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1.
... become.
12&12 p.35,
Step Three
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
5.
... become a
blight, a veritable plague.
BB p.124,
The Family Afterward
6.
... become a
"channel."
12&12 p.101,
Step Eleven
First of all, he
wanted to
become a "
channel."
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
You can
become a
lay therapist, and more
successful than anybody in the
business.'
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
'Don't you
realize,' he went on, 'that you can
never become a
professional?
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
He too, has
become a
respected and
useful member of his
community.
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
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
Then he did something else that was to
become an
A.A. classic.
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
26.
... become co-founders
of the A.A. Fellowship.
12&12 p.16,
Foreword
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
And even those who had
faith already often
become conscious of
God as they
never were before.
29.
... become contemptuous
and vengeful.
12&12 p.80,
Step Eight
We really
issue them an
invitation to
become contemptuous and
vengeful.
30.
... become convinced
that he cannot recover by ...
BB p.96,
Working With Others
If you
leave such a
person
alone, he may soon
become convinced that he cannot
recover by himself.
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
Happily, most of them
survive and
live to
become elder statesmen.
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)
39.
... become God-conscious.
BB p.85,
Into Action
To some
extent we have
become God-
conscious.
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
42.
... become happy,
respected, and useful once more.
BB p.153,
A Vision For You
It may
seem incredible
that these
men are to
become happy,
respected, and
useful once more.
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
We
become much more
efficient.
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
What had
become of their
judgment, their
common sense, their will
power?
53.
... become one
great big happy family.
12&12 p.177,
Tradition Ten
54.
... become our
best advocate.
12&12 p.24,
Step One
John Barleycorn himself
had
become our
best advocate.
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
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
Some will
become quite
annoyed if there is
talk about
immorality, let alone
sin.
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
Here the
temptation is to
become rather
possessive of
these
newcomers.
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
67.
... become rich.
12&12 p.164,
Tradition Seven
68.
... become selfish
of water or bread.
12&12 p.131,
Tradition One
None might
become selfish of
water or
bread.
69.
... become so
fascinated that they have dedicated ...
BB p.160,
A Vision For You
This
couple has since
become
so
fascinated that they have
dedicated their
home to the
work.
70.
... become so
widely accepted by 1950 that ...
BB xix,
Foreword to Second Edition
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
However, he did
become "
sold"
on the
ideas contained
in this book.
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
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
This has
become the
basis of
a
rapidly growing fellowship of these
men and
their
families.
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
Giving, rather than
getting, will
become the
guiding principle.
79.
... become the
head of the house, often ...
12&12 p.118,
Step Twelve
If the
man is
affected, the
wife must become the
head of the
house, often the
breadwinner.
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
82.
... become the
real and permanent leadership of ...
12&12 p.135,
Tradition Two
They
become the
real and
permanent leadership
of
A.A.
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
Of those who
keep on, a
good
number will
become true alcoholics after a
while.
86.
... become uncommon
sense.
BB p.13,
Bill's Story
87.
... become unemployable?
12&12 p.86,
Step Nine
88.
... become unmanageable."
12&12 p.21,
Step One
"We
admitted we were
powerless over
alcohol --
that our
lives had
become unmanageable."
89.
... become unmanageable.
BB p.59,
How It Works
1. We
admitted we were
powerless over
alcohol --
that our
lives had
become unmanageable.
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
When
denied, did I
become vengeful or
depressed?
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
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