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EXPERIENCE occurs
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1.
... experience.
BB
There Is A Solution, p.27
This
hope, however, was
destroyed by the
doctor's
telling him that
while his
religious convictions
were
very good, in his
case they did not
spell the
necessary vital spiritual experience.
2.
... experience.
BB
There Is A Solution, pp.28-29
3.
... experience.
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.39
This is a
point we
wish to
emphasize and
re-
emphasize, to
smash home upon our
alcoholic readers as it has
been
revealed to us
out of
bitter experience.
4.
... experience.
BB
We Agnostics, p.56
5.
... Experience."
BB
We Agnostics (Note), p.47
6.
... experience.
BB
How It Works, p.70
These are
facts out of our
experience.
7.
... experience.
BB
Into Action, p.75
We may have had
certain spiritual beliefs, but
now we
begin to have a
spiritual experience.
8.
... experience.
BB
Into Action, p.85
That is our experience.
9.
... experience.
BB
Working With Others, p.92
10.
... experience.
BB
To Wives, pp.118-119
Your
husband will be the
first to
say it was your
devotion and
care which
brought him to the
point where
he could have a
spiritual experience.
11.
... experience.
BB
The Family Afterward, p.128
Assume on the
other hand that
father has, at the
outset, a
stirring spiritual experience.
12.
... experience.
BB
A Vision For You, p.158
He had
begun to have a
spiritual experience.
13.
... experience.
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.180
Of
far more importance was the
fact that
he was the
first living human with whom I had
ever talked, who
knew what he was
talking about in
regard to
alcoholism from
actual
experience.
14.
... experience.
BB
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience, p.568
Most of us
think this
awareness of a
Power greater than
ourselves is
the
essence of
spiritual
experience.
15.
... experience.
12&12
Contents (Tradition Three), p.10
Two examples of
experience.
16.
... experience.
12&12
Step Eleven, p.104
They are
matters of
knowledge and
experience.
17.
... experience.
12&12
Tradition One, p.131
By
faith and by
works we have
been
able to
build upon the
lessons of an
incredible experience.
18.
... experience.
12&12
Tradition Three, p.139
19.
... experience.
12&12
Tradition Four, p.149
He
said he
wished he'd
paid some
attention to
A.A. experience.
20.
... experience.
12&12
Tradition Six, pp.157-158
Soon they'd
spotted their
man, an
A.A. with the
necessary experience.
21.
... experience.
12&12
Tradition Eight, p.167
22.
... experience a
man was brought in to ...
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxxi
About
one year prior to this
experience a
man was
brought in to be
treated for
chronic alcoholism.
23.
... experience: A
woman's voice came faintly over ...
BB
To Employers, p.137
24.
... experience after
another clinched this determination until ...
12&12
Tradition Three, p.141
25.
... experience along
to me -- if I cared ...
BB
Bill's Story, p.9
He had
come to
pass his
experience along to me -- if I
cared to have it.
26.
... experience an
entire psychic change there is ...
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxix
27.
... experience and
a life of sane and ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.130
28.
... experience and
knowledge.
BB
There Is A Solution, p.19
We
shall bring to the
task our
combined experience and
knowledge.
29.
... experience and
learn.
12&12
Step Eleven, p.100
We
rest quietly with the
thoughts of
someone who
knows, so that we may
experience
and
learn.
30.
... experience" and
"spiritual awakening" are used many ...
BB
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience, p.567
31.
... experience and
told him about the course ...
BB
A Vision For You, p.157
The
two friends spoke of their
spiritual
experience and
told him about
the
course of
action they
carried out.
32.
... experience as
Medical Director of one of ...
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxvii
33.
... experience before
the world.
BB
Foreword to Second Edition, p.xvii
34.
... experience by
the dozen.
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.42
They
cited cases out of their
own experience by the
dozen.
35.
... experience can
benefit others.
BB
Into Action, p.84
No matter how
far down the
scale we have
gone, we
will see how our
experience can
benefit others.
36.
... experience can
recover, provided he does not ...
BB
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience, p.568
37.
... experience closely
tallied with his own.
BB
A Vision For You, p.160
38.
... experience does
provide certain answers that work ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.117
39.
... experience, following
a meeting with an alcoholic ...
BB
Foreword to Second Edition, pp.xv-xvi
40.
... experience galore.
BB
The Family Afterward, p.126
With these we have had
experience galore.
41.
... experience had
made him skeptical, he finished ...
BB
There Is A Solution, p.26
42.
Experience has
often warned us that nothing ...
BB
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.564
43.
Experience has
often warned us that nothing ...
12&12
Tradition Seven (Long), p.191
44.
... experience, has
stepped over the threshold of ...
BB
A Vision For You, p.160
Many a
man,
yet dazed from his
hospital experience, has
stepped over the
threshold of that
home into
freedom.
45.
... experience has
taught us that:
BB
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.563
Our
A.A. experience has
taught us that:
46.
... experience has
taught us that:
12&12
Twelve Traditions (Long Form), p.189
Our
A.A. experience has
taught us that:
47.
Experience has
taught us that these are ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.50
Experience has
taught us that
these are
matters about which, for our
purpose, we
need not be
worried.
48.
... experience has
taught us we cannot live ...
12&12
Step Five, p.55
A.A. experience has
taught us we cannot
live alone with our
pressing problems and the
character
defects which
cause or
aggravate them.
49.
... experience has
yet given to those ever-urgent ...
BB
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.561
50.
... experience, he
conceded, was absolutely necessary, but ...
BB
A Vision For You, p.155
51.
... experience, how
the queer mental condition surrounding ...
BB
Working With Others, p.92
52.
... experience in
a book which finally reached ...
12&12
Foreword, p.17
53.
... experience in
A.A. does seem to suggest..."
12&12
Tradition Nine, pp.173-174
But the
majority experience
in
A.A. does
seem to
suggest..."
54.
... experience in
proof of it, still be ...
12&12
Step Eleven, p.96
55.
... experience in
the Cathedral burst upon me.
BB
Bill's Story, p.12
The
real significance of
my
experience in the
Cathedral burst upon me.
56.
... Experience"; in
the second edition, the appendices ...
BB
Preface, p.xi
57.
... experience in
this Step has meant to ...
12&12
Step Eight, p.82
58.
... Experience," indicates
a multitude of ways in ...
BB
There Is A Solution, p.28
59.
... experience is
a criterion, more than half ...
BB
A Vision For You, p.163
60.
... experience, is
sound, and who is willing ...
12&12
Tradition Two, p.135
61.
... experience is
the thing of supreme value ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.124
62.
... experience, it
didn't necessarily mean that we ...
12&12
Step Five, p.58
63.
... experience may
come to you.
BB
To Wives, p.116
This
experience may
come to you.
64.
... experience means
anything at all, this is ...
12&12
Step Five, p.56
Yet if
A.A.'s
experience means anything at all, this is not only
unwise, but is
actually a
perilous resolve.
65.
... experience of
a man who thought he ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.55
In this
book you
will read the
experience of a
man who
thought he was an
atheist.
66.
... experience of
an occasional retreat from the ...
12&12
Step Ten, p.89
67.
... experience of
any alcoholic will abundantly confirm ...
BB
There Is A Solution, p.23
68.
... experience, of
course.
12&12
Step Two, p.27
"This is only
one man's
opinion based on his
own experience, of
course.
69.
... experience of
meditation and prayer across the ...
12&12
Step Eleven, p.98
70.
... experience of
society and government everywhere, that ...
12&12
Tradition Three, p.141
71.
... experience of
the A.A. pioneers captured in ...
12&12
Introduction, p.14
72.
... experience of
this kind, and he was ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.39
It was his
first experience of
this
kind, and he was
much ashamed of it.
73.
... experience, only
to enjoy, in a few ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.134
Some of us had this
experience, only to
enjoy, in a
few months, a
finer intimacy than
ever.
74.
... experience out
of the past.
BB
The Family Afterward, p.132
75.
... experience, plus
the knowledge he had acquired, ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.40
He was
positive that this
humiliating experience,
plus the
knowledge he had
acquired, would
keep him
sober the
rest of his
life.
76.
Experience proved
that we could not endorse ...
12&12
Contents (Tradition Six), p.11
77.
... experience seems
impossible, but to continue as ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.44
78.
... experience shows
that nothing will so much ...
BB
Working With Others, p.89
79.
Experience shows
that such an attitude is ...
BB
Working With Others, p.103
Experience shows that
such an
attitude is not
helpful to
anyone.
80.
... experience shows
that this is not necessarily ...
BB
Working With Others, p.101
Our
experience shows that this
is not
necessarily so.
81.
... experience shows
that you need not be ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.44
Our
experience shows that you
need not be
disconcerted.
82.
... experience, some
of it painful.
BB
To Wives, p.121
But what we have
related is
based upon experience, some of it
painful.
83.
... experience, strength,
and hope.
BB
Foreword to Third Edition, p.xxii
84.
... experience, strength,
and hope with each other, ...
BB
Foreword to Fourth Edition, p.xxiv
85.
... experience, strength
and hope with each other ...
Grapevine
Preamble
86.
... experience taught
us that to take away ...
12&12
Tradition Three, p.141
87.
... experience tell
all these they may still ...
12&12
Step Two, p.28
Can
A.A. experience tell all these they may
still find a
faith that
works?
88.
... experience that
A.A.'s Twelve Traditions took form ...
12&12
Foreword, p.18
89.
... experience that
particularly in these cases we ...
12&12
Step Eleven, p.104
It is
A.A.'s
experience that
particularly in these
cases we
ought to
pray that
God's
will,
whatever it is, be
done for
others as
well as for
ourselves.
90.
... experience, that
we have found nothing which ...
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxviii
91.
... experience, that
we surely must try with ...
12&12
Step Seven, p.73
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.
92.
... experience, the
alcoholic will find he has ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.131
93.
... experience the
conviction grew that A.A.'s had ...
BB
Foreword to Second Edition, p.xix
94.
... experience the
kind of giving that asks ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.106
Here we
experience the
kind of
giving that
asks no rewards.
95.
... experience, the
man agreed that no amount ...
BB
A Vision For You, p.155
When our
friend related his
experience, the
man agreed that
no amount of
will power he might
muster could
stop his
drinking for
long.
96.
... experience the
sense of ease and comfort ...
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxviii
97.
... experience, the
structure of our Society was ...
12&12
Tradition One, p.131
On
anvils of
experience, the
structure of our
Society
was
hammered out.
98.
... experience they
forgave each other and drew ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.124
99.
... experience, they
have turned to easier methods.
BB
Into Action, p.72
Trying to
avoid this
humbling experience, they have
turned to
easier methods.
100.
... experience, this
business of resentment is infinitely ...
BB
How It Works, p.66
101.
... experience, this
is one of the facts ...
12&12
Step One, p.21
Proved beyond doubt by an
immense experience, this is
one of the
facts of
A.A. life.
102.
... experience, this
prayer was his expression of ...
12&12
Step Eleven, p.99
And as he
came out the
other side of that
painful experience, this
prayer was his
expression
of what he could then
see,
feel,
and
wish to
become:
103.
... experience to
their service at The General ...
12&12
Tradition Eight (Note), p.169
104.
... experience to
think that they can stop, ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.33
Young people may be
encouraged by this
man's
experience to
think that they can
stop, as he did, on their
own will power.
105.
... experience top
secret.
12&12
Tradition Eight, p.171
106.
... experience, we
are sure they will come.
BB
A Vision For You, p.153
Should you
wish them
above all
else, and be
willing to
make use of our
experience, we are
sure they
will come.
107.
... experience, we
ask that we be given ...
BB
Into Action, p.79
108.
... experience were
being sold for money, hence ...
12&12
Tradition Eight, p.167
In all these
instances, and
more, it was
claimed that
A.A. knowledge and
experience were
being sold for
money,
hence these
people, too, were
professionals.
109.
... experience whether
we are drinking or not.
12&12
Step Ten, p.88
But there is
another kind of
hangover which we all
experience whether we are
drinking or not.
110.
... experience, which
as we have already told ...
BB
There Is A Solution, p.28
Here was the
terrible dilemma in which our
friend found himself when he had the
extraordinary experience, which as we have
already told you,
made him a
free man.
111.
... experience which
finally produced the Twelve Traditions ...
12&12
Foreword, p.18
112.
... experience which
has led us to the ...
12&12
Tradition Two, p.135
This is the
experience which has
led us to the
conclusion that
our
group conscience,
well-
advised by
its elders,
will be in the
long run wiser than
any single leader.
113.
... experience will
conquer.
BB
We Agnostics, p.44
If that be the
case, you may be
suffering from an
illness
which only a
spiritual experience will conquer.
114.
... experience with
A.A., said: "The alcoholics we ...
BB
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A., p.570
115.
... experience with
alcoholic excuses naturally arouses suspicion.
BB
To Employers, p.146
116.
... experience with
an alcoholic, this may seem ...
BB
Working With Others, p.101
To a
person who has had
experience with an
alcoholic,
this may
seem like tempting Providence, but
it isn't.
117.
... experience with
Step Four.
12&12
Step Four, p.46
They can do this, for they are the
carriers of
A.A.'s
tested experience with
Step Four.
118.
... experience with
the sufferings of our members ...
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxv
119.
... experience within
the Fellowship on how A.A. ...
12&12
Introduction, p.14
120.
... experience you
can be uniquely useful to ...
BB
Working With Others, p.89
Ministers and
doctors
are
competent and you can
learn much from them if you
wish, but it
happens that
because of your
own drinking experience you can be
uniquely useful to
other alcoholics.
121.
... experience you
must not miss.
BB
Working With Others, p.89
To
watch people recover, to
see them
help others, to
watch loneliness vanish, to
see a
fellowship grow up about you, to have a
host of
friends -- this is an
experience
you
must not
miss.
122.
... experience yourself,
you can give him much ...
BB
Working With Others, p.96
Having had the
experience yourself, you can
give him
much practical advice.
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