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... lost.
12&12 p.147,
Tradition Four
2.
... lost.
BB p.13,
Bill's Story
3.
... lost.
BB p.46,
We Agnostics
4.
... lost a
peace.
12&12 p.47,
Step Four
5.
... lost all
and is locked up.
BB p.62,
How It Works
He is like the retired business man who lolls in the Florida sunshine in the winter complaining of the sad state of the nation; the minister who sighs over the sins of the twentieth century; politicians and reformers who are sure all
would be Utopia if the rest
of the world would only behave; the outlaw safe cracker who thinks society has wronged him; and the alcoholic who has lost all
and is locked up.
6.
... lost all
perspective, and therefore all genuine ...
12&12 p.45,
Step Four
7.
... lost and
frightened and purposeless.
12&12 p.105,
Step Eleven
8.
... lost anyhow.
BB p.80,
Into Action
He saw that he had to place
the outcome in God's hands or he would soon start drinking again, and all would be lost anyhow.
9.
... lost both
home and business.
BB p.143,
To Employers
We all had to place recovery above everything, for without
recovery we would have lost both home and business.
10.
... lost control.
BB p.23,
There Is A Solution
He has lost control.
11.
... lost everything
in life through drinking and ...
BB p.38,
More About Alcoholism
12.
... lost everything
worthwhile in life and was ...
BB xxxi(xxix),
The Doctor's Opinion
13.
... 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.
14.
... lost in
the dust of our chase ...
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
But whenever we had to choose between character and comfort,
the character-building was lost in the dust of our chase after what we thought was happiness.
15.
... lost it.
12&12 p.28,
Step Two
16.
... lost it
as the result of a ...
BB p.4,
Bill's Story
17.
... lost money
-- but some became very rich.
BB p.2,
Bill's Story
18.
... lost money
in stocks through ignorance of ...
BB p.2,
Bill's Story
19.
... Lost Nearly
All"), eight stories were retained; ...
BB xii,
Preface
20.
... lost nothing.
12&12 p.171,
Tradition Eight
21.
... lost only
a half day's work during ...
BB p.173,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
22.
... lost or
rejected faith than to those ...
12&12 p.28,
Step Two
Sometimes A.A. comes harder to those who have lost or rejected faith than to those who never had any faith at all, for they think they have tried faith and found it wanting.
23.
... lost out
because God deserted us.
12&12 p.31,
Step Two
More often, though, we had met up with some major calamity, and to our way of thinking lost out because God deserted us.
24.
... lost the
ability to control our drinking.
BB p.30,
More About Alcoholism
25.
... lost the
faith that moves mountains, without ...
BB p.569(571),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
If we do not do so, we shall stand convicted of emotional sterility and
of having lost the faith that
moves mountains, without which medicine can
do little.
26.
... lost the
power of choice in drink.
BB p.24,
There Is A Solution
27.
... lost the
power to choose whether he ...
BB p.34,
More About Alcoholism
Whether such a person can quit upon a nonspiritual basis depends upon the extent to which he has
already lost the power to choose whether he will drink or not.
28.
... lost the
race by only a narrow ...
BB p.158,
A Vision For You
29.
... lost their
effectiveness in helping alcoholics.
12&12 p.178,
Tradition Ten
When the Washingtonians became temperance crusaders, within a very few years they had completely
lost their effectiveness in helping alcoholics.
30.
... lost their
egoism and fear; they only ...
BB p.73,
Into Action
They only thought they had lost their egoism and fear; they only thought they
had humbled themselves.
31.
... lost their
legs; they never grow new ...
BB p.30,
More About Alcoholism
32.
... lost their
self-confidence, their reliance upon things ...
BB xxviii(xxvi),
The Doctor's Opinion
These allergic types can
never safely use alcohol in any form at all; and once having formed the habit and found they cannot break it, once having lost their self-confidence, their reliance upon things human, their problems pile up on them and become astonishingly difficult to solve.
33.
... lost through
drinking.
BB p.35,
More About Alcoholism
His family was re-assembled, and he began to
work as a salesman for the
business he had lost through drinking.
34.
... lost time.
BB p.126,
The Family Afterward
35.
... lost to
the comfort of any conviction ...
12&12 p.28,
Step Two
36.
... lost to
this world because I did ...
BB p.137,
To Employers
Here were three exceptional men lost to this world because I did not understand alcoholism
as I do now.
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