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From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)

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HELPING   occurs   15 times    (Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
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1.
... helping a little now and then, began ...   12&12 p.75, Step Seven
The notion that we would still live our own lives, God helping a little now and then, began to evaporate.

2.
... helping alcoholics.   12&12 p.178, Tradition Ten
When the Washingtonians became temperance crusaders, within a very few years they had completely lost their effectiveness in helping alcoholics.

3.
... helping drunks by spirituality, I thought it ...   12&12 p.136, Tradition Two
Three years ago, when my head doctor, Silkworth, began to tell me of the idea of helping drunks by spirituality, I thought it was crackpot stuff, but I've changed my mind.


4.
... helping him.   BB p.94, Working With Others   Go to page 94 in the Big Book
Actually, he may be helping you more than you are helping him.


5.
... helping other alcoholics.   BB p.129, The Family Afterward   Go to page 129 in the Big Book
Even if he displays a certain amount of neglect and irresponsibility towards the family, it is well to let him go as far as he likes in helping other alcoholics.


6.
... helping other alcoholics to a solution of ...   BB p.15, Bill's Story   Go to page 15 in the Big Book
My wife and I abandoned ourselves with enthusiasm to the idea of helping other alcoholics to a solution of their problems.


7.
... helping other men and their families.   BB p.119, To Wives   Go to page 119 in the Big Book
You have been starving for his companionship, yet he spends long hours helping other men and their families.


8.
... helping others.   BB p.70, How It Works   Go to page 70 in the Big Book
If sex is very troublesome, we throw ourselves the harder into helping others.


9.
... helping others.   BB p.572(574), Appendix V, The Religious View on A.A.   Display entire Appendix V
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.


10.
Helping others is the foundation stone of ...   BB p.97, Working With Others   Go to page 97 in the Big Book
Helping others is the foundation stone of your recovery.


11.
... helping others to face life again, there ...   BB p.164, A Vision For You   Go to page 163 in the Big Book
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.

12.
... helping others to understand him, when in ...   12&12 p.94, Step Ten
Or, the person concerned not being present, we thought we were helping others to understand him, when in actuality our true motive was to feel superior by pulling him down.

13.
... helping to give the man coming in ...   12&12 p.168, Tradition Eight
She was helping to give the man coming in the door the break he ought to have.


14.
... helping to settle family differences, explaining the ...   BB p.161, A Vision For You   Go to page 161 in the Big Book
Cleaning up old scrapes, helping to settle family differences, explaining the disinherited son to his irate parents, lending money and securing jobs for each other, when justified -- these are everyday occurrences.


15.
... helping you more than you are helping ...   BB p.94, Working With Others   Go to page 94 in the Big Book
Actually, he may be helping you more than you are helping him.


Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.  The A.A. Preamble, copyright © The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission.  Permission to reprint does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous or The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.

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