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... newcomer.
BB
A Vision For You, p.159
Seeing much of each other, scarce an evening passed that someone's home did not shelter a little gathering of men and women, happy in their release, and constantly thinking how
they might present their discovery to some newcomer.
2.
... newcomer.
12&12
Tradition Two, p.132
3.
... newcomer and
in following his case afterward.
BB
The Family Afterward, p.133
4.
... newcomer appeared
at one of these groups, ...
12&12
Tradition Three, p.141
5.
... newcomer are
aware of the difference long ...
BB
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience, p.567
6.
... newcomer can
fearlessly, rather than fearfully, look ...
12&12
Step Four, p.46
As soon as he begins to be more objective, the newcomer can fearlessly, rather than fearfully, look at his own defects.
7.
... newcomer, every
friend who looks at A.A. ...
12&12
Tradition One, p.129
8.
... newcomer's family
how that was accomplished.
BB
Working With Others, p.100
If you have been successful in solving your own domestic problems, tell the newcomer's family how that was accomplished.
9.
... newcomer's fate
hung in the balance.
12&12
Tradition Three, p.142
10.
... newcomer feels
sure A.A. is the only ...
12&12
Step Three, p.35
Any willing newcomer feels sure A.A. is the only safe harbor for the foundering vessel he has become.
11.
... newcomer has
probably arrived at the following ...
12&12
Step Four, p.50
By now the newcomer has probably arrived at the following conclusions:
that his character defects, representing instincts gone astray, have been the primary
cause of his drinking and
his failure at life; that unless he is now willing to work hard at the elimination of
the worst of these defects,
both sobriety and peace of mind will still elude him; that all the faulty
foundation of his life will have to be torn out and built anew on bedrock.
12.
... newcomer has
some assets which can be ...
12&12
Step Four, p.46
The sponsor probably points out that the newcomer has some assets which can
be noted along with his liabilities.
13.
... newcomer, "I
know you're telling me the ...
12&12
Step Two, p.26
14.
... newcomer in
Alcoholics Anonymous is told, and ...
12&12
Step Seven, pp.72-73
Every newcomer in Alcoholics Anonymous is
told, and soon realizes for himself, that
his humble admission of
powerlessness over alcohol is his first step toward liberation from its paralyzing grip.
15.
... newcomer in
no way depends upon his ...
12&12
Tradition Five, pp.150-151
The unique ability of each A.A. to identify himself with, and
bring recovery to, the
newcomer in no way depends upon his learning, eloquence, or on any special individual skills.
16.
... newcomer is
a gift from God... passing ...
12&12
Contents (Tradition Five), pp.10-11
The ability of each A.A. to identify himself with and bring recovery to the newcomer is a
gift from God... passing on this gift to others is our one aim.
17.
... newcomer, it
can have a very bad ...
12&12
Tradition Eight, p.166
When an A.A. talks for money, whether at a meeting or to a single newcomer, it can have a very bad effect on him, too.
18.
... newcomer plunged
into Twelfth Step work.
12&12
Tradition Three, p.142
19.
... newcomer that
more is being asked of ...
12&12
Step Four, p.49
So when A.A. suggests a fearless moral inventory, it must seem to every newcomer that more is being asked of him than he can
do.
20.
... newcomer thinks,
is just about the last ...
12&12
Step Two, p.26
21.
... newcomer to
decide himself whether he was ...
12&12
Tradition Three, p.141
Why did we leave it to each newcomer to decide himself whether he was an alcoholic
and whether he should join
us?
22.
... newcomer wanted
his family to know immediately ...
12&12
Tradition Twelve, p.185
23.
... newcomer who
sat next to me.
12&12
Tradition Seven, p.163
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