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... found.
BB p.35,
More About Alcoholism
2.
... found.
BB p.55,
We Agnostics
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
5.
... found a
key to sobriety.
12&12 p.151,
Tradition Five
6.
... found a
peace of mind which can ...
12&12 p.104,
Step Eleven
And they have increasingly found a peace of mind which can stand firm in the face of difficult circumstances.
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
9.
... found confidence
and comfort in the laughter ...
12&12 p.110,
Step Twelve
We can be the ones who take on
the unspectacular but important tasks that make good Twelfth Step work possible, perhaps arranging for the
coffee and cake after the meetings, where so
many skeptical, suspicious newcomers
have found confidence
and comfort in the laughter and talk.
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
14.
... found happiness,
there will be ups and ...
BB p.117,
To Wives
15.
... found he
could not.
BB p.32,
More About Alcoholism
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
18.
... found himself.
BB p.158,
A Vision For You
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
21.
... found himself
surprisingly well received, and learned ...
BB p.156,
A Vision For You
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
25.
... found in
giving themselves for others.
BB p.159,
A Vision For You
26.
... found in
just trying to be a ...
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.
27.
... found in
that bitter morass of self-pity.
BB p.8,
Bill's Story
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
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
Highly competent psychiatrists who have dealt with us have found it sometimes impossible
to persuade an alcoholic to discuss his
situation without reserve.
33.
... found it
very desirable to take this ...
BB p.63,
How It Works
We found it very desirable to take this spiritual step with an understanding person,
such as our wife, best friend, or spiritual adviser.
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
It was fortunate, for my old business associates remained skeptical for a year and a
half, during which I found little work.
36.
... found Lois
cooking as usual, while three ...
12&12 p.137,
Tradition Two
Arriving home, I found Lois cooking as usual, while three drunks looked hungrily on from the kitchen door.
37.
... found many
in A.A. who once thought ...
12&12 p.30,
Step Two
38.
... found me
and I would go home ...
BB p.176,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
39.
... found me
drinking both gin and sedative.
BB p.7,
Bill's Story
40.
... 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.
41.
... 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.
42.
... 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.
43.
... found no
great difficulty in casting aside ...
BB p.48,
We Agnostics
44.
... found nothing
incompatible between a powerful spiritual ...
BB p.130,
The Family Afterward
We have found nothing incompatible between a
powerful spiritual experience and a life of sane and happy usefulness.
45.
... 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.
46.
... 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.
47.
... found ourselves
accepting many things which then ...
BB p.47,
We Agnostics
48.
... 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.
49.
... found ourselves
handicapped by obstinacy, sensitiveness, and ...
BB p.48,
We Agnostics
Besides a seeming inability to accept much on faith, we often found ourselves handicapped
by obstinacy, sensitiveness, and unreasoning prejudice.
50.
... 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?"
51.
... found out
about alcoholism.
BB p.112,
To Wives
52.
... found out
later that my wife inspected ...
BB p.176,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
53.
... found out
right away.
BB p.120,
To Wives
54.
... found something
brand new in life.
BB p.159,
A Vision For You
55.
... 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.
56.
... found strength
not ordinarily their own.
12&12 p.104,
Step Eleven
57.
... 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.
58.
... 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.
59.
... 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.
60.
... found that
freedom from fear was more ...
12&12 p.122,
Step Twelve
61.
... found that
God does not make too ...
BB p.46,
We Agnostics
62.
... 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.
63.
... found that
it is fatal.
BB p.66,
How It Works
We found that it is fatal.
64.
... found that
justified anger ought to be ...
12&12 p.90,
Step Ten
65.
... 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.
66.
... found that
our self-esteem, our pocketbooks, our ...
BB p.64,
How It Works
In most cases it was found
that our self-esteem, our pocketbooks, our ambitions, our personal
relationships (including sex) were hurt or threatened.
67.
... found that
people were attracted to us ...
12&12 p.116,
Step Twelve
68.
... found that
some drunks yearned for education, ...
12&12 p.148,
Tradition Four
69.
... found that
such codes and philosophies did ...
BB p.45,
We Agnostics
70.
... found that
the actual good results of ...
12&12 p.104,
Step Eleven
71.
... 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.
72.
... 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.
73.
... found that
we can take our big ...
12&12 p.114,
Step Twelve
74.
... found that
we could not wish or ...
12&12 p.58,
Step Five
75.
... 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.
76.
... found that
we had to rely upon ...
12&12 p.181,
Tradition Eleven
77.
... 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.
78.
... 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.
79.
... 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.
80.
... found the
Great Reality deep down within ...
BB p.55,
We Agnostics
81.
... found the
master of the house and ...
12&12 p.144,
Tradition Three
82.
... found the
person, it frequently takes great ...
12&12 p.61,
Step Five
83.
... found the
prospect more receptive.
BB p.158,
A Vision For You
84.
... 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.
85.
... found the
riddle's answer.
12&12 p.32,
Step Two
86.
... 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.
87.
... 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.
88.
... 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.
89.
... 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.
90.
... 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.
91.
... 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.
92.
... found this
practice beneficial.
BB p.134,
The Family Afterward
93.
... 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.
94.
... 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.
95.
... found to
be no permanent brain injury.
BB xxxi(xxix),
The Doctor's Opinion
96.
... 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.
97.
... 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.
98.
... found, too,
that we had been worshippers.
BB p.54,
We Agnostics
We found, too, that we had been worshippers.
99.
... found under
the listing "A.A." or "Alcoholics ...
BB p.573(575),
Appendix VI, How to Get in Touch With A.A.
These so-called intergroup associations are found under the listing "A.A." or "Alcoholics Anonymous" in telephone
directories.
100.
... 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.
101.
... found we
could not place money first.
BB p.127,
The Family Afterward
102.
... 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.
103.
... found which
oppose the grace of God.
12&12 p.66,
Step Six
104.
... found, will
pay -- and pay handsomely.
12&12 p.80,
Step Eight
105.
... found wisdom
beyond their usual capability.
12&12 p.104,
Step Eleven
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