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... material."
12&12 p.161,
Tradition Seven
2.
... material?
BB p.51,
We Agnostics
We asked ourselves this:
Are not some of us just as biased and unreasonable
about the realm of the spirit as were the ancients
about the realm of the material?
3.
... material achievement.
12&12 p.71,
Step Seven
4.
... material and
emotional security, and for an ...
12&12 p.42,
Step Four
Our desires for sex, for
material and emotional security, and for an important place in society often tyrannize us.
5.
... material and
emotional security, and for companionship ...
12&12 p.42,
Step Four
So these desires -- for the sex relation, for material and emotional security, and for companionship -- are perfectly necessary and
right, and surely God-given.
6.
... material and
emotional security as well as ...
12&12 p.43,
Step Four
In such a case, this imperious urge can destroy his chances for
material and emotional security as well as his standing in the community.
7.
... material blessings
that many have come to ...
12&12 p.70,
Step Seven
The immense resources
now being harnessed promise such a quantity of material blessings that many have come to believe that a man-made millennium lies just ahead.
8.
... material condition
was, but it did matter ...
12&12 p.122,
Step Twelve
It did not matter too much
what our material condition was, but it did matter what our spiritual
condition was.
9.
... material desires
as the means by which ...
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.
... material from
the spiritual.
12&12 p.190,
Tradition Six (Long)
We think, therefore,
that any considerable
property of genuine use to A.A. should be separately incorporated and managed, thus dividing the material from
the spiritual.
11.
... material from
the spiritual.
BB p.564(566),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
We think, therefore,
that any considerable
property of genuine use to A.A. should be separately incorporated and managed, thus dividing the material from
the spiritual.
12.
... material, men's
minds were fettered by superstition, ...
BB p.51,
We Agnostics
In the realm of the material,
men's minds were fettered by superstition, tradition, and all sorts of
fixed ideas.
13.
... material needs
are cared for.
BB p.98,
Working With Others
He clamors for this or that, claiming he cannot master
alcohol until his material needs are cared for.
14.
... material possessions,
could possibly be substitutes.
12&12 p.124,
Step Twelve
Service, gladly rendered, obligations
squarely met, troubles well accepted or solved with God's help, the knowledge that at home or in
the world outside we are
partners in a common effort, the well-understood fact that in God's sight all human beings are important, the proof that
love freely given surely brings a full return, the certainty that
we are no longer isolated and alone in self-constructed prisons, the surety that we
need no longer be square pegs in round holes but can fit and belong in God's scheme of things -- these are
the permanent and legitimate satisfactions of right
living for which no amount of pomp and circumstance, no heap of material possessions, could possibly be substitutes.
15.
... material progress
in the last century than ...
BB p.51,
We Agnostics
This world of ours has made more material progress in the last century than in all the
millenniums which went
before.
16.
... material progress
was painfully slow.
BB p.51,
We Agnostics
17.
... material prospects
were.
12&12 p.121,
Step Twelve
But as time passed we found that with the help of A.A.'s Twelve Steps we could lose those fears, no matter what our material prospects were.
18.
... material satisfactions
were not the purpose of ...
12&12 p.71,
Step Seven
We had lacked the perspective to see that character-building and
spiritual values had to
come first, and that material satisfactions were
not the purpose of living.
19.
... material security.
12&12 p.121,
Step Twelve
20.
... material success.
12&12 p.91,
Step Ten
We must be quite as careful when we begin to achieve some measure of importance and material success.
21.
... material success
founded upon no more than ...
12&12 p.29,
Step Two
"As material success founded upon no more than these ordinary attributes began to come to us, we felt we were winning at the game of life.
22.
... material things
was concerned, our outlook underwent ...
12&12 p.120,
Step Twelve
Where the possession of money and material things was concerned, our
outlook underwent the
same revolutionary change.
23.
... material well-being
always followed spiritual progress; it ...
BB p.127,
The Family Afterward
24.
... material world.
BB p.49,
We Agnostics
These tiny bodies are governed by precise laws, and these laws hold true throughout the material world.
25.
... material world
and life as we see ...
BB p.49,
We Agnostics
When, however, the perfectly logical assumption is suggested that underneath the material world and life as we see it, there is an All Powerful, Guiding, Creative Intelligence, right
there our perverse streak comes to the surface and we laboriously set out to convince ourselves it isn't so.
26.
... material world,
that outward appearances are not ...
BB p.48,
We Agnostics
It is being constantly
revealed, as mankind studies the material world, that outward appearances are not inward reality at all.
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