From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... house.
12&12 p.56,
Step Five
Some people are unable to
stay sober at all; others will relapse periodically
until they really clean house.
2.
... house.
BB p.98,
Working With Others
3.
... house.
BB p.130,
The Family Afterward
4.
... house.
BB p.175,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
Finally my father had to
send a doctor out from my home town who managed to get me back there in some way, and I was in bed about two months before I could venture out of the house.
5.
... house an
educational project -- quite noncontroversial, of ...
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.
6.
... house and
another friend drinking their morning ...
12&12 p.144,
Tradition Three
7.
... house and
then asked a Higher Power, ...
12&12 p.63,
Step Six
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.
8.
... house and,
unknown to the family, went ...
12&12 p.144,
Tradition Three
About two weeks later, Ed stole by night into an A.A. member's house and, unknown to the family, went to bed.
9.
... house at
exactly five o'clock and it ...
BB p.179,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
10.
... house because
of my jitters, not daring ...
BB p.173,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
Many mornings I have gone to classes, and even though fully prepared, would turn and walk back to the fraternity
house because of my jitters, not daring to enter the classroom for fear of making a scene should I be called on
for recitation.
11.
... house for
the Al-Anon Family Groups, composed ...
BB p.573(575),
Appendix VI, How to Get in Touch With A.A.
This is a world clearing
house for the Al-Anon Family Groups, composed largely of the wives, husbands and friends of A.A. members.
12.
... house has
electric wiring carrying power and ...
12&12 p.36,
Step Three
13.
... house has
spent years in pulling down ...
BB p.123,
The Family Afterward
But the head of the house has
spent years in pulling down the structures of business,
romance, friendship,
health -- these things are
now ruined or damaged.
14.
... house, he
heard the story of some ...
BB p.160,
A Vision For You
Impressed by those who
visited him at the hospital, he capitulated entirely
when, later, in an upper room of this house, he heard the story of some man whose experience closely tallied with his own.
15.
... house, in
a town near home.
BB p.179,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
16.
... house is
filled with strangers.
BB p.119,
To Wives
17.
... house is
in order.
BB p.164,
A Vision For You
18.
... house is
still largely theoretical.
12&12 p.60,
Step Five
Until we actually sit down and talk aloud about what we have so
long hidden, our willingness to clean
house is still largely theoretical.
19.
... house, never
drinking during business hours, drinking ...
BB p.31,
More About Alcoholism
Here are some of the methods we have tried: Drinking beer only, limiting the number of drinks, never drinking alone, never drinking in the morning, drinking only at
home, never having it in the
house, never drinking during business hours, drinking only at parties,
switching from scotch
to brandy, drinking only
natural wines, agreeing to resign if ever drunk on the job, taking a trip, not taking a trip, swearing off forever (with and without a
solemn oath), taking more physical exercise, reading inspirational
books, going to health farms and sanitariums, accepting voluntary commitment to asylums --
we could increase the list
ad infinitum.
20.
... house, often
the breadwinner.
12&12 p.118,
Step Twelve
21.
... house ought
to remember that he is ...
BB p.127,
The Family Afterward
22.
... house put
in her name -- pride; personal ...
BB p.65,
How It Works
My wife -- misunderstands and nags; likes Brown; wants the house put in her name -- pride; personal sex relations; security (fear).
23.
... house so
that the grace of God ...
12&12 p.32,
Step Two
The fact was we really
hadn't cleaned house so
that the grace of God could enter us and expel the obsession.
24.
... house still
fails somewhat in practicing them.
BB p.130,
The Family Afterward
They can hardly fail to approve these simple principles, though the head of the house still fails somewhat in practicing
them.
25.
... house to
be certain no one gets ...
BB p.22,
There Is A Solution
If he can afford it, he may have liquor concealed all over his house to be certain no one gets his entire supply away from him to throw down the wastepipe.
26.
... house to
carry me through that night ...
BB p.8,
Bill's Story
With a certain satisfaction I reflected there was enough
gin concealed about the
house to carry me through that night and the next day.
27.
... house to
find loving and understanding companionship ...
BB p.160,
A Vision For You
Many a distracted wife has visited this house to find loving and understanding companionship among women who knew her problem, to hear from the lips of their husbands what
had happened to them, to be advised how her own wayward mate might be hospitalized and approached when next he stumbled.
28.
... house until
he first envisions a plan ...
12&12 p.100,
Step Eleven
29.
... house was
taken over by the mortgage ...
BB p.5,
Bill's Story
The house was taken over by the mortgage holder, my mother-in-law died, my wife and father-in-law became ill.
30.
... house where
I lived felt forced to ...
BB p.174,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
There my drinking became
so much worse that the boys in the fraternity
house where I lived felt forced to send for my father, who made a long journey in the vain endeavor to get me straightened around.
31.
... house will
hardly accommodate its weekly visitors, ...
BB p.161,
A Vision For You
Now, this house will hardly accommodate its weekly visitors, for they
number sixty or eighty as a rule.
32.
... house with
the family, asking each morning ...
BB p.83,
Into Action
So we clean house with the family, asking each morning in meditation that our Creator show us the way of patience, tolerance, kindliness
and love.
33.
... house would
appear.
BB p.105,
To Wives
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