to be.
14.
... wish to be helpful to those who ...
BB xiv,
Foreword to First Edition
We
simply wish to be
helpful to those who are
afflicted.
15.
... wish to be moral, we could wish ...
BB p.45,
We Agnostics
We could
wish to be
moral, we
could
wish to be
philosophically comforted, in
fact, we could
will these things with all our might, but the
needed power wasn't there.
16.
... wish to be philosophically comforted, in fact, ...
BB p.45,
We Agnostics
We could
wish to be
moral, we
could
wish to be
philosophically comforted, in
fact, we could
will these things with all our might, but the
needed power wasn't there.
17.
... wish to be reasonably certain that we ...
12&12 p.84,
Step Nine
First we will
wish to be
reasonably certain that
we are on the
A.A. beam.
18.
... wish to become:
12&12 p.99,
Step Eleven
And as he
came out the other
side of that
painful experience, this
prayer
was his
expression of what he could then see,
feel, and
wish to
become:
19.
... wish to discover what can be done ...
12&12 p.180,
Tradition Eleven
Employers learn that
great corporations have
set their
approval upon us,
and
wish to
discover what
can be done about
alcoholism in their
own firms.
20.
... wish to do.
BB p.147,
To Employers
There is another thing you might wish to do.
21.
... wish to do a lot for other ...
BB p.146,
To Employers
He may
wish to do a
lot for
other
alcoholics and something of the
sort may
come up during
business hours.
22.
... wish to emphasize and re-emphasize, to smash ...
BB p.39,
More About Alcoholism
This is a
point we
wish to
emphasize and
re-
emphasize, to
smash home upon our
alcoholic readers as it has been
revealed to us out of
bitter experience.
23.
... wish to engage in any controversy, neither ...
Grapevine,
Preamble
24.
... wish to give him another chance.
BB p.147,
To Employers
If, on the
contrary, you are
sure he is doing his
utmost,
you may
wish to
give him
another
chance.
25.
... wish to have all our defects of ...
12&12 p.108,
Step Twelve
At
Step Six, many of us
balked -- for the
practical reason that we
did not
wish to have all our
defects of
character removed, because we still
loved some of them too much.
26.
... wish to hide a bad motive underneath ...
12&12 p.94,
Step Ten
27.
... wish to lay down no rule of ...
BB p.81,
Into Action
Though there may be
justifiable exceptions, and though we
wish to
lay down no
rule of any
sort, we have often
found this the
best course to take.
28.
... wish to look squarely at the unhappiness ...
12&12 p.43,
Step Four
We
wish to
look squarely at the
unhappiness this has
caused others and ourselves.
29.
... wish to make contact with or take ...
BB p.131,
The Family Afterward
Though the
family has no
religious connections, they may
wish
to make
contact with or take
membership in a
religious body.
30.
... wish to make terms.
BB p.145,
To Employers
If he
owes you
money you may
wish to make
terms.
31.
... wish to marry and are in a ...
12&12 p.119,
Step Twelve
A.A. has many
single alcoholics who
wish to
marry and are in a
position
to do so.
32.
... wish to meet.
BB xxxii(xxx),
The Doctor's Opinion
I see him now and then and he is as
fine a
specimen of
manhood as one
could
wish to
meet.
33.
... wish to recover.
12&12 p.189,
Tradition Three (Long)
Hence we may
refuse none who
wish to
recover.
34.
... wish to recover.
BB p.563(565),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
Hence we may
refuse none who
wish to
recover.
35.
... wish to retaliate, snatching all they can ...
BB p.61,
How It Works
And do not his
actions make each of them
wish to
retaliate,
snatching all they can get out of the
show?
36.
... wish to say that any alcoholic capable ...
BB p.568(570),
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience
37.
... wish to share our knowledge of that ...
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.
38.
... wish to shut the door on it.
BB p.83,
Into Action
We will not
regret the
past
nor
wish to
shut the
door on it.
39.
... wish to work as individuals in these ...
12&12 p.171,
Tradition Eight
We see that we have no
right or
need to
discourage A.A.'s who
wish to
work as
individuals in
these
wider fields.
40.
... wish us well.
BB p.78,
Into Action
Our
former enemies
sometimes
praise what we are doing and
wish us well.
41.
... wish, you can join us on the ...
BB p.55,
We Agnostics
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