From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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12&12 p.26,
Step Two
This is the beginning of the end.
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12&12 p.137,
Tradition Two
3.
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12&12 p.183,
Tradition Eleven
4.
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BB p.8,
Bill's Story
Everyone became resigned to the certainty that I would have to be shut up somewhere, or would stumble along to a miserable end.
5.
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BB p.152,
A Vision For You
6.
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BB p.154,
A Vision For You
Unless he took some drinks, he might not have the courage to scrape an acquaintance and would have a lonely week-end.
7.
... end all
drunks.
BB p.106,
To Wives
8.
... end and
aim of life.
12&12 p.71,
Step Seven
Instead of regarding
the satisfaction of our material desires as the means by which we could live and
function as human beings, we had taken these satisfactions to be the final end and aim of life.
9.
... end and
aim of our lives.
12&12 p.114,
Step Twelve
10.
... end, blotting
out the consciousness of our ...
BB p.25,
There Is A Solution
We were in a position where life was becoming impossible, and if we had passed into the region from
which there is no return through human aid, we had but two alternatives: One was to
go on to the bitter end, blotting out the consciousness of
our intolerable situation as best we could;
and the other, to accept spiritual help.
11.
... end in
itself.
BB p.77,
Into Action
But this is not an end in itself.
12.
... end might
run like this: Looking at ...
12&12 p.52,
Step Four
Questioning directed to this end might run like this: Looking at both past and present, what sex situations have caused me anxiety, bitterness, frustration, or depression?
13.
... end, not
something to be endured or ...
12&12 p.107,
Step Twelve
He has been set on a path which
tells him he is really going somewhere, that life is not a dead end, not something to be endured or mastered.
14.
... end ...
nothing is left."
12&12 p.144,
Tradition Three
15.
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1939 it was estimated that ...
BB xviii,
Foreword to Second Edition
16.
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a few days, the news ...
12&12 p.144,
Tradition Three
17.
... end of
a long road, marked by ...
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
It was only at the end of a long road, marked by successive defeats and humiliations, and the final crushing of our self-sufficiency, that we
began to feel humility as something more than a condition of groveling despair.
18.
... end of
a perfect day, not a ...
BB p.41,
More About Alcoholism
19.
... end of
all.
BB p.49,
We Agnostics
Instead of regarding
ourselves as intelligent agents, spearheads of God's ever advancing Creation, we agnostics
and atheists chose to believe that our human intelligence was the last
word, the alpha and the omega, the beginning and
end of all.
20.
... end of
his next drinking bout.
BB p.90,
Working With Others
21.
... end of
his old life, and the ...
12&12 p.26,
Step Two
And so it is: the beginning of the end of his old life, and the beginning of
his emergence into a new
one.
22.
... end of
isolation from our fellows and ...
12&12 p.82,
Step Eight
23.
... end of
it, my reports to Wall ...
BB p.3,
Bill's Story
At the end of it, my reports to Wall Street procured me a position there and the use of
a large expense account.
24.
... end of
that bleak November, I sat ...
BB p.8,
Bill's Story
25.
... end of
the room stood a glass ...
BB p.154,
A Vision For You
26.
... end of
the spree, or at least ...
BB p.90,
Working With Others
27.
... end result
of purposeful forgetting.
12&12 p.79,
Step Eight
28.
... end that
our great blessings may never ...
12&12 p.192,
Tradition Twelve (Long)
This to the end that our great blessings may never spoil us; that we shall forever live in thankful contemplation of Him who presides over us all.
29.
... end that
our great blessings may never ...
BB p.566(568),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
This to the end that our great blessings may never spoil us; that we shall forever live in thankful contemplation of Him who presides over us all.
30.
... end we
have left.
12&12 p.69,
Step Six
31.
... end, when
we review the happenings of ...
12&12 p.89,
Step Ten
32.
... end with
heart failure during delirium tremens, ...
BB p.7,
Bill's Story
My weary and despairing
wife was informed that it
would all end with heart failure during delirium tremens, or I
would develop a wet brain, perhaps within a year.
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