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... kind."
12&12 p.46,
Step Four
Therefore we think our
indignation is justified and reasonable -- that our resentments are the "right kind."
2.
... kind.
12&12 p.80,
Step Eight
If our sex conduct is selfish, we may excite jealousy, misery, and a strong desire to retaliate in kind.
3.
... kind.
12&12 p.144,
Tradition Three
4.
... kind?
BB p.61,
How It Works
5.
... kind.
BB p.69,
How It Works
6.
... kind.
BB p.114,
To Wives
Since this book was first published, A.A. has released thousands of alcoholics from asylums
and hospitals of every
kind.
7.
... kind, and
he was much ashamed of ...
BB p.39,
More About Alcoholism
8.
... kind and
loving toward all?
BB p.86,
Into Action
9.
... kind, considerate,
patient, generous; even modest and ...
BB p.61,
How It Works
10.
... kind doctor
who explained that though certainly ...
BB p.7,
Bill's Story
Best of all, I met a kind doctor who explained that though certainly selfish and foolish, I had been seriously ill, bodily and mentally.
11.
... kind enough
to enlarge upon his views ...
BB xxvi(xxiv),
The Doctor's Opinion
The physician who, at our request, gave us this letter, has been kind enough to enlarge upon his views in another statement which
follows.
12.
... kind, if
only in A.A. itself, is ...
12&12 p.34,
Step Three
We saw that we were powerless over alcohol, but we also perceived that faith of
some kind, if only in A.A. itself, is possible to anyone.
13.
... kind like
other men.
BB p.31,
More About Alcoholism
Neither does there appear
to be any kind of treatment which will make alcoholics of our
kind like other men.
14.
... kind, nor
any lurking notion that someday ...
BB p.33,
More About Alcoholism
If we are planning to stop
drinking, there must be no reservation of any kind, nor any lurking notion that someday we will be immune to alcohol.
15.
... kind of
approach does not catch your ...
BB p.112,
To Wives
If this kind of approach
does not catch your husband's interest, it may
be best to drop the subject, but after a friendly talk your husband will usually revive the topic himself.
16.
... kind of
bankruptcy is like this one.
12&12 p.21,
Step One
17.
... kind of
character, and cut across every ...
12&12 p.141,
Tradition Three
Could any then imagine a society which would include
every conceivable
kind of character, and cut across every barrier of race, creed, politics, and language
with ease?
18.
... kind of
confidence and faith in these ...
12&12 p.112,
Step Twelve
Can we have the same kind of
confidence and faith in
these people who have been infected and sometimes
crippled by our own illness that we have in our sponsors?
19.
... kind of
confidence is born, and the ...
12&12 p.50,
Step Four
As we persist, a brand-new kind of confidence is born, and the
sense of relief at finally facing ourselves is indescribable.
20.
... kind of
defense that keeps one from ...
BB p.24,
There Is A Solution
There is a complete failure of the kind of defense that keeps one from putting his hand on a hot stove.
21.
... kind of
dependence they had learned in ...
12&12 p.38,
Step Three
22.
... kind of
domination or dependence.
12&12 p.117,
Step Twelve
Even when our fortunes had
not ebbed that much and we nevertheless found ourselves alone in the world, we still vainly tried to be secure by some unhealthy
kind of domination or dependence.
23.
... kind of
education seems good to me, ...
12&12 p.158,
Tradition Six
24.
... kind of
employee such an attitude will ...
BB p.145,
To Employers
25.
... kind of
faith?
BB p.53,
We Agnostics
26.
... kind of
flight, a spiritual liberation from ...
BB p.55,
We Agnostics
Yet we had been seeing another kind of flight, a spiritual liberation from this world, people who rose above their problems.
27.
... kind of
giving he has found his ...
12&12 p.109,
Step Twelve
And then he discovers that by the divine paradox of this kind of giving he has found his own reward, whether his brother has yet received anything or not.
28.
... kind of
giving that actually demands nothing.
12&12 p.109,
Step Twelve
29.
... kind of
giving that asks no rewards.
12&12 p.106,
Step Twelve
30.
... kind of
God was a part of ...
BB p.55,
We Agnostics
We finally saw that faith in some kind of God was a part of our make-up, just as much as the feeling we have for a friend.
31.
... kind of
hangover which we all experience ...
12&12 p.88,
Step Ten
32.
... kind of
happiness, can A.A. offer them ...
12&12 p.120,
Step Twelve
If they cannot have this kind of happiness, can A.A. offer them satisfactions of similar worth and durability?
33.
... kind of
humility that makes it possible ...
12&12 p.98,
Step Eleven
It is a step in the development of that kind
of humility that makes it
possible for us to receive God's help.
34.
... kind of
insecurity may arise in any ...
12&12 p.52,
Step Four
It should be remembered that this kind of insecurity may arise in any area where instincts are threatened.
35.
... kind of
life such obedience brings.
12&12 p.174,
Tradition Nine
So we of A.A. do obey spiritual principles,
first because we must, and ultimately because we love the kind of life such obedience brings.
36.
... kind of
love that has no price ...
12&12 p.106,
Step Twelve
When the Twelfth Step is seen in its full implication, it is really talking about the
kind of love that has no price tag
on it.
37.
... kind of
man, the kind who recovers, ...
BB p.149,
To Employers
38.
... kind of
money the hospital used to ...
12&12 p.136,
Tradition Two
Handing it to me, he continued, 'This shows the
kind of money the hospital used to make back in the 1920's.
39.
... kind of
person should head the job?
12&12 p.157,
Tradition Six
40.
... kind of
pilot plant A.A. groups could ...
12&12 p.147,
Tradition Four
They figured the town needed a great big alcoholic center, a kind of pilot plant A.A. groups could duplicate everywhere.
41.
... kind of
prayer, by this self-serving demand ...
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.
42.
... kind of
problem: the intellectually self-sufficient man ...
12&12 p.29,
Step Two
43.
... kind of
quarantined confinement.
12&12 p.155,
Tradition Six
We'd gather up derelicts from skid rows, sort out those who could get well, and make it possible for the rest to earn their livelihood in a kind of quarantined confinement.
44.
... kind of
self-righteousness can underlie the smallest ...
12&12 p.94,
Step Ten
45.
... kind of
setting in which such an ...
12&12 p.90,
Step Ten
Before we ask what a spot-check inventory is, let's look at the kind of setting in which such an inventory can do its work.
46.
... kind of
talk.
BB p.146,
To Employers
47.
... kind of
thinking has been characteristic of ...
BB p.37,
More About Alcoholism
To us it is not far-fetched,
for this kind of thinking
has been characteristic of every single one of us.
48.
... kind of
thinking takes no real account ...
12&12 p.36,
Step Three
49.
... kind of
treatment which will make alcoholics ...
BB p.30,
More About Alcoholism
Neither does there appear
to be any kind of treatment which will make alcoholics of our
kind like other men.
50.
... kind of
Twelfth Step work.
12&12 p.110,
Step Twelve
51.
... kind of
waste goes on unabated.
BB p.137,
To Employers
52.
... kind that
make daily living with us ...
12&12 p.81,
Step Eight
Such a roster of harms done others -- the kind that make daily living with us as practicing alcoholics
difficult and often unbearable -- could be extended almost indefinitely.
53.
... kind, the
informality, the genuine democracy, the ...
BB p.160,
A Vision For You
The very practical approach to his problems,
the absence of intolerance of any kind, the informality, the genuine democracy, the uncanny understanding
which these people had were irresistible.
54.
... kind thing
is to lock them up, ...
BB p.114,
To Wives
When they become too dangerous, we think the
kind thing is to lock them up, but of course a good doctor should always be consulted.
55.
... kind who
recovers, will not want this ...
BB p.149,
To Employers
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