From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... moments, a
producer of confusion rather than ...
BB p.61,
How It Works
2.
... moments, and
the most cynical will not ...
BB xxviii(xxvi),
The Doctor's Opinion
If any feel that as psychiatrists directing a hospital for
alcoholics we appear
somewhat sentimental, let them stand with us a while on the firing line, see the tragedies, the despairing wives, the little children; let the solving of these problems become a part of their daily work, and even of their sleeping moments, and the
most cynical will not wonder that we have accepted and encouraged
this movement.
3.
... moments for
the worst I have now.
BB p.43,
More About Alcoholism
My old manner of life was by no means a bad one, but I would not exchange
its best moments for the worst I have now.
4.
... moments, if
we remind ourselves that "it ...
12&12 p.103,
Step Eleven
At these critical moments,
if we remind ourselves
that "it is better to comfort than to be comforted, to understand than to be understood, to love than to
be loved," we will be following the intent of Step Eleven.
5.
... moments in
which there is something like ...
12&12 p.74,
Step Seven
6.
... moments of
temptation the thought of drink ...
BB p.57,
We Agnostics
Save for a few brief moments of temptation the thought
of drink has never returned; and at such times a great revulsion has risen up in him.
7.
... moments of
the past.
BB p.151,
A Vision For You
8.
... moments of
triumph were short-lived.
BB p.66,
How It Works
9.
... moments sublime
with intervals hilarious.
BB p.1,
Bill's Story
10.
... moments we
forget that alcoholism is an ...
BB p.118,
To Wives
At such moments we forget that alcoholism is
an illness over which we
could not possibly have had any power.
11.
... moments, we
found ourselves thinking, when enchanted ...
BB p.46,
We Agnostics
Yet, in other moments, we found ourselves thinking, when
enchanted by a starlit
night, "Who, then, made all
this?"
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