From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... help.
12&12 p.75,
Step Seven
2.
... help.
12&12 p.98,
Step Eleven
It is a step in the development of that kind
of humility that makes it
possible for us to receive God's help.
3.
... help.
12&12 p.133,
Tradition Two
He feels a spiritual and
ethical compulsion,
because hundreds may be
suffering within reach of his help.
4.
... help.
BB p.25,
There Is A Solution
We were in a position where life was becoming impossible, and if we had passed into the region from
which there is no return through human aid, we had but two alternatives: One was to
go on to the bitter end, blotting out the consciousness of
our intolerable situation as best we could;
and the other, to accept spiritual help.
5.
... help.
BB p.27,
There Is A Solution
6.
... help.
BB p.43,
More About Alcoholism
As to two of you men, whose stories I have heard, there is no doubt in my mind that you were
100% hopeless, apart from divine help.
7.
... help.
BB p.62,
How It Works
We had to have God's help.
8.
... help.
BB p.84,
Into Action
9.
... help.
BB p.90,
Working With Others
10.
... help.
BB p.95,
Working With Others
11.
... help.
BB p.111,
To Wives
12.
... help.
BB p.116,
To Wives
13.
... help.
BB p.150,
To Employers (Note)
14.
... help.
BB p.162,
A Vision For You
15.
... help.
BB p.569(571),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
Dr. Harry M. Tiebout, psychiatrist:
"As a psychiatrist, I have thought a great deal about the relationship of my specialty to A.A. and I have
come to the conclusion
that our particular function can very often lie in preparing the way for the patient to accept any sort of treatment or outside
help.
16.
... help an
alcoholic, but he had succeeded ...
BB xvi,
Foreword to Second Edition
Prior to his journey to Akron, the broker had worked hard with many alcoholics on the theory that only an alcoholic could help an alcoholic, but he had succeeded only in keeping
sober himself.
17.
... help and
be helped.
12&12 p.166,
Tradition Eight
Almost from the beginning, we have been positive that face-to-face work with the alcoholic who suffers
could be based only on the desire to help and be helped.
18.
... help and
direction.
12&12 p.105,
Step Eleven
All this should be very encouraging news for those who recoil from prayer because they don't believe in it, or because
they feel themselves cut off from God's help and direction.
19.
... help and
guidance -- meanwhile resolving to do ...
12&12 p.86,
Step Nine
Do we lay the matter before our sponsor or spiritual adviser, earnestly asking God's help and guidance -- meanwhile resolving to do the right
thing when it becomes clear, cost what it may?
20.
... help, and
he tries to meet these ...
BB p.137,
To Employers
Nearly every modern employer feels a moral responsibility for the well-being of his help, and he tries to meet these responsibilities.
21.
... help and
the drastic step is indicated ...
BB p.80,
Into Action
If we have obtained permission, have consulted with others, asked God to help and the drastic step is indicated we must not shrink.
22.
... help, but
the help doesn't come.
12&12 p.32,
Step Two
23.
... help, but
they could not be expected ...
12&12 p.168,
Tradition Eight
Volunteer committeemen and assistants could be of great help, but they could not
be expected to carry this
load day in and day out.
24.
... help doesn't
come.
12&12 p.32,
Step Two
25.
... help ensure
that various elements of A.A.'s ...
BB p.574,
Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form)
Written by co-founder Bill W. in 1962, the Twelve Concepts for World Service provide a group of related principles to help ensure that various elements of A.A.'s service structure remain responsive and responsible to those they
serve.
26.
... help everyone
to better understand the alcoholic.
BB xiii,
Foreword to First Edition
27.
... help fellow
sufferers in recovery from that ...
12&12 p.15,
Foreword
Alcoholics Anonymous is a worldwide fellowship
of more than one hundred thousand(*) alcoholic men and women who are banded together to solve their common problems and to
help fellow sufferers in recovery
from that age-old, baffling malady, alcoholism.
28.
... help had
been rebuffed, these words rang ...
12&12 p.144,
Tradition Three
After all his pleas for
help had been rebuffed,
these words rang in his fevered mind: "They have deserted me.
29.
... help him
about getting a job, or ...
BB p.96,
Working With Others
30.
... help him,
even if it be only ...
BB p.141,
To Employers
31.
... help him
-- his doctor, his minister, and ...
12&12 p.186,
Tradition Twelve
He also wanted to tell others who had tried to help him -- his doctor, his minister, and
close friends.
32.
... help him
see where he has failed ...
BB p.93,
Working With Others
Perhaps your story will help him see where he has failed to practice the very precepts he knows so well.
33.
... help him
to stay alive.
12&12 p.64,
Step Six
He did not design man to destroy himself by alcohol, but He did give man instincts to help him to stay alive.
34.
... help himself
except by helping others.
BB p.572(574),
Appendix V, The Religious View on A.A.
The Episcopal magazine, The Living Church, observes editorially: "The basis
of the technique of Alcoholics Anonymous
is the truly Christian
principle that a man
cannot help himself except by helping others.
35.
... help his
brother alcoholic, the one who ...
12&12 p.109,
Step Twelve
Even the newest of newcomers finds undreamed rewards as he
tries to help his brother alcoholic, the one who is even blinder than he.
36.
... help if
we can drop all resistance ...
12&12 p.100,
Step Eleven
37.
... help if
we were surely to know ...
12&12 p.59,
Step Five
We'd have to have outside help if we were surely to know and admit the truth about ourselves --
the help of God and another human being.
38.
... help in
quieting stormy emotions.
12&12 p.90,
Step Ten
A spot-check inventory taken in the midst of such disturbances can be of very great help in quieting stormy emotions.
39.
... help in
those strange mental blank spots.
BB p.42,
More About Alcoholism
40.
... help is
noted on page 121.
BB p.104,
To Wives (Note)
41.
... help is
the very thing which makes ...
BB p.124,
The Family Afterward
Showing others who suffer how we were given help is the very thing which makes life seem so worth while to us now.
42.
... help it
is too much for us.
BB p.59,
How It Works
43.
... help it
might be well to disregard ...
BB p.139,
To Employers
44.
... help me.
12&12 p.136,
Tradition Two
45.
... help me!"
BB xxix(xxvii),
The Doctor's Opinion
You must help me!"
46.
... help me.
BB p.179,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
About this time a lady called up my wife one Saturday afternoon saying she wanted me to come over that evening to meet a friend of hers who might help me.
47.
... help me
and to help yourself?'
12&12 p.152,
Tradition Five
"Still dubious, he demanded, 'Do you really mean the only reason you are here is to try and help me and to help yourself?'
48.
... help me,
but I would get my ...
BB p.175,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
After three years of this, I wound up in the local hospital where they attempted to help me, but I
would get my friends to smuggle me a quart, or I
would steal the alcohol
about the building, so that I got rapidly worse.
49.
... help meet
their needs.
BB p.20,
There Is A Solution
Our very lives, as ex-problem drinkers, depend upon our constant thought of others and how we
may help meet their needs.
50.
... help my
banker friend understand.
BB p.138,
To Employers
I wanted to throw up my hands in discouragement, for I saw that I had failed to help my banker friend understand.
51.
... help of
A.A.'s Twelve Steps we could ...
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.
52.
... help of
all -- our search for God's ...
12&12 p.103,
Step Eleven
Just saying it over and over will often enable us to clear a channel choked up with anger, fear, frustration, or misunderstanding, and permit us to return to the surest help of all -- our search for God's will, not our own, in the moment of stress.
53.
... help of
God and another human being.
12&12 p.59,
Step Five
We'd have to have outside help if we were surely to know and admit the truth about ourselves --
the help of God and another human being.
54.
... help of
God as we understand Him, ...
12&12 p.113,
Step Twelve
Can we now, with the help of God as we understand Him, handle them as well and as bravely as our nonalcoholic friends
often do?
55.
... help of
Thy Power, Thy Love, and ...
BB p.63,
How It Works
Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy Power, Thy Love, and Thy Way of life.
56.
... help one
another.
12&12 p.178,
Tradition Ten
57.
... help other
alcoholics.
BB xxiv,
Foreword to Fourth Edition
In any meeting, anywhere, A.A.'s share experience, strength, and hope with each other, in order to stay sober and help other alcoholics.
58.
... help other
alcoholics achieve sobriety?
12&12 p.111,
Step Twelve
Can we love the whole pattern of living as eagerly as we do the small segment of it we discover
when we try to help other alcoholics achieve sobriety?
59.
... help other
alcoholics if they would remain ...
BB p.159,
A Vision For You
Though they knew they must help other alcoholics if they
would remain sober, that motive became secondary.
60.
... help other
alcoholics to achieve sobriety.
Grapevine,
Preamble
61.
... help other
alcoholics when he escapes his ...
BB p.94,
Working With Others
Make it plain he is under no obligation to you, that you hope only that he will try to help other alcoholics when he
escapes his own difficulties.
62.
... help other
drinkers.
BB p.112,
To Wives
63.
... help other
people as we have already ...
12&12 p.102,
Step Eleven
Our immediate temptation will be to ask for specific solutions to specific problems, and for the ability to help other people as we have already thought they should
be helped.
64.
... help others.
BB p.132,
The Family Afterward
65.
... help others
and who will be glad ...
BB p.90,
Working With Others
You should be described to him as one of a fellowship who, as
part of their own recovery, try to help others and who will be glad to talk to him if he cares to see you.
66.
... help others
to recover from alcoholism.
Grapevine,
Preamble
Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength
and hope with each other that they may solve their
common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism.
67.
... help others,
to watch loneliness vanish, to ...
BB p.89,
Working With Others
To watch people recover, to see them help others, to watch loneliness vanish, to see a fellowship grow up about you, to have a host of friends -- this is an experience you must not miss.
68.
... help others
with similar problems ... In this ...
BB p.570(572),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
They help others with similar problems ... In
this atmosphere the alcoholic often overcomes his excessive
concentration upon himself.
69.
... help our
readers determine, to their own ...
BB p.34,
More About Alcoholism
How then shall we help our readers determine, to
their own satisfaction,
whether they are one of us?
70.
... help problem
drinkers as others seldom can.
12&12 p.150,
Tradition Five
Just as firmly bound by obligation are
the members of Alcoholics Anonymous,
who have demonstrated that they can help problem drinkers as others seldom can.
71.
... help really
deluged us.
BB xviii,
Foreword to Second Edition
Then Jack Alexander wrote a feature article in the Saturday Evening Post and placed such a compelling picture of A.A. before the general public that alcoholics in need of help really deluged us.
72.
... help serious
drinkers who should have been ...
BB p.147,
To Employers
They often jeopardize
their own positions by trying to help serious drinkers who
should have been fired long
ago, or else given an opportunity to
get well.
73.
... help, some
men will try to take ...
BB p.141,
To Employers
74.
... help some
of them.
BB p.14,
Bill's Story
Perhaps I could help some
of them.
75.
... help, that
was sure.
12&12 p.162,
Tradition Seven
76.
... help, the
knowledge that at home or ...
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.
77.
... help the
man who is off on ...
BB p.130,
The Family Afterward
Nothing will help the man who is off on a spiritual tangent so much as the wife who adopts a sane spiritual program, making a better practical use of it.
78.
... help the
next alcoholic who comes along.
12&12 p.96,
Step Eleven
We A.A.'s are active folk, enjoying the satisfactions of dealing with the realities of life, usually for the first time in our lives, and strenuously trying to
help the next alcoholic who comes along.
79.
... help the
person who lives with a ...
BB p.104,
To Wives (Note)
But many of the suggestions given here may be adapted to help the person who lives with a woman alcoholic -- whether she
is still drinking or is
recovering in A.A.
80.
... help the
public to a better realization ...
BB p.103,
Working With Others
Some day we hope that Alcoholics Anonymous
will help the public to a better realization of the gravity of the alcoholic
problem, but we shall be
of little use if our attitude is one of bitterness or hostility.
81.
... help the
wife of another serious drinker.
BB p.112,
To Wives
82.
... help them.
12&12 p.93,
Step Ten
With those we dislike we
can begin to practice justice and courtesy, perhaps going out of our way to understand and help them.
83.
... help them
discover a chink in the ...
12&12 p.46,
Step Four
The problem is to help them
discover a chink in the
walls their ego has built, through which the light of reason can shine.
84.
... help; they
will be honored by our ...
BB p.75,
Into Action
85.
... help those
we criticize; we are trying ...
12&12 p.67,
Step Six
86.
... help to
carry these lessons over into ...
12&12 p.94,
Step Ten
Here we need only recognize that we did act or
think badly, try to visualize how we might
have done better, and resolve with God's help to carry these lessons over into tomorrow, making, of course, any amends still neglected.
87.
... help to
other people -- was not a ...
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?
88.
... help to
us for, as you see, ...
BB p.148,
To Employers
89.
... help turn
up the root causes.
12&12 p.53,
Step Four
Questions like these, more of which will come to mind easily in each individual case, will help turn up the root causes.
90.
... help us
be willing.
BB p.76,
Into Action
91.
... help us
show them the same tolerance, ...
BB p.67,
How It Works
We asked God to help us show them the same tolerance, pity, and patience that we
would cheerfully grant
a sick friend.
92.
... help us
to better jobs when we ...
12&12 p.121,
Step Twelve
We forgot that most alcoholics in A.A. have an earning power considerably above average; we forgot the immense goodwill of our brother A.A.'s who were only too
eager to help us to better jobs when we deserved them; we forgot
the actual or potential
financial insecurity of every human being in the world.
93.
... help us
to live up to them.
BB p.69,
How It Works
94.
... help us
to meet an occasional emergency, ...
12&12 p.96,
Step Eleven
To be sure, we feel it is something that might help us
to meet an occasional emergency, but at first many of us are apt to regard it as a somewhat mysterious skill of clergymen, from which we may hope to get a secondhand benefit.
95.
... help, we
calmly accepted our lot, then ...
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.
96.
... help, we
know that we have an ...
BB p.181,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
But if you really and truly
want to quit drinking liquor for good and all, and sincerely
feel that you must have some
help, we know that we have an
answer for you.
97.
... help when
no one else can.
BB p.89,
Working With Others
98.
... help would
be broken.
12&12 p.175,
Tradition Nine
99.
... help you
get over it, and if ...
BB p.147,
To Employers
100.
... help you
plug up this sometimes serious ...
BB p.148,
To Employers
101.
... help yourself?'
12&12 p.152,
Tradition Five
"Still dubious, he demanded, 'Do you really mean the only reason you are here is to try and help me and to help yourself?'
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