From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... common.
12&12 p.123,
Step Twelve
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 p.95,
Working With Others
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 p.106,
Step Twelve
4.
... common effort,
the well-understood fact that in ...
12&12 p.124,
Step Twelve
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 p.92,
Step Ten
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 p.79,
Into Action
7.
... common good,
we realize that the sacrificial ...
12&12 p.184,
Tradition Twelve
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.
8.
... common ground
of tolerance, understanding and love.
BB p.122,
The Family Afterward
9.
... common interest
in A.A. and spiritual things, ...
12&12 p.119,
Step Twelve
Their common suffering as
drinkers, their common interest in A.A. and spiritual things, often enhance such unions.
10.
... common journey.
BB p.153,
A Vision For You
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.
11.
... common manifestations.
BB p.64,
How It Works
Being convinced that self, manifested in various ways, was what had defeated us, we considered its common manifestations.
12.
... common peril
is one element in the ...
BB p.17,
There Is A Solution
The feeling of having shared in a common peril is one element in the powerful cement which binds us.
13.
... 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.
14.
... common problems
and to help fellow sufferers ...
12&12 p.15,
Foreword
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.
15.
... common sense.
BB p.77,
Into Action
When it will serve any good purpose, we are willing to
announce our convictions with tact and
common sense.
16.
... common sense
and will power that he ...
BB p.22,
There Is A Solution
What has become of the common sense and will power that he still sometimes displays with respect to
other matters?
17.
... common sense,
their will power?
BB p.107,
To Wives
18.
Common sense
would thus become uncommon sense.
BB p.13,
Bill's Story
19.
... common solution.
BB p.17,
There Is A Solution
20.
... common suffering
as drinkers, their common interest ...
12&12 p.119,
Step Twelve
Their common suffering as
drinkers, their common interest in A.A. and spiritual things, often enhance such unions.
21.
... common suffering;
one having a vast potential ...
BB p.571(573),
Appendix IV, The Lasker Award
"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."
22.
... common symptoms
of emotional insecurity are worry, ...
12&12 p.52,
Step Four
23.
... common: they
cannot start drinking without developing ...
BB xxx(xxviii),
The Doctor's Opinion
All these, and many others,
have one symptom in common: they cannot start drinking without developing the phenomenon of craving.
24.
... common to
most denominations.
BB p.94,
Working With Others
25.
... common welfare
came first.
12&12 p.131,
Tradition One
26.
... common welfare
comes first.
12&12 p.189,
Tradition One (Long)
27.
... common welfare
comes first.
BB p.563(565),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
28.
... common welfare
first?
12&12 p.130,
Tradition One
29.
... common welfare
is paramount.
12&12 p.189,
Tradition Four (Long)
30.
... common welfare
is paramount.
BB p.563(565),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
31.
... common welfare
should come first; personal recovery ...
12&12 p.129,
Tradition One
32.
... common welfare
should come first; personal recovery ...
BB p.562(564),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
33.
... common with
all the others.
12&12 p.106,
Step Twelve
34.
... common with
these people, though he may ...
BB p.131,
The Family Afterward
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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