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Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions An interpretive commentary on the A.A. program by a co-founder Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age A brief history of A.A.’s first two decades As Bill Sees It (formerly The A.A. Way of Life) Selected writings of A.A.’s co-founder
Copyright © 1952, 1953, 1981
Our dilemma is a lack of power
Problems of intellectuality and self-sufficiency.
Self-righteousness.
Defiance is an outstanding characteristic...
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Dependence as a means to independence.
blaming others.
symptoms of emotional insecurity are worry, anger, self-pity, and depression.
p. 52
Twelve Steps deflate ego.
true kinship
Lose sense of isolation, receive forgiveness and give it;
learn hum...
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gain honesty and realism abou...
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Results are tranquility and consciousness of God.
“Being ready” is all-important.
Value of ego-puncturing.
Pain is the admission price to new life.
Self-centered fear chief activato...
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Learning to live with others is a fascinating adventure.
Deepening insight results from thoroughness.
Step Eight is the beginning of the end of isolation.
A tranquil mind is the first requisite for good judgment.
Readiness to take consequences of our past and to take responsibility for well-being of others is spirit of Step Nine.
When past is settled with, present challenges can be met.
Or, medication
Connection between self-examination and meditation and prayer.
First result is emotional balance.
Joy of living is the theme of the Twelfth Step.
Action
G...
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Love
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Monotony, pain, and calamity turned to good use by practice of Steps.
Or, social workers
Spiritual substance of anonymity is sacrifice.
Subordinating personal aims to the common good is the essence of all Twelve Traditions.
toc loc. 22, 74
Daily Program
steps
prayer, morning and night
check in with self
check in with others
reading
of use - planned
of use - extemporaneous
exercise
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS first published Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions in 1953.
the 2002 General Service Conference
and
the infant Society determined to set down its experience in a book which finally reached the public in April 1939. At this time the recoveries numbered about one hundred.
This established identification with alcoholic readers
Everywhere there arose threatening questions of membership, money, personal relations, public relations, management of groups, clubs, and scores of other perplexities.
A.A.’s Twelve Traditions took form and were first published in 1946 and later confirmed at A.A.’s First International Convention, held at Cleveland in 1950.
admit complete defeat?
bankruptcy
rapacious creditor,
our bankruptcy as going human concerns
Our admissions of personal powerlessness finally turn out to be firm bedrock upon which happy and purposeful lives may be built.
Of real happiness he will find none at all.
