From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... next?"
12&12 p.139,
Tradition Three
2.
... next alcoholic.
12&12 p.110,
Step Twelve
To watch the eyes of men and women open with wonder as they move from darkness into light, to see their lives quickly fill with new purpose and meaning, to see whole families reassembled,
to see the alcoholic outcast received back into his community in
full citizenship, and
above all to watch these people awaken to the presence of a loving God in their lives -- these things are the substance
of what we receive as we carry A.A.'s message to the next alcoholic.
3.
... next alcoholic
who comes along.
12&12 p.96,
Step Eleven
We A.A.'s are active folk, enjoying the satisfactions of dealing with the realities of life, usually for the first time in our lives, and strenuously trying to help the next alcoholic who comes along.
4.
... next ask
ourselves what we mean when ...
12&12 p.80,
Step Eight
5.
... next bender
which, if an alcoholic, he ...
BB p.142,
To Employers
If he temporizes and still thinks he can ever drink again, even beer, he might as well be discharged after the next bender which, if an alcoholic, he is almost certain to have.
6.
... next binge,
ask him if he would ...
BB p.112,
To Wives
7.
... next calls
saying he is sick, you ...
BB p.146,
To Employers
8.
Next came
the expression of an aspiration ...
12&12 p.101,
Step Eleven
9.
... next chapter
is entirely devoted to Step ...
BB p.88,
Into Action
10.
... next day.
BB p.8,
Bill's Story
With a certain satisfaction I reflected there was enough
gin concealed about the house to carry me through that night and the
next day.
11.
Next day
found me drinking both gin ...
BB p.7,
Bill's Story
12.
Next day
found the prospect more receptive.
BB p.158,
A Vision For You
13.
... next day
she called again.
BB p.179,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
14.
Next day
they would be themselves again ...
BB p.106,
To Wives
15.
Next day
we would ask ourselves, in ...
BB p.37,
More About Alcoholism
16.
... next debauch;
the mother and father who ...
BB p.104,
To Wives
But for every man who drinks others are involved -- the wife who trembles in fear of the next debauch; the mother and father who see their son wasting away.
17.
... next drink
and the temporary comfort of ...
12&12 p.120,
Step Twelve
When our drinking had become much worse, money was only an urgent requirement which
could supply us with the next drink and the temporary comfort of oblivion it brought.
18.
... next drinking
bout.
BB p.90,
Working With Others
19.
... next election
if they try this.
12&12 p.134,
Tradition Two
20.
... next fellow,
or even quite a lot ...
12&12 p.66,
Step Six
Who, for example, doesn't like to feel just a little superior to the next fellow, or even quite a lot superior?
21.
... next few
years fortune threw money and ...
BB p.3,
Bill's Story
22.
... next few
years, I developed two distinct ...
BB p.175,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
23.
... next forty
years, except when circumstances made ...
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.
24.
... next function
is to grow in understanding ...
BB p.84,
Into Action
25.
Next he
can be assured that you ...
BB p.142,
To Employers
Next he can be assured that
you do not intend to lecture, moralize, or condemn; that if this was done
formerly, it was because of misunderstanding.
26.
... next he
stumbled.
BB p.160,
A Vision For You
Many a distracted wife has visited this house to find loving and understanding companionship among women who knew her problem, to hear from the lips of their husbands what
had happened to them, to be advised how her own wayward mate might be hospitalized and approached when next he stumbled.
27.
... next morning.
BB p.41,
More About Alcoholism
28.
... next morning.
BB p.180,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
He came and got me home and to bed, gave me a few drinks that night, and one bottle of beer the next morning.
29.
... next morning
are unforgettable.
BB p.6,
Bill's Story
30.
... next morning
better than most of my ...
BB p.172,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
I seemed to be able to snap back the next morning better than most of my fellow
drinkers, who were cursed (or perhaps blessed) with a great deal of morning-after nausea.
31.
... next morning
he searches madly for the ...
BB p.21,
There Is A Solution
32.
Next morning
I telephoned a friend in ...
BB p.4,
Bill's Story
33.
... next move
was to take up the ...
BB p.173,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
My next move was to take up the study of medicine, entering one of the largest universities
in the country.
34.
... next night,
I had to stay sober ...
BB p.177,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
My phobia for sleeplessness demanded that I get drunk every night, but in order to get more liquor for the next night, I had to stay sober during the day, at least up to four o'clock.
35.
... next occasion,
still more demanding or gracious, ...
BB p.61,
How It Works
36.
... next page,
A.A.'s "12 Traditions" are seen ...
BB p.561(563),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
On the next page, A.A.'s "12 Traditions" are seen in
their so-called "short form" the form in general use today.
37.
... next pages.
BB xvi,
Foreword to Second Edition
He had also been greatly helped by the late Dr. William D. Silkworth, a New York specialist in alcoholism who is now accounted no less than a medical saint by A.A. members, and whose story of the early days of our Society appears in the next pages.
38.
... next problem
will be to discover the ...
12&12 p.60,
Step Five
39.
... next question:
'What are you getting out ...
12&12 p.152,
Tradition Five
40.
... next spree.
12&12 p.120,
Step Twelve
41.
... next step
is to be, that we ...
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.
42.
... next sufferer?
12&12 p.24,
Step One
43.
... next suffering
alcoholic and which finally translates ...
12&12 p.109,
Step Twelve
The wonderful energy it
releases and the eager action by which it carries
our message to the next suffering alcoholic and
which finally translates the Twelve Steps into action upon all our affairs is the payoff, the magnificent
reality, of Alcoholics Anonymous.
44.
... next the
plight of those who once ...
12&12 p.28,
Step Two
45.
... next thought
is that you should never ...
BB p.111,
To Wives
46.
... next three
years I spent in Boston, ...
BB p.172,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
The next three years I spent in Boston, Chicago, and Montreal in the employ of a
large manufacturing
concern, selling railway supplies, gas engines of all sorts, and many other items of heavy hardware.
47.
... next time.
BB p.109,
To Wives
But when he gets over the spree, he begins to think once more how he can drink moderately next time.
48.
... next time,
but I might as well ...
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.
49.
Next time
you and he have a ...
BB p.118,
To Wives
Next time you and he have a heated discussion, no matter what the subject, it should be the privilege of either to smile and say, "This is getting serious.
50.
... next to
me.
12&12 p.163,
Tradition Seven
51.
... next two
and a half years, but ...
BB p.178,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
I gave the matter much time and study for the next two and a half years, but I still got tight every night nevertheless.
52.
Next, we
decided that hereafter in this ...
BB p.62,
How It Works
53.
Next we
launched out on a course ...
BB p.63,
How It Works
Next we launched out on a course of vigorous action, the first step of which is a personal housecleaning, which many of us had never attempted.
54.
... next we
make a vigorous attempt to ...
12&12 p.77,
Step Eight
First, we take a look backward and try to discover where we have
been at fault; next we make a vigorous attempt to repair the damage we have done; and third, having thus cleaned away the debris of the past, we consider how, with our newfound knowledge of ourselves, we may develop
the best possible relations with every human being we know.
55.
... next years
alcoholics flocked to A.A. by ...
12&12 p.17,
Foreword
In the next years alcoholics flocked to A.A. by tens of thousands, largely as the
result of excellent and
continuous publicity freely given by magazines and newspapers throughout
the world.
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