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1.
... found.
BB p.35,
More About Alcoholism
We told him what we
knew of
alcoholism and the
answer
we had
found.
2.
... found.
BB p.55,
We Agnostics
In the
last analysis it is
only there that He may be
found.
3.
... found a happy solution.
BB p.104,
To Wives
Among us are
wives,
relatives and
friends
whose
problem has been
solved, as well as some who have not
yet found a
happy solution.
4.
... found a job; then lost it as ...
BB p.4,
Bill's Story
I
found a
job; then
lost it as the
result of a
brawl with a
taxi driver.
5.
... found a key to sobriety.
12&12 p.151,
Tradition Five
The only thing that
matters is that he is an
alcoholic who has
found a
key to
sobriety.
6.
... found a peace of mind which can ...
12&12 p.104,
Step Eleven
7.
... found a way up and out, and ...
12&12 p.125,
Step Twelve
We have been
talking about
problems because we are
problem people who have
found
a way up and out, and who
wish to
share our
knowledge of that
way with all who can use it.
8.
... found, can happen to anybody who tries.
12&12 p.97,
Step Eleven
And that, we have
found, can
happen to anybody who
tries.
9.
... found confidence and comfort in the laughter ...
12&12 p.110,
Step Twelve
10.
... found, did open the channel so that ...
12&12 p.109,
Step Twelve
The
persistent use of
meditation and
prayer, we
found, did
open the
channel so that where there had been a
trickle, there now was a
river which
led to
sure power and
safe guidance from
God as we were
increasingly better
able to
understand Him.
11.
... found Friend take them away, root and ...
BB p.13,
Bill's Story
I
ruthlessly faced my
sins and
became willing to have my new-
found
Friend take them away,
root
and
branch.
12.
... found further on in this book.
BB xx,
Foreword to Second Edition
Some of the
recommendations of
A.A.'s
early medical and
religious friends will be
found further on in this book.
13.
... found God -- and in finding God had ...
BB p.158,
A Vision For You
But he had
found God -- and in
finding God had
found himself.
14.
... found happiness, there will be ups and ...
BB p.117,
To Wives
In
spite of your new-
found happiness, there will be
ups
and
downs.
15.
... found he could not.
BB p.32,
More About Alcoholism
Then,
gathering all his
forces, he
attempted to
stop altogether and
found he
could not.
16.
... found he could talk easily about A.A. ...
12&12 p.186,
Tradition Twelve
When
opportunities to be
helpful came along, he
found he could
talk easily about
A.A. to almost
anyone.
17.
... found he was just where he had ...
BB p.33,
More About Alcoholism
But here is a
man who at
fifty-
five years found he was just where he
had
left off at
thirty.
18.
... found himself.
BB p.158,
A Vision For You
But he had
found God -- and in
finding God had
found himself.
19.
... found himself drunk half a dozen times ...
BB p.35,
More About Alcoholism
20.
... found himself in a strange place, discredited ...
BB p.154,
A Vision For You
Bitterly discouraged, he
found
himself in a
strange place,
discredited and almost
broke.
21.
... found himself surprisingly well received, and learned ...
BB p.156,
A Vision For You
He
found himself
surprisingly well
received, and
learned that
many
knew of his
drinking.
22.
... found himself when he had the extraordinary ...
BB p.28,
There Is A Solution
Here was the
terrible dilemma in which our
friend
found himself when he had the
extraordinary experience, which as we have already told you,
made him a
free man.
23.
... found his own reward, whether his brother ...
12&12 p.109,
Step Twelve
And then he
discovers that by the
divine paradox of this
kind of
giving he has
found his
own reward, whether his
brother
has
yet received anything
or not.
24.
... found in each of the United States ...
BB xv,
Foreword to Second Edition
Groups are to be
found in
each of the
United States
and all of the
provinces of
Canada.
25.
... found in giving themselves for others.
BB p.159,
A Vision For You
It was
transcended by the
happiness they
found in
giving themselves for others.
26.
... found in just trying to be a ...
12&12 p.122,
Step Twelve
27.
... found in that bitter morass of self-pity.
BB p.8,
Bill's Story
No
words can tell of the
loneliness and
despair I
found in that
bitter morass of
self-
pity.
28.
... found it imperative to remove the A.A. ...
12&12 p.157,
Tradition Six
29.
... found it impossible.
BB p.34,
More About Alcoholism
Yet we
found it
impossible.
30.
... found it necessary to post only two ...
12&12 p.147,
Tradition Four
In
charting this
enormous expanse of
freedom, we
found it
necessary to
post only
two storm signals: A
group ought not do
anything which would
greatly injure A.A. as a
whole, nor ought it
affiliate itself with anything or anybody else.
31.
... found it so.
12&12 p.26,
Step Two
At
least I've
found it so.
32.
... found it sometimes impossible to persuade an ...
BB p.18,
There Is A Solution
33.
... found it very desirable to take this ...
BB p.63,
How It Works
34.
... found it wanting.
12&12 p.28,
Step Two
Sometimes
A.A. comes harder to those who have
lost
or
rejected faith than to
those who
never had any
faith at all, for they
think
they have
tried faith and
found it
wanting.
35.
... found little work.
BB p.15,
Bill's Story
36.
... found Lois cooking as usual, while three ...
12&12 p.137,
Tradition Two
37.
... found many in A.A. who once thought ...
12&12 p.30,
Step Two
We
found many in
A.A. who once
thought as we did.
38.
... found me drinking both gin and sedative.
BB p.7,
Bill's Story
39.
... found most effective.
BB p.19,
There Is A Solution
That the
man who is
making
the
approach has had the same
difficulty, that he
obviously knows what he is
talking about, that his
whole deportment shouts at the new
prospect
that he is a
man with a
real answer, that he has no
attitude of
Holier Than
Thou,
nothing whatever
except the
sincere desire to be
helpful; that
there are no
fees to
pay, no
axes to
grind, no people to
please, no
lectures to be
endured -- these are the
conditions we have
found
most
effective.
40.
... found much of heaven and we have ...
BB p.25,
There Is A Solution
We have
found much of
heaven
and we have been
rocketed into a
fourth dimension of
existence of which we had not even
dreamed.
41.
... found no answer may begin to find ...
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.
42.
... found no great difficulty in casting aside ...
BB p.48,
We Agnostics
Though some of us
resisted, we
found no
great difficulty in
casting aside such
feelings.
43.
... found nothing incompatible between a powerful spiritual ...
BB p.130,
The Family Afterward
44.
... found nothing which has contributed more to ...
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.
45.
... found, or be sunk.
BB p.158,
A Vision For You
So, you see, there were
three alcoholics in that
town,
who now
felt they had to
give
to others what they had
found, or be
sunk.
46.
... found ourselves accepting many things which then ...
BB p.47,
We Agnostics
Afterward, we
found
ourselves
accepting many things which then
seemed entirely out of
reach.
47.
... found ourselves alone in the world, we ...
12&12 p.117,
Step Twelve
Even when our
fortunes had not
ebbed that much and we nevertheless
found ourselves alone in the
world,
we still
vainly tried to be
secure by some
unhealthy kind of
domination or
dependence.
48.
... found ourselves handicapped by obstinacy, sensitiveness, and ...
BB p.48,
We Agnostics
49.
... found ourselves thinking, when enchanted by a ...
BB p.46,
We Agnostics
Yet, in other
moments, we
found ourselves
thinking,
when
enchanted by a
starlit night, "Who, then,
made all this?"
50.
... found out about alcoholism.
BB p.112,
To Wives
Show him your
copy of this
book and tell him what you have
found out about
alcoholism.
51.
... found out right away.
BB p.120,
To Wives
If not, it had
better be
found out
right away.
52.
... found something brand new in life.
BB p.159,
A Vision For You
These
men had
found something
brand new in
life.
53.
... found something called a spiritual awakening.
12&12 p.106,
Step Twelve
Our
Twelfth Step also says
that as a
result of
practicing all the
Steps,
we have each
found something called a
spiritual awakening.
54.
... found strength not ordinarily their own.
12&12 p.104,
Step Eleven
All those who have
persisted have
found strength not
ordinarily their
own.
55.
... found that a new power, peace, happiness, ...
BB p.50,
We Agnostics
In the
face of
collapse
and
despair, in the
face of
the
total failure of their
human resources, they
found that a new
power,
peace,
happiness, and
sense of
direction flowed into them.
56.
... found that as soon as we were ...
BB p.46,
We Agnostics
We
found that as soon as we were able to
lay aside prejudice and
express
even a
willingness to
believe in a
Power greater than ourselves, we
commenced to get
results,
even though it was
impossible for any of us to
fully define or
comprehend that
Power,
which is
God.
57.
... found that dependence upon His perfect justice, ...
12&12 p.116,
Step Twelve
We
found that
dependence
upon His
perfect justice,
forgiveness,
and
love was
healthy, and
that it would
work where
nothing else would.
58.
... found that freedom from fear was more ...
12&12 p.122,
Step Twelve
We
found that
freedom from
fear was more
important
than
freedom from
want.
59.
... found that God does not make too ...
BB p.46,
We Agnostics
We
found that
God does not make
too
hard terms with those who
seek Him.
60.
... found that he can make little headway ...
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.
61.
... found that it is fatal.
BB p.66,
How It Works
We
found that it is
fatal.
62.
... found that justified anger ought to be ...
12&12 p.90,
Step Ten
We have
found that
justified anger ought to be
left to those
better qualified to
handle it.
63.
... found that, like everybody else, we were ...
BB p.116,
To Wives
We
wives found that, like
everybody else, we were
afflicted with
pride,
self-
pity,
vanity and all the things which go to make up the
self-
centered person; and we were not above
selfishness or
dishonesty.
64.
... found that our self-esteem, our pocketbooks, our ...
BB p.64,
How It Works
65.
... found that people were attracted to us ...
12&12 p.116,
Step Twelve
When we
persistently did this we
gradually found that people
were
attracted to us as
never before.
66.
... found that some drunks yearned for education, ...
12&12 p.148,
Tradition Four
It was
found that some
drunks yearned for
education, but
doubted if
they were
alcoholics.
67.
... found that such codes and philosophies did ...
BB p.45,
We Agnostics
But we
found that such
codes
and
philosophies did not
save us, no
matter how much we
tried.
68.
... found that the actual good results of ...
12&12 p.104,
Step Eleven
69.
... found that the faith which really works ...
12&12 p.43,
Step Four
Without a
searching and
fearless moral inventory, most of us have
found that the
faith which really
works in
daily living is still out of
reach.
70.
... found that the place probably contained more ...
BB p.163,
A Vision For You
He had
lived there but a few
weeks when he
found that the
place
probably contained more
alcoholics per square mile than any
city in the
country.
71.
... found that we can take our big ...
12&12 p.114,
Step Twelve
Like most people, we have
found that we can take our
big lumps as they
come.
72.
... found that we could not wish or ...
12&12 p.58,
Step Five
And we soon
found that we could not
wish or will them away by ourselves.
73.
... found that we couldn't to our entire ...
12&12 p.47,
Step Four
We
thought "
conditions"
drove us to
drink, and when we
tried to
correct these
conditions
and
found that we couldn't to our
entire satisfaction,
our
drinking went out of
hand and we
became alcoholics.
74.
... found that we had to rely upon ...
12&12 p.181,
Tradition Eleven
We
found that we had to
rely
upon the
principle of
attraction rather than of
promotion.
75.
... found that we were totally unable to ...
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.
76.
... found that when all other measures failed, ...
BB p.15,
Bill's Story
This sometimes
nearly drove
me back to
drink, but I soon
found that when all other
measures failed,
work with another
alcoholic
would
save the
day.
77.
... found that with the help of A.A.'s ...
12&12 p.121,
Step Twelve
But as
time passed we
found that with the
help of
A.A.'s
Twelve Steps we could
lose those
fears, no
matter what our
material prospects were.
78.
... found the Great Reality deep down within ...
BB p.55,
We Agnostics
We
found the
Great Reality deep down
within us.
79.
... found the master of the house and ...
12&12 p.144,
Tradition Three
80.
... found the person, it frequently takes great ...
12&12 p.61,
Step Five
Even when you've
found the
person, it
frequently takes great resolution to
approach
him or her.
81.
... found the prospect more receptive.
BB p.158,
A Vision For You
82.
... found the rest of the answer.
12&12 p.178,
Tradition Ten
Had they been
left to themselves, and had they
stuck to their one
goal, they
might have
found the
rest of
the
answer.
83.
... found the riddle's answer.
12&12 p.32,
Step Two
There are too many of us who have been just like him, and have
found the
riddle's
answer.
84.
... found the shoes that fit, he ought ...
12&12 p.48,
Step Four
Having
found the
shoes that
fit, he ought to
step into them
and
walk with new
confidence that he is at
last on the
right track.
85.
... found themselves, and have discovered the joy ...
BB p.163,
A Vision For You
When a few
men in this
city
have
found themselves, and have
discovered the
joy of
helping others to
face life again, there will be no
stopping until
everyone
in that
town has had his
opportunity to
recover
-- if he can and will.
86.
... found themselves as helpless as those who ...
BB p.33,
More About Alcoholism
Several of our
crowd,
men of
thirty or
less, had been
drinking only a few
years,
but they
found themselves as
helpless as those who had been
drinking twenty years.
87.
... found themselves saved from death, but still ...
12&12 p.131,
Tradition One
Like us, they had
suddenly found themselves
saved from
death, but still
floating
upon a
perilous sea.
88.
... found they cannot break it, once having ...
BB xxviii(xxvi),
The 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.
89.
... found they could do no more than ...
12&12 p.173,
Tradition Nine
But
long ago,
trustees and
staff members alike found they could do no
more than make
suggestions, and very
mild ones at that.
90.
... found this practice beneficial.
BB p.134,
The Family Afterward
Many of us have
noticed a
tendency to
eat sweets and have
found this
practice beneficial.
91.
... found this solution, who is properly armed ...
BB p.18,
There Is A Solution
But the
ex-
problem drinker who has
found this
solution, who is
properly
armed with
facts about
himself, can
generally win
the
entire confidence
of another
alcoholic in a few
hours.
92.
... found this the best course to take.
BB p.81,
Into Action
Though there may be
justifiable exceptions, and though we
wish to
lay down no
rule of any
sort, we have often
found this the
best course to take.
93.
... found to be no permanent brain injury.
BB xxxi(xxix),
The Doctor's Opinion
94.
... found, to the astonishment of everyone, that ...
BB xviii,
Foreword to Second Edition
New
groups started up and
it was
found, to the
astonishment of
everyone, that
A.A.'s
message could be
transmitted in the
mail as
well as by
word of
mouth.
95.
... found, too, that unless they develop much ...
12&12 p.70,
Step Seven
Nearly all
A.A.'s have
found, too, that
unless they
develop much more of this
precious quality than may
be
required just for
sobriety, they still haven't much
chance of
becoming truly happy.
96.
... found, too, that we had been worshippers.
BB p.54,
We Agnostics
We
found, too, that we had been
worshippers.
97.
... found under the listing "A.A." or "Alcoholics ...
BB p.573(575),
Appendix VI, How to Get in Touch With A.A.
98.
... found we could live at peace with ...
12&12 p.122,
Step Twelve
When, with
God's
help, we
calmly accepted our
lot, then we
found we could
live at
peace with ourselves and
show others who still
suffered the same
fears that
they could get over them, too.
99.
... found we could not place money first.
BB p.127,
The Family Afterward
Although
financial recovery is on the way for many of us, we
found we could not place
money first.
100.
... found we had been only superficial.
12&12 p.32,
Step Two
We
supposed we had been
serious about
religious
practices when, upon
honest appraisal, we
found we had been only
superficial.
101.
... found which oppose the grace of God.
12&12 p.66,
Step Six
No
matter how far we have
progressed,
desires will
always be
found which
oppose
the
grace of
God.
102.
... found, will pay -- and pay handsomely.
12&12 p.80,
Step Eight
Thoroughness, we have
found, will
pay -- and
pay handsomely.
103.
... found wisdom beyond their usual capability.
12&12 p.104,
Step Eleven
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