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... higher plane
when our thinking is cleared ...
BB
Into Action, p.86
Our thought-life will be placed on a much higher plane when our thinking is cleared of wrong motives.
2.
... Higher Power.
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.43
3.
... Higher Power.
12&12
Contents (Step Two), p.5
4.
... Higher Power.
12&12
Contents (Step Three), p.5
5.
... Higher Power.
12&12
Contents (Step Eleven), p.8
6.
... 'higher power.'
12&12
Step Two, p.27
7.
... Higher Power.
12&12
Step Three, p.38
So it is by circumstance rather than by any virtue that we have been driven
to A.A., have admitted defeat, have acquired the rudiments of faith, and now want to make a decision to turn our will and our lives over to a Higher Power.
8.
... Higher Power?
12&12
Step Three, p.39
So how, exactly, can the willing person continue to turn his will and his life over to the Higher Power?
9.
... higher power.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.107
For the time being, we who were
atheist or agnostic discovered that our own group, or A.A. as a whole, would suffice as a higher power.
10.
... higher power
and absorb himself in his ...
BB
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A., p.570
Learning to depend upon a higher power and absorb himself in his work with other alcoholics, he remains sober day by day.
11.
... Higher Power,
and most of them began ...
12&12
Step Two, p.28
Relieved of the alcohol
obsession, their lives unaccountably transformed, they came to believe in a Higher Power, and most of them began to
talk of God."
12.
... Higher Power
and you will presently live ...
BB
Working With Others, p.100
Follow the dictates of a
Higher Power and you will presently live in a new and wonderful world, no matter what your present circumstances!
13.
... Higher Power
can remove our obsession.
12&12
Step Two, p.25
Having reduced us to a state
of absolute helplessness, you now declare that none but a Higher Power can remove our obsession.
14.
... higher power,
claims for the power of ...
12&12
Step Eleven, p.96
To certain newcomers and
to those one-time agnostics who still cling to the A.A. group as their higher power, claims for the power of prayer may, despite all the logic and experience in proof of it, still be unconvincing or quite objectionable.
15.
... Higher Power,
God as I understood Him, ...
12&12
Step Six, p.63
But when I became willing
to clean house and then asked a Higher Power, God as I understood Him, to give me release, my obsession to drink vanished.
16.
... Higher Power
had restored us to sanity ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.108
In Step Eleven we saw that if a Higher Power had restored us to sanity and had enabled us to
live with some peace of mind in a sorely troubled world, then such a Higher Power was worth knowing better, by as direct contact as possible.
17.
... Higher Power
hasn't produced any baleful results.
12&12
Step Three, p.38
18.
... Higher Power
impossible.
12&12
Step Seven, p.72
For just so long as we were convinced that we could live
exclusively by our own individual strength and
intelligence, for just
that long was a working faith in a Higher Power impossible.
19.
... Higher Power
-- into our lives.
12&12
Step Three, p.34
Like all the remaining Steps, Step Three calls for affirmative action, for it
is only by action that we can cut away the self-will which has always blocked the entry of God -- or, if you like, a Higher Power -- into our lives.
20.
... Higher Power,
let alone meditation and prayer?
12&12
Step One, p.24
21.
... Higher Power
must necessarily do so if ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.107
In Step Two we saw that since we could not restore ourselves to sanity, some Higher Power must necessarily do so if we were to survive.
22.
... Higher Power,
the more independent we actually ...
12&12
Step Three, p.36
And the facts seem to be these:
The more we become willing to depend upon a Higher Power, the more independent we actually
are.
23.
... Higher Power
was a sort of bush-league ...
12&12
Step Seven, p.75
We began to get over the idea that the Higher Power was a sort of bush-league pinch hitter, to be called upon only in an emergency.
24.
... Higher Power
was out of the question.
12&12
Step Seven, p.72
As long as we placed self-reliance first, a genuine reliance upon a Higher Power was out of the question.
25.
... Higher Power
was worth knowing better, by ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.108
In Step Eleven we saw that if a Higher Power had restored us to sanity and had enabled us to
live with some peace of mind in a sorely troubled world, then such a Higher Power was worth knowing better, by as direct contact as possible.
26.
... Higher Power
worked.
12&12
Step Three, p.38
27.
... higher power,
would presently love God and ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.109
From great numbers of such experiences, we could
predict that the doubter
who still claimed that he
hadn't got the "spiritual angle," and who still considered his well-loved A.A. group the higher power, would presently love God and call Him by name.
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