From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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12&12 p.59,
Step Five
2.
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BB p.4,
Bill's Story
3.
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BB p.38,
More About Alcoholism
4.
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BB p.99,
Working With Others
5.
... back again.
BB p.10,
Bill's Story
6.
Back again
in their caves, alcoholics would ...
12&12 p.129,
Tradition One
Back again in their caves, alcoholics would reproach us and say, "What a
great thing A.A. might have been!"
7.
... back airing
porch when winter days got ...
BB p.176,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
I used to put eight or twelve ounce bottles of alcohol in a fur lined glove and toss it onto the back airing porch when winter days got dark enough.
8.
... back and
fished out a dime, which ...
12&12 p.163,
Tradition Seven
9.
... back and
forth over our careers, and ...
12&12 p.55,
Step Five
If we have swept the searchlight of Step Four back and forth over our careers, and it has revealed in stark relief those experiences we'd rather
not remember, if we have come to know how wrong thinking and action have hurt us and others, then the need to quit living by ourselves with those tormenting ghosts of yesterday gets more urgent than ever.
10.
... back and
think.
12&12 p.91,
Step Ten
11.
... back, as
my wife and I sought ...
BB p.6,
Bill's Story
12.
... back at
them.
12&12 p.143,
Tradition Three
13.
... back away
from their individual responsibilities to ...
12&12 p.177,
Tradition Ten
Nor does it mean that the members of Alcoholics Anonymous, now restored as citizens of
the world, are going to
back away from their individual responsibilities to act as they see the right upon issues of our time.
14.
... back debts;
the third deck would house ...
12&12 p.147,
Tradition Four
Beginning on the ground
floor there would be a club;
in the second story they
would sober up drunks and hand them currency for their back debts; the third deck would house an educational project --
quite noncontroversial, of course.
15.
... back every
time he tries to look ...
12&12 p.49,
Step Four
16.
... back for
one reason or another.
BB p.99,
Working With Others
17.
... back for
two more quarters and remain ...
BB p.174,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
I was, of course, soon on
the carpet and the upshot
was that I had to go back for two more quarters and remain absolutely dry, if I wished to graduate.
18.
... back from
the gates of death.
BB xxvii(xxv),
The Doctor's Opinion
They believe in themselves, and still more in the Power which pulls chronic alcoholics back from the gates of death.
19.
... back, I
find that I took it ...
12&12 p.26,
Step Two
20.
... back, I
thought that I was safe.
BB p.177,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
21.
... back in
a little while hoping, always ...
BB p.105,
To Wives
Our friends have counseled chucking the
men and we have done so with finality, only to be back in
a little while hoping, always hoping.
22.
... back in
exhaustion after each futile effort ...
BB p.107,
To Wives
As animals on a treadmill, we have patiently and wearily climbed, falling back in exhaustion after each futile effort to reach solid ground.
23.
... back in
here again, we observe a ...
BB p.570(572),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
Even among those who occasionally
land back in here again, we observe a profound change in personality.
24.
... back in
our own drinking histories, we ...
12&12 p.23,
Step One
By going back in our own drinking histories, we could show
that years before we realized it we were out of control, that our drinking
even then was no mere habit, that it was indeed the beginning of a
fatal progression.
25.
... back in
the 1920's.
12&12 p.136,
Tradition Two
Handing it to me, he continued, 'This shows the
kind of money the hospital used to make back in the 1920's.
26.
... back in
the hospital.
BB p.40,
More About Alcoholism
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... back instantly!
BB p.123,
The Family Afterward
28.
... back into
his community in full citizenship, ...
12&12 p.110,
Step Twelve
To watch the eyes of men and women open with wonder as they move from darkness into light, to see their lives quickly fill with new purpose and meaning, to see whole families reassembled,
to see the alcoholic outcast received back into his community in full citizenship, and above all to watch these people awaken to the presence of a loving God in their lives -- these things are the substance
of what we receive as we carry A.A.'s message to the next alcoholic.
29.
... back into
the drink.
12&12 p.139,
Tradition Three
Everybody was scared witless that something or
somebody would capsize
the boat and dump us all back into the drink.
30.
... back into
the old habits which had ...
BB p.175,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
I drank with moderation
at first, but it took me only
a relatively short time to drift back into the old habits which had wound up so disastrously before.
31.
... back into
the social life of this ...
BB p.102,
Working With Others
32.
... back nevertheless.
BB p.40,
More About Alcoholism
The story he told is most instructive, for here was
a chap absolutely convinced he had to stop drinking, who had no excuse for drinking, who exhibited splendid judgment and determination in all his other concerns, yet was flat on his back nevertheless.
33.
... back nothing,
only by being willing to ...
12&12 p.59,
Step Five
Only by discussing ourselves, holding back nothing, only by being willing to take advice and accept direction could we
set foot on the road to straight thinking, solid honesty, and genuine humility.
34.
... back nothing,
your sense of relief will ...
12&12 p.62,
Step Five
35.
... back of
any other cause.
12&12 p.177,
Tradition Ten
We conceive the survival and spread of Alcoholics Anonymous
to be something of far greater importance than
the weight we could collectively throw back of any other cause.
36.
Back of
them is a world of ...
BB p.20,
There Is A Solution
37.
... back on
Step Five.
12&12 p.56,
Step Five
38.
... back over
his life, he can readily ...
12&12 p.50,
Step Four
Looking back over his life, he can readily get under way by consideration of questions such as these:
39.
... back steps
where I could get it ...
BB p.176,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
40.
... back the
esteem of our friends and ...
12&12 p.92,
Step Ten
Now that we're in A.A. and sober, and winning back the esteem of our friends and business associates, we find that we
still need to exercise special vigilance.
41.
... back the
next morning better than most ...
BB p.172,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
I seemed to be able to snap back the next morning better than most of my fellow
drinkers, who were cursed (or perhaps blessed) with a great deal of morning-after nausea.
42.
... back there
in some way, and I ...
BB p.175,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
Finally my father had to
send a doctor out from my home town who managed to get me back there in some way, and I was in bed about two months before I could venture out of the house.
43.
... back, they
think.
BB p.123,
The Family Afterward
44.
... back through
our lives.
BB p.65,
How It Works
45.
... back through
our lives as far as ...
12&12 p.81,
Step Eight
Then, as year by year we walk back through our lives as far as memory will reach, we shall be bound to construct a long list of people who have, to
some extent or other, been
affected.
46.
... back to
Brooklyn on the subway, I ...
12&12 p.137,
Tradition Two
47.
... back to
drink, but I soon found ...
BB p.15,
Bill's Story
This sometimes nearly
drove me back to drink, but I soon found that when all other measures failed, work with another alcoholic would save the day.
48.
... back to
husband number one.
BB p.110,
To Wives
49.
... back to
it even if I could."
BB p.43,
More About Alcoholism
50.
... back to
sit in the meeting place, ...
12&12 p.173,
Tradition Nine
Groups have tried to expel members, but the banished have come back to sit in the meeting place, saying, "This is life for us;
you can't keep us out."
51.
... back to
that sunlit beach -- or to ...
12&12 p.100,
Step Eleven
52.
... back to
the bar.
BB p.4,
Bill's Story
53.
... back to
the fraternity house because of ...
BB p.173,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
Many mornings I have gone to classes, and even though fully prepared, would turn and walk back to the fraternity house because of my jitters, not daring to enter the classroom for fear of making a scene should I be called on
for recitation.
54.
... back to
the list, for it held ...
BB p.66,
How It Works
55.
... back to
you from him.
BB p.118,
To Wives
56.
... back too
soon.
BB p.100,
Working With Others
57.
... back, we
feel we had gone on ...
BB p.34,
More About Alcoholism
As we look back, we feel we had gone on drinking many years beyond the point where we could quit on our
will power.
58.
... back, we
realize that the things which ...
BB p.100,
Working With Others
When we look back, we realize that the things
which came to us when we put ourselves in God's hands were better than anything we could have planned.
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