From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... else.
12&12 p.39,
Step Three
2.
... else.
12&12 p.43,
Step Four
3.
... else.
12&12 p.49,
Step Four
But the testimony of A.A.'s
who have really tried a moral inventory is that pride and fear of this sort turn out to be bogeymen, nothing else.
4.
... else.
12&12 p.121,
Step Twelve
5.
... else.
12&12 p.147,
Tradition Four
In charting this enormous expanse of freedom, we found it necessary to post only two storm signals: A group ought not do anything which
would greatly injure A.A. as a whole, nor ought it affiliate itself with anything or anybody else.
6.
... else."
12&12 p.154,
Tradition Five
7.
... else.
12&12 p.157,
Tradition Six
8.
... else?
BB p.37,
More About Alcoholism
9.
... else.
BB p.44,
We Agnostics
10.
... else.
BB p.54,
We Agnostics
11.
... else:
BB p.56,
We Agnostics
12.
... else.
BB p.64,
How It Works
13.
... else.
BB p.73,
Into Action
14.
... else?
BB p.81,
Into Action
How could she be anything else?
15.
... else.
BB p.96,
Working With Others
Let him know you are available if he wishes to
make a decision and tell his story, but do not insist upon it if he prefers to consult someone else.
16.
... else.
BB p.112,
To Wives
17.
... else.
BB p.126,
The Family Afterward
He may either plunge into
a frantic attempt to get on his feet in business, or he may be so enthralled by his new life that he talks or thinks of little else.
18.
... else.
BB p.128,
The Family Afterward
19.
... else.
BB p.129,
The Family Afterward
During those first days of convalescence, this will
do more to insure his sobriety than anything
else.
20.
... else; a
state of mind which became ...
BB p.172,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
My whole life seemed to be centered around doing what I wanted to do, without regard for the rights, wishes, or privileges of
anyone else; a state of mind which became more and more predominant as the years passed.
21.
... else all
their life story.
BB p.73,
Into Action
But they had not learned enough of humility, fearlessness and honesty, in the sense we find it necessary, until they told someone else all their life story.
22.
... else, and
be willing to make use ...
BB p.153,
A Vision For You
Should you wish them above
all else, and be willing to
make use of our experience, we are sure
they will come.
23.
... else, at
least on the surface.
12&12 p.177,
Tradition Ten
Before we leveled off a
bit, A.A. looked more like one prodigious squabble
than anything else, at least on the surface.
24.
... else's, but
when an honest effort is ...
12&12 p.114,
Step Twelve
Our basic troubles are
the same as everyone else's, but when an honest effort is made "to practice these principles in all our affairs," well-grounded A.A.'s seem to have the ability, by
God's grace, to take these troubles in stride and turn them into demonstrations of faith.
25.
... else can.
BB p.89,
Working With Others
26.
... else can
survive unless he carries the ...
12&12 p.130,
Tradition One
27.
... else could
be?
12&12 p.133,
Tradition Two
Who else could be?
28.
... else could
or would.
BB p.105,
To Wives
29.
... else could
or would do.
12&12 p.167,
Tradition Eight
Ignoring the fact that
these labors were not Twelfth Step jobs at all, the critics attacked as A.A. professionals these workers of ours who were often doing thankless tasks that no one else
could or would do.
30.
... else do
the same thing, we still ...
12&12 p.57,
Step Five
Until we had talked with complete candor of our conflicts, and had listened to someone else do the same thing, we still didn't belong.
31.
... else fall
by the wayside.
12&12 p.74,
Step Seven
But again we are driven on
by the inescapable conclusion which we draw
from A.A. experience, that
we surely must try with a will, or else fall by the wayside.
32.
... else) for
our troubles.
12&12 p.84,
Step Nine
This will be a very different occasion, and
in sharp contrast with those hangover mornings when we alternated between reviling ourselves and
blaming the family (and
everyone else) for our troubles.
33.
... else for
the more difficult and deeper ...
12&12 p.61,
Step Five
It may turn out, however, that
you'll choose someone
else for the more difficult and deeper revelations.
34.
... else given
an opportunity to get well.
BB p.147,
To Employers
They often jeopardize
their own positions by trying to help serious drinkers who
should have been fired long
ago, or else given an opportunity to
get well.
35.
... else He
is nothing.
BB p.53,
We Agnostics
When we became alcoholics, crushed by a
self-imposed crisis we could not postpone or evade, we had to
fearlessly face the proposition that either
God is everything or
else He is nothing.
36.
... else how.
12&12 p.156,
Tradition Six
37.
... else in
A.A.
12&12 p.46,
Step Four
They comfort the melancholy one by first showing him that his case is not strange or different, that his character defects are probably not more numerous or worse than those of anyone else in A.A.
38.
... else, in
God's hands.
BB p.120,
To Wives
39.
... else into
this?"
12&12 p.59,
Step Five
40.
... else is
not counted as some special ...
12&12 p.177,
Tradition Ten
Let us reemphasize that
this reluctance to fight one another or anybody else is not counted as some special virtue which makes us feel superior to other people.
41.
... else, it
is well that a man ...
BB p.127,
The Family Afterward
42.
... else most
of us will finally die ...
BB p.561(563),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
We alcoholics see that we
must work together and hang together, else most of us will finally die alone.
43.
... else of
great moment is apt to ...
12&12 p.62,
Step Five
44.
... else, save
the spineless and stupid.
BB p.139,
To Employers
45.
... else stands
in judgment.
BB p.135,
The Family Afterward
Though he is now a most effective member of Alcoholics Anonymous,
he still smokes and drinks coffee, but neither his wife nor anyone else stands in judgment.
46.
... else that
was to become an A.A. ...
12&12 p.149,
Tradition Four
47.
... else to
console him -- not always another ...
BB p.111,
To Wives
48.
... else, we
were afflicted with pride, self-pity, ...
BB p.116,
To Wives
We wives found that, like everybody else, we were afflicted with pride, self-pity, vanity and all the things which go to make up the self-centered person; and we were not above
selfishness or dishonesty.
49.
... else, what
will become of me?
12&12 p.36,
Step Three
If I keep on turning my life and my will over to the care of Something or Somebody
else, what will become of me?
50.
Else why
would we consume such great ...
12&12 p.67,
Step Six
Else why would we consume such great amounts of time wishing for what we have
not, rather than working
for it, or angrily looking for attributes
we shall never have, instead of adjusting to
the fact, and accepting
it?
51.
... else will
be prejudiced for as long ...
BB p.48,
We Agnostics
Sometimes this was a tedious process; we hope no one
else will be prejudiced for as long as
some of us were.
52.
... else would.
12&12 p.116,
Step Twelve
We found that dependence upon His perfect justice, forgiveness, and love was
healthy, and that it would work where nothing else would.
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