From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... first?
12&12 p.24,
Step One
2.
... first.
12&12 p.26,
Step Two
Just resign from the debating society and quit bothering yourself with such deep questions as whether it was the hen or the
egg that came first.
3.
... first.
12&12 p.30,
Step Two
By their example they showed us that humility and
intellect could be compatible, provided we
placed humility first.
4.
... first.
12&12 p.73,
Step Seven
5.
... first?
12&12 p.130,
Tradition One
6.
... first.
12&12 p.131,
Tradition One
7.
... first.
12&12 p.159,
Tradition Six
8.
... first.
12&12 p.189,
Tradition One (Long)
9.
... first.
BB p.127,
The Family Afterward
10.
... First
BB p.135,
The Family Afterward
11.
... first.
BB p.563(565),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
12.
... first 100
members could have hoped to ...
BB xxiv,
Foreword to Fourth Edition
The stories added to this
edition represent a membership whose characteristics -- of age, gender, race, and culture -- have widened and have deepened
to encompass virtually everyone the
first 100 members could have hoped to
reach.
13.
... first a
flimsy reed, has proved to ...
BB p.28,
There Is A Solution
14.
... first, a
genuine reliance upon a Higher ...
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
As long as we placed self-reliance first, a genuine reliance upon a Higher Power was out of the question.
15.
... first A.A.
group had actually been formed, ...
BB xvii,
Foreword to Second Edition
When the broker returned
to New York in the fall of 1935, the first A.A. group had actually been formed, though no one realized it at the time.
16.
... first A.A.
group was struck at Akron, ...
BB xv,
Foreword to Second Edition
The spark that was to flare
into the first A.A. group was struck at Akron, Ohio, in June 1935, during a talk between a New York stockbroker and an Akron physician.
17.
... first accepted
his devastating weakness and all ...
12&12 p.21,
Step One
We know that little good can come to any alcoholic who joins A.A. unless he has first accepted his devastating weakness
and all its consequences.
18.
... first accurate
self-survey.
12&12 p.61,
Step Five
The real tests of the situation are your own willingness to confide
and your full confidence
in the one with whom you share
your first accurate self-survey.
19.
... first acquaintance,
the lawyer and the devil-may-care ...
BB p.159,
A Vision For You
He now returned home, leaving behind his first acquaintance, the lawyer and the devil-may-care chap.
20.
... first actually
felt the presence of God.
12&12 p.62,
Step Five
Many an A.A., once agnostic or atheistic, tells us that it
was during this stage of Step Five that he first actually felt the presence of God.
21.
... first ad
before an awful shriek would ...
12&12 p.158,
Tradition Six
22.
... first admit
complete defeat is the main ...
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.
23.
... first admitted
that we were powerless over ...
12&12 p.107,
Step Twelve
Step One showed us an amazing paradox: We found that we
were totally unable to be
rid of the alcohol obsession until we first admitted that we were powerless over it.
24.
... first aid
and place what we have ...
BB p.132,
The Family Afterward
When we see a man sinking into the mire that is
alcoholism, we give him
first aid and place what we have at his disposal.
25.
First, Alcoholics
Anonymous does not demand that ...
12&12 p.26,
Step Two
26.
... first alcoholics
he has helped.
12&12 p.133,
Tradition Two
Very soon, though, his assumed authority to run everything begins to be
shared with the first alcoholics he has helped.
27.
... first, and
had they then taken steps ...
BB p.141,
To Employers
Had they fired me first, and
had they then taken steps to
see that I was presented
with the solution contained in this book, I
might have returned to them six months later, a well man.
28.
... first, and
one of the most difficult, ...
12&12 p.78,
Step Eight
29.
... first, and
that material satisfactions were not ...
12&12 p.71,
Step Seven
We had lacked the perspective to see that character-building and
spiritual values had to
come first, and that material satisfactions were not the purpose of living.
30.
... first approach.
BB p.76,
Into Action
To some people we need not,
and probably should not emphasize the spiritual
feature on our first approach.
31.
... first, as
they feel their money troubles ...
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.
32.
... first at
Akron, the second at New ...
12&12 p.16,
Foreword
After three years of trial and error in selecting the most
workable tenets upon which the Society could
be based, and after a large amount of failure in getting alcoholics to recover,
three successful groups emerged -- the first at Akron, the second at New York, and the third at Cleveland.
33.
... first at
the case of the one ...
12&12 p.25,
Step Two
34.
... first attempt
at a mood, a flier ...
12&12 p.101,
Step Eleven
This much could be a fragment of what is called
meditation, perhaps
our very first attempt at a mood, a flier into the realm of spirit, if you like.
35.
... first attempt
to do this.
12&12 p.34,
Step Three
36.
... first backtracks
and really makes an accurate ...
12&12 p.77,
Step Eight
Every A.A. has found that he can make little headway in this new adventure of living until he first backtracks and really makes an accurate and unsparing
survey of the human wreckage he has left in his
wake.
37.
... first be
startled to realize that God ...
12&12 p.59,
Step Five
Though we may at first be startled to realize that
God knows all about us, we are
apt to get used to that quite quickly.
38.
... first because
we must, and ultimately because ...
12&12 p.174,
Tradition Nine
So we of A.A. do obey spiritual principles,
first because we must, and ultimately because we love the kind of life such obedience brings.
39.
... first, but
it took me only a ...
BB p.175,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
I drank with moderation
at first, but it took me only
a relatively short time to drift back into the old habits which had wound up so disastrously before.
40.
... first but,
within a short time, it ...
BB p.145,
To Employers
Only a few knew of it at first but, within a short time, it was billboarded throughout the entire company.
41.
... first came
back, I thought that I ...
BB p.177,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
42.
... first case,
a desperate one, recovered immediately ...
BB xvii,
Foreword to Second Edition
43.
... "first cause"
of some sort, the God ...
12&12 p.97,
Step Eleven
No doubt the universe had a "first cause" of some sort, the God of the Atom, maybe, hot and cold by turns.
44.
... first challenged
to admit defeat, most of ...
12&12 p.22,
Step One
45.
... first citizens
took us to their homes, ...
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.
46.
... first class
alcoholic prospect.
BB p.156,
A Vision For You
47.
... first conscious
relation with God as we ...
BB p.47,
We Agnostics
At the start, this was all we needed to commence spiritual growth, to effect our first conscious relation with
God as we understood Him.
48.
... first consult
those who are to be ...
12&12 p.86,
Step Nine
49.
... first crushed
grapes.
12&12 p.22,
Step One
50.
... first day
of permanent sobriety, June 10, ...
BB p.171,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
51.
... first days
of convalescence, this will do ...
BB p.129,
The Family Afterward
During those first days of convalescence, this will
do more to insure his sobriety than anything else.
52.
... first decided
they didn't want the program.
BB xx,
Foreword to Second Edition
53.
... first discussion.
BB p.91,
Working With Others
54.
... first disrupting
experience the conviction grew that ...
BB xix,
Foreword to Second Edition
But out of this frightening and at first
disrupting experience the conviction grew that A.A.'s had to hang together or die separately.
55.
... first drink.
BB p.24,
There Is A Solution
56.
... first drink?
BB p.35,
More About Alcoholism
What sort of thinking dominates an alcoholic
who repeats time after time the desperate experiment
of the first drink?
57.
... first drink.
BB p.37,
More About Alcoholism
But there was always the curious mental phenomenon that parallel with our sound reasoning there inevitably ran some insanely trivial excuse for taking the first drink.
58.
... first drink.
BB p.41,
More About Alcoholism
59.
... first drink.
BB p.43,
More About Alcoholism
60.
... first drink.
BB p.154,
A Vision For You
61.
... first drink.
BB p.157,
A Vision For You
62.
... first drink,
and on Armistice Day 1934, ...
BB p.8,
Bill's Story
63.
... first drink
as that of an individual ...
BB p.37,
More About Alcoholism
Our behavior is as absurd and incomprehensible with respect to the first drink as that of an individual with a passion, say, for jay-walking.
64.
... first drink,
but I was confident it ...
BB p.40,
More About Alcoholism
I rather appreciated
your ideas about the subtle
insanity which precedes the first drink, but I was confident
it could not happen to me after what I had learned.
65.
... first drink
it would, if taken, inevitably ...
12&12 p.164,
Tradition Seven
Compared to this prospect, the ten thousand dollars under consideration
wasn't much, but like the alcoholic's first drink it would, if taken, inevitably set up a disastrous chain reaction.
66.
... first drink
of a spree.
BB p.92,
Working With Others
67.
... first drink
prevents normal functioning of the ...
BB p.92,
Working With Others
Show him, from your own experience, how the queer
mental condition surrounding that first drink prevents normal functioning of
the will power.
68.
... first drink
than you have.
BB p.23,
There Is A Solution
And the truth, strange to
say, is usually that he has
no more idea why he took that first drink than you have.
69.
... first drink,
thereby setting the terrible cycle ...
BB p.23,
There Is A Solution
These observations would be academic and pointless
if our friend never took the first drink, thereby setting the terrible cycle in motion.
70.
... first drink,
we often get quite far ...
12&12 p.112,
Step Twelve
71.
... first edition
appeared in April 1939, and ...
BB xi,
Preface
The first edition appeared in April 1939, and in the following
sixteen years, more than 300,000 copies went into circulation.
72.
... first edition
in 1939.
BB xiii,
Foreword to First Edition
73.
... first edition
of the book "Alcoholics Anonymous," ...
12&12 p.22,
Step One
That is why the first edition of the book "Alcoholics Anonymous,"
published when our membership was small, dealt with low-bottom cases only.
74.
... first edition
were retained intact; three were ...
BB xi,
Preface
"Bill's Story," "Doctor Bob's Nightmare," and one other personal history from the first edition were retained intact; three were edited and one of these was retitled; new versions of two stories were written, with
new titles; thirty completely new stories were added; and the story section was divided into three parts, under the same headings that are used now.
75.
... first endorsement
of Alcoholics Anonymous, medical societies ...
BB p.569(571),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
Since Dr. Silkworth's first endorsement of Alcoholics Anonymous,
medical societies and
physicians throughout the world have
set their approval upon us.
76.
... first engage
in general conversation.
BB p.91,
Working With Others
77.
... first envisions
a plan for it.
12&12 p.100,
Step Eleven
78.
... first example
is a friend we shall ...
BB p.35,
More About Alcoholism
79.
... first experience
of this kind, and he ...
BB p.39,
More About Alcoholism
80.
... first felt
truly able to forgive others, ...
12&12 p.58,
Step Five
Often it was while working on this Step with our
sponsors or spiritual
advisers that we first felt truly able to forgive others, no matter how deeply we felt they had wronged us.
81.
... first few
chapters a number of sudden ...
BB p.567(569),
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience
82.
... first few
excursions into major publicity, which ...
12&12 p.186,
Tradition Twelve
83.
... first five
proposals we ask if we ...
BB p.75,
Into Action
Carefully reading the
first five proposals we ask if we have
omitted anything, for
we are building an arch through which we shall walk a free man at last.
84.
... first flush
of spiritual experience they forgave ...
BB p.124,
The Family Afterward
85.
... first fruits
is emotional balance.
12&12 p.101,
Step Eleven
86.
... first fruits
of Step Four.
12&12 p.50,
Step Four
87.
... first glance,
it did look like a ...
12&12 p.158,
Tradition Six
88.
... first group,
at Akron, Ohio, in 1935.
BB p.156,
A Vision For You (Note)
89.
... first half
dozen prospects.
BB p.96,
Working With Others
90.
... first have
a look at those personal ...
12&12 p.50,
Step Four
Since Step Four is but the beginning of a lifetime
practice, it can be suggested that he first have
a look at those personal flaws which are acutely troublesome and
fairly obvious.
91.
... first he
goes along because he must, ...
12&12 p.130,
Tradition One
At first he goes along because he must, but later he discovers a way of life he really wants to live.
92.
... first I'd
have to find a drunk ...
12&12 p.151,
Tradition Five
93.
... first: If
we skip this vital step, ...
BB p.72,
Into Action
94.
... first impulse
will be to bury these ...
BB p.123,
The Family Afterward
95.
... first International
Conference held at Cleveland.
BB xix,
Foreword to Second Edition
Though none of these principles had the force
of rules or laws, they had become so widely accepted by 1950 that they
were confirmed by our first International Conference held at Cleveland.
96.
... First International
Convention, held at Cleveland in ...
12&12 p.18,
Foreword
It was out of this vast welter of explosive experience that A.A.'s Twelve Traditions took form and were first published in 1946 and later confirmed at A.A.'s First International Convention, held at Cleveland in 1950.
97.
... first job
is to sidestep the traps.
12&12 p.91,
Step Ten
98.
... first, last,
and all the time -- is ...
12&12 p.45,
Step Four
This being so, we think it
logically follows that
sobriety -- first, last, and all the time -- is the
only thing we need to work for.
99.
... first lesson
in the practical application of ...
12&12 p.185,
Tradition Twelve
100.
First let's
look at a really good ...
12&12 p.99,
Step Eleven
101.
... first living
human with whom I had ...
BB p.180,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
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.
102.
... first look
like a purposeless and pointless ...
12&12 p.77,
Step Eight
This reopening of emotional wounds, some old, some perhaps forgotten, and some still
painfully festering,
will at first look like a purposeless and pointless piece of surgery.
103.
... first looked
at A.A. my reaction was ...
12&12 p.27,
Step Two
104.
... first magnitude.
BB p.137,
To Employers
105.
... first major
test.
12&12 p.38,
Step Three
106.
... first many
of these feel lonely, hurt, ...
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.
107.
... first many
of us are apt to ...
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.
108.
... first meeting,
or perhaps after we have ...
12&12 p.83,
Step Nine
After coming from our first meeting, or perhaps after we have finished reading the book "Alcoholics Anonymous," we usually want to sit down with some member of the family and readily admit the damage we have done by our drinking.
109.
... first members
of A.A., entirely contrary to ...
12&12 p.135,
Tradition Two
One of the first members of A.A., entirely contrary to his
own desires, was obliged to conform to group opinion.
110.
... first milestone
on the new road we ...
12&12 p.73,
Step Seven
Then we learn, often to our
consternation, that this is only the first milestone on the new road we are walking.
111.
... first nameless
groups of alcoholics were secret ...
12&12 p.184,
Tradition Twelve
112.
... first need
was to quiet that disturbance, ...
12&12 p.47,
Step Four
We learned that if we were seriously disturbed,
our first need was to quiet that disturbance,
regardless of who or what we thought caused it.
113.
... first nine
Steps, we prepare ourselves for ...
12&12 p.88,
Step Ten
114.
... first nip
of the wringer.
BB p.43,
More About Alcoholism
115.
... first objective
will be the development of ...
12&12 p.91,
Step Ten
116.
First of
all, he wanted to become ...
12&12 p.101,
Step Eleven
117.
First of
all, we had to admit ...
12&12 p.47,
Step Four
First of all, we had to admit
that we had many of these defects, even though such disclosures were painful and humiliating.
118.
First of
all, we had to quit ...
BB p.62,
How It Works
119.
... first of
all we shall want sunlight; ...
12&12 p.98,
Step Eleven
120.
First off,
they can be told that ...
12&12 p.46,
Step Four
First off, they can be told
that the majority of A.A. members have suffered severely from self-justification during
their drinking days.
121.
... first opportunity.
BB p.74,
Into Action
If that is so, this step may be postponed, only, however, if we hold ourselves in complete readiness to go through with it at the first opportunity.
122.
... first; personal
recovery depends upon A.A. unity."
12&12 p.129,
Tradition One
123.
... first; personal
recovery depends upon A.A. unity.
BB p.562(564),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
124.
... first place.
12&12 p.119,
Step Twelve
125.
... first place,
flaws which must be dealt ...
12&12 p.73,
Step Seven
Still goaded by sheer necessity, we reluctantly come to grips with those serious character flaws that made problem drinkers of us in
the first place, flaws which must be dealt with to prevent a retreat into alcoholism
once again.
126.
... first place,
then He must know in ...
12&12 p.59,
Step Five
If the Creator gave us our
lives in the first place, then He must know in every detail where we have since gone
wrong.
127.
... first portion
of this volume, describing the ...
BB xi,
Preface
Therefore, the first portion of this volume, describing the A.A. recovery program, has been
left untouched in the course of revisions made for the second, third, and fourth editions.
128.
... first practical
move toward humility must consist ...
12&12 p.58,
Step Five
129.
... first principle
of success is that you ...
BB p.111,
To Wives
130.
... first printed
in 1946.
BB p.561(563),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
131.
... first printing
gave many readers the impression ...
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.
132.
... first printing
of the first edition in ...
BB xiii,
Foreword to First Edition
133.
... first printing
of this book and the ...
BB xv,
Foreword to Second Edition
Sixteen years have elapsed between our first printing of this book and the presentation
in 1955 of our second edition.
134.
... first published.
BB p.34,
More About Alcoholism (Note)
135.
... first published,
A.A. has released thousands of ...
BB p.114,
To Wives
Since this book was first published, A.A. has released thousands of alcoholics from asylums
and hospitals of every
kind.
136.
... first published
in 1946 and later confirmed ...
12&12 p.18,
Foreword
It was out of this vast welter of explosive experience that A.A.'s Twelve Traditions took form and were first published in 1946 and later confirmed at A.A.'s First International Convention, held at Cleveland in 1950.
137.
... first published,
in 1946, we had become ...
12&12 p.146,
Tradition Four
When A.A.'s Traditions
were first published, in
1946, we had become sure that an A.A. group could stand almost any amount of battering.
138.
... first-rater in
the heartbreaking struggle for money, ...
12&12 p.122,
Step Twelve
In later life he finds that real happiness is not to be found in just trying to be a number one man, or even a first-rater in the heartbreaking struggle for money, romance, or self-importance.
139.
... first requirement
is that we be convinced ...
BB p.60,
How It Works
The first requirement
is that we be convinced that any life run
on self-will can hardly be a success.
140.
... first saw
Fred about a year ago ...
BB p.39,
More About Alcoholism
We first saw Fred about a year ago in a hospital where he had
gone to recover from a bad case of jitters.
141.
... first see
humility as a necessity.
12&12 p.73,
Step Seven
142.
... first showing
him that his case is ...
12&12 p.46,
Step Four
They comfort the melancholy one by first showing him that his case is not strange or different, that his character defects are probably not more numerous or worse than those of anyone else in A.A.
143.
... first sight
seems to deal with a ...
12&12 p.175,
Tradition Nine
Though Tradition Nine at first sight seems to deal with a purely practical matter, in its actual operation it discloses
a society without organization, animated only by the spirit
of service -- a true fellowship.
144.
... first sight,
that difficulties may develop.
12&12 p.119,
Step Twelve
It is only where "boy meets girl on A.A. campus," and love follows at first sight, that difficulties
may develop.
145.
... first sitting,
it is necessary only that ...
12&12 p.84,
Step Nine
146.
... first, some
of us did not believe ...
BB p.116,
To Wives
147.
... first some
of us tried to avoid ...
BB p.44,
We Agnostics
148.
... First Step
and that part of the ...
12&12 p.113,
Step Twelve
Maybe we are doing fine on only two of them, the
First Step and that part of the Twelfth where we
"carry the message."
149.
... first step
away from a highly strained, ...
BB p.122,
The Family Afterward
150.
... first step
in recovery.
BB p.30,
More About Alcoholism
151.
... first step
in the formation of Tradition ...
12&12 p.142,
Tradition Three
152.
... first step
of which is a personal ...
BB p.63,
How It Works
Next we launched out on a course of vigorous action, the first step of which is a personal housecleaning, which many of us had never attempted.
153.
... first step
toward liberation from its paralyzing ...
12&12 p.73,
Step Seven
Every newcomer in Alcoholics Anonymous
is told, and soon realizes for himself, that
his humble admission of
powerlessness over alcohol is his first step toward liberation from its paralyzing grip.
154.
... first steps
toward liberation and strength.
12&12 p.21,
Step One
We perceive that only through utter defeat are we able to take our first steps toward liberation and strength.
155.
... first successful
flight at Kitty Hawk.
BB p.51,
We Agnostics
Even in the present century, American newspapers were afraid to
print an account of the Wright brothers' first successful flight at Kitty Hawk.
156.
... first take
a look at the results ...
12&12 p.37,
Step Three
Should his own image in the mirror be too awful to contemplate (and it usually is), he might first take a look at the results normal people are getting from self-sufficiency.
157.
... first tangible
evidence of our complete willingness ...
12&12 p.54,
Step Four
158.
... first that
"somebody" is likely to be ...
12&12 p.39,
Step Three
159.
... first the
boss.
12&12 p.133,
Tradition Two
160.
... first the
elders could look only at ...
12&12 p.142,
Tradition Three
161.
... first, the
society was composed entirely of ...
12&12 p.178,
Tradition Ten
162.
... first --
then and only then do we ...
12&12 p.114,
Step Twelve
But when we are willing to place spiritual growth first -- then and only
then do we have a real chance.
163.
... first, then
growing by leaps and bounds ...
BB xxiii,
Foreword to Fourth Edition
In country after country where the A.A. seed was planted, it has taken root, slowly at first, then growing by leaps and bounds when literature
has become available.
164.
... first thing
apparent was that this world ...
BB p.65,
How It Works
165.
First Things
First
BB p.135,
The Family Afterward
166.
... first time,
he lived in conscious companionship ...
BB p.56,
We Agnostics
167.
... first time
in many years.
BB p.80,
Into Action
168.
... first time
in our lives, and strenuously ...
12&12 p.96,
Step Eleven
We A.A.'s are active folk, enjoying the satisfactions of dealing with the realities of life, usually for the first time in our lives, and strenuously trying to help the next alcoholic who comes along.
169.
... first time
in our lives stood among ...
12&12 p.57,
Step Five
When we reached A.A., and for
the first time in our lives stood among people who seemed to understand, the
sense of belonging was
tremendously exciting.
170.
... first time
in the Twelve Steps, and ...
12&12 p.17,
Foreword
In it alcoholism was described from the alcoholic's point of view, the spiritual ideas of the Society were codified for the first time in the Twelve Steps, and the application of these Steps to the alcoholic's dilemma was made clear.
171.
... first time
is greatly puzzled.
12&12 p.130,
Tradition One
172.
... first time
that of myself I was ...
BB p.13,
Bill's Story
173.
... first time,
the Presence and Power of ...
BB p.162,
A Vision For You
174.
... first to
say it was your devotion ...
BB p.119,
To Wives
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.
175.
... first trial.
12&12 p.84,
Step Nine
Even our severest and most
justified critics will frequently meet us more than halfway on the first trial.
176.
... first try
to bypass Step Five.
12&12 p.55,
Step Five
So intense, though, is
our fear and reluctance
to do this, that many A.A.'s at
first try to bypass Step Five.
177.
... first two
and one-half years of abstinence.
BB p.181,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
Unlike most of our crowd, I
did not get over my craving for liquor much during the first two and one-half years of abstinence.
178.
... first two
or three high hurdles, the ...
12&12 p.47,
Step Four
179.
... first two
Steps we were engaged in ...
12&12 p.34,
Step Three
180.
... first uttered
the prayer.
12&12 p.101,
Step Eleven
181.
... first visit
tell him about the Fellowship ...
BB p.94,
Working With Others
182.
... first visit
to A.A. Number Three.
BB p.156,
A Vision For You (Note)
183.
... first visit
with Dr. Bob.
BB p.155,
A Vision For You (Note)
184.
... first, we
couldn't see the real issue ...
12&12 p.170,
Tradition Eight
185.
... first, we
had deprived ourselves of His ...
12&12 p.75,
Step Seven
186.
... first, we
have got the cart before ...
12&12 p.114,
Step Twelve
If we place instincts
first, we have got the cart before the horse; we shall be pulled backward into disillusionment.
187.
First, we
searched out the flaws in ...
BB p.64,
How It Works
188.
First, we
take a look backward and ...
12&12 p.77,
Step Eight
First, we take a look backward and try to discover where we have
been at fault; next we make a vigorous attempt to repair the damage we have done; and third, having thus cleaned away the debris of the past, we consider how, with our newfound knowledge of ourselves, we may develop
the best possible relations with every human being we know.
189.
... first we
were smitten by an insane ...
12&12 p.22,
Step One
The tyrant alcohol wielded a double-edged sword over us: first we were smitten by an insane urge that condemned us to go on drinking, and then by an
allergy of the body that insured we would ultimately destroy ourselves in the process.
190.
First we
will wish to be reasonably ...
12&12 p.84,
Step Nine
191.
... first wife.
BB p.79,
Into Action
192.
... first wife
admitting his faults and asking ...
BB p.79,
Into Action
193.
... first written
in the earlier work.
12&12 p.17,
Foreword
This present volume proposes to broaden and deepen the understanding of the Twelve Steps as first written in the earlier work.
194.
... first written,
it said that "Alcoholics Anonymous ...
12&12 p.172,
Tradition Nine
When Tradition Nine was
first written, it said that "Alcoholics Anonymous needs the least possible organization."
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