From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... need.
12&12 p.102,
Step Eleven
Having opened our channel
as best we can, we try to ask for those right things of which we and
others are in the greatest need.
2.
... need.
12&12 p.181,
Tradition Eleven
3.
... need a
bodyguard nor is he confined.
BB p.26,
There Is A Solution
4.
... need a
mental uplift, I often think ...
BB xxxi(xxix),
The Doctor's Opinion
When I need a mental uplift, I often think of another case brought in by a physician prominent in
New York.
5.
... need a
moral inventory.
12&12 p.45,
Step Four
Our present anxieties
and troubles, we cry, are
caused by the behavior
of other people -- people who really need a moral inventory.
6.
... need always
maintain personal anonymity at the ...
12&12 p.180,
Tradition Eleven
"Our public relations
policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at
the level of press, radio, and films."
7.
... need always
maintain personal anonymity at the ...
BB p.562(564),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
Eleven -- Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we
need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of
press, radio and films.
8.
... need and
inquired if she had a ...
BB p.156,
A Vision For You
9.
... need be.
BB p.97,
Working With Others
10.
... need bracing
air and an abundance of ...
12&12 p.98,
Step Eleven
11.
... need comforting.
12&12 p.46,
Step Four
12.
... need every
human being has for practical ...
12&12 p.56,
Step Five
Psychiatrists and psychologists point out the deep need every human being has for practical insight and knowledge of his own personality flaws and for
a discussion of them with an understanding and trustworthy person.
13.
... need, fearing
we shall never have enough.
12&12 p.49,
Step Four
14.
... need for
a list of the more ...
12&12 p.48,
Step Four
Now let's ponder the need for a list of the more glaring personality defects all of us have in varying degrees.
15.
... need for
all of A.A.'s Twelve Steps ...
12&12 p.113,
Step Twelve
We temporarily cease
to grow because we feel satisfied that there is
no need for all of A.A.'s Twelve Steps for us.
16.
... need for
continuous effectiveness and permanent unity.
BB p.561(563),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
Therefore, no society of men and women ever had a more urgent need for continuous effectiveness and permanent unity.
17.
... need for
moral inventory, confession of personality ...
BB xvi,
Foreword to Second Edition
Though he could not accept
all the tenets of the Oxford Groups, he was convinced of the need for moral inventory, confession of personality defects, restitution to those harmed, helpfulness to
others, and the necessity of belief in and
dependence upon God.
18.
... need fresh
interests and a great cause ...
BB p.119,
To Wives
19.
... need God.
BB p.116,
To Wives
20.
... need have
difficulty with the spirituality of ...
BB p.568(570),
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience
21.
... need have
no apprehension.
BB p.102,
Working With Others
22.
... need him.
12&12 p.133,
Tradition Two
23.
... need is
a key, and the decision ...
12&12 p.34,
Step Three
24.
... need is
a truly open mind.
12&12 p.26,
Step Two
25.
... need is
the open mind."
12&12 p.26,
Step Two
26.
... need is
there for a moral inventory ...
12&12 p.45,
Step Four
If we were pretty nice people all along, except for our drinking,
what need is there for a moral inventory now that we are sober?
27.
... need it,
and I won't have it!
12&12 p.143,
Tradition Three
This group doesn't need it,
and I won't have it!
28.
... need it
badly.
BB p.180,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
29.
... need it
before daylight.
BB p.8,
Bill's Story
30.
... need it
to carry green recruits through ...
BB p.102,
Working With Others
31.
... need look
no further for Utopia.
BB p.16,
Bill's Story
32.
... need medical
attention.
BB p.21,
There Is A Solution
If a sufficiently strong reason -- ill health, falling in love, change of environment,
or the warning of a doctor -- becomes operative, this man can also stop or moderate, although he may
find it difficult and troublesome and may even
need medical attention.
33.
... need more
action, without which we find ...
BB p.76,
Into Action
34.
... need no
inventory are confronted with quite ...
12&12 p.46,
Step Four
35.
... need no
longer be square pegs in ...
12&12 p.124,
Step Twelve
Service, gladly rendered, obligations
squarely met, troubles well accepted or solved with God's help, the knowledge that at home or in
the world outside we are
partners in a common effort, the well-understood fact that in God's sight all human beings are important, the proof that
love freely given surely brings a full return, the certainty that
we are no longer isolated and alone in self-constructed prisons, the surety that we
need no longer be square pegs in round holes but can fit and belong in God's scheme of things -- these are
the permanent and legitimate satisfactions of right
living for which no amount of pomp and circumstance, no heap of material possessions, could possibly be substitutes.
36.
... need no
others.
12&12 p.174,
Tradition Nine
37.
... need not,
and often should not show ...
BB p.148,
To Employers
38.
... need not,
and probably should not emphasize ...
BB p.76,
Into Action
To some people we need not,
and probably should not emphasize the spiritual
feature on our first approach.
39.
... need not
be alarmed.
BB p.120,
To Wives
40.
... need not
be disconcerted.
BB p.44,
We Agnostics
41.
... need not
be discouraged when we fall ...
12&12 p.91,
Step Ten
We need not be discouraged when we fall
into the error of our old ways, for these disciplines are not easy.
42.
... need not
be worried.
BB p.50,
We Agnostics
Experience has taught
us that these are matters about which, for our purpose, we need not be worried.
43.
... need not
discuss your husband at length, ...
BB p.115,
To Wives
While you need not discuss your husband at length, you can quietly let your friends know the nature of his illness.
44.
... need not
follow all of the program.
BB p.94,
Working With Others
45.
... need not
pass this way," and Fear ...
12&12 p.49,
Step Four
46.
... need not
remind him of his spiritual ...
BB p.120,
To Wives
47.
... need of
help really deluged us.
BB xviii,
Foreword to Second Edition
Then Jack Alexander wrote a feature article in the Saturday Evening Post and placed such a compelling picture of A.A. before the general public that alcoholics in need of help really deluged us.
48.
... need only
recognize that we did act ...
12&12 p.94,
Step Ten
Here we need only recognize that we did act or
think badly, try to visualize how we might
have done better, and resolve with God's help to carry these lessons over into tomorrow, making, of course, any amends still neglected.
49.
... need our
help would be broken.
12&12 p.175,
Tradition Nine
50.
... need protection
from their father, it is ...
BB p.115,
To Wives
Unless they actually
need protection from
their father, it is best not
to take sides in any argument he has with them
while drinking.
51.
... need self-restraint,
honest analysis of what is ...
12&12 p.91,
Step Ten
In all these situations we need self-restraint, honest analysis of what is involved, a willingness to admit when
the fault is ours, and an equal willingness to forgive when the fault is elsewhere.
52.
... need something
much better in order to ...
12&12 p.92,
Step Ten
Although these attitudes are common enough, we A.A.'s find we need something much better in order to keep our balance.
53.
... need the
counsel and love of a ...
BB p.119,
To Wives
54.
... need the
light of God's reality, the ...
12&12 p.97,
Step Eleven
We all need the light of God's reality, the nourishment of His strength, and the atmosphere of His grace.
55.
... need them."
12&12 p.164,
Tradition Seven
We're going to need them."
56.
... need this
information to put yourself in ...
BB p.90,
Working With Others
You need this information to put yourself in his place, to see how you would like him to approach you if the tables
were turned.
57.
... need to
authorize workers to serve us.
12&12 p.174,
Tradition Nine
It is clear now that we ought never to name boards to govern us, but it is equally
clear that we shall always need to authorize workers to serve us.
58.
... need to
be as sure as possible ...
12&12 p.119,
Step Twelve
They need to be as sure as possible that no deep-lying emotional handicap in either will be likely to rise up under later pressures to cripple them.
59.
... need to
be solid A.A.'s and long ...
12&12 p.119,
Step Twelve
The prospective partners need to be solid A.A.'s and long enough acquainted to know that
their compatibility at spiritual, mental, and emotional levels is a fact and not wishful thinking.
60.
... need to
be "taught a lesson," when ...
12&12 p.94,
Step Ten
We sometimes hurt those we love because they need to be "taught a lesson," when we really want to punish.
61.
... need to
begin.
BB p.163,
A Vision For You
62.
... need to
bring anyone else into this?"
12&12 p.59,
Step Five
63.
... need to
concentrate not so much on ...
BB p.417(449),
Acceptance
I need to concentrate
not so much on what needs to
be changed in the world as
on what needs to be changed in me and in my attitudes.
64.
... need to
consider another's conception of God.
BB p.46,
We Agnostics
65.
... need to
continue taking personal inventory, and ...
12&12 p.108,
Step Twelve
By this time, at Step Ten, we had begun to get a basis for daily living, and we keenly realized that we
would need to continue taking personal inventory, and that when we were in the wrong we ought to admit it promptly.
66.
... need to
criticize each other.
BB p.118,
To Wives
If you both show a willingness to remedy
your own defects, there will be little need to criticize each other.
67.
... need to
cross-examine themselves ruthlessly to determine ...
12&12 p.52,
Step Four
But all alcoholics who have drunk themselves out of jobs, family, and friends will need to cross-examine themselves ruthlessly
to determine how their own
personality defects
have thus demolished
their security.
68.
... need to
determine what his individual character ...
12&12 p.48,
Step Four
Human beings are never quite alike, so each of us, when making an inventory, will need to determine what his individual character
defects are.
69.
... need to
discourage A.A.'s who wish to ...
12&12 p.171,
Tradition Eight
We see that we have no right or need to discourage A.A.'s who wish to work as individuals in these wider fields.
70.
... need to
eliminate these hangovers.
12&12 p.88,
Step Ten
71.
... need to
encourage him to play once ...
BB p.146,
To Employers
72.
... need to
exercise special vigilance.
12&12 p.92,
Step Ten
Now that we're in A.A. and sober, and winning back the esteem of our friends and business associates, we find that we
still need to exercise special vigilance.
73.
... need to
fetch ourselves up sharply.
12&12 p.78,
Step Eight
74.
... need to
give constantly of ourselves without ...
12&12 p.116,
Step Twelve
75.
... need to
go forward.
12&12 p.93,
Step Ten
76.
... need to
make a brand new venture ...
12&12 p.68,
Step Six
If we would gain any real advantage in the use of this Step on problems other than alcohol, we shall need to make a brand new venture into open-mindedness.
77.
... need to
praise ourselves.
12&12 p.192,
Tradition Eleven (Long)
78.
... need to
praise ourselves.
BB p.565(567),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
79.
... need to
quit living by ourselves with ...
12&12 p.55,
Step Five
If we have swept the searchlight of Step Four back and forth over our careers, and it has revealed in stark relief those experiences we'd rather
not remember, if we have come to know how wrong thinking and action have hurt us and others, then the need to quit living by ourselves with those tormenting ghosts of yesterday gets more urgent than ever.
80.
... need to
raise our eyes toward perfection, ...
12&12 p.68,
Step Six
81.
... need to
share with this person facts ...
12&12 p.61,
Step Five
Perhaps we shall need to share with this person facts about ourselves which no others ought to know.
82.
... need to
take care of such problems.
BB p.87,
Into Action
We usually conclude the
period of meditation
with a prayer that we be shown all through the day what our next step is to be, that we be given
whatever we need to take care of such problems.
83.
... need to
tell me.
BB p.7,
Bill's Story
They did not need to tell me.
84.
... need to
undergo drastic revisions.
12&12 p.114,
Step Twelve
And as we grow spiritually, we find that
our old attitudes toward our instincts need to undergo drastic revisions.
85.
... need to
use a little more discretion ...
12&12 p.84,
Step Nine
86.
... need to
wander morbidly around in the ...
12&12 p.89,
Step Ten
87.
... need to
work for.
12&12 p.45,
Step Four
This being so, we think it
logically follows that
sobriety -- first, last, and all the time -- is the
only thing we need to work for.
88.
... need us.
12&12 p.131,
Tradition One
They live today in the Twelve Traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous,
which -- God willing -- shall sustain us in unity for so long as He may
need us.
89.
... need was
to quiet that disturbance, regardless ...
12&12 p.47,
Step Four
We learned that if we were seriously disturbed,
our first need was to quiet that disturbance,
regardless of who or what we thought caused it.
90.
... need when
we take Step Nine.
12&12 p.83,
Step Nine
Good judgment, a careful sense of timing, courage, and prudence -- these are the qualities we shall need when we take Step Nine.
91.
... need, will
see these pages, and we ...
BB p.29,
There Is A Solution
Our hope is that many alcoholic men and women, desperately in
need, will see these pages, and we believe that it is only by fully disclosing ourselves and our problems that they will be persuaded to say, "Yes, I am one of them too; I must have this thing."
92.
... need your
companionship and your help.
BB p.111,
To Wives
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