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1.
... now.
BB
Preface, pp.xi-xii
2.
... now.
BB
Bill's Story, p.6
3.
... now.
BB
Bill's Story, p.8
4.
... now.
BB
Bill's Story, p.16
We have it with us
right here
and
now.
5.
... now.
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.43
My
old manner of
life was by
no means a
bad one, but I would not
exchange its best moments for the
worst I have
now.
6.
... now.
BB
We Agnostics, p.55
His
story is so
interesting that some of it should be
told now.
7.
... now.
BB
How It Works, p.58
Our
stories disclose in a
general way what we
used to be
like, what
happened, and what we are
like
now.
8.
... now!
BB
How It Works, p.59
9.
... now.
BB
The Family Afterward, p.124
10.
... now.
BB
To Employers, p.137
11.
... now?
BB
A Vision For You, p.154
After all, had he not been
sober six months now?
12.
... now.
BB
A Vision For You, pp.156-157
13.
... now.
BB
A Vision For You, p.157
I was
once, but I'm a
nobody
now.
14.
... now.
12&12
Step Two, p.26
Second, to
get sober and to
stay sober, you don't have to
swallow all of
Step Two right now.
15.
... now.
12&12
Step Two, p.27
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.
16.
... now.
12&12
Step Ten, p.89
17.
... now.
12&12
Tradition Three, p.140
18.
... now a
most effective member of Alcoholics ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.135
19.
Now about
health: A body badly burned ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.133
20.
Now about
sex.
BB
How It Works, p.68
21.
... now about
the man who first uttered ...
12&12
Step Eleven, p.101
We'll
think now about the
man who
first uttered the
prayer.
22.
... now about
to ask forgiveness for ourselves, ...
12&12
Step Eight, p.78
If we are
now about to
ask forgiveness for
ourselves,
why shouldn't we
start out by
forgiving them,
one and all?
23.
... now accept
and adjust to either without ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.112
24.
... now accounted
no less than a medical ...
BB
Foreword to Second Edition, p.xvi
25.
... now among
our members.
BB
There Is A Solution, p.28
Many who
once were in this
class are
now among our
members.
26.
... now, and
a further look at what ...
12&12
Step Eleven, p.101
It
ought to be
followed by
a
good look at where we
stand now, and a
further look at what might
happen in our
lives were we
able to
move closer to the
ideal we have been
trying to
glimpse.
27.
... now, and
it would -- if only you'd ...
12&12
Tradition Two, p.136
It should be
doing just as
well now, and it would -- if only
you'd
help me.
28.
... now and
then?
BB
To Employers, p.142
If he
says yes, does he
really mean it, or
down inside does he
think he is
fooling you, and
that
after rest and
treatment he
will be
able to
get away with a
few drinks now and then?
29.
Now and
then a serious drinker, being ...
BB
A Vision For You, p.151
Now and then a
serious drinker,
being dry at the
moment says, "I don't
miss it at all.
Feel better.
Work better. Having a
better time."
30.
Now and
then, A.A. members have bought ...
12&12
Tradition Eight, p.170
31.
... now and
then and he is as ...
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxxii
I
see him
now and then and he is
as
fine a
specimen of
manhood as
one could
wish to
meet.
32.
... now and
then, began to evaporate.
12&12
Step Seven, p.75
33.
Now and
then, grateful benefactors had endowed ...
12&12
Tradition Seven, p.161
34.
Now and
then the family will be ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.123
35.
Now and
then we may be granted ...
12&12
Step Eleven, p.98
Now and then we may be
granted a
glimpse of that
ultimate reality which is
God's
kingdom.
36.
... now at
Step Three.
BB
How It Works, p.63
We were
now at
Step Three.
37.
... now available
in pamphlet form at nominal ...
BB
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A., p.570
38.
... now backing
education -- liquor trade association style.
12&12
Tradition Six, p.158
39.
... now be
so sure that we weren't ...
12&12
Step Five, p.59
If all our
lives we had
more or
less fooled ourselves, how could we
now be
so
sure that we
weren't still self-
deceived?
40.
... now be
yours.
BB
To Wives, p.119
You
feel he should
now be yours.
41.
... now, because
if I did not drink ...
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.175
I was
between Scylla and
Charybdis now,
because if I did not
drink my
stomach tortured me, and
if I did my
nerves did the
same thing.
42.
... now become
able to do, feel, and ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.106
When a
man or a
woman has a
spiritual awakening, the
most
important meaning
of it is that he has
now become able to do,
feel, and
believe that which he
could not do
before on his
unaided strength and
resources alone.
43.
... now become
possible.
12&12
Foreword, p.17
44.
... now become
the rapacious creditor, bleeds us ...
12&12
Step One, p.21
45.
... now becomes
just how and by what ...
12&12
Step Three, p.34
46.
... now began
to be called Alcoholics Anonymous, ...
BB
Foreword to Second Edition, p.xvii
47.
... now begins
to mean the nourishing ingredient ...
12&12
Step Seven, p.74
48.
... now being
harnessed promise such a quantity ...
12&12
Step Seven, p.70
49.
... now believe,
or am I even willing ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.47
"Do I
now believe, or am I
even willing to
believe, that there is a
Power
greater than
myself?"
50.
... now beset
the group.
12&12
Tradition Two, p.133
51.
... 'Now boys,
please go heavier on the ...
12&12
Tradition Seven, p.163
52.
... now clamored
for material security.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.121
53.
... now clearly
see that we have been ...
12&12
Step Seven, p.76
54.
... now come
to a close.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.125
55.
Now comes
the biggest question yet.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.111
56.
Now comes
the election.
12&12
Tradition Two, p.134
57.
... now commence
to ransack memory for the ...
12&12
Step Eight, p.81
58.
... now conceive
the psychiatrist's job to be ...
BB
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A., p.569
59.
"Now," concludes
the oldtimer, "suppose I'd been ...
12&12
Tradition Five, p.153
60.
... now declare
that none but a Higher ...
12&12
Step Two, p.25
61.
... now depend
upon Somebody or Something else.
12&12
Step Three, p.39
62.
... now do
for some stricken acquaintance and ...
BB
A Vision For You, pp.160-161
He and his
wife would
leave elated by the
thought of what
they could
now do for some
stricken acquaintance
and his
family.
63.
"Now do
tell!
12&12
Tradition Three, p.143
64.
... now endeavoring
to be helpful to him.
BB
Working With Others, p.94
65.
... now enters
maturity, it has begun to ...
12&12
Foreword, p.18
66.
... now felt
they had to give to ...
BB
A Vision For You, p.158
So, you
see, there were
three alcoholics in that
town, who
now felt they had to
give to
others what they had
found, or be
sunk.
67.
... now fully
understanding how much he himself ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.119
68.
... now go
back to husband number one.
BB
To Wives, p.110
69.
... now going
on.
BB
Foreword to Second Edition, p.xx
70.
... now growing
up among them.
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxviii
71.
... now has
a group, and he is ...
12&12
Tradition Two, p.133
72.
... now has
a so-called rotating committee, very ...
12&12
Tradition Two, p.134
73.
... now has
been rated as a saint.
12&12
Step Eleven, p.99
74.
... now he
has become a superior person ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.129
Dad may
feel that for
years his
drinking has
placed him on the
wrong side of
every argument, but that
now he has
become a
superior person with
God on his
side.
75.
... now, he
reflects that he may not ...
12&12
Tradition Two, p.132
Alone now, he
reflects that he may not be
able to
stay sober, or
even alive,
unless he
passes on to
other alcoholics what was so
freely given him.
76.
... now, I
fared forth in high hope.
BB
Bill's Story, p.7
77.
'Now I
get it!
12&12
Tradition Five, p.153
78.
Now I
had what it takes!
BB
Bill's Story, p.6
79.
... now, I
suspected, a little cracked about ...
BB
Bill's Story, p.9
80.
Now I
was to plunge into the ...
BB
Bill's Story, p.8
Now I was to
plunge into the
dark,
joining that
endless procession of
sots who had
gone on
before.
81.
Now if
this is not turning one's ...
12&12
Step Three, p.35
Now if this is not
turning one's
will and
life over to a
newfound Providence, then
what is it?
82.
... now in
its fold, Alcoholics Anonymous has ...
BB
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.561
83.
... now includes
twelve new stories; eight were ...
BB
Preface, p.xii
84.
... now is
that we exult in some ...
12&12
Step Six, p.66
What we
must recognize
now is that we
exult in some of
our
defects.
85.
... now is
to be at the place ...
BB
Working With Others, p.102
Your
job now is to be at the
place where you may be of
maximum helpfulness to
others, so
never hesitate to
go anywhere if you can be
helpful.
86.
... now it
appears that there are certain ...
12&12
Step Three, p.40
But
now it
appears that there
are
certain things which
only the
individual can do.
87.
... now joined.
BB
There Is A Solution, p.17
But that in
itself would
never have
held us
together as we are
now joined.
88.
... now know
more about alcoholism.
BB
To Employers, p.141
89.
Now let's
ponder the need for a ...
12&12
Step Four, p.48
90.
Now let's
take the guy full of ...
12&12
Step Two, p.31
91.
... now made
more acute because he cannot ...
12&12
Step Three, p.39
92.
... now make
up more than one-fourth of ...
BB
Foreword to Third Edition, p.xxii
93.
... now means
a great deal to his ...
BB
A Vision For You, p.156
94.
... now measure
up to that cherished vision.
BB
To Wives, p.118
95.
... now on
a different basis; the basis ...
BB
How It Works, p.68
96.
... now ought
to be willing to try ...
12&12
Step Seven, p.76
97.
... now, our
lives have been largely devoted ...
12&12
Step Seven, p.74
98.
... now overwhelmed
us, especially when we remembered ...
12&12
Step Eight, p.79
99.
... now propose
bothers us an awful lot ...
12&12
Tradition Two, p.137
But I
think I
speak for
everyone here when I
say that what you
now propose bothers us an
awful lot more.'
100.
... now ready
to let God remove from ...
BB
Into Action, p.76
Are we
now ready to
let God remove from us all the
things
which we have
admitted are
objectionable?
101.
... now recognized,
our defects were still there.
12&12
Step Five, p.58
102.
... now remembered
what my alcoholic friends had ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.41
I
now remembered what my
alcoholic friends had
told me, how they
prophesied
that if I had an
alcoholic mind, the
time and
place would
come -- I would
drink again.
103.
... now remove
from me every single defect ...
BB
Into Action, p.76
I
pray that you
now remove from me
every single defect of
character which
stands in
the
way of my
usefulness to
you and my
fellows.
104.
... now reread
this prayer several times very ...
12&12
Step Eleven, p.99
105.
... now restored
as citizens of the world, ...
12&12
Tradition Ten, p.177
106.
... now returned
home, leaving behind his first ...
BB
A Vision For You, p.159
107.
... now ruined
or damaged.
BB
The Family Afterward, p.123
108.
... now see
and accept actual reality.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.122
109.
... now see
it, being very careful not ...
BB
Into Action, p.83
110.
... now see
scores of members.
BB
A Vision For You, p.162
Then, in this
eastern city,
there are
informal meetings such as we have
described to you, where you may
now see scores
of
members.
111.
... now see
that when we began to ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.37
112.
... now seen
in Tradition Three, was simplicity ...
12&12
Tradition Three, p.141
113.
... now sees
many men who have such ...
BB
Bill's Story, p.14
114.
... now shows
any mark of dissipation.
BB
The Family Afterward, p.133
115.
... now --
sober -- paid our own way.
12&12
Tradition Seven, p.160
They
figured that it was
high
time we
now --
sober --
paid our
own way.
116.
... now, still
smarting from that admission, he ...
12&12
Step Two, p.25
117.
... now take
them all -- every one?
BB
Into Action, p.76
Can He
now take them all --
every one?
118.
... now taking
shape in Asia.
BB
Foreword to Second Edition, p.xv
Some are
just now taking shape in
Asia.
119.
... now tapped
a source of power much ...
BB
A Vision For You, p.163
120.
... now that
almost no A.A. in our ...
12&12
Tradition Eight, p.171
121.
Now, that
attitude is far removed from ...
12&12
Tradition Nine, p.174
122.
... now that
God can remove whatever self-will ...
BB
How It Works, p.71
We
hope you are
convinced
now that
God can
remove whatever self-
will has
blocked you off from Him.
123.
... now that
through you several families have ...
BB
A Vision For You, p.153
124.
... now that
we are sober?
12&12
Step Four, p.45
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?
125.
... now that
we ought never to name ...
12&12
Tradition Nine, p.174
126.
Now that
we're in A.A. and sober, ...
12&12
Step Ten, p.92
127.
Now, the
domestic problem: There may be ...
BB
Working With Others, p.98
128.
... now the
General Service Office.
12&12
Tradition Three (Note), p.140
129.
... now the
General Service Office.
12&12
Tradition Four (Note), p.148
130.
... now the
General Service Office.
12&12
Tradition Seven (Note), p.162
131.
... now the
General Service Office.
12&12
Tradition Eight (Note), p.168
132.
... now the
General Service Office.
12&12
Tradition Nine (Note), p.173
133.
... now the
General Service Office.
12&12
Tradition Eleven (Note), p.182
134.
... now the
newcomer has probably arrived at ...
12&12
Step Four, p.50
135.
... now the
same question raised in Tradition ...
12&12
Tradition Four, p.146
136.
... now the
time has come when he ...
12&12
Step Eight, p.77
To a
degree, he has
already
done this when
taking moral inventory, but
now the
time has
come when he
ought to
redouble his
efforts to
see how
many people he has
hurt, and in what
ways.
137.
... now the
words "Of myself I am ...
12&12
Step Seven, p.75
138.
Now these
are about to be cast ...
BB
Into Action, p.72
Now these are about to be
cast
out.
139.
Now these
are commonplace observations on drinkers ...
BB
There Is A Solution, p.20
Now these are
commonplace
observations on
drinkers which we
hear all the
time.
140.
Now, this
house will hardly accommodate its ...
BB
A Vision For You, p.161
141.
... now, though,
the chances are that he ...
12&12
Step Three, p.39
By
now,
though, the
chances are that he has
become
convinced that he has
more
problems than
alcohol,
and that some of these
refuse to be
solved by all the
sheer personal determination
and
courage he can
muster.
142.
... now time,
the struggling groups thought, to ...
BB
Foreword to Second Edition, p.xvii
143.
... now upon
the sea and ponder what ...
12&12
Step Eleven, p.100
144.
... now want
to make a decision to ...
12&12
Step Three, p.38
145.
... now was
a river which led to ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.109
The
persistent use of
meditation and
prayer, we
found, did
open the
channel so that where there had been a
trickle, there
now was a
river which
led to
sure power and
safe guidance from
God as we were
increasingly
better able to
understand Him.
146.
... now was
good enough for us.
12&12
Step Two, p.29
The
here and
now was
good enough for us.
147.
... now we
begin to have a spiritual ...
BB
Into Action, p.75
148.
Now we
come to another kind of ...
12&12
Step Two, p.29
149.
Now we
go out to our fellows ...
BB
Into Action, p.76
Now we
go out to our
fellows and
repair the
damage done in the
past.
150.
Now we
need more action, without which ...
BB
Into Action, p.76
151.
... now we
see ourselves as chips off ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.123
152.
Now we
try to put spiritual principles ...
BB
To Wives, p.116
153.
... now we've
got him strapped down tight.(*)
BB
A Vision For You, p.156
154.
Now, what
about the rest of the ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.109
Now, what about the
rest of the
Twelfth Step?
155.
Now, what
of prayer?
12&12
Step Eleven, p.102
156.
... now willing
that you should have all ...
BB
Into Action, p.76
When
ready, we
say something like this: "My
Creator, I am
now willing that you should have all of me,
good and
bad.
157.
Now willing
to commence the search for ...
12&12
Step Four, p.50
Now willing to
commence the
search for his
own defects, he
will ask, "
Just how do I
go about this? How do I
take inventory of
myself?"
158.
... now willing
to work hard at the ...
12&12
Step Four, p.50
159.
... now, with
the help of God as ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.113
Can we
now, with the
help of
God as we
understand Him,
handle them as
well and as
bravely as our
nonalcoholic friends often do?
160.
Now you
are getting back into the ...
BB
Working With Others, p.102
Now you are
getting back into the
social life of this
world.
161.
... now you
are making your second visit ...
BB
Working With Others, p.96
Suppose now you are
making your
second visit to a
man.
162.
... now you
know that he can stop ...
BB
To Wives, p.116
And
now you
know that he can
stop if he
will!
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