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... idea.
BB
Bill's Story, p.7
2.
... idea.
BB
Bill's Story, p.12
I didn't like the idea.
3.
... idea.
BB
Bill's Story, p.12
4.
... idea.
12&12
Step Eleven, p.99
As beginners in meditation, we might now reread this prayer several times very slowly, savoring every word and trying to take in the deep meaning of each phrase and idea.
5.
... idea.
12&12
Tradition Four, p.147
6.
... idea a
minute on how to improve ...
12&12
Tradition Three, p.143
7.
... idea and
a practical program of action.
BB
Bill's Story, p.9
8.
... idea, and
that was sobriety.
12&12
Tradition Five, p.154
Years later, this tough Irish customer liked to say, "My sponsor sold me one idea, and that was sobriety.
9.
... idea did.
BB
We Agnostics, p.52
But the God idea did.
10.
... idea entirely.
BB
We Agnostics, p.45
11.
... idea how
irrational they are, or seeing ...
12&12
Step Two, pp.32-33
Few indeed are the practicing alcoholics
who have any idea how irrational they are, or seeing their irrationality, can bear to
face it.
12.
... idea how
prevalent this problem is.
BB
To Employers, p.149
13.
... idea if
we continue to keep a ...
12&12
Tradition Two, p.133
They say to one another, "Perhaps it would be
a good idea if we continue to keep a firm hand on A.A. in this town.
14.
... idea into
the consciousness of every man ...
BB
Working With Others, p.98
15.
... idea is
good, but it isn't good ...
12&12
Tradition Two, p.138
16.
... idea misunderstood;
the word itself is often ...
12&12
Step Seven, p.70
17.
... idea of
being humble, to gain a ...
12&12
Step Seven, p.73
To get completely away from our aversion to the
idea of being humble, to gain a vision of humility as the avenue to true freedom of the human spirit, to be willing to work for humility as something to be desired for
itself, takes most of us a long, long time.
18.
... idea of
bowing before any God.
12&12
Step Eleven, p.96
We well remember how something deep inside us kept rebelling against the idea of bowing before any God.
19.
... idea of
dependence at the level of ...
12&12
Step Three, p.36
20.
... idea of
God.
BB
We Agnostics, p.55
Actually we were fooling
ourselves, for deep down in every man, woman, and child, is the fundamental
idea of God.
21.
... idea of
helping drunks by spirituality, I ...
12&12
Tradition Two, p.136
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.
22.
... idea of
helping other alcoholics to a ...
BB
Bill's Story, p.15
My wife and I abandoned ourselves with enthusiasm to the idea of helping other alcoholics to a solution
of their problems.
23.
... idea of
Him with which someone had ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.45
To others, the word "God" brought up a particular idea of Him with which someone had
tried to impress them during childhood.
24.
... idea of
his behavior, his problems, his ...
BB
Working With Others, p.90
Get an idea of his behavior, his problems, his
background, the seriousness of his condition, and his religious leanings.
25.
... idea of
how we approach and aid ...
BB
A Vision For You, p.153
In the chapter "Working
With Others" you gathered
an idea of how we approach
and aid others to health.
26.
... idea of
how you ought to proceed.
BB
Working With Others, p.91
27.
... idea of
personal powerlessness.
12&12
Step One, p.21
28.
... idea of
what has actually happened in ...
BB
There Is A Solution, p.29
These give a fair cross section of our membership and a clear-cut idea of what has actually happened in their
lives.
29.
... idea of
what life is all about.
BB
We Agnostics, p.49
30.
... idea out
of his head.
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.38
31.
... idea that
future happiness can be based ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.123
The family may be possessed by the idea that future happiness can be based only upon forgetfulness of the past.
32.
... idea that
God has accomplished the miracle ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.128
While grateful that he drinks no more, they may not like the idea that God has accomplished the miracle
where they failed.
33.
... idea that
he can still control his ...
BB
Working With Others, p.92
If he sticks to the idea that
he can still control his drinking, tell him that possibly he can -- if he is not too alcoholic.
34.
... idea that
he could take whiskey if ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, pp.36-37
Yet all reasons for not drinking were easily pushed aside in favor of the foolish idea that he could take whiskey if only he mixed it
with milk!
35.
... idea that
it would be far better ...
12&12
Tradition Eleven, p.181
Obviously, A.A. had to be publicized somehow, so we
resorted to the idea that it
would be far better to let our friends do this for us.
36.
... idea that
people are trying to pull ...
BB
To Employers, p.145
37.
... idea that
self-sufficiency would solve our problems.
BB
We Agnostics, p.52
38.
... idea that
somehow, someday he will control ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.30
The idea that somehow, someday he will control and enjoy his drinking is the great obsession of every abnormal drinker.
39.
... idea that
the Higher Power was a ...
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.
40.
... idea that
this time we shall handle ...
BB
There Is A Solution, p.24
If these thoughts occur,
they are hazy and readily supplanted with the old threadbare idea that this time we shall handle ourselves like other people.
41.
... idea that
wasn't so salable.
12&12
Tradition Three, p.143
42.
... idea that
we can be possessively loving ...
12&12
Step Ten, pp.92-93
The idea that we can be possessively loving of a
few, can ignore the many, and can continue to fear or hate anybody, has to be abandoned, if only a little
at a time.
43.
... idea that
we needed vast sums of ...
12&12
Tradition Seven, p.161
As A.A. emerged from its infancy into adolescence, we swung from
the idea that we needed vast sums of money to the notion that A.A. shouldn't have any.
44.
... idea that
we were too good to ...
BB
To Wives, p.116
45.
... idea that
you are a nag or ...
BB
To Wives, p.111
If he gets the idea that you are
a nag or a killjoy, your chance of accomplishing
anything useful may be zero.
46.
... idea, voicing
it without reservation.
BB
How It Works, p.63
The wording was, of course,
quite optional so long as we expressed the idea, voicing it without reservation.
47.
... idea why
he took that first drink ...
BB
There Is A Solution, p.23
And the truth, strange to say, is usually that he has no more idea
why he took that first drink than you have.
48.
... idea won
out.
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.37
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