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... common.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.123
The doctors weren't trying to find how different we were from one another; they sought to find whatever personality traits, if any, this group of alcoholics had in common.
2.
... common and
that you would like, in ...
BB
Working With Others, p.95
But point out that we alcoholics have much in common and that you would like, in any case, to be friendly.
3.
... common are
not too hard to understand.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.106
4.
... common effort,
the well-understood fact that in ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.124
Service, gladly rendered, obligations squarely met, troubles well accepted or solved with God's help, the knowledge that at home or in
the world outside we are partners in a common effort, the well-understood fact that in God's sight all human beings are important, the proof that love freely given surely brings a full return, the certainty that
we are no longer isolated and alone in self-constructed prisons, the surety that we need no longer be square pegs in round holes but can fit and belong in God's scheme of things -- these are
the permanent and legitimate satisfactions of right living for which no amount of pomp and circumstance, no heap of material possessions, could possibly be substitutes.
5.
... common enough,
we A.A.'s find we need ...
12&12
Step Ten, p.92
Although these attitudes are common enough, we A.A.'s find we need something much better in order to keep our balance.
6.
... common form
of trouble too.
BB
Into Action, p.79
7.
... common good
is the essence of all ...
12&12
Contents (Tradition Twelve), p.13
8.
... common good,
we realize that the sacrificial ...
12&12
Tradition Twelve, p.184
Because A.A.'s Twelve Traditions repeatedly ask us to give up personal desires for the
common good, we realize that the sacrificial spirit -- well symbolized by anonymity -- is the foundation of them all.
9.
... common ground
of tolerance, understanding and love.
BB
The Family Afterward, p.122
10.
... common interest
in A.A. and spiritual things, ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.119
Their common suffering as
drinkers, their common interest in A.A. and spiritual things, often enhance such unions.
11.
... common journey.
BB
A Vision For You, pp.152-153
You will be bound to them with
new and wonderful ties, for you will escape disaster together and you will commence shoulder to shoulder your common journey.
12.
... common manifestations.
BB
How It Works, p.64
Being convinced that self, manifested in various ways, was what had defeated us, we considered its common manifestations.
13.
... common peril
is one element in the ...
BB
There Is A Solution, p.17
The feeling of having shared in a common peril is one element in the powerful cement which binds us.
14.
... common problem
and help others to recover ...
Grapevine
Preamble
Alcoholics Anonymous
is a fellowship of men and
women who share their experience, strength and
hope with each other that they may solve their
common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism.
15.
... common problems
and to help fellow sufferers ...
12&12
Foreword, p.15
Alcoholics Anonymous
is a worldwide fellowship of more than one hundred thousand(*) alcoholic men and women who are banded together to solve their common problems and to help fellow sufferers in recovery from that age-old, baffling malady, alcoholism.
16.
... common sense.
BB
Into Action, p.77
When it will serve any good purpose, we are willing to announce our convictions
with tact and common sense.
17.
... common sense
and will power that he ...
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?
18.
... common sense,
their will power?
BB
To Wives, p.107
19.
Common sense
would thus become uncommon sense.
BB
Bill's Story, p.13
20.
... common solution.
BB
There Is A Solution, p.17
21.
... common suffering
as drinkers, their common interest ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.119
Their common suffering as
drinkers, their common interest in A.A. and spiritual things, often enhance such unions.
22.
... common suffering;
one having a vast potential ...
BB
Appendix IV, The Lasker Award, p.571
"The American Public Health Association presents a Lasker Group Award for 1951 to Alcoholics Anonymous in recognition of its unique and highly successful approach to
that age-old public health and social problem, alcoholism ... In emphasizing alcoholism
as an illness, the social
stigma associated with
this condition is being blotted out ... Historians may one day recognize Alcoholics Anonymous to
have been a great venture in
social pioneering which
forged a new instrument for social action; a new therapy based on the kinship of common suffering; one having a vast potential for the myriad other ills of mankind."
23.
Common symptoms
of emotional insecurity are worry, ...
12&12
Contents (Step Four), p.6
24.
... common symptoms
of emotional insecurity are worry, ...
12&12
Step Four, p.52
25.
... common: they
cannot start drinking without developing ...
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxx
All these, and many others,
have one symptom in common: they cannot start drinking without developing the phenomenon of craving.
26.
... common to
most denominations.
BB
Working With Others, p.94
27.
... common welfare
came first.
12&12
Tradition One, p.131
28.
... common welfare
comes first.
BB
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.563
29.
... common welfare
comes first.
12&12
Tradition One (Long), p.189
30.
... Common welfare
comes first. How best to ...
12&12
Contents (Tradition One), p.9
Tradition One -- "Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon A.A. unity." Without unity, A.A. dies. Individual liberty, yet great unity. Key to paradox: each A.A.'s life depends on obedience to spiritual principles.
The group must survive or the individual
will not. Common welfare comes first. How best to live and work together as groups.
31.
... common welfare
first? What in Heaven's name ...
12&12
Tradition One, p.130
"How," they ask, "can such a crowd of anarchists function at all? How can they possibly place their common welfare first? What in Heaven's name holds them together?"
32.
... common welfare
is paramount.
BB
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.563
33.
... common welfare
is paramount.
12&12
Tradition Four (Long), p.189
34.
... common welfare
should come first; personal recovery ...
BB
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.562
35.
... common welfare
should come first; personal recovery ...
12&12
Contents (Tradition One), p.9
Tradition One -- "Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon A.A. unity." Without unity, A.A. dies. Individual liberty, yet great unity. Key to paradox: each A.A.'s life depends on obedience to spiritual principles.
The group must survive or the individual
will not. Common welfare comes first. How best to live and work together as groups.
36.
... common welfare
should come first; personal recovery ...
12&12
Tradition One, p.129
37.
... common with
all the others.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.106
38.
... common with
these people, though he may ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.131
Being possessed of a spiritual experience,
the alcoholic will find he has much in common with these people, though he may differ with them
on many matters.
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