From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... full advantage
of this attitude to depress ...
12&12 p.168,
Tradition Eight
2.
... full and
meaningful sobriety.
12&12 p.62,
Step Five
This feeling of being at
one with God and man, this emerging from isolation through the open and honest sharing of our terrible burden of guilt, brings us to a resting place where we may prepare ourselves for the following Steps toward a full and meaningful sobriety.
3.
... full and
useful life, though your husband ...
BB p.111,
To Wives
4.
... full answer
to these questions.
BB p.22,
There Is A Solution
5.
... full answer
to which may be only ...
12&12 p.64,
Step Six
6.
... full answers
to age-old perplexities, but our ...
12&12 p.117,
Step Twelve
We A.A.'s cannot pretend to
offer full answers to age-old perplexities, but our
own experience does provide certain answers that work for us.
7.
... full bottle
of gin near the head ...
BB p.8,
Bill's Story
8.
... full catalogue
of the harms we do.
12&12 p.81,
Step Eight
9.
... full chance
was sometimes to pronounce his ...
12&12 p.141,
Tradition Three
At last experience taught us that to take away any alcoholic's full chance was sometimes to pronounce his death sentence, and often to condemn him to endless misery.
10.
... full citizenship,
and above all to watch ...
12&12 p.110,
Step Twelve
To watch the eyes of men and women open with wonder as they move from darkness into light, to see their lives quickly fill with new purpose and meaning, to see whole families reassembled,
to see the alcoholic outcast received back into his community in
full citizenship, and
above all to watch these people awaken to the presence of a loving God in their lives -- these things are the substance
of what we receive as we carry A.A.'s message to the next alcoholic.
11.
... full confidence
in the one with whom ...
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.
12.
... full consequences
of our past acts, and ...
12&12 p.87,
Step Nine
For the readiness to take
the full consequences
of our past acts, and to take responsibility for
the well-being of others at the same time, is the very spirit of Step Nine.
13.
... full flight
from reality, or were outright ...
BB xxvi(xxiv),
The Doctor's Opinion
It did not satisfy us to be told that we could not control
our drinking just because we were maladjusted to life, that
we were in full flight from
reality, or were outright mental defectives.
14.
... full implication,
it is really talking about ...
12&12 p.106,
Step Twelve
When the Twelfth Step is seen in its full implication, it is really talking about the kind of love that has no price tag
on it.
15.
... full implication
of Step Seven: "Humbly asked ...
12&12 p.75,
Step Seven
It marked the time when we
could commence to see the
full implication of Step Seven: "Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings."
16.
... full knowledge
of your condition.
BB p.32,
More About Alcoholism
17.
... full meaning
of "Love thy neighbor as ...
BB p.153,
A Vision For You
18.
... full name
in all its advertising; he ...
12&12 p.158,
Tradition Six
The association wanted to use our member's full name in all its advertising; he was to be described both as its director of publicity and as a member
of Alcoholics Anonymous.
19.
... full of
faith, but still reeking of ...
12&12 p.31,
Step Two
20.
... full of
fear, we were unhappy, we ...
BB p.52,
We Agnostics
We were having trouble with personal relationships, we couldn't control our emotional natures, we were a prey to misery and depression, we
couldn't make a living, we
had a feeling of uselessness, we were full
of fear, we were unhappy,
we couldn't seem to be of real
help to other people -- was not a basic solution of these bedevilments more important than whether we
should see newsreels of lunar flight?
21.
... full of
gin followed by half a ...
BB p.5,
Bill's Story
A tumbler full of gin followed by half a dozen bottles of beer would be required if I were to eat any breakfast.
22.
... full of
human understanding, you have perhaps ...
BB p.94,
Working With Others
23.
... full of
nonsense; we could cite it ...
12&12 p.30,
Step Two
The Bible, we said, was full of nonsense; we could cite it chapter and verse, and we couldn't see the Beatitudes for the 'begats.'
24.
... full of
people like him.
BB p.109,
To Wives
25.
... full of
people who once believed as ...
12&12 p.26,
Step Two
26.
... full of
wisdom, who moves to another ...
12&12 p.173,
Tradition Nine
Who is more unpopular
than the oldtime A.A., full of wisdom, who moves to another area and tries to tell the group there how to run its business?
27.
... full on
page 561 of this book.
BB xix,
Foreword to Second Edition
This was the substance of A.A.'s Twelve Traditions, which are stated in full on page 561 of this book.
28.
... full return,
the certainty that we are ...
12&12 p.124,
Step Twelve
Service, gladly rendered, obligations
squarely met, troubles well accepted or solved with God's help, the knowledge that at home or in
the world outside we are
partners in a common effort, the well-understood fact that in God's sight all human beings are important, the proof that
love freely given surely brings a full return, the certainty that
we are no longer isolated and alone in self-constructed prisons, the surety that we
need no longer be square pegs in round holes but can fit and belong in God's scheme of things -- these are
the permanent and legitimate satisfactions of right
living for which no amount of pomp and circumstance, no heap of material possessions, could possibly be substitutes.
29.
... full revelation
would seriously harm the one ...
12&12 p.86,
Step Nine
That will arise in the occasional situation
where to make a full revelation would seriously harm the one to whom we are making amends.
30.
... full stomach.
BB p.36,
More About Alcoholism
"Suddenly the thought
crossed my mind that if I
were to put an ounce of whiskey in my milk it couldn't
hurt me on a full stomach.
31.
... full stomach.
BB p.36,
More About Alcoholism
I vaguely sensed I was
not being any too smart, but felt reassured as I was taking
the whiskey on a full stomach.
32.
... full strength
our means of survival.
12&12 p.177,
Tradition Ten
Since recovery from alcoholism is life itself to us, it is imperative that we preserve in full strength our means of survival.
33.
... full suggestions
by which the employee may ...
BB p.143,
To Employers
To return to the subject
matter of this book: It contains full suggestions by which the employee may solve his problem.
34.
... full swing.
BB p.52,
We Agnostics
Only thirty years later the conquest of the air was almost an old story and airplane travel was in
full swing.
35.
... full swing.
BB xviii,
Foreword to Second Edition
36.
... full time.
12&12 p.168,
Tradition Eight
37.
... full time,
and you're broke.
12&12 p.136,
Tradition Two
38.
... full-time careers
do not professionalize A.A.'s Twelfth ...
12&12 p.170,
Tradition Eight
39.
... full-time help,
that was sure.
12&12 p.162,
Tradition Seven
40.
... full-time secretaries
hired.
12&12 p.161,
Tradition Seven
To save whole areas from turmoil, small offices had to be set up, telephones installed,
and a few full-time secretaries hired.
41.
... full-time secretary.
12&12 p.191,
Tradition Nine (Long)
The small group may elect its secretary, the large group its rotating committee, and
the groups of a large metropolitan area their
central or intergroup
committee, which often
employs a full-time secretary.
42.
... full-time secretary.
BB p.565(567),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
The small group may elect its secretary, the large group its rotating committee, and
the groups of a large metropolitan area their
central or intergroup
committee, which often
employs a full-time secretary.
43.
... full-time workers.
12&12 p.168,
Tradition Eight
44.
... full, with
the permission of my good ...
BB p.177,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
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