From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... helpful.
12&12 p.93,
Step Ten
Whenever we fail any of these people, we can promptly admit it -- to ourselves always, and to
them also, when the admission would be helpful.
2.
... helpful.
BB p.67,
How It Works
3.
... helpful.
BB p.102,
Working With Others
Your job now is to be at the place where you may be of maximum helpfulness to
others, so never hesitate to go anywhere if you can be helpful.
4.
... helpful.
BB p.120,
To Wives
5.
... helpful.
BB p.140,
To Employers
If your decision is yes, whether the reason be humanitarian or business or both, then the following suggestions
may be helpful.
6.
... helpful.
BB p.146,
To Employers
7.
... helpful.
BB p.180,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
8.
... helpful and
forgiving spirit, confessing our former ...
BB p.77,
Into Action
We go to him in a helpful and forgiving spirit, confessing our former ill feeling and expressing our regret.
9.
... helpful books
also.
BB p.87,
Into Action
10.
... helpful, but
we think we can render ...
BB p.34,
More About Alcoholism
The experiment of quitting for a period of time will be helpful, but we think we can render an even greater service to alcoholic sufferers and
perhaps to the medical
fraternity.
11.
... helpful came
along, he found he could ...
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.
12.
... helpful discussion.
BB p.127,
The Family Afterward
As each member of a resentful family begins to see his shortcomings and admits
them to the others, he lays
a basis for helpful discussion.
13.
... helpful he
can really be, the conversation ...
12&12 p.61,
Step Five
When your mission is carefully explained,
and it is seen by the recipient of your confidence how helpful he
can really be, the conversation will start easily and will soon become eager.
14.
... helpful, his
wife commenced to admonish him ...
BB p.135,
The Family Afterward
15.
... helpful if
you do.
BB p.100,
Working With Others
16.
... helpful interchange.
BB p.162,
A Vision For You
There is a good bit of travel between East and West and we foresee a great increase in this helpful interchange.
17.
... helpful is
our only aim.
BB p.89,
Working With Others
To be helpful is our only aim.
18.
... helpful, of
course depending upon a doctor's ...
BB p.133,
The Family Afterward
One of the many doctors who had the opportunity of reading
this book in manuscript
form told us that the use of sweets was often helpful, of course depending upon a doctor's advice.
19.
... helpful, or
of some special problem that ...
12&12 p.102,
Step Eleven
Perhaps we think of our day's work and the chances it may afford us to
be useful and helpful, or of
some special problem
that it may bring.
20.
... helpful rather
than critical.
BB p.111,
To Wives
21.
... helpful, regardless
of what anyone says or ...
BB p.99,
Working With Others
These things will come to pass naturally and in good time provided, however, the
alcoholic continues
to demonstrate that he can be sober, considerate, and
helpful, regardless of
what anyone says or does.
22.
... helpful, so
I spent two hours talking ...
BB p.138,
To Employers
This seemed to me like an opportunity to be helpful,
so I spent two hours talking about alcoholism, the malady,
and described the symptoms and results as well as I could.
23.
... helpful suggestion
only.
BB p.132,
The Family Afterward
24.
... helpful suggestions.
BB p.145,
To Employers
25.
... helpful; that
there are no fees to ...
BB p.18,
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.
26.
... helpful to
all people, but at least ...
BB p.67,
How It Works
We cannot be helpful to all people, but at least God will show us how to take a kindly and tolerant view of each and every one.
27.
... helpful to
anyone.
BB p.103,
Working With Others
28.
... helpful to
him?
BB p.67,
How It Works
How can I be helpful to him?
29.
... helpful to
him.
BB p.94,
Working With Others
Outline the program of
action, explaining how
you made a self-appraisal, how you straightened out your past and why you are now endeavoring to be helpful to him.
30.
... helpful to
such cases.
BB xiv,
Foreword to First Edition
31.
... helpful to
those who are afflicted.
BB xiv,
Foreword to First Edition
32.
... helpful to
your husband as the radically ...
BB p.117,
To Wives
We urge you to try our program, for nothing will be so helpful to your husband as the radically
changed attitude toward him which God will show you how to have.
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