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... instead?
BB
How It Works, p.69
2.
... instead!
BB
Working With Others, p.102
3.
... instead as
"a member of Alcoholics Anonymous."
BB
Foreword to First Edition, p.xiii
When writing or speaking
publicly about alcoholism, we urge each of our Fellowship to omit his personal name, designating himself instead as "a member of Alcoholics Anonymous."
4.
... instead of
adjusting to the fact, and ...
12&12
Step Six, p.67
Else why would we consume such great amounts of time wishing for what we have
not, rather than working
for it, or angrily looking
for attributes we shall
never have, instead of adjusting to the fact, and accepting it?
5.
... instead of
attempting to bring it into ...
12&12
Step Three, p.40
We had tried to bombard our
problems with it instead of
attempting to bring it
into agreement with God's intention for us.
6.
... instead of
casually, there was little serious ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.37
We now see that when we began to drink deliberately, instead of casually, there was little serious or effective thought during the period of premeditation
of what the terrific consequences might be.
7.
Instead of
developing new channels of activity ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.131
Instead of developing new channels of activity for themselves,
mother and children demand that he stay home and make up the deficiency.
8.
... instead of
how much you can take ...
BB
To Wives, p.120
You, as well as your husband,
ought to think of what you can
put into life instead of how much you can take out.
9.
... instead of
like a bad boy.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.119
10.
... instead of
my wife.
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.41
I have a shadowy recollection of being in
an airplane bound for New York, and of finding a friendly taxicab driver at the landing field instead of my wife.
11.
Instead of
regarding ourselves as intelligent agents, ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.49
Instead of regarding ourselves as intelligent agents, spearheads of God's ever advancing Creation, we agnostics and
atheists chose to believe that our human intelligence was the last
word, the alpha and the omega, the beginning and end of all.
12.
Instead of
regarding the satisfaction of our ...
12&12
Step Seven, p.71
Instead of regarding the satisfaction of our material desires as the means by which we could live and
function as human beings, we had taken these satisfactions to be the final end and aim of life.
13.
... instead of
"Thy will be done."
12&12
Step Two, p.32
14.
Instead of
treating the family as he ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.129
Instead of treating the family as he should, he may retreat further into himself and feel he has spiritual justification for so doing.
15.
Instead, the
problem has been removed.
BB
Into Action, p.85
16.
Instead, the
Washingtonians permitted politicians and reformers, ...
12&12
Tradition Ten, p.178
Instead, the Washingtonians permitted politicians
and reformers, both alcoholic and nonalcoholic, to use the society for their own purposes.
17.
... instead, to
put yourself in his place.
BB
To Wives, p.111
18.
... instead we
had been telling Him what ...
12&12
Step Two, p.31
At no time had we asked what God's will was for us; instead we had
been telling Him what it ought to be.
19.
Instead we
let Him demonstrate, through us, ...
BB
How It Works, p.68
20.
Instead, we
looked at the human defects ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.50
Instead, we looked at the human defects of these people, and sometimes used their shortcomings as
a basis of wholesale condemnation.
21.
... instead would
fill up on large doses ...
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.176
Most of the time, therefore, I did not take the
morning drink which I craved so badly, but instead would fill up on large doses of sedatives to quiet the jitters, which distressed me terribly.
22.
Instead, you
will capitalize them.
BB
To Wives, p.117
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