Home Page

Search "164 and More"
 
The Book "164 and More"
 
About Recovery Press

From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)

consciousness
consent
consented
CONSEQUENCES   occurs   8 times    (Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
consequent
consequently
conservative

Click    to display the full page from the Big Book

1.
... consequences.   12&12 p.21, Step One
We know that little good can come to any alcoholic who joins A.A. unless he has first accepted his devastating weakness and all its consequences.


2.
... consequences.   BB p.37, More About Alcoholism   Go to page 37 in the Big Book
We have sometimes reflected more than Jim did upon the consequences.


3.
... consequences at all.   BB p.41, More About Alcoholism   Go to page 41 in the Big Book
This time I had not thought of the consequences at all.


4.
... consequences may be.   BB p.79, Into Action   Go to page 79 in the Big Book
Reminding ourselves that we have decided to go to any lengths to find a spiritual experience, we ask that we be given strength and direction to do the right thing, no matter what the personal consequences may be.


5.
... consequences might be.   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.

6.
... consequences of our past acts, and to ...   12&12 p.87, Step Nine
For the readiness to take the full consequences of our past acts, and to take responsibility for the well-being of others at the same time, is the very spirit of Step Nine.


7.
... consequences that follow taking even a glass ...   BB p.24, There Is A Solution   Go to page 24 in the Big Book
The almost certain consequences that follow taking even a glass of beer do not crowd into the mind to deter us.

8.
... consequences which are hard to take.   12&12 p.111, Step Twelve
Here again we are presented with the temptation to overmanage things, and sometimes this results in rebuffs and other consequences which are hard to take.


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.

Top of Screen  Top