From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... meet.
BB p.99,
Working With Others
2.
... meet.
BB xxxii(xxx),
The Doctor's Opinion
3.
... meet a
friend of hers who might ...
BB p.179,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
About this time a lady called up my wife one Saturday afternoon saying she wanted me to come over that evening to meet a friend of hers who might help me.
4.
... meet an
occasional emergency, but at first ...
12&12 p.96,
Step Eleven
To be sure, we feel it is something that might help us
to meet an occasional emergency, but at first many of us are apt to regard it as a somewhat mysterious skill of clergymen, from which we may hope to get a secondhand benefit.
5.
... meet and
transcend their other pains and ...
12&12 p.31,
Step Two
6.
... meet and
work together?
BB xviii,
Foreword to Second Edition
The test that it faced was
this: Could these large numbers of erstwhile erratic alcoholics successfully meet and work together?
7.
... meet any
emergency.
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.
8.
... meet conditions,
whatever they were.
12&12 p.47,
Step Four
9.
... meet frequently
so that newcomers may find ...
BB p.15,
Bill's Story
10.
... meet God
alone than with one who ...
BB p.63,
How It Works
11.
... meet life's
responsibilities with his own resources, ...
12&12 p.43,
Step Four
12.
... meet my
problems as He would have ...
BB p.13,
Bill's Story
I was to sit quietly when in
doubt, asking only for direction and strength
to meet my problems as He
would have me.
13.
... meet other
difficulties of life.
12&12 p.16,
Foreword
Many people, nonalcoholics, report
that as a result of the practice of A.A.'s Twelve Steps, they have been
able to meet other difficulties of life.
14.
... meet our
incessant demands.
12&12 p.53,
Step Four
If we lean too heavily on
people, they will sooner or later fail us, for they are human,
too, and cannot possibly meet our incessant demands.
15.
... meet our
newly recognized responsibilities to the ...
12&12 p.112,
Step Twelve
16.
... meet some
of us as you trudge ...
BB p.164,
A Vision For You
We shall be with you in the Fellowship of the Spirit,
and you will surely meet some of us as you trudge the
Road of Happy Destiny.
17.
... meet such
conditions.
BB p.97,
Working With Others
18.
... meet; suppose
we suggest how they may ...
BB p.123,
The Family Afterward
Suppose we tell you some of
the obstacles a family
will meet; suppose we suggest how they
may be avoided -- even converted to good use for others.
19.
... meet the
acid test: how well does ...
12&12 p.37,
Step Three
This brave philosophy,
wherein each man plays God, sounds good in the speaking, but it
still has to meet the acid test: how well does it actually work?
20.
... meet the
most stubborn resistance or, worse ...
12&12 p.173,
Tradition Nine
He and all like him who "view
with alarm for the good of A.A." meet the most stubborn resistance or,
worse still, laughter.
21.
... meet their
needs.
BB p.20,
There Is A Solution
Our very lives, as ex-problem drinkers, depend upon our constant thought of others and how we
may help meet their needs.
22.
... meet them,
still has an alcoholic mind; ...
BB p.101,
Working With Others
An alcoholic who cannot meet them, still has an alcoholic mind; there is something the matter with
his spiritual status.
23.
... meet these
calamities which come to so ...
12&12 p.113,
Step Twelve
Have we alcoholics in A.A.
got, or can we get, the resources to meet these calamities which come to so
many?
24.
... meet these
conditions every day.
BB p.101,
Working With Others
25.
... meet these
new friends in your own ...
BB p.152,
A Vision For You
26.
... meet these
responsibilities.
BB p.137,
To Employers
Nearly every modern employer feels a moral responsibility for the well-being of his help, and he tries to meet these responsibilities.
27.
... meet upon
the common ground of tolerance, ...
BB p.122,
The Family Afterward
28.
... meet us
more than halfway on the ...
12&12 p.84,
Step Nine
Even our severest and most
justified critics will frequently meet us more than halfway on the first trial.
29.
... meet your
friends.
BB p.114,
To Wives
If your husband is a drinker, you probably worry over what other people are thinking and you hate to
meet your friends.
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