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DESIRE occurs
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1.
... desire again,
as so many do, and ...
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxix
2.
... desire ahead
of everything else.
12&12
Step Four, p.43
3.
... desire for
a complete disclosure of the ...
12&12
Step Nine, p.86
There can only be
one consideration which should
qualify our
desire for a
complete disclosure of
the
damage we have
done.
4.
... desire for
alcohol, the only effort necessary ...
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxix
5.
... desire for
prestige becomes uncontrollable, whether in ...
12&12
Step Four, p.44
6.
... desire for
self-preservation, they seem bent upon ...
12&12
Step Six, p.64
7.
... desire humility
more than ever.
12&12
Step Seven, p.75
8.
... desire must
come from within.
BB
Working With Others, p.95
If he is to
find God, the
desire must come from
within.
9.
... desire that
our husbands hold up their ...
BB
To Wives, p.105
Our
loyalty and the
desire
that our
husbands hold up their
heads and be
like other men have
begotten all
sorts of
predicaments.
10.
... desire to
be helpful; that there are ...
BB
There Is A Solution, p.18
That the
man who is
making the
approach has had the
same difficulty, that he
obviously knows what he is
talking about, that his
whole
deportment shouts at the
new prospect that he is a
man with a
real answer, that he has
no attitude of
Holier Than
Thou,
nothing whatever except the
sincere desire to be
helpful; that there are
no fees to
pay,
no
axes to
grind,
no people to
please,
no lectures to be
endured --
these are the
conditions we have
found most
effective.
11.
... desire to
convince anyone that there is ...
BB
There Is A Solution, p.28
We have
no desire to
convince anyone that there is
only
one way by which
faith can be
acquired.
12.
... desire to
do so.
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.32
13.
... desire to
find a mate of the ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.117
14.
... desire to
give them new life.
12&12
Step Six, p.64
15.
... desire to
help and be helped.
12&12
Tradition Eight, p.166
Almost from the
beginning, we have been
positive that
face-to-
face work with the
alcoholic who
suffers could
be
based only on the
desire to
help and be
helped.
16.
... desire to
help it might be well ...
BB
To Employers, p.139
If you
desire to
help it might
be
well to
disregard your
own drinking, or
lack of it.
17.
... desire to
learn and grow by this ...
12&12
Step Ten, p.88
A
continuous look at our
assets and
liabilities,
and a
real desire to
learn and
grow by this
means, are
necessities for
us.
18.
... desire to
let God take us to ...
BB
How It Works, p.70
If we are
sorry for what we have
done, and have the
honest desire to
let God
take us to
better things, we
believe we
will be
forgiven and
will have
learned our
lesson.
19.
... desire to
live upon spiritual principles we ...
BB
Into Action, p.83
20.
... desire to
live usefully and walk humbly ...
12&12
Step Twelve, pp.124-125
21.
... desire to
protect him should not cause ...
BB
To Wives, p.115
Your
desire to
protect him
should not
cause you to
lie to
people when they have a
right
to
know where he is and what he is
doing.
22.
... desire to
retaliate.
12&12
Step Four, p.53
23.
... desire to
retaliate in kind.
12&12
Step Eight, p.80
24.
... desire to
seek and do God's will, ...
12&12
Step Seven, p.72
That
basic ingredient of
all
humility, a
desire to
seek and do
God's
will, was
missing.
25.
... desire to
set right the wrong.
BB
Into Action, p.77
But our
man is
sure to be
impressed with a
sincere
desire to
set right the
wrong.
26.
... desire to
stop, but saw no way ...
BB
A Vision For You, p.155
27.
... desire to
stop drinking.
BB
Foreword to First Edition, p.xiv
28.
... desire to
stop drinking.
BB
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.562
29.
... desire to
stop drinking."
12&12
Contents (Tradition Three), p.10
30.
... desire to
stop drinking."
12&12
Tradition Three, p.139
31.
... desire to
stop drinking."
12&12
Tradition Three, p.144
32.
... desire to
stop drinking.
Grapevine
Preamble
33.
... desire to
stop drinking is of absolutely ...
BB
There Is A Solution, p.24
34.
... desire to
stop was explained.
BB
Bill's Story, p.7
35.
... desire to
stop while there is yet ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.32
But the
difficulty is that
few alcoholics have
enough desire to
stop while there is
yet time.
36.
... desire to
work sixteen hours a day.
BB
To Employers, p.146
You may have to
curb his
desire
to
work sixteen hours a
day.
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