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Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
CONDITIONS occurs
25 times
12 in BB • 13 in 12&12
Definition in Merriam-Webster Online
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1.
So we had to
get down to
causes and
conditions.
2.
Occasionally you
will
have to
meet such conditions.
3.
We
know women who are
unafraid,
even happy under these
conditions.
4.
5.
6.
This was not only
faith; it was
faith that
worked under all
conditions.
7.
But all of them do
require a
complete willingness to
make amends as
fast and as
far as may be
possible in a
given set of
conditions.
8.
9.
10.
We
thought "
conditions"
drove us to
drink, and when we
tried to
correct these
conditions and
found that we couldn't
to our
entire satisfaction, our
drinking went out of
hand and we
became alcoholics.
11.
If I am
unable to
change the
present state of
affairs, am I
willing to
take the
measures necessary to
shape my
life to
conditions as they are?
12.
You
draw more and
more into
yourself and you
think everyone is
talking about
conditions at your
home.
13.
We
thought "
conditions"
drove us to
drink, and when we
tried to
correct these
conditions and
found that we couldn't
to our
entire satisfaction, our
drinking went out of
hand and we
became alcoholics.
14.
We
meet these
conditions every day.
15.
Or, if my
disturbance was
seemingly caused by the
behavior of
others,
why do I
lack the
ability to
accept conditions I cannot
change?
16.
Talk about the
conditions of
body and
mind which
accompany it.
17.
Then, in
Step Seven, we
humbly asked God to
remove our
shortcomings such as He
could or would
under the
conditions of the
day we
asked.
18.
... conditions --
remove defects of character will be ...
12&12
Step Six, p.63
19.
... conditions, the
pains of failure are converted ...
12&12
Step Ten, p.93
Under these
conditions, the
pains of
failure are
converted into
assets.
20.
21.
Under these
conditions we can
employ our
mental faculties with
assurance,
for
after all
God gave us
brains to
use.
22.
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.
23.
24.
It
never occurred to us
that we
needed to
change ourselves to
meet conditions,
whatever they were.
25.
Under these
conditions your
prospect will see he is
under no pressure.
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