From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... myself.
12&12 p.26,
Step Two
2.
... myself?"
12&12 p.50,
Step Four
3.
... myself?
12&12 p.50,
Step Four
4.
... myself.
12&12 p.162,
Tradition Seven
5.
... myself?
BB p.6,
Bill's Story
Should I kill myself?
6.
... myself.
BB p.10,
Bill's Story
7.
... myself.
BB p.12,
Bill's Story
8.
... myself.
BB p.13,
Bill's Story
But soon the sense of His presence had been blotted
out by worldly clamors, mostly those within myself.
9.
... myself.
BB p.42,
More About Alcoholism
10.
... myself?"
BB p.47,
We Agnostics
11.
... myself!
BB p.137,
To Employers
12.
... myself.
BB p.172,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
This resolution I kept
steadfastly for the next forty years, except when circumstances made it seem unwise to absent myself.
13.
... myself a
leader, for had not the ...
BB p.1,
Bill's Story
I fancied myself a leader, for had not the men of
my battery given me a special token of appreciation?
14.
... myself against
a possible slip.
BB p.181,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
4. Because every time I do it I take out a little more insurance for myself against a possible slip.
15.
... myself alcoholic
and if I were really ...
BB p.42,
More About Alcoholism
They grinned, which I didn't like so much, and then asked me if I thought myself alcoholic and if I were
really licked this time.
16.
... myself and
my abilities, of my capacity ...
BB p.8,
Bill's Story
I, who had thought so well
of myself and my abilities, of my capacity to surmount obstacles, was cornered
at last.
17.
... myself and
play the big shot?
12&12 p.51,
Step Four
18.
... myself at
least a dozen times in ...
BB p.174,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
By this time I was beginning to pay very dearly physically and, in hope of
relief, voluntarily
incarcerated myself at
least a dozen times in one of the local sanitariums.
19.
... myself, but
I certainly have that belief ...
12&12 p.27,
Step Two
I can't say upon what occasion or upon what day I came to believe in a Power greater than myself, but I certainly have that belief
now.
20.
... myself, except
as my requests bore on ...
BB p.13,
Bill's Story
21.
... myself for
a weakling.
BB p.6,
Bill's Story
Again I swayed dizzily before an open window, or the medicine cabinet where
there was poison, cursing
myself for a weakling.
22.
... myself, he
had admitted complete defeat.
BB p.11,
Bill's Story
23.
... myself how
it happened.
BB p.6,
Bill's Story
24.
... myself I
am nothing, the Father doeth ...
12&12 p.75,
Step Seven
But now the words "Of myself I am nothing, the Father doeth the works" began to carry bright promise and meaning.
25.
... myself, I
had adopted those parts which ...
BB p.11,
Bill's Story
For myself, I had adopted
those parts which seemed convenient and not
too difficult; the rest I
disregarded.
26.
... myself I
was nothing; that without Him ...
BB p.13,
Bill's Story
27.
... myself I
would manage better next time, ...
BB p.6,
Bill's Story
As the whisky rose to my head I told myself I would manage better next time, but I might as well get good and drunk then.
28.
... myself now,
I fared forth in high ...
BB p.7,
Bill's Story
29.
... myself satisfactory
to the faculty, both in ...
BB p.174,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
30.
... myself serenely
to self-discipline.
12&12 p.52,
Step Four
These are the sort of fundamental inquiries
that can disclose the source of my discomfort
and indicate whether I
may be able to alter my own conduct and so adjust myself serenely to self-discipline.
31.
... myself so
creditably that I was able ...
BB p.174,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
I conducted myself so creditably that I was able
to secure a much coveted internship in a
western city, where I spent two years.
32.
... myself so
I then checked out.
BB p.179,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
33.
... myself to
believe that though I once ...
BB p.181,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
I used to get terribly upset when I saw my friends drink and knew I could not, but
I schooled myself to believe that though I once had the same privilege, I had abused it
so frightfully that it was withdrawn.
34.
... myself to
feel that I had known ...
BB xxxi(xxix),
The Doctor's Opinion
I talked with him for some time, but was not able to bring myself to feel that I had known him before.
35.
... myself to
God, as I then understood ...
BB p.13,
Bill's Story
36.
... myself to
Thee -- to build with me ...
BB p.63,
How It Works
Many of us said to our Maker, as we understood
Him: "God, I offer myself to Thee -- to build with me and to do with me as Thou wilt.
37.
... myself to
what extent have my own ...
12&12 p.52,
Step Four
38.
... myself unreservedly
under His care and direction.
BB p.13,
Bill's Story
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