From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
BOTTOM occurs
10 times
(
Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
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1.
... bottom.
12&12 p.24,
Step One
The
answer is that few people will
sincerely try to
practice the
A.A. program unless they have
hit bottom.
2.
... bottom.
12&12 p.94,
Step Ten
3.
... bottom as
truly as any of us.
12&12 p.24,
Step One
He had
hit bottom as
truly as any of us.
4.
... bottom, becoming
club members; others started in ...
12&12 p.148,
Tradition Four
Some would
start at the
top
and
come through to the
bottom,
becoming club members; others
started in the
club,
pitched a
binge, were
hospitalized, then
graduated to
education
on the
third floor.
5.
... bottom cases
only.
12&12 p.23,
Step One
That is why the
first edition of the book "
Alcoholics Anonymous,"
published when our
membership was
small,
dealt with
low-
bottom cases only.
6.
... bottom first?
12&12 p.24,
Step One
Why all this
insistence that every
A.A. must hit
bottom first?
7.
... bottom levels.
12&12 p.66,
Step Six
Of
course, most
human beings don't
suffer these
defects at these
rock-
bottom levels.
8.
... bottom of
our heart that we know ...
BB p.75,
Into Action
We
thank God from the
bottom of our
heart that we
know Him
better.
9.
... bottom of
the Potomac River?
BB p.51,
We Agnostics
10.
... bottom the
rest of us had hit ...
12&12 p.23,
Step One
It was
obviously necessary to
raise the
bottom the
rest of us had
hit to the
point where it would
hit them.
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