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... necessary.
12&12 p.96,
Step Eleven
So it isn't surprising that we often tend to slight serious meditation and prayer as
something not really
necessary.
2.
... necessary.
12&12 p.118,
Step Twelve
3.
... necessary.
12&12 p.119,
Step Twelve
4.
... necessary.
BB p.111,
To Wives
5.
... necessary.
BB p.158,
A Vision For You
On the third day the lawyer gave his life to the care and direction of his Creator,
and said he was perfectly
willing to do anything
necessary.
6.
... necessary.
BB xiii,
Foreword to First Edition
For them, we hope these pages
will prove so convincing that no further authentication will be
necessary.
7.
... necessary aid
to our survival.
12&12 p.74,
Step Seven
We may still have no very high opinion of humility as a
desirable personal virtue, but we do recognize it as a necessary
aid to our survival.
8.
... necessary and
right, and surely God-given.
12&12 p.42,
Step Four
So these desires -- for the sex relation, for material and emotional
security, and for companionship -- are perfectly necessary and right, and surely God-given.
9.
... necessary being
that required to follow a ...
BB xxix(xxvii),
The Doctor's Opinion
On the other hand -- and strange as this may seem to those who do not understand -- once a psychic change has occurred, the very same person who seemed doomed, who had so many problems he despaired of ever solving them, suddenly finds himself easily able to control his desire for alcohol, the only effort
necessary being that required to follow a few simple rules.
10.
... necessary, but
faith alone can avail nothing.
12&12 p.34,
Step Three
11.
... necessary, but
if he were in jail ...
BB p.79,
Into Action
We thought he ought to be
willing to do that if necessary, but if he were in jail he
could provide nothing
for either family.
12.
... necessary, but
the price seemed high upon ...
BB p.155,
A Vision For You
A spiritual experience, he conceded, was absolutely necessary, but
the price seemed high upon the basis suggested.
13.
... necessary evil."
12&12 p.168,
Tradition Eight
14.
... necessary experience.
12&12 p.157,
Tradition Six
15.
... necessary for
our existence, often far exceed ...
12&12 p.42,
Step Four
16.
... necessary in
his business.
BB p.109,
To Wives
He is positive he can handle his liquor, that it
does him no harm, that drinking is necessary in his
business.
17.
... necessary only
that we make a general ...
12&12 p.84,
Step Nine
18.
... necessary rules
and regulations?
12&12 p.172,
Tradition Nine
Did anyone ever hear of a society which
couldn't somehow discipline its members and enforce obedience to necessary rules and regulations?
19.
... necessary step,
submit to anything to get ...
BB p.142,
To Employers
20.
... necessary that
we extricate from an examination ...
12&12 p.80,
Step Eight
While the purpose of making restitution to others is paramount, it is
equally necessary that we
extricate from an examination of our personal relations every bit of information about ourselves and our fundamental difficulties that we can.
21.
... necessary, they
can be freely discarded by ...
12&12 p.190,
Tradition Six (Long)
Secondary aids to A.A., such as clubs or hospitals which require much property or administration, ought
to be incorporated and so set apart that, if necessary, they can be freely discarded by the groups.
22.
... necessary, they
can be freely discarded by ...
BB p.564(566),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
Secondary aids to A.A., such as clubs or hospitals which require much property or administration, ought
to be incorporated and so set apart that, if necessary, they can be freely discarded by the groups.
23.
... necessary to
advance the cost of treatment, ...
BB p.143,
To Employers
If you propose such a procedure to him, it may be necessary to advance the cost of treatment, but we believe it should be made plain that any expense will later be deducted from his
pay.
24.
... necessary to
go much further.
BB p.72,
Into Action
25.
... necessary to
longtime sobriety and peace of ...
12&12 p.55,
Step Five
26.
... necessary to
maintain his sobriety.
BB p.146,
To Employers
27.
... necessary to
post only two storm signals: ...
12&12 p.147,
Tradition Four
In charting this enormous expanse of freedom, we found it necessary to post only two storm signals: A group ought not do anything which
would greatly injure A.A. as a whole, nor ought it affiliate itself with anything or anybody else.
28.
... necessary to
raise the bottom the rest ...
12&12 p.23,
Step One
It was obviously necessary to raise the bottom the rest of us had hit to the point where it would
hit them.
29.
... necessary to
shape my life to conditions ...
12&12 p.52,
Step Four
If I am unable to change
the present state of affairs, am I willing to take the measures necessary to shape my life to conditions as they
are?
30.
... necessary to
us alcoholics.
12&12 p.116,
Step Twelve
31.
... necessary, until
they told someone else all ...
BB p.73,
Into Action
But they had not learned enough of humility, fearlessness and honesty, in the sense we find it necessary, until they told someone else all their life story.
32.
... necessary vital
spiritual experience.
BB p.27,
There Is A Solution
This hope, however, was destroyed by the doctor's
telling him that while his
religious convictions were very good, in his case they did not spell the necessary vital spiritual experience.
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