From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
Click
to display the full page from the Big Book1.
... desire again,
as so many do, and ...
BB xxix(xxvii),
The Doctor's Opinion
After they have succumbed to the desire again, as so many do, and the phenomenon of craving develops, they pass through the well-known stages of a spree, emerging remorseful, with a firm resolution not to drink again.
2.
... desire ahead
of everything else.
12&12 p.43,
Step Four
3.
... desire for
a complete disclosure of the ...
12&12 p.86,
Step Nine
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 xxix(xxvii),
The Doctor's Opinion
On the other hand -- and strange as this may seem to those who do not understand -- once a psychic change has occurred, the very same person who seemed doomed, who had so many problems he despaired of ever solving them, suddenly finds himself easily able to control his desire for alcohol, the only effort necessary being that required to follow a few simple rules.
5.
... desire for
prestige becomes uncontrollable, whether in ...
12&12 p.44,
Step Four
When an individual's desire for prestige becomes uncontrollable, whether in the sewing circle or at the international conference table, other people suffer and often revolt.
6.
... desire for
self-preservation, they seem bent upon ...
12&12 p.64,
Step Six
7.
... desire humility
more than ever.
12&12 p.75,
Step Seven
8.
... desire must
come from within.
BB p.95,
Working With Others
9.
... desire that
our husbands hold up their ...
BB p.105,
To Wives
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 p.18,
There Is A Solution
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 p.28,
There Is A Solution
12.
... desire to
do so.
BB p.32,
More About Alcoholism
We have heard of a few instances where people,
who showed definite signs of alcoholism, were
able to stop for a long period because of an overpowering desire to do
so.
13.
... desire to
find a mate of the ...
12&12 p.117,
Step Twelve
Nearly every sound human being experiences, at
some time in life, a compelling desire to find a mate of the opposite sex with whom the fullest possible union can be made -- spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical.
14.
... desire to
give them new life.
12&12 p.64,
Step Six
Here their powerful instinct to live can cooperate fully with their
Creator's desire to give them new life.
15.
... desire to
help and be helped.
12&12 p.166,
Tradition Eight
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 p.139,
To Employers
17.
... desire to
learn and grow by this ...
12&12 p.88,
Step Ten
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 p.70,
How It Works
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 p.83,
Into Action
Unless one's family expresses a desire to live upon spiritual principles we think we ought not to urge them.
20.
... desire to
live usefully and walk humbly ...
12&12 p.124,
Step Twelve
21.
... desire to
protect him should not cause ...
BB p.115,
To Wives
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 p.53,
Step Four
23.
... desire to
retaliate in kind.
12&12 p.80,
Step Eight
If our sex conduct is selfish, we may excite jealousy, misery, and a strong desire to retaliate in kind.
24.
... desire to
seek and do God's will, ...
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
25.
... desire to
set right the wrong.
BB p.77,
Into Action
26.
... desire to
stop, but saw no way ...
BB p.155,
A Vision For You
He had a desperate desire
to stop, but saw no way out,
for he had earnestly tried many avenues of escape.
27.
... desire to
stop drinking."
12&12 p.139,
Tradition Three
28.
... desire to
stop drinking."
12&12 p.144,
Tradition Three
29.
... desire to
stop drinking.
BB p.562(564),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
30.
... desire to
stop drinking.
BB xiv,
Foreword to First Edition
31.
... desire to
stop drinking.
Grapevine,
Preamble
32.
... desire to
stop drinking is of absolutely ...
BB p.24,
There Is A Solution
At a certain point in the
drinking of every alcoholic, he passes into
a state where the most powerful desire to stop drinking is of absolutely no avail.
33.
... desire to
stop was explained.
BB p.7,
Bill's Story
34.
... desire to
stop while there is yet ...
BB p.32,
More About Alcoholism
35.
... desire to
work sixteen hours a day.
BB p.146,
To Employers
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.
Copyright © 2005-2012, Recovery Press LLC; All Rights Reserved.