From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... feel.
12&12 p.27,
Step Two
2.
... feel a
man is unthinking when he ...
BB p.82,
Into Action
3.
... feel a
part.
BB p.15,
Bill's Story
We commenced to make many fast friends and a fellowship
has grown up among us of which it is a wonderful thing to feel a part.
4.
... feel absolutely
free to come and go ...
BB p.120,
To Wives
5.
... feel, after
many years of experience, that ...
BB xxviii(xxvi),
The Doctor's Opinion
We feel, after many years of experience, that we have found nothing which has contributed more to the rehabilitation of these men than the altruistic movement now growing up among them.
6.
... feel alone.
12&12 p.120,
Step Twelve
7.
... feel, and
believe that which he could ...
12&12 p.106,
Step Twelve
When a man or a woman has a spiritual awakening,
the most important meaning of it is that he has now become able to do, feel, and believe that which he could not do before on his unaided strength and resources
alone.
8.
... feel, and
wish to become:
12&12 p.99,
Step Eleven
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:
9.
... feel as
though we had been placed ...
BB p.85,
Into Action
10.
... Feel better.
Work better. Having a better ...
BB p.151,
A Vision For You
Now and then a serious drinker, being dry at the moment says, "I don't miss it at all.
Feel better. Work better. Having a better time."
11.
... feel bound
to devote themselves solely to ...
12&12 p.150,
Tradition Five
But once these men had hit upon a cure, once it became apparent that only
by their united effort
could this be accomplished, then all of them
would feel bound to devote themselves solely to the relief of cancer.
12.
... feel closer
over a highball.
BB p.110,
To Wives
13.
... feel confident
in our new way of ...
12&12 p.85,
Step Nine
As soon as we begin to feel confident in our new way of life and have begun, by our behavior and example, to
convince those about us
that we are indeed changing for the better, it
is usually safe to talk in complete frankness with those who
have been seriously affected, even those who may be only a little
or not at all aware of what we have done to them.
14.
... feel diffident
about going to some of ...
BB p.76,
Into Action
As we look over the list of business acquaintances and friends we have hurt, we may
feel diffident about going to some of them on a spiritual basis.
15.
... feel, direct,
and use, without a reasonable ...
BB p.48,
We Agnostics
Simply because it is impossible to explain
what we see, feel, direct, and use, without a reasonable assumption as a starting point.
16.
... feel elated.
12&12 p.92,
Step Ten
For no people have ever loved personal triumphs more than we have loved them; we
drank of success as of a
wine which could never fail to make us feel elated.
17.
... feel emotionally
secure among grown-up people, we ...
12&12 p.116,
Step Twelve
It became clear that if we
ever were to feel emotionally secure among grown-up people, we would have to put our lives on a give-and-take basis; we would have to develop the sense of being in partnership or
brotherhood with all those around us.
18.
... feel fully
responsible.
BB p.143,
To Employers
19.
... feel he
can deal with you without ...
BB p.91,
Working With Others
20.
... feel he
has spiritual justification for so ...
BB p.129,
The Family Afterward
Instead of treating the
family as he should, he may retreat further into himself and feel he has spiritual justification for so doing.
21.
... feel he
should now be yours.
BB p.119,
To Wives
You feel he should now be
yours.
22.
... feel heroic.
BB p.1,
Bill's Story
War fever ran high in the New England town to which we new, young officers from Plattsburg were assigned, and we were flattered when the first citizens took us to their homes, making us feel heroic.
23.
... feel his
own inadequacy.
BB xxix(xxvii),
The Doctor's Opinion
Faced with this problem,
if a doctor is honest with
himself, he must sometimes feel his own inadequacy.
24.
... feel humility
as something more than a ...
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.
25.
... feel it.
BB p.126,
The Family Afterward
26.
... feel it
better to let our friends ...
12&12 p.192,
Tradition Eleven (Long)
27.
... feel it
better to let our friends ...
BB p.565(567),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
28.
... feel it
is something that might help ...
12&12 p.96,
Step Eleven
To be sure, we feel it is something that might help us
to meet an occasional emergency, but at first many of us are apt to regard it as a somewhat mysterious skill of clergymen, from which we may hope to get a secondhand benefit.
29.
... feel just
a little superior to the ...
12&12 p.66,
Step Six
Who, for example, doesn't like to feel just a little superior to the next fellow, or even quite a lot superior?
30.
... feel like
those who had insisted the ...
BB p.53,
We Agnostics
When others showed us that
"God-sufficiency" worked with them, we began to
feel like those who had insisted the
Wrights would never fly.
31.
... feel lonely,
hurt, and left out as ...
12&12 p.120,
Step Twelve
At first many of these feel lonely, hurt, and left out as they witness so much domestic happiness about them.
32.
... feel lonely,
sorry for himself.
BB p.81,
Into Action
33.
... feel no
reluctance to rid yourself of ...
BB p.148,
To Employers
34.
... feel satisfied
that there is no need ...
12&12 p.113,
Step Twelve
We temporarily cease
to grow because we feel satisfied that there is no need for all of A.A.'s Twelve Steps for us.
35.
... feel satisfied
with a proposal which does ...
BB p.53,
We Agnostics
We agnostically inclined would not feel satisfied with a proposal which does not lend
itself to reasonable
approach and interpretation.
36.
... feel sorry
for you.
BB p.181,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
If you think you are an atheist, an agnostic, a skeptic, or have any other form of intellectual pride which
keeps you from accepting
what is in this book, I feel
sorry for you.
37.
... feel superior
by pulling him down.
12&12 p.94,
Step Ten
Or, the person concerned not being present, we thought we were
helping others to understand him, when in actuality our true motive was to feel superior by pulling him down.
38.
... feel superior
to all of them.
12&12 p.30,
Step Two
39.
... feel superior
to other people.
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.
40.
... feel that
as psychiatrists directing a hospital ...
BB xxviii(xxvi),
The Doctor's Opinion
If any feel that as psychiatrists directing a hospital for
alcoholics we appear
somewhat sentimental, let them stand with us a while on the firing line, see the tragedies, the despairing wives, the little children; let the solving of these problems become a part of their daily work, and even of their sleeping moments, and the
most cynical will not wonder that we have accepted and encouraged
this movement.
41.
... feel that
each family, in the light ...
BB p.103,
Working With Others
42.
... feel that
elimination of our drinking is ...
BB p.19,
There Is A Solution
43.
... feel that
for years his drinking has ...
BB p.129,
The Family Afterward
Dad may feel that for years his drinking has placed him on the wrong side of every argument, but that now he has
become a superior person with God on his side.
44.
... feel that
he will now measure up ...
BB p.118,
To Wives
It is the most natural thing in the world, once his liquor problem is solved, to feel that he will now measure up to that cherished vision.
45.
... feel that
I had known him before.
BB xxxi(xxix),
The Doctor's Opinion
I talked with him for some time, but was not able to bring myself to feel that I had known him before.
46.
... feel that
we might have the answer ...
12&12 p.155,
Tradition Six
The moment we saw that we had
an answer for alcoholism, it was reasonable (or so it seemed at the time) for us to
feel that we might have the answer to a lot of other things.
47.
... feel that
we understand as perhaps few ...
BB p.104,
To Wives
48.
... feel that
you must apologize as though ...
BB p.115,
To Wives
You will no longer be self-conscious or feel that you
must apologize as though your husband were a
weak character.
49.
... feel that
you must have some help, ...
BB p.181,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
But if you really and truly
want to quit drinking liquor for good and all, and sincerely
feel that you must have some
help, we know that we have an
answer for you.
50.
... feel the
ache.
BB p.23,
There Is A Solution
They sound like the philosophy of the man who,
having a headache, beats
himself on the head with a
hammer so that he can't feel
the ache.
51.
... feel the
nearness of our Creator.
BB p.75,
Into Action
52.
... feel the
urge wholly to rely on ...
12&12 p.116,
Step Twelve
If we really depended upon God, we couldn't very well play God to our fellows nor would we feel the urge wholly to rely on human protection and care.
53.
... feel their
money troubles are about to ...
BB p.126,
The Family Afterward
The family will be affected also, pleasantly at first, as
they feel their money troubles are about to be solved, then not so pleasantly as they find themselves neglected.
54.
... feel themselves
cut off from God's help ...
12&12 p.105,
Step Eleven
All this should be very encouraging news for those who recoil from prayer because they don't believe in it, or because
they feel themselves cut off from God's help and direction.
55.
... feel they
have done well may dispute ...
12&12 p.66,
Step Six
Some who feel they have done
well may dispute this, so
let's try to think it through a little further.
56.
... feel they
have received from God.
12&12 p.60,
Step Five
It is worth noting that people of very high spiritual development almost always insist on checking with friends or
spiritual advisers
the guidance they feel
they have received from God.
57.
... feel they
hold a mortgage on dad, ...
BB p.131,
The Family Afterward
The family may feel they hold a mortgage on dad, so big that no equity should be left for outsiders.
58.
... feel they
need no inventory are confronted ...
12&12 p.46,
Step Four
59.
... feel this
feeling rising.
BB p.139,
To Employers
60.
... feel unable
to speak at meetings or ...
12&12 p.110,
Step Twelve
There are many opportunities even for
those of us who feel unable to speak at meetings or who are so situated that we cannot do much face-to-face Twelfth Step work.
61.
... feel under
no obligation to keep him ...
BB p.147,
To Employers
But you should feel under no obligation to keep him on, for your obligation has been well discharged already.
62.
... feel we
are on the Broad Highway, ...
BB p.75,
Into Action
63.
... feel we
had gone on drinking many ...
BB p.34,
More About Alcoholism
As we look back, we feel we had gone on drinking many years beyond the point where we could quit on our
will power.
64.
... feel we
need look no further for ...
BB p.16,
Bill's Story
65.
... feel we
ought to say to her ...
BB p.81,
Into Action
66.
... feel you
had better leave.
BB p.108,
To Wives
67.
... feel your
organization has no alcoholic problem, ...
BB p.149,
To Employers
Even if you feel your organization has no alcoholic problem, it
might pay to take another look down the line.
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