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... alone.
BB
There Is A Solution, p.20
2.
... alone.
BB
To Wives, p.105
3.
... alone.
BB
To Wives, p.113
4.
... alone.
BB
To Employers, p.139
5.
... alone.
BB
To Employers, p.144
6.
... alone."
BB
A Vision For You, p.158
7.
... alone.
BB
A Vision For You, p.163
8.
... alone.
BB
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.561
We alcoholics see that we
must work together and hang together, else most of us will finally die alone.
9.
... alone.
BB
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience, p.567
He finally realizes that
he has undergone a profound alteration in
his reaction to life; that
such a change could hardly have been brought about
by himself alone.
10.
... alone.
12&12
Step Two, p.29
11.
... alone.
12&12
Step Three, p.37
12.
... alone.
12&12
Step Three, p.40
They have become persuaded, and rightly so,
that many problems besides alcohol will not yield to a headlong assault powered by the individual
alone.
13.
... alone.
12&12
Step Twelve, pp.106-107
When a man or a woman has a spiritual awakening, the
most important meaning
of it is that he has now become
able to do, feel, and believe that which he could not do before on his unaided strength and resources
alone.
14.
... alone.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.120
15.
... alone.
12&12
Tradition Twelve, p.185
Enthusiastic over the spectacular recovery of
a brother alcoholic,
we'd sometimes discuss
those intimate and harrowing aspects of his case meant for his sponsor's ear alone.
16.
... alone and
afraid.
12&12
Step Four, p.43
17.
... alone any
more.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.117
Through it we begin to learn right relations with people who understand us; we don't have to be alone any more.
18.
... alone any
more in a social sense, ...
12&12
Step Five, p.57
But we soon discovered
that while we weren't alone any more
in a social sense, we still suffered many of the old pangs of anxious apartness.
19.
... alone at
perfect peace and ease.
BB
Into Action, p.75
20.
... alone can
avail nothing.
12&12
Step Three, p.34
21.
... alone can
judge our sex situation.
BB
How It Works, p.69
22.
... alone digest.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.113
Then perhaps life, as it has
a way of doing, suddenly hands us a great big lump that we can't begin to swallow, let alone digest.
23.
... alone, for
drinking many times isolates the ...
BB
To Wives, p.119
It is probably true that you
and your husband have been living too much alone, for drinking many times isolates the wife of an alcoholic.
24.
... alone for
one year.
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.34
If anyone questions whether he has entered this
dangerous area, let him try leaving liquor alone for one year.
25.
... alone, he
may soon become convinced that ...
BB
Working With Others, p.96
26.
... alone, he'd
soon solve his alcohol problem.
12&12
Tradition Five, pp.151-152
He shouts that if his partner would treat him better, and his wife would leave him alone, he'd soon solve his alcohol problem.
27.
... alone; how
much they suffered of irritability, ...
12&12
Step Five, p.56
They will tell how they tried to carry the load alone; how much they suffered of irritability, anxiety,
remorse, and depression; and how, unconsciously seeking
relief, they would sometimes accuse even their best friends of the very character defects they themselves were trying to
conceal.
28.
... alone, if
possible.
BB
Working With Others, p.91
29.
... alone in
his room, he asked himself ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.56
But later, alone in his room, he asked himself this question: "Is
it possible that all the religious people I have known are wrong?"
30.
... alone in
self-constructed prisons, the surety that ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.124
Service, gladly rendered, obligations squarely met, troubles well accepted or solved with God's help, the knowledge that at home or in
the world outside we are partners in a common effort, the well-understood fact that in God's sight all human beings are important, the proof that love freely given surely brings a full return, the certainty that
we are no longer isolated and alone in self-constructed prisons, the surety that we need no longer be square pegs in round holes but can fit and belong in God's scheme of things -- these are
the permanent and legitimate satisfactions of right living for which no amount of pomp and circumstance, no heap of material possessions, could possibly be substitutes.
31.
... alone in
spiritual matters is dangerous.
12&12
Step Five, p.60
32.
... alone in
the world, we still vainly ...
12&12
Step Twelve, pp.116-117
Even when our fortunes had
not ebbed that much and we nevertheless found ourselves alone in the world, we still vainly tried to be secure by some unhealthy kind of domination or dependence.
33.
... alone is
insufficient.
BB
Working With Others, p.93
34.
... alone! Let
him try it by himself ...
12&12
Tradition Three, p.144
35.
... alone may
be garbled by our own ...
12&12
Step Five, p.60
The second difficulty is
this: what comes to us alone
may be garbled by our own rationalization and wishful thinking.
36.
... alone meditation
and prayer?
12&12
Step One, p.24
37.
... alone mete
out any punishment.
12&12
Tradition Nine, p.173
Neither its General Service Conference, its Foundation Board,(*) nor the humblest group committee can issue a single directive to an A.A. member and make it stick, let alone mete out
any punishment.
38.
... alone, never
drinking in the morning, drinking ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.31
Here are some of the methods
we have tried: Drinking beer only, limiting the number of drinks, never drinking alone, never drinking in the morning, drinking only at home, never having it in the house, never drinking during business hours, drinking only at parties, switching from scotch to brandy, drinking only natural wines, agreeing to resign if ever drunk on the job, taking a trip, not taking a trip, swearing off forever (with
and without a solemn oath), taking more physical exercise, reading inspirational books, going to health farms and sanitariums, accepting voluntary commitment to asylums --
we could increase the list
ad infinitum.
39.
... alone, no
matter how great the necessity ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.34
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.
40.
Alone now,
he reflects that he may ...
12&12
Tradition Two, p.132
Alone now, he reflects that he may not be able to stay sober, or even alive, unless he passes on to other alcoholics what was so freely given him.
41.
... alone on
the street to depend upon ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.116
But when self-will had driven everybody away and our isolation had become complete, it caused us to play the big shot in cheap barrooms and then fare forth alone on the street to depend upon the charity of passersby.
42.
... alone, or
in the company of our ...
12&12
Step Ten, p.89
Then there are those occasions when alone, or in
the company of our sponsor
or spiritual adviser, we
make a careful review of our progress since
the last time.
43.
... alone sin.
12&12
Step Four, p.48
44.
... alone than
with one who might misunderstand.
BB
How It Works, p.63
45.
... alone, that
is your affair.
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.181
46.
... alone. Why
can't he?"
BB
There Is A Solution, p.20
47.
... alone with
God doesn't seem as embarrassing ...
12&12
Step Five, p.60
48.
... alone with
our conflicts, and in honesty ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.108
We knew we would have to quit
the deadly business of living alone with our conflicts, and in honesty
confide these to God and another human being.
49.
... alone with
our pressing problems and the ...
12&12
Step Five, p.55
A.A. experience has taught us we cannot live alone with our pressing problems and the character
defects which cause or aggravate them.
50.
... alone, wouldn't
be enough.
12&12
Step Twelve, pp.107-108
51.
... alone, wouldn't
be nearly enough.
12&12
Step Five, p.59
Hence it was most evident
that a solitary self-appraisal, and the admission of our defects based upon that alone, wouldn't be nearly enough.
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