From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... idea.
12&12 p.99,
Step Eleven
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.
2.
... idea.
12&12 p.147,
Tradition Four
3.
... idea.
BB p.7,
Bill's Story
4.
... idea.
BB p.12,
Bill's Story
I didn't like the idea.
5.
... idea.
BB p.12,
Bill's Story
6.
... idea a
minute on how to improve ...
12&12 p.143,
Tradition Three
7.
... idea and
a practical program of action.
BB p.9,
Bill's Story
8.
... idea, and
that was sobriety.
12&12 p.154,
Tradition Five
Years later, this tough Irish customer liked to say, "My sponsor sold me one idea, and that was sobriety.
9.
... idea did.
BB p.52,
We Agnostics
But the God idea did.
10.
... idea entirely.
BB p.45,
We Agnostics
11.
... idea how
irrational they are, or seeing ...
12&12 p.33,
Step Two
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 p.149,
To Employers
13.
... idea if
we continue to keep a ...
12&12 p.133,
Tradition Two
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 p.98,
Working With Others
15.
... idea is
good, but it isn't good ...
12&12 p.137,
Tradition Two
16.
... idea misunderstood;
the word itself is often ...
12&12 p.70,
Step Seven
17.
... idea of
being humble, to gain a ...
12&12 p.73,
Step Seven
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 p.96,
Step Eleven
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 p.36,
Step Three
20.
... idea of
God.
BB p.55,
We Agnostics
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 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.
22.
... idea of
helping other alcoholics to a ...
BB p.15,
Bill's Story
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 p.45,
We Agnostics
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 p.90,
Working With Others
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 p.153,
A Vision For You
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 p.91,
Working With Others
27.
... idea of
personal powerlessness.
12&12 p.21,
Step One
28.
... idea of
what has actually happened in ...
BB p.29,
There Is A Solution
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 p.49,
We Agnostics
30.
... idea out
of his head.
BB p.38,
More About Alcoholism
31.
... idea that
future happiness can be based ...
BB p.123,
The Family Afterward
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 p.128,
The Family Afterward
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 p.92,
Working With Others
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 p.37,
More About Alcoholism
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 p.181,
Tradition Eleven
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 p.145,
To Employers
37.
... idea that
self-sufficiency would solve our problems.
BB p.52,
We Agnostics
38.
... idea that
somehow, someday he will control ...
BB p.30,
More About Alcoholism
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 p.75,
Step Seven
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 p.24,
There Is A Solution
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 p.143,
Tradition Three
42.
... idea that
we can be possessively loving ...
12&12 p.92,
Step Ten
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 p.161,
Tradition Seven
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 p.116,
To Wives
45.
... idea that
you are a nag or ...
BB p.111,
To Wives
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 p.63,
How It Works
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 p.23,
There Is A Solution
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 p.37,
More About Alcoholism
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