From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... find a
cure for cancer, and upon ...
12&12 p.150,
Tradition Five
Alcoholics Anonymous can be likened
to a group of physicians who might find a
cure for cancer, and upon whose concerted work would depend the answer for sufferers of this disease.
2.
... find a
customer for a car at ...
BB p.36,
More About Alcoholism
I also had the notion that I
might find a customer for
a car at this place, which was
familiar for I had been going to it for years.
3.
... find a
drunk to work on.
12&12 p.151,
Tradition Five
4.
... find a
faith that works?
12&12 p.28,
Step Two
5.
... find a
Fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous at ...
BB p.162,
A Vision For You
Some day we hope that every alcoholic who journeys will find a Fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous
at his destination.
6.
... find a
good public relations man in ...
12&12 p.157,
Tradition Six
7.
... find a
mate of the opposite sex ...
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.
8.
... find a
means of reducing these demands.
12&12 p.76,
Step Seven
9.
... find a
new joy of living in ...
12&12 p.112,
Step Twelve
10.
... find a
place where we can be ...
BB p.75,
Into Action
Returning home we find a place where we can be quiet for an hour, carefully reviewing
what we have done.
11.
... find a
power by which we could ...
BB p.45,
We Agnostics
12.
... find a
Power greater than yourself which ...
BB p.45,
We Agnostics
Its main object is to enable you to
find a Power greater than yourself
which will solve your problem.
13.
... find a
solitary self-appraisal insufficient.
BB p.72,
Into Action
14.
... find a
solution for the pressing problem ...
BB p.117,
To Wives
If you and your husband find a solution for the pressing problem of drink you are, of course, going to be very happy.
15.
... find a
spiritual basis of life -- or ...
BB p.44,
We Agnostics
16.
... find a
spiritual experience, we ask that ...
BB p.79,
Into Action
Reminding ourselves
that we have decided to go to
any lengths to find a spiritual experience, we ask that we
be given strength and direction to do the right
thing, no matter what the personal consequences may be.
17.
... find a
way out.
BB p.153,
A Vision For You
They will approach still other sick ones and fellowships of Alcoholics Anonymous
may spring up in each city and hamlet, havens for those who must find a way out.
18.
... find a
way to do so.
BB p.110,
To Wives
19.
... find a
wide variation in the way ...
BB p.50,
We Agnostics
In our personal stories
you will find a wide variation in the way each teller approaches and conceives of the Power
which is greater than himself.
20.
... find A.A.
in your locality, visit our ...
BB p.573(575),
Appendix VI, How to Get in Touch With A.A.
If you cannot find A.A. in your
locality, visit our Web site: www.aa.org; or a letter addressed to Alcoholics Anonymous,
Box 459, Grand Central Station, New York, NY 10163, USA, will receive a prompt reply from this world center, referring you to the nearest A.A. group.
21.
... find among
our western friends.
BB p.162,
A Vision For You
There are the same fast friendships, there is the same helpfulness to one another as you find among our western friends.
22.
... find an
easier, softer way.
BB p.58,
How It Works
23.
... find and
do the will of our ...
12&12 p.98,
Step Eleven
And we will be comforted
and assured that our own destiny in that realm will be secure for so long as we try, however falteringly, to find and
do the will of our own Creator.
24.
... find and
join us.
BB p.164,
A Vision For You
25.
... find, and
talked to everyone who I ...
BB p.178,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
26.
... find application
outside A.A. itself.
12&12 p.15,
Foreword
Though the essays which follow were written mainly for members, it is thought by many of A.A.'s friends that these pieces might arouse interest and find application outside A.A. itself.
27.
... find companionship
and release.
BB p.154,
A Vision For You
28.
... find, depends
upon able example and not ...
12&12 p.124,
Step Twelve
29.
... find emotional
security by being dominating or ...
12&12 p.116,
Step Twelve
30.
... find emotional
sobriety.
12&12 p.106,
Step Twelve
Here we begin to practice all Twelve Steps of the program in our
daily lives so that we and
those about us may find emotional sobriety.
31.
... find exactly
how, when, and where our ...
12&12 p.43,
Step Four
32.
... find God
in a hurry, or exhibit ...
BB p.128,
The Family Afterward
He may demand that the family find God in a hurry, or exhibit amazing indifference to them and say he is above worldly considerations.
33.
... find God,
the desire must come from ...
BB p.95,
Working With Others
34.
... find guiding.
BB p.79,
Into Action
Although these reparations take innumerable forms, there
are some general principles which we find guiding.
35.
... find hard
to match.
12&12 p.182,
Tradition Eleven
Ever since, these friends
have reported A.A. with an
enthusiasm which the most ardent members would find hard to match.
36.
... find he
can win out.
BB p.33,
More About Alcoholism
We doubt if many of them can
do it, because none will really want to stop, and hardly one of them, because of the peculiar mental twist already acquired, will find he can win out.
37.
... find he
has much in common with ...
BB p.131,
The Family Afterward
Being possessed of a spiritual experience,
the alcoholic will find he has much in common with these people, though he may differ with
them on many matters.
38.
... find here
nothing disturbing to their beliefs ...
BB p.28,
There Is A Solution
Those having religious
affiliations will
find here nothing disturbing to
their beliefs or ceremonies.
39.
... find Him
now!
BB p.59,
How It Works
May you find Him now!
40.
... find him
reading the book once more.
BB p.113,
To Wives
41.
... find his
home ruined.
BB p.82,
Into Action
42.
... find how
different we were from one ...
12&12 p.123,
Step Twelve
The doctors weren't trying to find how different we were from one another; they sought to
find whatever personality traits, if
any, this group of alcoholics had in common.
43.
... find human
opinions running to extremes -- absurd ...
BB p.68,
How It Works
44.
... find, in
measure to transcend all the ...
12&12 p.131,
Tradition One
And this they did find, in measure to transcend all
the defects of their frail
craft, every test of uncertainty, pain, fear, and despair, and even the death of one.
45.
... find in
this book.
BB p.47,
We Agnostics
46.
... find it
a real mistake to dampen ...
BB p.119,
To Wives
47.
... find it
a waste of time to ...
BB p.96,
Working With Others
48.
... find it
better, when possible, to stick ...
BB p.125,
The Family Afterward
49.
... find it
difficult and troublesome and may ...
BB p.21,
There Is A Solution
If a sufficiently strong reason -- ill health, falling in love, change of environment,
or the warning of a doctor -- becomes operative, this man can also stop or moderate, although he may
find it difficult and troublesome and may even
need medical attention.
50.
... find it
hard to re-establish friendly relations ...
BB p.134,
The Family Afterward
51.
... find, it
is essentially an individual adventure, ...
12&12 p.101,
Step Eleven
Aided by such instruction and example
as we can find, it is essentially an individual adventure,
something which each one of us works out in his own way.
52.
... find it
much more beneficial to us.
BB p.77,
Into Action
53.
... find it
necessary, until they told someone ...
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.
54.
... find it
solves our problems too; the ...
BB p.116,
To Wives
When we do that, we find it solves our problems too;
the ensuing lack of fear, worry and hurt feelings is a wonderful thing.
55.
... find life
more bearable.
BB p.97,
Working With Others
56.
... find loving
and understanding companionship among women ...
BB p.160,
A Vision For You
Many a distracted wife has visited this house to find loving and understanding companionship among women who knew her problem, to hear from the lips of their husbands what
had happened to them, to be advised how her own wayward mate might be hospitalized and approached when next he stumbled.
57.
... find many
members who have crossed the ...
12&12 p.27,
Step Two
58.
... find me
drunk.
BB p.4,
Bill's Story
59.
... find needed
care.
12&12 p.170,
Tradition Eight
Now and then, A.A. members have bought farms or rest homes where badly beat-up topers could find needed care.
60.
... find new
avenues of usefulness and pleasure.
BB p.132,
The Family Afterward
If he does not argue about religion, he will make new friends and is sure to find new avenues of usefulness
and pleasure.
61.
... find no
enduring strength until we first ...
12&12 p.22,
Step One
The principle that we shall find no enduring strength until we first admit complete defeat is the main taproot from which our whole Society has sprung and flowered.
62.
... find no
serenity until I accept that ...
BB p.417(449),
Acceptance
When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing or situation -- some
fact of my life -- unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment.
63.
... find none
at all.
12&12 p.21,
Step One
64.
... find one
in the pages of this ...
BB xxi,
Foreword to Second Edition
Yet it is our great hope that all those who have as
yet found no answer may begin to find one in the pages of this book and will presently join us on the high road to a new freedom.
65.
... find one
much better.
BB p.120,
To Wives
66.
... find others,
a fourth turned up.
BB p.158,
A Vision For You
67.
... find ourselves
getting tangled up.
12&12 p.89,
Step Ten
There's the spot-check inventory, taken at any time of the day, whenever we find ourselves getting tangled up.
68.
... find ourselves
more independent personally.
12&12 p.36,
Step Three
By so accepting our dependence upon this marvel of science, we find ourselves more independent personally.
69.
... find out
about his alcoholism.
BB p.155,
A Vision For You
70.
... find out
all you can about him.
BB p.90,
Working With Others
71.
... find release
from care, boredom and worry.
BB p.152,
A Vision For You
72.
... find some
by asking a few doctors, ...
BB p.89,
Working With Others
73.
... find some
of these treasures, too.
12&12 p.101,
Step Eleven
74.
... find some
person, place, thing or situation ...
BB p.417(449),
Acceptance
When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing or situation -- some
fact of my life -- unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment.
75.
... find someone
desperate enough to accept with ...
BB p.96,
Working With Others
76.
... find such
a person quick to see ...
BB p.74,
Into Action
77.
... find such
convictions no great obstacle to ...
BB p.29,
There Is A Solution
78.
... find that
at some time in the ...
BB p.62,
How It Works
Sometimes they hurt us,
seemingly without provocation, but we invariably find that at
some time in the past we have
made decisions based on self which later placed us in a position to be hurt.
79.
... find that
"Faith without works is dead."
BB p.76,
Into Action
80.
... find that
his excess enthusiasm will tone ...
BB p.119,
To Wives
81.
... find that
I took it piecemeal myself.
12&12 p.26,
Step Two
82.
... find that
many of these questions apply ...
12&12 p.51,
Step Four
83.
... find that
most of this embarrassment is ...
BB p.115,
To Wives
84.
... find that
no one need have difficulty ...
BB p.568(570),
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience
85.
... find that
our old attitudes toward our ...
12&12 p.114,
Step Twelve
And as we grow spiritually, we find that
our old attitudes toward our instincts need to undergo drastic revisions.
86.
... find that
our thinking will, as time ...
BB p.87,
Into Action
Nevertheless, we find
that our thinking will, as
time passes, be more and more on the plane of inspiration.
87.
... find that
they have tapped an unsuspected ...
BB p.567(569),
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience
With few exceptions our
members find that they have
tapped an unsuspected
inner resource which they
presently identify
with their own conception
of a Power greater than themselves.
88.
... find that
this has happened automatically.
BB p.85,
Into Action
89.
... find that
this is so simply because ...
12&12 p.54,
Step Four
Because our surface record hasn't looked too bad, we have frequently been
abashed to find that this
is so simply because we
have buried these selfsame defects deep down in us under thick layers of self-justification.
90.
... find that
though the harm done others ...
12&12 p.79,
Step Eight
In many instances we shall find that though the harm done others has not been great, the emotional harm we have done ourselves has.
91.
... find that
we can always open it ...
12&12 p.35,
Step Three
Once we have placed the key of willingness in the
lock and have the door ever so slightly open, we find that we can always open it some more.
92.
... find that
we still need to exercise ...
12&12 p.92,
Step Ten
Now that we're in A.A. and sober, and winning back the esteem of our friends and business associates, we find that we
still need to exercise special vigilance.
93.
... find that
we were as tight as ...
12&12 p.161,
Tradition Seven
94.
... find that's
what we have to be.
12&12 p.160,
Tradition Seven
Yet we find that's what we have
to be.
95.
... find that
when drinking is stopped the ...
BB p.134,
The Family Afterward
Couples are occasionally dismayed
to find that when drinking
is stopped the man tends to be impotent.
96.
... find that
you can dispose of serious ...
BB p.118,
To Wives
You and your husband will
find that you can dispose
of serious problems easier than you can the trivial ones.
97.
... find the
fellowship, and so will you.
BB p.152,
A Vision For You
98.
... find the
Fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous at ...
BB xv,
Foreword to Second Edition
Our earliest printing
voiced the hope "that every alcoholic who journeys will find the Fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous
at his destination.
99.
... find the
fellowship they seek.
BB p.15,
Bill's Story
100.
... find the
grace by which such a ...
12&12 p.76,
Step Seven
If that degree of humility could enable us to
find the grace by which such a deadly obsession could be banished, then there must be
hope of the same result respecting any other problem we could possibly
have.
101.
... find the
grace in his own religion ...
12&12 p.153,
Tradition Five
Finally, he saw that I
wasn't attempting to change his religious views, that I wanted him to
find the grace in his own religion that would aid his recovery.
102.
... find the
more one member of the ...
BB p.122,
The Family Afterward
We find the more one member of the family demands that the others concede to him, the
more resentful they become.
103.
... find their
real strength.
12&12 p.131,
Tradition One
Each needed to consider the others, and in
abiding faith they knew they must find their real strength.
104.
... find themselves
neglected.
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.
105.
... find these
people?"
BB p.152,
A Vision For You
"Where am I to find these people?"
106.
... find this
Power?
BB p.45,
We Agnostics
But where and how were we to find this Power?
107.
... find twoscore
of sure recoveries in all ...
12&12 p.17,
Foreword
108.
... find understanding
companionship and approval.
BB p.151,
A Vision For You
109.
... find us
even more unapproachable than do ...
BB p.18,
There Is A Solution
Strangely enough, wives, parents and intimate friends usually find us even more unapproachable than do the psychiatrist and the doctor.
110.
... find us
only through a few trusted ...
12&12 p.184,
Tradition Twelve
111.
... find we
are soon overcome by them.
BB p.132,
The Family Afterward
But those of us who have tried to shoulder the entire burden and trouble of others find we are soon overcome by them.
112.
... find we
need something much better in ...
12&12 p.92,
Step Ten
Although these attitudes are common enough, we A.A.'s find we need something much better in order to keep our balance.
113.
... find whatever
personality traits, if any, this ...
12&12 p.123,
Step Twelve
The doctors weren't trying to find how different we were from one another; they sought to
find whatever personality traits, if
any, this group of alcoholics had in common.
114.
... find you
cannot quit entirely, or if ...
BB p.44,
We Agnostics
If, when you honestly want
to, you find you cannot quit
entirely, or if when drinking, you have little
control over the amount you take, you are probably alcoholic.
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