From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... amount of
battering.
12&12 p.146,
Tradition Four
When A.A.'s Traditions
were first published, in
1946, we had become sure that an A.A. group could stand almost any amount of battering.
2.
... amount of
criticism.
BB p.100,
Working With Others
3.
... amount of
failure in getting alcoholics to ...
12&12 p.16,
Foreword
After three years of trial and error in selecting the most
workable tenets upon which the Society could
be based, and after a large amount of failure in getting alcoholics to recover,
three successful groups emerged -- the first at Akron, the second at New York, and the third at Cleveland.
4.
... amount of
fun about it all.
BB p.16,
Bill's Story
5.
... amount of
human willpower could break it.
12&12 p.22,
Step One
Our sponsors declared
that we were the victims of a mental obsession so subtly powerful that no amount of human willpower could break it.
6.
... amount of
latitude will be helpful.
BB p.146,
To Employers
7.
... amount of
money.
BB p.79,
Into Action
8.
... amount of
neglect and irresponsibility towards the ...
BB p.129,
The Family Afterward
Even if he displays a certain amount of neglect and irresponsibility towards the family, it is well to let him go as far as he likes in helping other alcoholics.
9.
... amount of
office politics.
BB p.145,
To Employers
Wherever men are gathered together in business there will be rivalries and, arising out of these, a certain amount of office politics.
10.
... amount of
patience will make any difference.
BB p.108,
To Wives
We realize some men are thoroughly bad-intentioned, that no amount of patience will make any difference.
11.
... amount of
physical treatment is desirable, even ...
BB p.143,
To Employers
For most alcoholics who are drinking, or who are just getting over a spree, a certain amount of physical treatment is desirable,
even imperative.
12.
... amount of
pomp and circumstance, no heap ...
12&12 p.124,
Step Twelve
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.
13.
... amount of
presumption and conceit in us.
12&12 p.104,
Step Eleven
This means that side by side with an earnest prayer there can be a certain amount of presumption and conceit
in us.
14.
... amount of
time and attention.
BB p.149,
To Employers
It is not to be expected that an alcoholic employee will receive a disproportionate amount of time and attention.
15.
... amount of
will power he might muster ...
BB p.155,
A Vision For You
When our friend related
his experience, the man
agreed that no amount of will power he might muster could stop his drinking for long.
16.
... amount you
take, you are probably alcoholic.
BB p.44,
We Agnostics
If, when you honestly want
to, you find you cannot quit
entirely, or if when drinking, you have little
control over the amount you take, you are probably alcoholic.
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