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... basis.
12&12 p.37,
Step Three
2.
... basis.
BB p.76,
Into Action
As we look over the list of business acquaintances and friends we have hurt, we may
feel diffident about going to some of them on a spiritual basis.
3.
... basis.
BB p.162,
A Vision For You
Understanding our work, he can do this with an eye
to selecting those who
are willing and able to recover on a spiritual
basis.
4.
... basis are
not always easy alternatives to ...
BB p.44,
We Agnostics
To be doomed to an alcoholic death or to live on a spiritual basis are not always easy alternatives to face.
5.
... basis, but
just as things are going ...
BB p.120,
To Wives
Perhaps your husband will make a fair start on the new basis, but just as things are going beautifully he dismays you by coming home drunk.
6.
... basis depends
upon the extent to which ...
BB p.34,
More About Alcoholism
Whether such a person can quit upon a nonspiritual basis depends upon the extent to which he has
already lost the power to choose whether he will drink or not.
7.
... basis for
contention or argument.
BB p.19,
There Is A Solution
Nothing would please us
so much as to write a book which would contain no basis for contention or argument.
8.
... basis for
daily living, and we keenly ...
12&12 p.108,
Step Twelve
By this time, at Step Ten, we had begun to get a basis for daily living, and we keenly realized that we
would need to continue taking personal inventory, and that when we were in the wrong we ought to admit it promptly.
9.
... basis for
discrediting the man.
BB p.80,
Into Action
He subsequently denied having received the
money and used the incident as a basis for discrediting the man.
10.
... basis for
helpful discussion.
BB p.127,
The Family Afterward
As each member of a resentful family begins to see his shortcomings and admits
them to the others, he lays
a basis for helpful discussion.
11.
... basis, he
will also be doing everything ...
BB p.118,
To Wives
If your husband is trying
to live on a spiritual
basis, he will also be doing everything in his power to
avoid disagreement or
contention.
12.
... basis of
a rapidly growing fellowship of ...
BB xxv(xxiii),
The Doctor's Opinion
13.
... basis of
intolerance?
12&12 p.140,
Tradition Three
14.
... basis of
life, he will never take ...
BB p.146,
To Employers
15.
... basis of
life -- or else.
BB p.44,
We Agnostics
16.
... basis of
living.
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
We never thought of making honesty, tolerance, and true love of man and God the daily basis of living.
17.
... basis of
self-knowledge.
BB p.39,
More About Alcoholism
But the actual or potential alcoholic,
with hardly an exception, will be absolutely unable to stop drinking on the basis of self-knowledge.
18.
... basis of
the technique of Alcoholics Anonymous ...
BB p.572(574),
Appendix V, The Religious View on A.A.
The Episcopal magazine, The Living Church, observes editorially: "The basis of
the technique of Alcoholics Anonymous
is the truly Christian
principle that a man
cannot help himself except by helping others.
19.
... basis of
trusting and relying upon God.
BB p.68,
How It Works
20.
... basis of
unsatisfied demands, we were in ...
12&12 p.76,
Step Seven
Living upon a basis of unsatisfied demands, we were in a state
of continual disturbance and frustration.
21.
... basis of
wholesale condemnation.
BB p.50,
We Agnostics
Instead, we looked at the
human defects of these people, and sometimes used their shortcomings
as a basis of wholesale
condemnation.
22.
... basis or
not, the alcoholic member has ...
BB p.135,
The Family Afterward
Whether the family goes on a spiritual basis or not, the alcoholic member has to if he would recover.
23.
... basis, since
the former did not work.
BB p.99,
Working With Others
If their old relationship is to be resumed it must be on a better basis, since the former did not work.
24.
... basis suggested.
BB p.155,
A Vision For You
A spiritual experience, he conceded, was absolutely necessary,
but the price seemed high upon the basis suggested.
25.
... basis; the
basis of trusting and relying ...
BB p.68,
How It Works
26.
... basis upon
which they can meet.
BB p.99,
Working With Others
27.
... basis we
are almost always in collision ...
BB p.60,
How It Works
On that basis we are almost
always in collision
with something or somebody, even though our motives are good.
28.
... basis; we
would have to develop the ...
12&12 p.116,
Step Twelve
It became clear that if we
ever were to feel emotionally secure among grown-up people, we would have to put our lives on a give-and-take basis; we would have to develop
the sense of being in partnership or brotherhood with all those around us.
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