From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... meeting.
12&12 p.143,
Tradition Three
2.
... meeting.
12&12 p.163,
Tradition Seven
3.
... meeting.
BB p.172,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
From childhood through
high school I was more or less forced to go to church, Sunday School and evening service, Monday night Christian Endeavor and sometimes
to Wednesday evening
prayer meeting.
4.
... meeting (1944)
of the Medical Society of ...
BB p.569(571),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
Following are excerpts from the comments of doctors present at the annual meeting (1944) of the Medical Society of the State of New York where a paper on A.A. was read:
5.
... meeting a
man through his family.
BB p.91,
Working With Others
6.
... meeting and
blow his top over an ...
12&12 p.177,
Tradition Ten
A corporation director who had just voted a company expenditure of a hundred thousand dollars would appear at an
A.A. business meeting and blow his top over an outlay of twenty-five dollars' worth of needed postage stamps.
7.
... meeting, anywhere,
A.A.'s share experience, strength, and ...
BB xxiv,
Foreword to Fourth Edition
In any meeting, anywhere, A.A.'s share experience, strength, and hope with each other, in order to stay sober and help other alcoholics.
8.
... meeting between
a well-known surgeon and a ...
12&12 p.16,
Foreword
Alcoholics Anonymous began in 1935 at Akron, Ohio, as the outcome of a
meeting between a well-known surgeon and a New York broker.
9.
... meeting in
approximately 150 countries around the ...
BB xxiii,
Foreword to Fourth Edition
Since the third edition
was published in 1976, worldwide membership
of A.A. has just about doubled, to an estimated
two million or more, with nearly 100,800 groups meeting in approximately 150 countries around the world.
10.
... meeting in
over 90 countries.
BB xxii,
Foreword to Third Edition
By March 1976, when this edition went to the printer, the total worldwide membership
of Alcoholics Anonymous was conservatively estimated at more than 1,000,000, with almost 28,000 groups meeting in over 90 countries.
11.
... meeting is
an assurance that God will ...
12&12 p.33,
Step Two
True humility and an open mind can lead us to faith, and every A.A. meeting is an assurance that God will restore us to sanity if we
rightly relate ourselves to Him.
12.
... meeting night.
12&12 p.137,
Tradition Two
"It was meeting night.
13.
... meeting of
a national society of which ...
BB p.179,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
This dry spell lasted for about three weeks; then I went to Atlantic City to attend several days' meeting of a national society of which
I was a member.
14.
... meeting of
that year.
BB p.570(572),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
The American Psychiatric Association requested, in 1949, that a
paper be prepared by one of the older members of Alcoholics Anonymous to be read at the
Association's annual
meeting of that year.
15.
... meeting, or
perhaps after we have finished ...
12&12 p.83,
Step Nine
After coming from our first meeting, or perhaps after we have finished reading the book "Alcoholics Anonymous," we usually want to sit down with some member of the family and readily admit the damage we have done by our drinking.
16.
... meeting or
to a single newcomer, it ...
12&12 p.166,
Tradition Eight
When an A.A. talks for money, whether at a meeting or to a single newcomer, it can have a very
bad effect on him, too.
17.
... meeting-place hat
for group purposes.
12&12 p.160,
Tradition Seven
It was soon apparent that
while alcoholics would
spend lavishly on Twelfth Step cases, they had a terrific
aversion to dropping
money into a meeting-place hat for group purposes.
18.
... meeting place,
saying, "This is life for ...
12&12 p.173,
Tradition Nine
Groups have tried to expel members, but the banished have come back to sit in the meeting place, saying, "This is life for us;
you can't keep us out."
19.
Meeting places
cost something.
12&12 p.161,
Tradition Seven
20.
... meeting, sweeping
every member to a single ...
12&12 p.143,
Tradition Three
A great wave of outraged resentment engulfed the meeting, sweeping every member to a single resolve: "Out he goes!"
21.
... meeting that
night was at New York's ...
12&12 p.163,
Tradition Seven
22.
... meeting that
sometimes the good is the ...
12&12 p.138,
Tradition Two
'Bill, haven't you often said right here in this meeting that sometimes the good is the enemy of the best?
23.
... meeting to
be attended by anyone or ...
BB p.159,
A Vision For You
In addition to these casual get-togethers, it became customary to set apart one night a week for a meeting to be attended by anyone or everyone interested in a spiritual way of life.
24.
... meeting, we
again try to carry A.A.'s ...
12&12 p.110,
Step Twelve
25.
... meeting with
an alcoholic friend who had ...
BB xvi,
Foreword to Second Edition
Six months earlier, the broker had been
relieved of his drink obsession by a sudden spiritual experience,
following a meeting with
an alcoholic friend who
had been in contact with the Oxford Groups of that day.
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