From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... hand.
BB p.124,
The Family Afterward
2.
... hand.
BB p.163,
A Vision For You
3.
... hand --
and strange as this may seem ...
BB xxix(xxvii),
The Doctor's Opinion
On the other hand -- and strange as this may seem to those who do not understand -- once a psychic change has occurred, the very same person who seemed doomed, who had so many problems he despaired of ever solving them, suddenly finds himself easily able to control his desire for alcohol, the only effort necessary being that required to follow a few simple rules.
4.
... hand and
we became alcoholics.
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.
5.
... hand, at
the same time avoiding certain ...
BB p.162,
A Vision For You
This practice enables
us to lend a hand, at the same time avoiding certain alluring distractions
of the road, about which any traveling man can inform you.(*)
6.
... hand brushed
the bureau near by, touching ...
12&12 p.145,
Tradition Three
7.
... hand, he
may be mean, egotistical, selfish ...
BB p.61,
How It Works
8.
... hand in
hand with the Spirit of ...
BB p.75,
Into Action
9.
... hand in
his domestic and business affairs?
12&12 p.153,
Tradition Five
10.
... hand of
God.
BB p.28,
There Is A Solution
11.
... hand of
God seemed heavy or even ...
12&12 p.105,
Step Eleven
He will also report that out of every season of grief or suffering, when
the hand of God seemed heavy or even unjust, new lessons for living were learned, new resources of courage were uncovered,
and that finally, inescapably, the conviction came that God does "move in a mysterious way His wonders to perform."
12.
... hand of
Providence early gave us a ...
12&12 p.145,
Tradition Three
So the hand of Providence early gave us a sign that any alcoholic is a member of our Society when
he says so.
13.
... hand on
a hot stove.
BB p.24,
There Is A Solution
There is a complete failure of the kind of defense that keeps one from putting his hand on a hot stove.
14.
... hand on
A.A. in this town.
12&12 p.133,
Tradition Two
They say to one another, "Perhaps it would
be a good idea if we continue to keep a firm hand on A.A. in this town.
15.
... hand that
father has, at the outset, ...
BB p.128,
The Family Afterward
16.
... hand them
currency for their back debts; ...
12&12 p.147,
Tradition Four
Beginning on the ground
floor there would be a club;
in the second story they
would sober up drunks and hand them currency for their back debts; the third deck would house an educational project --
quite noncontroversial, of course.
17.
... hand, they
took nothing, their self-pity made ...
BB p.105,
To Wives
18.
... hand trembled
so I could not hold ...
BB p.174,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
19.
... hand, we
have warped our minds into ...
12&12 p.21,
Step One
It is truly awful to admit that, glass in hand, we have warped our minds into such an obsession for destructive drinking
that only an act of Providence can remove it
from us.
20.
... hand when
drinking.
BB p.109,
To Wives
21.
... hand with
the Spirit of the Universe.
BB p.75,
Into Action
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