From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... live.
12&12 p.118,
Step Twelve
2.
... live.
12&12 p.130,
Tradition One
At first he goes along because he must, but later he discovers a way of life he really wants to live.
3.
... live.
BB p.117,
To Wives
These work-outs should be regarded as part of your education, for thus you will be learning to live.
4.
... live.
BB p.130,
The Family Afterward
One more suggestion: Whether the
family has spiritual convictions or not, they may do well to examine the principles by which the alcoholic member is trying to live.
5.
... Live
BB p.135,
The Family Afterward
6.
... live almost
alone.
BB p.105,
To Wives
7.
... live alone
with our pressing problems and ...
12&12 p.55,
Step Five
A.A. experience has taught us we cannot live alone with our pressing problems and the character defects which
cause or aggravate them.
8.
... live and
be happy.
BB p.96,
Working With Others
To spend too much time on any one situation is to deny some other alcoholic an opportunity to live and be
happy.
9.
... live and
function as human beings, we ...
12&12 p.71,
Step Seven
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.
10.
... live, and
it had to be a ...
BB p.45,
We Agnostics
11.
Live and
Let Live
BB p.135,
The Family Afterward
12.
Live and
let live is the rule.
BB p.118,
To Wives
13.
... live and
work together as groups became ...
12&12 p.130,
Tradition One
14.
... live and
work together with harmony and ...
12&12 p.18,
Foreword
But it was by no means sure that such great numbers of yet erratic people could live and work together with harmony and good effect.
15.
... live at
all.
BB p.146,
To Employers
16.
... live at
peace with himself and with ...
12&12 p.76,
Step Seven
17.
... live at
peace with ourselves and show ...
12&12 p.122,
Step Twelve
When, with God's help, we calmly accepted our lot, then we found we could live at peace with ourselves and show others who still suffered the same fears that they could get over them, too.
18.
... live by
self-propulsion.
BB p.60,
How It Works
19.
... live by
spiritual principles.
BB p.93,
Working With Others
The main thing is that he be
willing to believe in a
Power greater than himself and that he live by spiritual principles.
20.
... live by
this formula than alcoholics.
12&12 p.71,
Step Seven
But we are sure that no class of people in the world ever made a worse mess of trying to live by this formula than alcoholics.
21.
... live can
cooperate fully with their Creator's ...
12&12 p.64,
Step Six
Here their powerful instinct to live can cooperate fully with their
Creator's desire to give them new life.
22.
... live exclusively
by our own individual strength ...
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.
23.
... live for!
BB xxix(xxvii),
The Doctor's Opinion
I have everything to live for!
24.
... live for
as much as your husband.
BB p.119,
To Wives
25.
... live in.
12&12 p.37,
Step Three
We are certain that our intelligence, backed by
willpower, can rightly
control our inner lives and guarantee us success in the world we live in.
26.
... live in
a completely hostile world.
12&12 p.105,
Step Eleven
27.
... live in
a large place, there are ...
BB p.152,
A Vision For You
28.
... live in
a new and wonderful world, ...
BB p.100,
Working With Others
Follow the dictates of a
Higher Power and you will presently live in a new and wonderful world, no matter what your present circumstances!
29.
... live in
a world riddled with envy.
12&12 p.67,
Step Six
30.
... live in
large cities are overcome by ...
BB p.19,
There Is A Solution
Those of us who live in large cities are overcome by the reflection that close by
hundreds are dropping
into oblivion every day.
31.
... live in
our homes for long at ...
BB p.97,
Working With Others
32.
... live in
thankful contemplation of Him who ...
12&12 p.192,
Tradition Twelve (Long)
This to the end that our great
blessings may never spoil us; that we shall forever live in thankful contemplation of Him who presides over us all.
33.
... live in
thankful contemplation of Him who ...
BB p.566(568),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
This to the end that our great
blessings may never spoil us; that we shall forever live in thankful contemplation of Him who presides over us all.
34.
... live in
the greatest peace, partnership, and ...
12&12 p.77,
Step Eight
Learning how to live in
the greatest peace, partnership, and brotherhood with all men
and women, of whatever description, is a moving
and fascinating adventure.
35.
... live in
the imminent possibility of a ...
12&12 p.176,
Tradition Ten
We live in the imminent possibility of a fresh holocaust to determine
how men shall be governed, and how the products of nature and toil shall be divided among them.
36.
... live is
the rule.
BB p.118,
To Wives
37.
... live it.
BB p.83,
Into Action
We have to live it.
38.
... live long.
BB p.26,
There Is A Solution
In the doctor's judgment
he was utterly hopeless; he could never regain his position in society and he would have to place himself under lock and key or hire a bodyguard if he expected
to live long.
39.
... live long
or happily in this world.
BB p.74,
Into Action
40.
... live on
a spiritual basis are not ...
BB p.44,
We Agnostics
To be doomed to an alcoholic death or to live on a spiritual basis are not always easy alternatives to face.
41.
... live on
a spiritual basis, he will ...
BB p.118,
To Wives
If your husband is trying
to live on a spiritual basis, he will also be doing everything in his power to
avoid disagreement or
contention.
42.
... live on
self-will and run the show ...
BB p.76,
Into Action
We attempt to sweep away the debris which has accumulated out of our effort to live on self-will and run the show ourselves.
43.
... live or
most of us will surely ...
12&12 p.189,
Tradition One (Long)
44.
... live or
most of us will surely ...
BB p.563(565),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
45.
... live our
own lives, God helping a ...
12&12 p.75,
Step Seven
The notion that we would still live our own lives, God helping a little now and then, began to evaporate.
46.
... live serenely
today and tomorrow, we certainly ...
12&12 p.88,
Step Ten
47.
... live so
happily, we'd show everybody else ...
12&12 p.156,
Tradition Six
48.
... live, so
we had to evolve principles ...
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.
49.
... live to
become elder statesmen.
12&12 p.135,
Tradition Two
50.
... live to
good purpose under all conditions?
12&12 p.88,
Step Ten
Then comes the acid test: can we stay sober, keep in emotional balance, and
live to good purpose under all conditions?
51.
... live to
much useful purpose, or, in ...
12&12 p.70,
Step Seven
Without it, they cannot live to much useful purpose, or, in adversity, be able to summon the faith that can meet any emergency.
52.
... live today
in the Twelve Traditions of ...
12&12 p.131,
Tradition One
They live today in the Twelve Traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous,
which -- God willing -- shall sustain us in unity for so long as He may need us.
53.
... live together.
12&12 p.178,
Tradition Ten
54.
... live up
to them.
BB p.69,
How It Works
55.
... live up
to them even though we ...
BB p.62,
How It Works
Many of us had moral and philosophical convictions galore, but
we could not live up to them even though we would have liked to.
56.
... live upon
spiritual principles we think we ...
BB p.83,
Into Action
Unless one's family expresses a desire to live upon spiritual principles we think we ought not to urge them.
57.
... live usefully
and walk humbly under the ...
12&12 p.125,
Step Twelve
58.
... live, we
had to be free of ...
BB p.66,
How It Works
59.
... live well
today.
12&12 p.88,
Step Ten
60.
... live with.
12&12 p.84,
Step Nine
61.
... live with
my wife's parents.
BB p.4,
Bill's Story
62.
... live with
some peace of mind in ...
12&12 p.108,
Step Twelve
In Step Eleven we saw that if a Higher Power had restored us to sanity and had enabled us to
live with some peace of mind in a sorely troubled world, then such a Higher Power was worth knowing better, by as direct contact as possible.
63.
... live with
the other woman forever.
BB p.106,
To Wives
In the midst of such pandemonium they may have rushed out threatening to live with
the other woman forever.
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