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... become.
BB
The Family Afterward, p.122
We find the more one member of the family demands that the others concede to him, the more resentful they become.
2.
... become.
12&12
Step Three, p.35
Any willing newcomer feels sure A.A. is the only safe harbor for the foundering vessel he has
become.
3.
... become:
12&12
Step Eleven, p.99
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:
4.
... become a
better researcher, educator, personnel officer, ...
12&12
Tradition Eight, p.171
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
The Family Afterward, p.124
6.
... become a
"channel."
12&12
Step Eleven, p.101
7.
... become a
continuous hard drinker; but at ...
BB
There Is A Solution, p.21
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
Tradition Two, p.136
9.
... become a
miser, or even a recluse ...
12&12
Step Four, p.43
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
Foreword to Second Edition, p.xviii
11.
... become a
part of their daily work, ...
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxviii
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
Tradition Two, p.137
13.
... become a
regular part of everyday living, ...
12&12
Step Ten, p.90
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
A Vision For You, p.158
15.
... become a
superior person with God on ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.129
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
To Wives, p.115
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
Step Twelve, p.106
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
Step Twelve, p.120
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
Tradition Four, p.149
20.
... become angry,
or to get hurt by ...
12&12
Step Ten, p.92
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
Step Four, p.49
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
Step One, p.24
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
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxviii
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
Step Ten, p.91
For we can neither think nor act to good purpose until the habit of self-restraint has become automatic.
25.
... become available.
BB
Foreword to Fourth Edition, p.xxiii
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
Foreword, p.16
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
Step Twelve, p.116
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
Step Five, p.62
29.
... become contemptuous
and vengeful.
12&12
Step Eight, p.80
30.
... become convinced
that he cannot recover by ...
BB
Working With Others, p.96
31.
... become convinced
that he has more problems ...
12&12
Step Three, p.39
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
Step Twelve, p.118
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
Step Five, pp.61-62
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
Tradition Two, p.135
35.
... "become entirely
ready" to have God remove ...
12&12
Step Six, p.64
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
Step Six, p.69
37.
... become fellows
of Alcoholics Anonymous.
BB
A Vision For You, p.163
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
Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form), p.574
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
Into Action, p.85
40.
... become grooved,
it will be so interesting ...
12&12
Step Ten, p.89
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
Foreword, p.15
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
A Vision For You, p.153
43.
... become immensely
rich.
12&12
Tradition Seven, p.164
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
There Is A Solution, p.23
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
To Wives, p.119
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
Step Ten, p.92
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
Into Action, p.88
48.
... become much
worse, money was only an ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.120
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
Step Three, p.36
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
Tradition One, p.130
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
There Is A Solution, p.22
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
To Wives, p.107
53.
... become one
great big happy family.
12&12
Tradition Ten, p.177
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
Step One, p.24
55.
... become our
greatest workers and intimate friends?
12&12
Tradition Three, p.140
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
Tradition Three, p.141
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
Step Three, p.40
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
Foreword, p.17
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
Step Two, p.28
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
Step Twelve, p.113
61.
... become quite
annoyed if there is talk ...
12&12
Step Four, p.48
62.
... become quite
sure of many things which, ...
BB
To Employers, p.139
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
Step Twelve, p.111
64.
... become ready
to aim at spiritual and ...
12&12
Step Six, p.68
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
Step Nine, p.83
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
Tradition Seven, p.165
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
Tradition Seven, p.164
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
Tradition One, p.131
69.
... become so
fascinated that they have dedicated ...
BB
A Vision For You, p.160
70.
... become so
widely accepted by 1950 that ...
BB
Foreword to Second Edition, p.xix
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
Step Twelve, p.118
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
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxxii
73.
... become sure
that an A.A. group could ...
12&12
Tradition Four, p.146
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
Tradition Four, p.146
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
Preface, p.xi
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
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxv
77.
... become the
facts of life for many ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.112
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
The Family Afterward, p.128
79.
... become the
head of the house, often ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.118
80.
... become the
mother of an erring boy.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.118
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
Step One, p.21
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
Tradition Two, p.135
83.
... become the
voice of the group conscience; ...
12&12
Tradition Two, p.135
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
To Wives, p.114
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
To Wives, p.109
86.
... become uncommon
sense.
BB
Bill's Story, p.13
87.
... become unemployable?
12&12
Step Nine, p.86
Do we instantly confess
our irregularities to the firm, in the practical certainty that we will be fired and become unemployable?
88.
... become unmanageable.
BB
How It Works, p.59
89.
... become unmanageable."
12&12
Contents (Step One), p.5
90.
... become unmanageable."
12&12
Step One, p.21
91.
... become unmanageable,
how could people such as ...
12&12
Step One, p.23
Since Step One requires an admission that
our lives have become unmanageable, how could people such as these take this Step?
92.
... become unreasonable.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.115
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.
93.
... become vengeful
or depressed?
12&12
Step Four, p.51
94.
... become very
curious to know how you ...
BB
Working With Others, pp.92-93
Even though your protégé may not have entirely admitted his condition, he has become very curious to know how you got well.
95.
... become what
we could be.
12&12
Step Five, p.58
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.
96.
... become willing
to depend upon a Higher ...
12&12
Step Three, p.36
And the facts seem to be these:
The more we become willing to depend upon a Higher Power, the more independent we actually
are.
97.
... become willing
to have them removed, our ...
12&12
Step Seven, p.74
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.
98.
... become willing
to partake and be strengthened ...
12&12
Step Eleven, p.100
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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