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1.
... began has Alcoholics Anonymous been divided by ...   12&12 p.176, Tradition Ten
Never since it began has Alcoholics Anonymous been divided by a major controversial issue.

2.
... began in 1935 at Akron, Ohio, as ...   12&12 p.16, Foreword
Alcoholics Anonymous began in 1935 at Akron, Ohio, as the outcome of a meeting between a well-known surgeon and a New York broker.

3.
... began to act like most everybody does ...   12&12 p.140, Tradition Three
Naturally, we began to act like most everybody does when afraid.


4.
... began to apply spiritual principles in their ...   BB p.116, To Wives   Go to page 116 in the Big Book
As our husbands began to apply spiritual principles in their lives, we began to see the desirability of doing so too.


5.
... began to ask medical advice as the ...   BB p.106, To Wives   Go to page 106 in the Big Book
We began to ask medical advice as the sprees got closer together.


6.
... began to be called Alcoholics Anonymous, from ...   BB xvii, Foreword to Second Edition   Display entire Foreword to Second Edition
The fledgling society, which had been nameless, now began to be called Alcoholics Anonymous, from the title of its own book.


7.
... began to be jittery in the morning.   BB p.3, Bill's Story   Go to page 3 in the Big Book
I began to be jittery in the morning.


8.
... began to be possessed of a new ...   BB p.46, We Agnostics   Go to page 46 in the Big Book
As soon as we admitted the possible existence of a Creative Intelligence, a Spirit of the Universe underlying the totality of things, we began to be possessed of a new sense of power and direction, provided we took other simple steps.


9.
... began to be replaced by cocksureness.   BB p.6, Bill's Story   Go to page 5 in the Big Book
Some time passed, and confidence began to be replaced by cocksureness.

10.
... began to carry bright promise and meaning.   12&12 p.75, Step Seven
But now the words "Of myself I am nothing, the Father doeth the works" began to carry bright promise and meaning.

11.
... began to come to us, we felt ...   12&12 p.29, Step Two
"As material success founded upon no more than these ordinary attributes began to come to us, we felt we were winning at the game of life.

12.
... began to cry, "There oughtta be a ...   12&12 p.157, Tradition Six
Watching alcoholics committed willy-nilly to prisons or asylums, we began to cry, "There oughtta be a law!"

13.
... began to cut us off, nearly all ...   12&12 p.57, Step Five
Even before our drinking got bad and people began to cut us off, nearly all of us suffered the feeling that we didn't quite belong.

14.
... began to do that, we received the ...   12&12 p.30, Step Two
When we began to do that, we received the gift of faith, a faith which works.


15.
... began to drink deliberately, instead of casually, ...   BB p.37, More About Alcoholism   Go to page 37 in the Big Book
We now see that when we began to drink deliberately, instead of casually, there was little serious or effective thought during the period of premeditation of what the terrific consequences might be.

16.
... began to evaporate.   12&12 p.75, Step Seven
The notion that we would still live our own lives, God helping a little now and then, began to evaporate.

17.
... began to fear pain less, and desire ...   12&12 p.75, Step Seven
We began to fear pain less, and desire humility more than ever.

18.
... began to feel humility as something more ...   12&12 p.72, Step Seven
It was only at the end of a long road, marked by successive defeats and humiliations, and the final crushing of our self-sufficiency, that we began to feel humility as something more than a condition of groveling despair.


19.
... began to feel like those who had ...   BB p.53, We Agnostics   Go to page 52 in the Big Book
When others showed us that "God-sufficiency" worked with them, we began to feel like those who had insisted the Wrights would never fly.

20.
... began to get over the idea that ...   12&12 p.75, Step Seven
We began to get over the idea that the Higher Power was a sort of bush-league pinch hitter, to be called upon only in an emergency.

21.
... began to get the feeling that we ...   12&12 p.57, Step Five
This vital Step was also the means by which we began to get the feeling that we could be forgiven, no matter what we had thought or done.


22.
... began to happen.   BB xvii, Foreword to Second Edition   Display entire Foreword to Second Edition
With the appearance of the new book a great deal began to happen.

23.
... began to have its way with us.   12&12 p.29, Step Two
But then alcohol began to have its way with us.

24.
... began to hold meetings which were open ...   12&12 p.186, Tradition Twelve
Consequently, many groups began to hold meetings which were open to interested friends and the public, so that the average citizen could see for himself just what A.A. was all about.

25.
... began to hum.   12&12 p.148, Tradition Four
Soon things began to hum.

26.
... began to infiltrate my life.   12&12 p.27, Step Two
Right there, Step Two gently and very gradually began to infiltrate my life.

27.
... began to listen while I tried to ...   12&12 p.153, Tradition Five
But as he calmed down, he began to listen while I tried to show him that humility was the main key to sobriety.


28.
... began to look as though religious people ...   BB p.11, Bill's Story   Go to page 11 in the Big Book
It began to look as though religious people were right after all.

29.
... began to look easier.   12&12 p.48, Step Four
But once over the first two or three high hurdles, the course ahead began to look easier.


30.
... began to lose our fear of today, ...   BB p.63, How It Works   Go to page 63 in the Big Book
As we felt new power flow in, as we enjoyed peace of mind, as we discovered we could face life successfully, as we became conscious of His presence, we began to lose our fear of today, tomorrow or the hereafter.

31.
... began to publicly whoop up the merits ...   12&12 p.156, Tradition Six
A.A. groups had their fling at education, and when they began to publicly whoop up the merits of this or that brand, people became confused.


32.
... began to pursue the spiritual remedy for ...   BB xvi, Foreword to Second Edition   Display entire Foreword to Second Edition
But when the broker gave him Dr. Silkworth's description of alcoholism and its hopelessness, the physician began to pursue the spiritual remedy for his malady with a willingness he had never before been able to muster.

33.
... began to receive requests for A.A. speakers ...   12&12 p.186, Tradition Twelve
Soon, groups began to receive requests for A.A. speakers to appear before civic organizations, church groups, and medical societies.

34.
... began to recognize their alcoholism.   12&12 p.23, Step One
Alcoholics who still had their health, their families, their jobs, and even two cars in the garage, began to recognize their alcoholism.


35.
... began to return as time passed.   BB xx, Foreword to Second Edition   Display entire Foreword to Second Edition
But great numbers of these -- about two out of three -- began to return as time passed.

36.
... began to run rest homes and farms ...   12&12 p.167, Tradition Eight
Even greater furors were provoked when A.A. members began to run rest homes and farms for alcoholics, when some hired out to corporations as personnel men in charge of the alcoholic problem in industry, when some became nurses on alcoholic wards, when others entered the field of alcohol education.


37.
... began to see that the world and ...   BB p.66, How It Works   Go to page 66 in the Big Book
We began to see that the world and its people really dominated us.


38.
... began to see the desirability of doing ...   BB p.116, To Wives   Go to page 116 in the Big Book
As our husbands began to apply spiritual principles in their lives, we began to see the desirability of doing so too.

39.
... began to speak.   12&12 p.137, Tradition Two
"Almost timidly, one of my friends began to speak.

40.
... began to suspect how much trouble self-delusion ...   12&12 p.58, Step Five
As we took inventory, we began to suspect how much trouble self-delusion had been causing us.

41.
... began to talk of God."   12&12 p.28, Step Two
Relieved of the alcohol obsession, their lives unaccountably transformed, they came to believe in a Higher Power, and most of them began to talk of God."

42.
... began to tell me of the idea ...   12&12 p.136, Tradition Two
Three years ago, when my head doctor, Silkworth, began to tell me of the idea of helping drunks by spirituality, I thought it was crackpot stuff, but I've changed my mind.


43.
... began to waken very early in the ...   BB p.5, Bill's Story   Go to page 5 in the Big Book
This went on endlessly, and I began to waken very early in the morning shaking violently.


44.
... began to wonder, for such an appalling ...   BB p.5, Bill's Story   Go to page 5 in the Big Book
I began to wonder, for such an appalling lack of perspective seemed near being just that.


45.
... began to wonder if I had not ...   BB p.40, More About Alcoholism   Go to page 40 in the Big Book
I had no trouble refusing drinks, and began to wonder if I had not been making too hard work of a simple matter.


46.
... began to work as a salesman for ...   BB p.35, More About Alcoholism   Go to page 35 in the Big Book
His family was re-assembled, and he began to work as a salesman for the business he had lost through drinking.


47.
... began to work in a department store, ...   BB p.4, Bill's Story   Go to page 4 in the Big Book
My wife began to work in a department store, coming home exhausted to find me drunk.


Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.  The A.A. Preamble, copyright © The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission.  Permission to reprint does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous or The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.

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