LOOK in Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous, 12 Steps and 12 Traditions

From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)

longs

longshoreman

longtime

LOOK occurs 58 times (Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)

looked

looking

looks

Click

to display the full page from the Big Book

... look!" 12&12 p.49, Step Four

Pride says, "You need not pass this way," and Fear says, "You dare not look!"

... look. 12&12 p.58, Step Five

The objective look at ourselves we achieved in Step Four was, after all, only a look.

... look. BB p.9, Bill's Story

He had that starry-eyed look.

... look after public relations and arrange meetings. 12&12 p.134, Tradition Two

Headed by the chairman, they look after public relations and arrange meetings.

... look after the place full time. 12&12 p.168, Tradition Eight

So somebody had to look after the place full time.

... 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.

... look, and the measuring sticks by which ... 12&12 p.68, Step Six

They are goals toward which we look, and the measuring sticks by which we estimate our progress.

... look around in the night clubs, or ... BB p.81, Into Action

He commences to look around in the night clubs, or their equivalent, for something besides liquor.

... look as though religious people were right ... BB p.11, Bill's Story

It began to look as though religious people were right after all.

10.

... look at a really good prayer. 12&12 p.99, Step Eleven

First let's look at a really good prayer.

11.

... look at all the good we've done ... 12&12 p.133, Tradition Two

Besides, look at all the good we've done these drunks.

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

Let's look at how practical it actually is.

15.

... look at it from an entirely different ... BB p.66, How It Works

We were prepared to look at it from an entirely different angle.

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

We have had a much keener look at ourselves and those about us.

18.

... look at ourselves we achieved in Step ... 12&12 p.58, Step Five

The objective look at ourselves we achieved in Step Four was, after all, only a look.

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

If we can answer to our satisfaction, we then look at Step Six.

22.

... look at Steps Eight and Nine. BB p.76, Into Action

Let's look at Steps Eight and Nine.

23.

... look at the alcoholic in your organization ... BB p.139, To Employers

A look at the alcoholic in your organization is many times illuminating.

24.

... look at the chapter on alcoholism. BB p.112, To Wives

If you think he will be shy of a spiritual remedy, ask him to look at the chapter on alcoholism.

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

As a celebrated American statesman put it, "Let's look at the record."

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

Those who look closely soon have the key to this strange paradox.

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

But once over the first two or three high hurdles, the course ahead began to look easier.

39.

... look first at the case of the ... 12&12 p.25, Step Two

Let's look first at the case of the one who says he won't believe -- the belligerent one.

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

We shall look for progress, not for perfection.

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

I had to agree with the doctor -- he certainly didn't look good.

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

One good look in the mirror ought to be answer enough for any alcoholic.

46.

... look like a good thing. 12&12 p.158, Tradition Six

At first glance, it did look like a good thing.

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

I'll look like the hole in the doughnut."

49.

... look no further for Utopia. BB p.16, Bill's Story

Most of us feel we need look no further for Utopia.

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

At first the elders could look only at the objections.

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

We wish to look squarely at the unhappiness this has caused others and ourselves.

55.

... look the world in the eye. BB p.75, Into Action

We can look the world in the eye.

56.

... look upon. 12&12 p.44, Step Four

This perverse soul-sickness is not pleasant to look upon.

57.

... "Look what you people have done to ... 12&12 p.25, Step Two

How often have we heard them cry out, "Look what you people have done to us!

58.

... look within himself. 12&12 p.49, Step Four

Both his pride and his fear beat him back every time he tries to look within himself.

Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc. The A.A. Preamble, copyright © The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission. Permission to reprint does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous or The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.

Top

"164 and More" Home Page