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... members.
BB
Foreword to Second Edition, p.xviii
2.
... members.
BB
There Is A Solution, p.28
3.
... members.
BB
A Vision For You, p.162
Then, in this eastern city,
there are informal meetings such as we have described to you, where you may now see scores of members.
4.
... members.
BB
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.564
7. The A.A. groups themselves ought to be fully supported by the voluntary contributions of their own
members.
5.
... members.
BB
Appendix VI, How to Get in Touch With A.A., p.573
This is a world clearing house for the Al-Anon Family Groups, composed largely of the wives, husbands and friends of A.A. members.
6.
... members.
12&12
Contents (Tradition Seven), p.11
7.
... members.
12&12
Contents (Tradition Eleven), p.12
8.
... members.
12&12
Tradition Eight, p.168
9.
... members.
12&12
Tradition Eight, p.169
10.
... members.
12&12
Tradition Ten, p.176
It could almost be said that
we were born with it, for, as one
oldtimer recently declared, "Practically
never have I heard a heated religious, political, or reform argument among A.A. members.
11.
... members.
12&12
Tradition Eleven, p.182
Here was something rare in the world -- a society which said it wished to publicize its principles and its work, but not its individual members.
12.
... members.
12&12
Tradition Seven (Long), p.190
Seven -- The A.A. groups themselves ought to be fully supported by the voluntary contributions of their own
members.
13.
... members alike
found they could do no ...
12&12
Tradition Nine, p.173
But long ago, trustees and staff members alike found they could do no more than make suggestions, and very mild ones at that.
14.
... members and
enforce obedience to necessary rules ...
12&12
Tradition Nine, p.172
Did anyone ever hear of a society which couldn't
somehow discipline its members and enforce obedience to necessary rules and regulations?
15.
... members and
friends of A.A. have asked ...
12&12
Introduction, p.14
In recent years some members and friends of A.A. have asked if it would be wise to update the language, idioms, and historical references
in the book to present a more contemporary image for the Fellowship.
16.
... members and
have witnessed our return to ...
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxv
Convincing testimony
must surely come from medical men who have had experience
with the sufferings of our members and have witnessed our return to health.
17.
... members, and
whose story of the early ...
BB
Foreword to Second Edition, p.xvi
He had also been greatly helped by the late Dr. William D. Silkworth, a New York specialist in alcoholism who is now accounted no less than a medical saint by A.A. members, and whose story of the early days of our Society appears in the next pages.
18.
... members are
left who deliberately break anonymity ...
12&12
Tradition Eleven, p.183
19.
... members as
individuals have been asked to ...
12&12
Tradition Eight, p.170
20.
... members began
to run rest homes and ...
12&12
Tradition Eight, p.167
Even greater furors were provoked when A.A. members began to run rest homes and farms for alcoholics, when
some hired out to corporations as personnel men in charge of the alcoholic problem in industry, when
some became nurses on alcoholic wards, when others entered the field of alcohol education.
21.
... members both
among fellow alcoholics and before ...
12&12
Tradition Twelve, p.187
Moved by the spirit of anonymity, we try to give up our natural desires for personal distinction as
A.A. members both among fellow alcoholics and before the general public.
22.
... members, but
he surely won't take orders.
12&12
Tradition Nine, p.173
This doesn't mean an A.A. won't take advice or suggestions from more experienced members, but he
surely won't take orders.
23.
... members, but
the banished have come back ...
12&12
Tradition Nine, p.173
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."
24.
... members call
it "God-consciousness."
BB
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience, p.568
25.
... members could
ever have imagined.
BB
Foreword to Fourth Edition, p.xxiii
Like so much of A.A.'s basic text, those words have proved to be far more visionary than the founding members could ever have imagined.
26.
... members could
have hoped to reach.
BB
Foreword to Fourth Edition, pp.xxiii-xxiv
The stories added to this edition represent a membership whose characteristics -- of age, gender, race, and culture -- have widened and have deepened to
encompass virtually everyone the first 100 members could have hoped to reach.
27.
... members did.
12&12
Tradition Eleven, p.182
There was actually a time
when the press of America thought the anonymity of A.A. was better for us than some of
our own members did.
28.
... members find
that they have tapped an ...
BB
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience, p.567
With few exceptions our
members find that they have tapped an unsuspected inner resource which they presently identify with
their own conception of a
Power greater than themselves.
29.
... members' fond
nickname for this volume) have ...
BB
Preface, p.xii
All changes made over the years in the Big Book (A.A.
members' fond nickname for this volume)
have had the same purpose: to
represent the current membership of Alcoholics Anonymous more accurately, and thereby to reach more alcoholics.
30.
... members foresaw
that they should dedicate themselves ...
12&12
Tradition Ten, p.178
31.
... members from
A.A. copy; frequently, they have ...
12&12
Tradition Eleven, p.183
Since that time, editors and
rewrite men have repeatedly deleted names and pictures of members from A.A. copy; frequently, they have
reminded ambitious individuals of A.A.'s anonymity policy.
32.
... members govern
or direct the group.
12&12
Tradition Two, p.134
33.
... members had
tried to make money out ...
12&12
Tradition Seven, p.161
We took this violent new tack because here and there members had tried to make money out of their A.A. connections, and we feared
we'd be exploited.
34.
... members has
no counterpart among the job ...
12&12
Tradition Eight (Note), p.169
(*) The work of present-day staff members has no counterpart among the job categories of commercial organizations. These A.A.'s
bring a wide range of business and professional experience to their service at The General Service Office.
35.
... members have
bought farms or rest homes ...
12&12
Tradition Eight, p.170
Now and then, A.A. members have bought farms or rest homes where badly beat-up topers could find needed care.
36.
... members have
suffered severely from self-justification during ...
12&12
Step Four, p.46
First off, they can be told
that the majority of A.A.
members have suffered severely from self-justification during
their drinking days.
37.
... members having
substantial sobriety time behind them ...
BB
Foreword to Second Edition, p.xvii
By late 1937, the number of members having substantial sobriety time behind them was sufficient to convince
the membership that a new
light had entered the dark world of the alcoholic.
38.
... members identify
themselves with as individuals.
BB
There Is A Solution, p.28
We think it no concern of ours what religious bodies our members identify themselves with as individuals.
39.
... members in
a position of unqualified authority ...
BB
Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form), p.575
XII. The Conference shall observe the spirit of A.A. tradition, taking care that it never becomes the seat of perilous wealth or power; that sufficient operating funds and reserve be its prudent financial principle; that it place none of its members in a position of unqualified authority
over others; that it reach all important decisions by discussion,
vote, and, whenever possible, by substantial
unanimity; that its actions never be personally punitive nor an incitement to public controversy; that
it never perform acts of government, and that,
like the Society it serves, it will always remain democratic in thought and
action.
40.
... members into
A.A. show-offs.
12&12
Tradition Twelve, p.185
41.
... members, it
is thought by many of ...
12&12
Foreword, p.15
Though the essays which follow were written mainly for members, it is thought by many of A.A.'s friends that these pieces might arouse interest and find application outside A.A. itself.
42.
Members of
a family should watch such ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.125
Members of a family should watch such matters carefully, for one careless, inconsiderate remark has
been known to raise the very devil.
43.
... members of
A.A., entirely contrary to his ...
12&12
Tradition Two, p.135
One of the first members of A.A., entirely contrary to his own desires, was obliged to conform to group opinion.
44.
... members of
Alcoholics Anonymous.
BB
Foreword to Third Edition, p.xxii
The Twelve Steps that summarize the program may
be called los Doce Pasos in one country, les Douze Etapes in another, but they trace exactly the same path to recovery that was blazed by
the earliest members of Alcoholics Anonymous.
45.
... members of
Alcoholics Anonymous came to see ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.42
46.
... members of
Alcoholics Anonymous, now restored as ...
12&12
Tradition Ten, p.177
Nor does it mean that the members of Alcoholics Anonymous, now restored as citizens of the
world, are going to back away from their individual responsibilities to act
as they see the right upon issues of our time.
47.
... members of
Alcoholics Anonymous to be read ...
BB
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A., p.570
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.
48.
... members of
Alcoholics Anonymous, who have demonstrated ...
12&12
Tradition Five, p.150
Just as firmly bound by obligation are the
members of Alcoholics Anonymous, who have demonstrated that they can help problem drinkers as others seldom can.
49.
... members of
religious bodies, we sometimes select ...
BB
Into Action, p.87
If not members of religious
bodies, we sometimes select and memorize a few set prayers which emphasize the
principles we have been discussing.
50.
... members of
that time.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.123
51.
... members of
the Conference acting as the ...
BB
Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form), p.574
VI. The Conference recognizes that the chief initiative and active responsibility in most world service matters should be exercised
by the trustee members of the
Conference acting as the
General Service Board.
52.
... members of
the family should meet upon ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.122
53.
... members or
groups.
12&12
Contents (Tradition Nine), p.12
The General Service Conference, the board of trustees, and group committees cannot issue directives to A.A. members or groups.
54.
... members; others
started in the club, pitched ...
12&12
Tradition Four, p.148
Some would start at the top and
come through to the bottom, becoming club members; others started in the club, pitched a binge, were hospitalized,
then graduated to education on the third floor.
55.
... members ought
not be broadcast, filmed, or ...
BB
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.565
56.
... members ought
not be broadcast, filmed, or ...
12&12
Tradition Eleven (Long), p.192
57.
... members ought
to be anonymous at the ...
BB
Foreword to Second Edition, p.xix
58.
... members present
themselves as messiahs representing A.A. ...
12&12
Tradition Twelve, p.187
We simply couldn't afford to
take the chance of letting self-appointed members present themselves as messiahs representing
A.A. before the whole public.
59.
... members recover
and by which their Society ...
12&12
Foreword, p.15
It presents an explicit
view of the principles by
which A.A. members recover and by which their Society functions.
60.
... members recover,
and how our society functions.
12&12
Introduction, p.14
Bill W., who along with Dr. Bob S. founded Alcoholics Anonymous in 1935, wrote the book to share 18 years of collective experience within the Fellowship on how A.A. members recover, and how our society functions.
61.
... members render
prodigies of service, and receive ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.120
62.
... members resolved
to keep our Society out ...
12&12
Tradition Ten, p.178
As we surveyed the wreck of
that movement, early A.A. members resolved to keep our Society out of public controversy.
63.
... members served
them.
12&12
Tradition Eight, p.170
Drunk farms, educational ventures, state legislatures, and commissions advertised
the fact that A.A. members served them.
64.
... members; surely
there is none which more ...
12&12
Tradition One, p.129
We believe there isn't a fellowship on earth which lavishes more devoted care upon its individual members; surely there is none which more jealously guards the individual's right to think, talk, and act as he wishes.
65.
... members, the
proportion is nearly one-third.
BB
Foreword to Third Edition, p.xxii
Women now make up more
than one-fourth of the membership; among newer members, the proportion is nearly one-third.
66.
... members themselves
as 'self-insurance.'
BB
Appendix V, The Religious View on A.A., p.572
67.
... members to
impose obedience upon the rest ...
12&12
Tradition Nine, p.172
Doesn't nearly every society on earth give authority to some of its members to impose obedience upon the rest and to punish or expel offenders?
68.
... members to
one another, "will that guy ...
12&12
Tradition Three, p.144
69.
... members to
tell their stories.
BB
Foreword to Second Edition, p.xviii
In the spring of 1940, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. gave a dinner for many of his friends to which he invited
A.A. members to tell their stories.
70.
... members waxed
prosperous.
12&12
Tradition Seven, p.161
71.
... members were.
12&12
Tradition Seven, p.162
Looking at this avalanche of mail one morning at the office, I paced up and down ranting how irresponsible and tightwad my fellow members were.
72.
... members who,
for a variety of reasons, ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.120
73.
... members who
have crossed the threshold just ...
12&12
Step Two, p.27
74.
... members who
never seem to get on ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.114
Though the earning power of most A.A.'s is relatively high, we have some
members who never seem to get on their feet moneywise, and still others who encounter heavy financial reverses.
75.
Members who
select such full-time careers do ...
12&12
Tradition Eight, p.170
76.
... members with
computers can participate in meetings ...
BB
Foreword to Fourth Edition, p.xxiv
Taking advantage of technological advances, for example, A.A. members with computers can participate in meetings
online, sharing with fellow alcoholics across the country or around the world.
77.
... members with
the same burning enthusiasm with ...
12&12
Tradition Three, p.143
These ideas he sold to fellow members with the same burning enthusiasm with which he distributed automobile
polish.
78.
... members would
find hard to match.
12&12
Tradition Eleven, p.182
Ever since, these friends
have reported A.A. with an enthusiasm which the most ardent members would find hard to match.
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