From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... look!"
12&12 p.49,
Step Four
2.
... look.
12&12 p.58,
Step Five
3.
... look.
BB p.9,
Bill's Story
4.
... look after
public relations and arrange meetings.
12&12 p.134,
Tradition Two
5.
... look after
the place full time.
12&12 p.168,
Tradition Eight
6.
... look and
listen.
12&12 p.27,
Step Two
If you don't care for the one
I've suggested, you'll be sure to discover one that suits if only you look and listen.
7.
... look, and
the measuring sticks by which ...
12&12 p.68,
Step Six
8.
... look around
in the night clubs, or ...
BB p.81,
Into Action
9.
... look as
though religious people were right ...
BB p.11,
Bill's Story
10.
... look at
a really good prayer.
12&12 p.99,
Step Eleven
11.
... look at
all the good we've done ...
12&12 p.133,
Tradition Two
12.
... look at
character-building as something desirable in ...
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
Seldom did we look at character-building as something desirable in
itself, something we
would like to strive for whether our instinctual
needs were met or not.
13.
... look at
his own defects.
12&12 p.46,
Step Four
As soon as he begins to be
more objective, the newcomer can fearlessly, rather than
fearfully, look at his own defects.
14.
... look at
how practical it actually is.
12&12 p.35,
Step Three
15.
... look at
it from an entirely different ...
BB p.66,
How It Works
16.
... look at
our assets and liabilities, and ...
12&12 p.88,
Step Ten
A continuous look at our
assets and liabilities, and a real desire to learn and grow by this means, are necessities for us.
17.
... look at
ourselves and those about us.
12&12 p.123,
Step Twelve
18.
... look at
ourselves we achieved in Step ...
12&12 p.58,
Step Five
19.
... look at
some of them.
BB p.48,
We Agnostics
Let us have a look at some of
them.
20.
... look at
some of these defects, have ...
12&12 p.74,
Step Seven
But when we have taken a square look at some of these defects, have discussed
them with another, and have become willing to have them
removed, our thinking
about humility commences to have a wider
meaning.
21.
... look at
Step Six.
BB p.76,
Into Action
22.
... look at
Steps Eight and Nine.
BB p.76,
Into Action
23.
... look at
the alcoholic in your organization ...
BB p.139,
To Employers
24.
... look at
the chapter on alcoholism.
BB p.112,
To Wives
25.
... look at
the kind of setting in ...
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.
26.
... look at
the record."
BB p.50,
We Agnostics
27.
... look at
the results normal people are ...
12&12 p.37,
Step Three
Should his own image in the mirror be too awful to contemplate (and it usually is), he might first
take a look at the results normal people are getting from self-sufficiency.
28.
... look at
their strange new dad with ...
BB p.128,
The Family Afterward
As soon as his sobriety begins to be taken as a matter of course, the family may look at their strange new dad with apprehension,
then with irritation.
29.
... look at
those personal flaws which are ...
12&12 p.50,
Step Four
Since Step Four is but the beginning of a lifetime
practice, it can be suggested that he first
have a look at those personal flaws which are acutely troublesome and
fairly obvious.
30.
... look at
what might happen in our ...
12&12 p.101,
Step Eleven
It ought to be followed
by a good look at where we stand now, and a further look at what might happen in our lives were we able to move closer to the ideal we have
been trying to glimpse.
31.
... look at
what the basic problem is.
12&12 p.43,
Step Four
Before tackling the inventory problem in detail, let's have a closer look at what the basic problem is.
32.
... look at
where we stand now, and ...
12&12 p.101,
Step Eleven
It ought to be followed
by a good look at where we stand now, and a further look at what might happen in our lives were we able to move closer to the ideal we have
been trying to glimpse.
33.
... look back,
we feel we had gone ...
BB p.34,
More About Alcoholism
As we look back, we feel we had gone on drinking many years beyond the point where we could quit on our
will power.
34.
... look back,
we realize that the things ...
BB p.100,
Working With Others
When we look back, we realize that the things
which came to us when we put ourselves in God's hands were better than anything we could have planned.
35.
... look backward
and try to discover where ...
12&12 p.77,
Step Eight
First, we take a look backward and try to discover where we have
been at fault; next we make a vigorous attempt to repair the damage we have done; and third, having thus cleaned away the debris of the past, we consider how, with our newfound knowledge of ourselves, we may develop
the best possible relations with every human being we know.
36.
... look closely
soon have the key to ...
12&12 p.130,
Tradition One
37.
... look down
the line.
BB p.149,
To Employers
Even if you feel your organization has no alcoholic problem, it
might pay to take another look down the line.
38.
... look easier.
12&12 p.48,
Step Four
39.
... look first
at the case of the ...
12&12 p.25,
Step Two
40.
... look for
our lost faith.
12&12 p.29,
Step Two
Finally, when all our score cards read 'zero,' and we saw that one more strike would put us out of the game forever, we had to look for our lost faith.
41.
... look for
progress, not for perfection.
12&12 p.91,
Step Ten
42.
... look for
something better.
12&12 p.38,
Step Three
Each of us has had his own near-fatal encounter with the juggernaut of self-will, and has suffered enough under its weight to be willing to look for something better.
43.
... look good.
12&12 p.152,
Tradition Five
44.
... "Look here,
Ed.
BB p.147,
To Employers
After reading this book, a junior executive can go to such a man and say approximately this,
"Look here, Ed.
45.
... look in
the mirror ought to be ...
12&12 p.37,
Step Three
46.
... look like
a good thing.
12&12 p.158,
Tradition Six
47.
... look like
a purposeless and pointless piece ...
12&12 p.77,
Step Eight
This reopening of emotional wounds, some old, some perhaps forgotten, and some still
painfully festering,
will at first look like a purposeless and pointless piece of surgery.
48.
... look like
the hole in the doughnut."
12&12 p.36,
Step Three
49.
... look no
further for Utopia.
BB p.16,
Bill's Story
50.
... look now
upon the sea and ponder ...
12&12 p.100,
Step Eleven
Let us look now upon the sea and ponder what its mystery is; and let us lift our eyes to the far horizon, beyond which we shall seek all those wonders still unseen.
51.
... look on
them as sick people.
BB p.70,
How It Works
We have begun to learn tolerance, patience and
good will toward all men, even our enemies, for we look on them as sick people.
52.
... look only
at the objections.
12&12 p.142,
Tradition Three
53.
... look over
the list of business acquaintances ...
BB p.76,
Into Action
As we look over the list of business acquaintances and friends we have hurt, we may
feel diffident about going to some of them on a spiritual basis.
54.
... look squarely
at the unhappiness this has ...
12&12 p.43,
Step Four
55.
... look the
world in the eye.
BB p.75,
Into Action
56.
... look upon.
12&12 p.44,
Step Four
57.
... "Look what
you people have done to ...
12&12 p.25,
Step Two
58.
... look within
himself.
12&12 p.49,
Step Four
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