The 12 Steps
The third step prayer ends with... "May bear witness to those I would help of thy ____, thy ____, and thy___ _ ____
Power, Love, Way of life
What Doctor wrote the Letter in Doctors Opinion?
William D. Silkworth
What step requires personal house cleaning?
Step 4
In We Agnostics. What exactly is this book about? What is the main object? And what will it solve?
It's main object is to enable you to find a power greater than yourself which will solve your problem
What is the root of our troubles?
Selfishness and self-centeredness
What is the principal of the first step
Honesty
Alcoholics have one symptom in common: They cannot start drinking without developing what?
The Phenomenon of Craving
What is it called when easier softer methods are tried? Example: Drinking only on weekends, limiting the number of drinks, switching brands, snorting instead of injecting, smoking instead of boofing, taking to a shrink, kratom, marijuana only.
Half Measures
God does not make too hard terms with who?
Those who seek Him
What do the three parts of the AA triangle represent?
Unity, Service, Recovery
What is the principal of the twelfth step?
Service
Nothing has contributed more to the rehabilitation of these men than what?
The altruistic movement
What is the great obsession of every abnormal drinker? (Countless vain attempts)
That one day we can control our drinking, drink like other people, or drink with impunity
In To Wives, which 1 of 4 categories is this? Your husband is showing lack of control, for he is unable to stay on the water wagon even when he wants to. He often gets entirely out of hand when drinking. We think this person is in danger. He wants to want to stop.
Stage 2
What Step is this? "It should continue for our life time. Continue to watch for selfishness, dishonesty, resentment, and fear. When these crop up, ask God at once to remove them. Discuss them with someone immediately. Make amends quickly if you have harmed anyone. Then resolutely turn your thoughts to someone you can help."
Step 10
What is the principal of the eleventh step?
Spirituality
Once a psychic change has occurred, the very same person who seemed doomed, who had so many problems he despaired of ever solving them, suddenly __________________
finds himself easily able to control his desire for alcohol.
What kind of look did Bill's friend Ebby have in his eyes, when he met up with Bill?
Starry-eyed look
In On awakening. We ask God to direct our thinking, especially asking that it divorced from what three things?
Self-pity, dishonest, or self-seeking motives.
What story in the back is this from. " So I immediately started taking and shooting pep pills. Eventually, I was taking forty-five milligrams of the long-acting Benzedrine and forty-five of the shortacting just to get out of bed in the morning. I took more through the day to increase the high, and more to maintain it; when I overshot the mark, I’d take tranquilizers to level off. The pep pills affected my hearing at times: I couldn’t listen fast enough to hear what I was saying. I’d think, I wonder why I’m saying that again—I’ve already said it three times. Still, I couldn’t turn my mouth off."
Acceptance was the Answer
How many steps were there originally, before Bill W's composition of the 12 steps?
Six
These men were not drinking to escape; they were drinking to overcome ___________________
a craving beyond their mental control
52
In Bill's story: "If there was a ______, he seemed the boss universal, he certainly had me".
Devil
In Bill's Story, he writes, "Under the _______ treatment, my brain cleared"
Belladonna