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... become.
12&12 p.35,
Step Three
Any willing newcomer feels sure A.A. is the only safe harbor for the foundering vessel he has
become.
2.
... become:
12&12 p.99,
Step Eleven
And as he came out the other side of that painful experience, this
prayer was his expression of what he could then see, feel, and wish to become:
3.
... become.
BB p.122,
The Family Afterward
We find the more one member of the family demands that the others concede to him, the
more resentful they become.
4.
... become a
better researcher, educator, personnel officer, ...
12&12 p.171,
Tradition Eight
If an A.A. member acting as a citizen can
become a better researcher, educator,
personnel officer,
then why not?
5.
... become a
blight, a veritable plague.
BB p.124,
The Family Afterward
6.
... become a
"channel."
12&12 p.101,
Step Eleven
7.
... become a
continuous hard drinker; but at ...
BB p.21,
There Is A Solution
He may start off as a moderate drinker; he may
or may not become a continuous hard drinker; but at some stage of
his drinking career he
begins to lose all control of his liquor consumption, once he starts to drink.
8.
... become a
lay therapist, and more successful ...
12&12 p.136,
Tradition Two
9.
... become a
miser, or even a recluse ...
12&12 p.43,
Step Four
Going to the extreme, he
can become a miser, or even a recluse who denies himself both family and friends.
10.
... become a
national institution.
BB xviii,
Foreword to Second Edition
11.
... become a
part of their daily work, ...
BB xxviii(xxvi),
The Doctor's Opinion
If any feel that as psychiatrists directing a hospital for
alcoholics we appear
somewhat sentimental, let them stand with us a while on the firing line, see the tragedies, the despairing wives, the little children; let the solving of these problems become a part of their daily work, and even of their sleeping moments, and the
most cynical will not wonder that we have accepted and encouraged
this movement.
12.
... become a
professional?
12&12 p.137,
Tradition Two
13.
... become a
regular part of everyday living, ...
12&12 p.90,
Step Ten
And at length our inventories become a regular part of everyday living, rather than something unusual or set apart.
14.
... become a
respected and useful member of ...
BB p.158,
A Vision For You
15.
... become a
superior person with God on ...
BB p.129,
The Family Afterward
Dad may feel that for years his drinking has placed him on the wrong side of every argument, but that now he has
become a superior person with God on his side.
16.
... become a
trembling recluse, wishing the telephone ...
BB p.115,
To Wives
When your husband is bad,
you become a trembling recluse, wishing the telephone had never been invented.
17.
... become able
to do, feel, and believe ...
12&12 p.106,
Step Twelve
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.
18.
... become almost
miserly.
12&12 p.120,
Step Twelve
In our drinking time, we
acted as if the money supply was inexhaustible, though
between binges we'd sometimes go to the other extreme and become almost miserly.
19.
... become an
A.A. classic.
12&12 p.149,
Tradition Four
20.
... become angry,
or to get hurt by ...
12&12 p.92,
Step Ten
It will become more and more evident as we go forward that it is pointless to become angry, or to get hurt by people who, like us, are suffering from
the pains of growing up.
21.
... become angry
when our instinctive demands are ...
12&12 p.49,
Step Four
Unreasonable fear that
our instincts will not be
satisfied drives us to
covet the possessions
of others, to lust for sex and power, to become angry when our instinctive demands are
threatened, to be envious when the ambitions of others seem to be realized while ours are not.
22.
... become as
open-minded to conviction and as ...
12&12 p.24,
Step One
Then, and only then, do we become as open-minded to conviction and as willing to listen as the dying can be.
23.
... become astonishingly
difficult to solve.
BB xxviii(xxvi),
The Doctor's Opinion
These allergic types can
never safely use alcohol in any form at all; and once having formed the habit and found they cannot break it, once having lost their self-confidence, their reliance upon things human, their problems pile up on them and become astonishingly difficult to solve.
24.
... become automatic.
12&12 p.91,
Step Ten
For we can neither think
nor act to good purpose until the habit of self-restraint has become automatic.
25.
... become available.
BB xxiii,
Foreword to Fourth Edition
In country after country where the A.A. seed was planted, it has taken root, slowly at first, then growing by leaps and bounds when literature
has become available.
26.
... become co-founders
of the A.A. Fellowship.
12&12 p.16,
Foreword
Both were severe cases of alcoholism and
were destined to become co-founders of the A.A. Fellowship.
27.
... become complete,
it caused us to play ...
12&12 p.116,
Step Twelve
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.
28.
... become conscious
of God as they never ...
12&12 p.62,
Step Five
29.
... become contemptuous
and vengeful.
12&12 p.80,
Step Eight
30.
... become convinced
that he cannot recover by ...
BB p.96,
Working With Others
31.
... become convinced
that he has more problems ...
12&12 p.39,
Step Three
By now, though, the chances are that he has become
convinced that he has more problems than alcohol, and that some of these refuse to be solved by all
the sheer personal determination and courage he can muster.
32.
... become discontented,
even highly resentful that Alcoholics ...
12&12 p.118,
Step Twelve
After the husband joins A.A., the wife may become discontented, even highly resentful that Alcoholics Anonymous
has done the very thing that all her years of devotion had failed to do.
33.
... become eager.
12&12 p.62,
Step Five
When your mission is carefully explained,
and it is seen by the recipient of your confidence how helpful
he can really be, the conversation will start easily and will soon become eager.
34.
... become elder
statesmen.
12&12 p.135,
Tradition Two
35.
... "become entirely
ready" to have God remove ...
12&12 p.64,
Step Six
So in a very complete and
literal way, all A.A.'s have "become entirely ready" to have God remove the mania for alcohol from their
lives.
36.
... become entirely
willing to aim toward perfection.
12&12 p.69,
Step Six
37.
... become fellows
of Alcoholics Anonymous.
BB p.163,
A Vision For You
Some of them may sink and perhaps never get up, but if our experience is a criterion, more than half of those approached will become fellows of Alcoholics Anonymous.
38.
... become, for
nearly every practical purpose, the ...
BB p.574,
Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form)
II. The General Service Conference of A.A. has become, for nearly every practical purpose, the active voice and the effective conscience
of our whole Society in its world affairs.
39.
... become God-conscious.
BB p.85,
Into Action
40.
... become grooved,
it will be so interesting ...
12&12 p.89,
Step Ten
Once this healthy practice has become grooved, it will be so interesting and profitable that the time it
takes won't be missed.
41.
... become happily
and usefully whole.
12&12 p.15,
Foreword
A.A.'s Twelve Steps are a group of principles, spiritual
in their nature, which, if practiced as a way of life, can expel the obsession to drink and enable the sufferer to
become happily and usefully whole.
42.
... become happy,
respected, and useful once more.
BB p.153,
A Vision For You
43.
... become immensely
rich.
12&12 p.164,
Tradition Seven
Moreover, at the slightest intimation
to the general public
from our trustees that we needed money, we could become immensely rich.
44.
... become irritated
and refuse to talk.
BB p.23,
There Is A Solution
If you draw this fallacious reasoning
to the attention of an alcoholic, he will laugh it off, or become irritated and refuse to talk.
45.
... become jealous
of the attention he bestows ...
BB p.119,
To Wives
Still another difficulty is that you may become jealous of the attention he bestows on
other people, especially alcoholics.
46.
... become more
and more evident as we ...
12&12 p.92,
Step Ten
It will become more and more evident as we go forward that it is pointless to become angry, or to get hurt by people who, like us, are suffering from
the pains of growing up.
47.
... become much
more efficient.
BB p.88,
Into Action
48.
... become much
worse, money was only an ...
12&12 p.120,
Step Twelve
When our drinking had become much worse, money was only an urgent requirement which
could supply us with the next drink and the temporary comfort of oblivion it brought.
49.
... become of
me?
12&12 p.36,
Step Three
If I keep on turning my life and my will over to the care of Something or Somebody else, what will become of me?
50.
... become of
our erratic band of alcoholics?
12&12 p.130,
Tradition One
If strong people were stalemated in the search
for peace and harmony,
what was to become of our erratic band of alcoholics?
51.
... become of
the common sense and will ...
BB p.22,
There Is A Solution
What has become of the common sense and will power that he still sometimes displays with respect to
other matters?
52.
... become of
their judgment, their common sense, ...
BB p.107,
To Wives
53.
... become one
great big happy family.
12&12 p.177,
Tradition Ten
Maybe this sounds as though the alcoholics in
A.A. had suddenly gone peaceable, and become one great big happy family.
54.
... become our
best advocate.
12&12 p.24,
Step One
55.
... become our
greatest workers and intimate friends?
12&12 p.140,
Tradition Three
How could we know that thousands of these sometimes frightening
people were to make astonishing recoveries and become our
greatest workers and intimate friends?
56.
... become our
principal teachers of patience and ...
12&12 p.141,
Tradition Three
Could we then foresee that troublesome people were
to become our principal
teachers of patience
and tolerance?
57.
... become persuaded,
and rightly so, that many ...
12&12 p.40,
Step Three
They have become persuaded, and rightly
so, that many problems besides alcohol will not yield to a headlong assault powered by the individual alone.
58.
... become possible.
12&12 p.17,
Foreword
This established identification with alcoholic readers and proved to them that the virtually impossible
had now become possible.
59.
... become prejudiced
against religion, and those who ...
12&12 p.28,
Step Two
There will be those who have
drifted into indifference, those filled with self-sufficiency who have cut themselves off, those who
have become prejudiced
against religion, and
those who are downright
defiant because God has failed to fulfill their demands.
60.
... become puzzled
and discouraged.
12&12 p.113,
Step Twelve
61.
... become quite
annoyed if there is talk ...
12&12 p.48,
Step Four
62.
... become quite
sure of many things which, ...
BB p.139,
To Employers
Drinking occasionally, and understanding your own reactions, it is possible for you to become quite sure of many things which, so far as the alcoholic is concerned, are not always
so.
63.
... become rather
possessive of these newcomers.
12&12 p.111,
Step Twelve
64.
... become ready
to aim at spiritual and ...
12&12 p.68,
Step Six
Therefore, it seems plain that few of us can quickly or easily become ready to aim at spiritual and moral perfection; we want to settle for only as much perfection as will get us by in life, according, of course, to our various and
sundry ideas of what will get us by.
65.
... become reasonably
confident that we can maintain ...
12&12 p.83,
Step Nine
There will be those who ought to be dealt with just as soon as we become reasonably confident that we can maintain our sobriety.
66.
... become responsible,
and that by making financial ...
12&12 p.165,
Tradition Seven
They pointed out that the irresponsible had become
responsible, and that by making financial independence part of its tradition, Alcoholics Anonymous
had revived an ideal that
its era had almost forgotten.
67.
... become rich.
12&12 p.164,
Tradition Seven
If outside donations
weren't declined, absolutely cut off, then the
Foundation would one day become rich.
68.
... become selfish
of water or bread.
12&12 p.131,
Tradition One
69.
... become so
fascinated that they have dedicated ...
BB p.160,
A Vision For You
70.
... become so
widely accepted by 1950 that ...
BB xix,
Foreword to Second Edition
Though none of these principles had the force
of rules or laws, they had
become so widely accepted by 1950 that they
were confirmed by our first International Conference held at Cleveland.
71.
... become so
wrapped up in A.A. and ...
12&12 p.118,
Step Twelve
Her husband may become so
wrapped up in A.A. and his new friends that he is inconsiderately away
from home more than when he drank.
72.
... become "sold"
on the ideas contained in ...
BB xxxii(xxx),
The Doctor's Opinion
73.
... become sure
that an A.A. group could ...
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.
74.
... become that
the original statement of A.A. ...
12&12 p.146,
Tradition Four
So confident of this had we become that the original statement of A.A. tradition carried this significant sentence:
"Any two or three alcoholics gathered together for sobriety may call themselves an A.A. group provided that as a group they have no other affiliation."
75.
... become the
basic text for our Society ...
BB xi,
Preface
Because this book has become the basic text for our Society and has
helped such large numbers of alcoholic men and women to recovery, there exists strong sentiment against any radical changes being made in it.
76.
... become the
basis of a rapidly growing ...
BB xxv(xxiii),
The Doctor's Opinion
77.
... become the
facts of life for many ...
12&12 p.112,
Step Twelve
And if these are facts of life for the many alcoholics who have recovered in A.A., they can
become the facts of life for many more.
78.
... become the
guiding principle.
BB p.128,
The Family Afterward
79.
... become the
head of the house, often ...
12&12 p.118,
Step Twelve
80.
... become the
mother of an erring boy.
12&12 p.118,
Step Twelve
Very gradually, and usually without any realization of the fact, the wife is forced to become the mother of an erring boy.
81.
... become the
rapacious creditor, bleeds us of ...
12&12 p.21,
Step One
Alcohol, now become the rapacious creditor, bleeds us of all
self-sufficiency and
all will to resist its demands.
82.
... become the
real and permanent leadership of ...
12&12 p.135,
Tradition Two
83.
... become the
voice of the group conscience; ...
12&12 p.135,
Tradition Two
They become the voice of the
group conscience; in fact, these are the true voice of Alcoholics Anonymous.
84.
... become too
dangerous, we think the kind ...
BB p.114,
To Wives
When they become too dangerous, we think the kind thing is to lock them up, but of course a good doctor should always be consulted.
85.
... become true
alcoholics after a while.
BB p.109,
To Wives
86.
... become uncommon
sense.
BB p.13,
Bill's Story
87.
... become unemployable?
12&12 p.86,
Step Nine
Do we instantly confess our irregularities to the firm, in the practical certainty that we will be fired and become unemployable?
88.
... become unmanageable."
12&12 p.21,
Step One
89.
... become unmanageable.
BB p.59,
How It Works
90.
... become unmanageable,
how could people such as ...
12&12 p.23,
Step One
Since Step One requires an admission
that our lives have become unmanageable, how could people such as these take this Step?
91.
... become unreasonable.
12&12 p.115,
Step Twelve
We had refused to learn
the very hard lesson that overdependence upon people is unsuccessful
because all people are fallible, and even the best of them will sometimes let us down, especially when our
demands for attention
become unreasonable.
92.
... become vengeful
or depressed?
12&12 p.51,
Step Four
93.
... become very
curious to know how you ...
BB p.93,
Working With Others
Even though your protégé may not have entirely admitted his condition, he has become very curious to know how you got well.
94.
... become what
we could be.
12&12 p.58,
Step Five
To those who have made progress in A.A., it amounts to a clear recognition of what and who we really are, followed by a
sincere attempt to become what we could be.
95.
... become willing
to depend upon a Higher ...
12&12 p.36,
Step Three
And the facts seem to be
these: The more we become willing to depend upon a Higher Power, the more independent we actually are.
96.
... become willing
to have them removed, our ...
12&12 p.74,
Step Seven
But when we have taken a square look at some of these defects, have discussed
them with another, and have become willing to have them removed, our thinking
about humility commences to have a wider
meaning.
97.
... become willing
to partake and be strengthened ...
12&12 p.100,
Step Eleven
Let us become willing to partake and be
strengthened and lifted up by the sheer spiritual power, beauty, and love of which these magnificent words are the
carriers.
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