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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
REASON occurs
39 times
29 in BB • 10 in 12&12
Definition in Merriam-Webster Online
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1.
2.
Yes, we had been
faithful,
abjectly faithful to the
God of
Reason.
3.
How
much did these
feelings,
these
loves, these
worships, have to do with
pure
reason?
4.
We could not be
invited out because I would
surely get tight, and my
wife dared not
invite people in for the
same reason.
5.
6.
Neither is
reason, as most of
us
use it,
entirely dependable,
though it
emanate from our
best minds.
7.
8.
The
problem is to
help them
discover a
chink in the
walls their
ego has
built,
through which the
light of
reason can
shine.
9.
The
best reason first: If we
skip this
vital step, we may not
overcome drinking.
10.
So our
rule is not to
avoid a
place where there is
drinking, if we have a
legitimate reason for
being there.
11.
12.
13.
They had
said that
though I
did
raise a
defense, it
would
one day give way before some
trivial reason for having a
drink.
14.
15.
There was
another reason for
our
collective poverty.
16.
And there may be a
valid reason
for
postponement in some
cases.
17.
If there was
rejection or
coldness at
home, did I
use this as a
reason for
promiscuity?
18.
19.
There is
another reason for
this
singleness of
purpose.
20.
We were
grateful that
Reason
had
brought us so
far.
21.
22.
We
think the
reason is that
they
never completed their
housecleaning.
23.
Unless the
reason is
understood, there may be an
emotional upset.
24.
Hence, we
saw that
reason isn't
everything.
25.
Were
nothing left but
pure reason, it wouldn't be
life.
26.
27.
So, for
one reason or
another, they
cover these
men,
hoping matters will take a
turn for the
better.
28.
29.
It
stood to
reason that if
alcoholism could be
licked,
so could
any problem.
30.
Perhaps we had been
leaning too
heavily on
Reason that
last mile and we did not
like to
lose our
support.
31.
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.
32.
We have
no reason to
doubt it.
33.
It is not by
chance we were
given the
power to
reason, to
examine the
evidence of our
senses, and
to
draw conclusions.
34.
35.
For some
reason, we
alcoholics seem to have the
gift of
picking out the
world's
finest women.
36.
That's
one reason we
loved alcohol too
well.
37.
When
many hundreds of
people are
able to
say that the
consciousness
of the
Presence of
God is
today the most
important fact of their
lives, they
present a
powerful reason why one
should have
faith.
38.
Though an
alcoholic does
not
respond, there is
no reason why you should
neglect his
family.
39.
"
Still dubious, he
demanded, 'Do you
really mean the only
reason you are
here is to
try and
help me and to
help yourself?'
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