From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... individual.
12&12 p.103,
Step Eleven
The A.A., or indeed any man, who tries to run his life rigidly by this kind of prayer, by this self-serving demand of God for replies, is a particularly disconcerting individual.
2.
... individual.
BB p.39,
More About Alcoholism
3.
... individual adventure,
something which each one of ...
12&12 p.101,
Step Eleven
Aided by such instruction and example
as we can find, it is essentially an individual
adventure, something
which each one of us works out in his own way.
4.
... individual alcoholic
could live, so we had ...
BB xix,
Foreword to Second Edition
As we discovered the principles by which the individual alcoholic could live, so we had to evolve principles by which the A.A.
groups and A.A. as a whole could survive and function effectively.
5.
... individual alone.
12&12 p.40,
Step Three
They have become persuaded, and rightly
so, that many problems besides alcohol will not yield to a headlong assault powered by the individual alone.
6.
... individual as
alcoholic, but you can quickly ...
BB p.31,
More About Alcoholism
7.
... individual basis.
12&12 p.37,
Step Three
8.
... individual can
do.
12&12 p.40,
Step Three
9.
... individual case,
will help turn up the ...
12&12 p.53,
Step Four
Questions like these, more of which will come to mind easily in each individual case, will help turn up the root causes.
10.
... individual character
defects are.
12&12 p.48,
Step Four
Human beings are never quite alike, so each of us, when making an inventory, will need to determine what his individual character defects are.
11.
... individual's desire
for prestige becomes uncontrollable, whether ...
12&12 p.44,
Step Four
When an individual's desire
for prestige becomes uncontrollable, whether in the sewing circle or at the international conference table, other people suffer and often revolt.
12.
... individual doesn't
count for much?
12&12 p.129,
Tradition One
13.
... individual entity,
strictly reliant on its own ...
12&12 p.147,
Tradition Four
This meant, of course, that
we had been given the courage to declare each A.A. group an individual entity, strictly reliant on its own conscience as a guide to action.
14.
... individual, in
the personal stories, describes in ...
BB p.29,
There Is A Solution
Each individual, in the personal stories, describes in his own language and from his own point of view the way he established his relationship with God.
15.
... individual may
be entirely outside of A.A. ...
12&12 p.61,
Step Five
16.
... individual may
prove a blessing to him.
BB p.141,
To Employers
17.
... individual members.
12&12 p.182,
Tradition Eleven
Here was something rare in the world -- a society which said it wished to publicize its principles and its work, but not its individual members.
18.
... individual members;
surely there is none which ...
12&12 p.129,
Tradition One
We believe there isn't a fellowship on earth which
lavishes more devoted care upon its individual members; surely there is none which more jealously guards the individual's right to think, talk, and act as he wishes.
19.
... individual members
waxed prosperous.
12&12 p.161,
Tradition Seven
20.
... individual, must
eventually conform to whatever tested ...
12&12 p.146,
Tradition Four
We saw that the group, exactly like the individual, must eventually conform to whatever tested principles would guarantee survival.
21.
... individual of
today is a stickler for ...
BB p.48,
We Agnostics
22.
... individual recovery,
just so earnestly did we ...
12&12 p.131,
Tradition One
As we had once struggled
and prayed for individual recovery, just so earnestly did we commence to quest for the principles through which
A.A. itself might survive.
23.
... individual responsibilities
to act as they see ...
12&12 p.177,
Tradition Ten
Nor does it mean that the members of Alcoholics Anonymous, now restored as citizens of
the world, are going to back away from their individual responsibilities to act as they see the right upon issues of our time.
24.
... individual's right
to think, talk, and act ...
12&12 p.129,
Tradition One
We believe there isn't a fellowship on earth which
lavishes more devoted care upon its individual members; surely there is none which more jealously guards the individual's right to think, talk, and act as he wishes.
25.
... individual should
consult his own conscience.
BB p.132,
The Family Afterward
26.
... individual should
ever take any action that ...
12&12 p.189,
Tradition Four (Long)
And no group, regional committee, or
individual should ever take any action that might greatly affect A.A. as a whole without conferring with the trustees of the General Service Board.
27.
... individual should
ever take any action that ...
BB p.563(565),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
And no group, regional committee, or
individual should ever take any action that might greatly affect A.A. as a whole without conferring with the trustees of the General Service Board.
28.
... individual skills.
12&12 p.151,
Tradition Five
The unique ability of each A.A. to identify himself with, and
bring recovery to, the newcomer in no way depends upon his learning, eloquence, or on any special individual skills.
29.
... individual spells
sheer anarchy.
12&12 p.129,
Tradition One
30.
... individual strength
and intelligence, for just that ...
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
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.
31.
... individual to
settle for himself.
BB p.50,
We Agnostics
32.
... individual was
always making friendly little jokes ...
BB p.145,
To Employers
One instance comes to mind in which a malicious individual was always making friendly little jokes about an alcoholic's
drinking exploits.
33.
... individual ways.
BB p.17,
There Is A Solution
Unlike the feelings of
the ship's passengers,
however, our joy in escape
from disaster does not subside as we go our individual ways.
34.
... individual welfare
follows close afterward.
12&12 p.189,
Tradition One (Long)
35.
... individual welfare
follows close afterward.
BB p.563(565),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
36.
... individual, who
still smarts from our injustice ...
BB p.77,
Into Action
It is seldom wise to approach an individual, who
still smarts from our injustice to him, and announce that we have gone religious.
37.
... individual will
not.
12&12 p.130,
Tradition One
38.
... individual with
a passion, say, for jay-walking.
BB p.37,
More About Alcoholism
Our behavior is as absurd and incomprehensible with respect to the first drink as that of an individual
with a passion, say, for jay-walking.
39.
... individual with
alcoholic tendencies, he has probably ...
BB p.24,
There Is A Solution
When this sort of thinking
is fully established
in an individual with alcoholic tendencies,
he has probably placed
himself beyond human aid, and unless locked up, may die or go permanently insane.
40.
... individual, your
chances are good at this ...
BB p.113,
To Wives
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