From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... experiences.
12&12 p.134,
Tradition Two
These are universal experiences.
2.
... experiences.
BB p.14,
Bill's Story
3.
... experiences.
BB p.27,
There Is A Solution
4.
... experiences.
BB p.29,
There Is A Solution
5.
... experiences.
BB p.46,
We Agnostics
6.
... experiences.
BB p.157,
A Vision For You
7.
... experiences.
BB xxxi(xxix),
The Doctor's Opinion
8.
... experiences.
BB p.177,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
9.
... experiences and
recoveries.
12&12 p.17,
Foreword
The remainder of the book
was devoted to thirty stories or case histories in which the alcoholics described
their drinking experiences
and recoveries.
10.
... experiences are
what the psychologist William James ...
BB p.567(569),
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience
Most of our experiences are what the psychologist William
James calls the "educational variety" because they develop slowly over a period of time.
11.
... experiences, at
some time in life, a ...
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.
12.
... experiences have
shown him that one drink ...
BB p.22,
There Is A Solution
If hundreds of experiences
have shown him that one drink means another debacle with all its attendant suffering and humiliation, why is it he
takes that one drink?
13.
... experiences known
to man, but who had ...
BB p.180,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
But this was a man who had experienced many years of frightful drinking, who had had most all the drunkard's experiences known to man, but who had been cured by the very means I had been trying to employ, that is to say the spiritual approach.
14.
... experiences, must
be in the nature of ...
BB p.567(569),
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience
Yet it is true that our first printing gave many readers the impression
that these personality changes, or religious
experiences, must be in the nature of sudden and spectacular upheavals.
15.
... experiences of
another person unless we are ...
BB p.125,
The Family Afterward
Another principle we
observe carefully is
that we do not relate intimate experiences of another person unless we are sure he would approve.
16.
... experiences of
which he had never even ...
12&12 p.110,
Step Twelve
His own character may still be gravely defective, but he somehow
knows that God has enabled him to make a mighty beginning, and he
senses that he stands at
the edge of new mysteries, joys, and experiences of which he had never
even dreamed.
17.
... experiences, often
years before the onset of ...
12&12 p.23,
Step One
After a few such experiences, often years before the onset of extreme difficulties,
he would return to us convinced.
18.
... experiences taught
us that anonymity is real ...
12&12 p.187,
Tradition Twelve
19.
... experiences to
encourage him to speak of ...
BB p.91,
Working With Others
Tell him enough about your
drinking habits, symptoms, and experiences to
encourage him to speak
of himself.
20.
... experiences, we
could predict that the doubter ...
12&12 p.109,
Step Twelve
From great numbers of such experiences, we could predict that the doubter
who still claimed that he
hadn't got the "spiritual
angle," and who still considered his well-loved A.A. group the higher power, would presently love God and call Him by name.
21.
... experiences, we
think we have arrived at ...
12&12 p.180,
Tradition Eleven
22.
... experiences we'd
rather not remember, if we ...
12&12 p.55,
Step Five
If we have swept the searchlight of Step Four back and forth over our careers, and it has revealed in stark relief those experiences we'd rather not remember, if we have come to
know how wrong thinking and action have hurt us and others, then the need to quit living by ourselves with
those tormenting ghosts of yesterday gets more urgent than ever.
23.
... experiences where
we will seem to be ...
12&12 p.110,
Step Twelve
We may often pass through Twelfth Step experiences where we will seem to be temporarily off the beam.
24.
... experiences(*) which
have revolutionized our whole attitude ...
BB p.25,
There Is A Solution
The great fact is just this, and nothing less: That we have had deep and
effective spiritual
experiences(*) which have revolutionized our whole attitude toward life, toward our fellows and toward God's universe.
25.
... experiences will
help everyone to better understand ...
BB xiii,
Foreword to First Edition
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