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1.
... form a relationship upon simple and understandable ...    BB p.28,  There Is A Solution   Go to page 28 in the Big Book
If what we have learned and felt and seen means anything at all, it means that all of us, whatever our race, creed, or color are the children of a living Creator with whom we may form a relationship upon simple and understandable terms as soon as we are willing and honest enough to try.

2.
... form a true partnership with another human ...    12&12 p.53,  Step Four
The primary fact that we fail to recognize is our total inability to form a true partnership with another human being.


3.
... form" A.A. Traditions as first printed in ...    BB p.561(563),  Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition   Display entire Appendix I
This is a condensed version of the original "long form" A.A. Traditions as first printed in 1946.

4.
... form and were first published in 1946 ...    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.

5.
... form another group more to their liking.    12&12 p.177,  Tradition Ten
Disliking the attempt of some to manage a group, half its membership might angrily rush off to form another group more to their liking.


6.
... form at all; and once having formed ...    BB xxviii(xxvi),  The Doctor's Opinion   Display entire Doctor's Opinion
These allergic types can never safely use alcohol in any form at all; and once having formed the habit and found they cannot break it, once having lost their self-confidence, their reliance upon things human, their problems pile up on them and become astonishingly difficult to solve.


7.
... form at nominal cost through most A.A. ...    BB p.570(572),  Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.   Display entire Appendix III
(This address is now available in pamphlet form at nominal cost through most A.A. groups or from Box 459, Grand Central Station, New York, NY 10163, under the title "Three Talks to Medical Societies by Bill W." -- formerly called "Bill on Alcoholism" and earlier "Alcoholism the Illness.")


8.
... form groups in other cities.    BB xvii,  Foreword to Second Edition   Display entire Foreword to Second Edition
Besides these, there were scattered alcoholics who had picked up the basic ideas in Akron or New York who were trying to form groups in other cities.

9.
... form groups of depressive and paranoid folks; ...    12&12 p.156,  Tradition Six
We'd form groups of depressive and paranoid folks; the deeper the neurosis, the better we'd like it.

10.
... form ideas as to what we think ...    12&12 p.104,  Step Eleven
We form ideas as to what we think God's will is for other people.


11.
... form in general use today.    BB p.561(563),  Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition   Display entire Appendix I
On the next page, A.A.'s "12 Traditions" are seen in their so-called "short form" the form in general use today.


12.
... form" is more explicit and of possible ...    BB p.561(563),  Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition   Display entire Appendix I
Because the "long form" is more explicit and of possible historic value, it is also reproduced.

13.
... form of faulty dependence has caused many ...    12&12 p.38,  Step Three
This very form of faulty dependence has caused many a rebellious alcoholic to conclude that dependence of any sort must be intolerably damaging.


14.
... form of moral psychology was of urgent ...    BB xxvii(xxv),  The Doctor's Opinion   Display entire Doctor's Opinion
We doctors have realized for a long time that some form of moral psychology was of urgent importance to alcoholics, but its application presented difficulties beyond our conception.

15.
... form of murder by character assassination, has ...    12&12 p.67,  Step Six
Gossip barbed with our anger, a polite form of murder by character assassination, has its satisfactions for us, too.

16.
... form of respectability was our undoing, so ...    12&12 p.30,  Step Two
This phony form of respectability was our undoing, so far as faith was concerned.


17.
... form of self-deception and experimentation, they will ...    BB p.31,  More About Alcoholism   Go to page 31 in the Big Book
By every form of self-deception and experimentation, they will try to prove themselves exceptions to the rule, therefore nonalcoholic.

18.
... form of society, has to be a ...    12&12 p.172,  Tradition Nine
Therefore, every nation, in fact every form of society, has to be a government administered by human beings.


19.
... form" of the Concepts, which follows, was ...    BB p.574,  Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form)   Display entire Appendix VII
The "short form" of the Concepts, which follows, was prepared by the 1974 General Service Conference.


20.
... form of trouble and misery which has ...    BB p.15,  Bill's Story   Go to page 15 in the Big Book
There is scarcely any form of trouble and misery which has not been overcome among us.


21.
... form of trouble too.    BB p.79,  Into Action   Go to page 79 in the Big Book
That's a common form of trouble too.


22.
... form or another we had been living ...    BB p.54,  We Agnostics   Go to page 54 in the Big Book
In one form or another we had been living by faith and little else.


23.
... form or other it is there.    BB p.55,  We Agnostics   Go to page 55 in the Big Book
It may be obscured by calamity, by pomp, by worship of other things, but in some form or other it is there.

24.
... form, substance, and unity.    12&12 p.18,  Foreword
The Tradition section of this volume portrays in some detail the experience which finally produced the Twelve Traditions and so gave A.A. its present form, substance, and unity.


25.
... form" the form in general use today.    BB p.561(563),  Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition   Display entire Appendix I
On the next page, A.A.'s "12 Traditions" are seen in their so-called "short form" the form in general use today.

26.
... form, the Steps are also used by ...    12&12 p.118,  Step Twelve (Note)
(*) In adapted form, the Steps are also used by Al-Anon/Alateen Family Groups.


27.
... form told us that the use of ...    BB p.133,  The Family Afterward   Go to page 133 in the Big Book
One of the many doctors who had the opportunity of reading this book in manuscript form told us that the use of sweets was often helpful, of course depending upon a doctor's advice.


Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.  The A.A. Preamble, copyright © The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission.  Permission to reprint does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous or The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.

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