From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... between a
demand and a simple request ...
12&12 p.76,
Step Seven
2.
... between a
New York stockbroker and an ...
BB xv,
Foreword to Second Edition
The spark that was to flare
into the first A.A. group was struck at Akron, Ohio, in June 1935, during a talk between a New York stockbroker and an Akron physician.
3.
... between a
powerful spiritual experience and a ...
BB p.130,
The Family Afterward
We have found nothing incompatible between a powerful spiritual experience and a life of sane and happy usefulness.
4.
... between a
well-known surgeon and a New ...
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.
5.
... between binges
we'd sometimes go to the ...
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.
6.
... between character
and comfort, the character-building was ...
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
But whenever we had to choose between character and comfort,
the character-building was lost in the dust of our chase after what we thought was happiness.
7.
... between East
and West and we foresee ...
BB p.162,
A Vision For You
There is a good bit of travel between East and West and we foresee a great increase in this helpful
interchange.
8.
... between failure
and success.
BB p.98,
Working With Others
9.
... between life
and death.
BB p.561(563),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
To those now in its fold, Alcoholics Anonymous
has made the difference
between misery and sobriety, and often the difference between life and death.
10.
... between misery
and sobriety, and often the ...
BB p.561(563),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
To those now in its fold, Alcoholics Anonymous
has made the difference
between misery and sobriety, and often the difference between life and death.
11.
... between our
first printing of this book ...
BB xv,
Foreword to Second Edition
Sixteen years have elapsed between our first printing of this book and the presentation
in 1955 of our second edition.
12.
... between ourselves
and God as we understand ...
12&12 p.102,
Step Eleven
13.
... between professionalism
and nonprofessionalism.
12&12 p.167,
Tradition Eight
At last, however, a plain line of cleavage could be seen between professionalism and nonprofessionalism.
14.
... between reviling
ourselves and blaming the family ...
12&12 p.84,
Step Nine
This will be a very different occasion, and
in sharp contrast with those hangover mornings when we alternated between reviling ourselves and
blaming the family (and
everyone else) for our troubles.
15.
... between sane
drinking and alcoholism.
12&12 p.33,
Step Two
They are abetted in this blindness by a world which
does not understand the difference between sane drinking and alcoholism.
16.
... between Scylla
and Charybdis now, because if ...
BB p.175,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
I was between Scylla and Charybdis now, because if I did not drink my
stomach tortured me,
and if I did my nerves did the same thing.
17.
... between striving
for a self-determined objective and ...
12&12 p.68,
Step Six
So the difference between "the boys and the men" is the difference between striving for a self-determined objective and for the perfect objective which
is of God.
18.
... between such
people and the alcoholic.
BB p.149,
To Employers
As to them, his policy is undoubtedly sound, but he
did not distinguish between such people and the alcoholic.
19.
... between the
alcoholic and the non-alcoholic.
BB p.44,
We Agnostics
20.
... between "the
boys and the men" is ...
12&12 p.68,
Step Six
So the difference between "the boys and the men" is the difference between striving for a self-determined objective and for the perfect objective which
is of God.
21.
... between the
pains of trying and the ...
12&12 p.74,
Step Seven
22.
... between the
spirit of vested authority and ...
12&12 p.174,
Tradition Nine
It is the difference between the spirit of vested authority and the
spirit of service, two concepts which are sometimes poles apart.
23.
... between these
extremes took a long time.
12&12 p.185,
Tradition Twelve
24.
Between these
lines, it is easy to ...
12&12 p.184,
Tradition Twelve
Between these lines, it is easy to read our fear that large numbers of incoming people might break our anonymity wide open.
25.
... between two
points, yet, there it was.
BB p.54,
We Agnostics
We could not prove life in
the sense that you can prove
a straight line is the shortest distance between two points, yet, there it was.
26.
... between you
and your friends will disappear ...
BB p.115,
To Wives
Barriers which have sprung up between you and your friends will disappear with the growth of sympathetic understanding.
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