From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... other?
12&12 p.137,
Tradition Two
As generous as Charlie
has been to us, don't you see that we can't tie this thing up with his hospital or any other?
2.
... other.
12&12 p.151,
Tradition Five
3.
... other.
12&12 p.152,
Tradition Five
4.
... other.
12&12 p.153,
Tradition Five
5.
... other.
12&12 p.156,
Tradition Six
It occurred to us that we could take what we had into the factories and cause laborers and capitalists to love each other.
6.
... other.
BB p.68,
How It Works
Some of us once had great self-confidence, but it
didn't fully solve the fear problem, or any other.
7.
... 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.
8.
... other a
great deal, but we almost ...
BB p.125,
The Family Afterward
We do talk about each other a great deal, but we almost invariably temper such talk by a spirit of love and tolerance.
9.
... other activities
fail.
BB p.89,
Working With Others
10.
... other affiliation."
12&12 p.147,
Tradition Four
So confident of this had we become that the original statement of A.A. tradition carried this significant sentence:
"Any two or three alcoholics gathered together for sobriety may call themselves an A.A. group provided that as a group they have no other affiliation."
11.
... other affiliation.
12&12 p.189,
Tradition Three (Long)
Any two or three alcoholics gathered together for sobriety may call themselves an A.A. group, provided that, as a
group, they have no other affiliation.
12.
... other affiliation.
BB p.563(565),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
Any two or three alcoholics gathered together for sobriety may call themselves an A.A. group, provided that, as a
group, they have no other affiliation.
13.
... other ailing
employees?
BB p.140,
To Employers
14.
... other alcoholic
an opportunity to live and ...
BB p.96,
Working With Others
To spend too much time on any one situation is to deny some other alcoholic an opportunity to live and be
happy.
15.
... other alcoholics.
BB p.89,
Working With Others
Practical experience shows that nothing will so much insure immunity from drinking as
intensive work with other alcoholics.
16.
... other alcoholics!
BB p.89,
Working With Others
17.
... other alcoholics.
BB p.89,
Working With Others
Ministers and doctors
are competent and you can learn much from them if you wish, but it happens that because of your own drinking experience you
can be uniquely useful
to other alcoholics.
18.
... other alcoholics.
BB p.129,
The Family Afterward
Even if he displays a certain amount of neglect and irresponsibility towards the family, it is well to let him go as far as he likes in helping other alcoholics.
19.
... other alcoholics?
BB p.154,
A Vision For You
But what about his responsibilities --
his family and the men who
would die because they would
not know how to get well, ah -- yes, those other alcoholics?
20.
... other alcoholics.
BB xiv,
Foreword to First Edition
We shall be interested
to hear from those who are getting results from this
book, particularly
from those who have commenced work with other alcoholics.
21.
... other alcoholics.
BB xxiv,
Foreword to Fourth Edition
In any meeting, anywhere, A.A.'s share experience, strength, and hope with each other, in order to stay sober and help other alcoholics.
22.
... other alcoholics
achieve sobriety?
12&12 p.111,
Step Twelve
Can we love the whole pattern of living as eagerly as we do the small segment of it we discover
when we try to help other alcoholics achieve sobriety?
23.
... other alcoholics
and something of the sort ...
BB p.146,
To Employers
He may wish to do a lot for
other alcoholics and something of the sort may come up during business hours.
24.
... other alcoholics
as much as they need ...
12&12 p.133,
Tradition Two
25.
... other alcoholics,
but this activity should be ...
BB p.131,
The Family Afterward
Father will necessarily spend much time with other alcoholics, but this activity should be balanced.
26.
... other alcoholics
from a clinic which he ...
BB p.163,
A Vision For You
And with such good effect that the doctor agreed to a test among his patients and certain other alcoholics from a clinic
which he attends.
27.
... other alcoholics,
he remains sober day by ...
BB p.570(572),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
Learning to depend upon a higher power and absorb himself in his work with other alcoholics, he remains sober day by day.
28.
... other alcoholics
if they would remain sober, ...
BB p.159,
A Vision For You
Though they knew they must help other alcoholics if they would
remain sober, that motive became secondary.
29.
... other alcoholics,
impressing upon them that they ...
BB xxv(xxiii),
The Doctor's Opinion
As part of his rehabilitation he commenced to present his
conceptions to other alcoholics, impressing upon them that
they must do likewise with
still others.
30.
... other alcoholics
precisely how we have recovered ...
BB xiii,
Foreword to First Edition
31.
... other alcoholics
to a solution of their ...
BB p.15,
Bill's Story
My wife and I abandoned
ourselves with enthusiasm to the idea of
helping other alcoholics to a solution of their problems.
32.
... other alcoholics
to achieve sobriety.
Grapevine,
Preamble
33.
... other alcoholics
what was so freely given ...
12&12 p.133,
Tradition Two
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.
34.
... other alcoholics
when he escapes his own ...
BB p.94,
Working With Others
Make it plain he is under no obligation to you, that you hope only that he will try to help other alcoholics when he escapes his own difficulties.
35.
... other ambitions
aside, at whatever personal cost.
12&12 p.150,
Tradition Five
In the radiance of such a
miraculous discovery, any doctor would set his other ambitions aside, at whatever personal cost.
36.
... other and
ask when their marriage is ...
12&12 p.119,
Step Twelve
37.
... other and
comes to a friendly agreement ...
BB p.131,
The Family Afterward
This means trouble, unless the family watches for these tendencies in each other and comes to a friendly agreement about
them.
38.
... other and
drew closer together.
BB p.124,
The Family Afterward
39.
... other around
the shoulder of medicine, we'd ...
12&12 p.156,
Tradition Six
With one arm around the shoulder of religion and the other around the shoulder of medicine, we'd resolve
their differences.
40.
... other at
incredible speed.
BB p.49,
We Agnostics
41.
... other authority
than its own conscience.
12&12 p.189,
Tradition Four (Long)
Four -- With respect to its own affairs, each A.A. group should be responsible to no other authority than its own conscience.
42.
... other authority
than its own conscience.
BB p.563(565),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
4. With respect to its own affairs, each A.A. group should be responsible to no other authority than its own conscience.
43.
... other, been
affected.
12&12 p.81,
Step Eight
Then, as year by year we walk back through our lives as far as memory will reach, we shall be bound to construct a long list of people who have, to
some extent or other, been
affected.
44.
... other bills,
and makes a regular report ...
12&12 p.134,
Tradition Two
Their treasurer, strictly accountable,
takes money from the hat that is passed, banks it, pays the rent and other bills, and makes a regular report at business meetings.
45.
... other cases
where action ought to be ...
12&12 p.83,
Step Nine
There will be other cases where action ought to be deferred, and still others in which by the
very nature of the situation we shall never be able to make direct personal contact at all.
46.
... other cause.
12&12 p.177,
Tradition Ten
We conceive the survival and spread of Alcoholics Anonymous
to be something of far greater importance than
the weight we could collectively throw back of any other cause.
47.
... other cities.
BB xvii,
Foreword to Second Edition
Besides these, there were scattered alcoholics
who had picked up the basic ideas in Akron or New York who were trying to form groups in other cities.
48.
... other communities."
BB xv,
Foreword to Second Edition
Already," continues
the early text "twos and threes and fives of us have sprung up in other communities."
49.
... other communities,
through contact with our two ...
BB p.162,
A Vision For You
Little clusters of twos and threes and fives of us have sprung up in other communities, through contact with our two larger centers.
50.
... other complications.
12&12 p.140,
Tradition Three
Except for their guzzling, and the unfortunate results thereof, they could have no
other complications.
51.
... other concerns,
yet was flat on his ...
BB p.40,
More About Alcoholism
The story he told is most instructive, for here was
a chap absolutely convinced he had to stop drinking, who had no excuse for drinking, who exhibited splendid judgment and determination in all his other concerns, yet was flat on his back nevertheless.
52.
... other consequences
which are hard to take.
12&12 p.111,
Step Twelve
Here again we are presented with the temptation to overmanage things, and sometimes this results in
rebuffs and other consequences which are hard to take.
53.
... other day
an approach was made to ...
BB p.148,
To Employers
54.
... other days.
BB p.9,
Bill's Story
55.
... other defects
that have made us hard ...
12&12 p.84,
Step Nine
56.
... other departments
of life where this same ...
12&12 p.86,
Step Nine
Many a razor-edged question can arise in other departments of life where
this same principle is involved.
57.
... other difficulties
don't fall under such a ...
12&12 p.64,
Step Six
58.
... other difficulties
of life.
12&12 p.16,
Foreword
Many people, nonalcoholics, report
that as a result of the practice of A.A.'s Twelve Steps, they have been
able to meet other difficulties of life.
59.
... other difficulty.
12&12 p.142,
Tradition Three
60.
... other difficulty
or defect?
12&12 p.64,
Step Six
Having been granted a perfect release from alcoholism, why then
shouldn't we be able to achieve by the same means a perfect release from every other difficulty or defect?
61.
... other direction
when, in rare cases, we ...
12&12 p.85,
Step Nine
Or we may be tipped over in
the other direction when,
in rare cases, we get a cool and skeptical reception.
62.
... other disorders.
BB p.114,
To Wives
63.
... other drinkers.
BB p.112,
To Wives
64.
... other employees
who are giving you the ...
BB p.146,
To Employers
After your man has gone along without drinking for a few months, you may be able to make use of his services with other employees who are giving you the alcoholic
run-around -- provided, of course, they
are willing to have a third party in the picture.
65.
... other extreme
and become almost miserly.
12&12 p.120,
Step Twelve
In our drinking time, we
acted as if the money supply was inexhaustible, though
between binges we'd sometimes go to the other extreme and become almost miserly.
66.
... other extreme
and settled for the bottle ...
12&12 p.156,
Tradition Six
We are all perfectionists who, failing perfection, have
gone to the other extreme and settled for the
bottle and the blackout.
67.
... other extreme,
we had wallowed in emotionalism ...
12&12 p.32,
Step Two
Or, going to the other extreme, we had wallowed
in emotionalism and had mistaken it for true religious feeling.
68.
... other families
still struggling with their problem.
BB p.124,
The Family Afterward
69.
... other fields,
but we accept the sober ...
12&12 p.166,
Tradition Eight
We do not decry professionalism in other fields, but we accept the sober fact that it does not work for
us.
70.
... other fields,
we were taking the counsel ...
12&12 p.167,
Tradition Eight
But when we had declared that our Fellowship couldn't hire service workers nor could any A.A. member carry our knowledge into
other fields, we were taking the counsel of fear, fear which today has been largely dispelled in the light of
experience.
71.
... other form
of intellectual pride which keeps ...
BB p.181,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
If you think you are an atheist, an agnostic, a skeptic, or have any other form of intellectual pride which
keeps you from accepting
what is in this book, I feel
sorry for you.
72.
... other free
men may go without disaster, ...
BB p.26,
There Is A Solution
He can go anywhere on this
earth where other free men may go without disaster, provided he remains willing to maintain a certain simple attitude.
73.
... other good
works.
12&12 p.155,
Tradition Six
74.
... other group
received into its membership a ...
12&12 p.143,
Tradition Three
Not long after the man with the double stigma knocked for admission, A.A.'s other group received into its membership a salesman
we shall call Ed.
75.
... other groups
or A.A. as a whole."
12&12 p.146,
Tradition Four
76.
... other groups
or A.A. as a whole.
BB p.562(564),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
Four -- Each group should be autonomous
except in matters affecting other groups or A.A. as a whole.
77.
... other half
would think we'd joined the ...
12&12 p.158,
Tradition Six
Half the people in this country would think we'd signed up with the drys, the other half would think we'd joined the wets.
78.
... other hand
-- and strange as this may ...
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.
79.
... other hand,
he may be mean, egotistical, ...
BB p.61,
How It Works
80.
... other hand
that father has, at the ...
BB p.128,
The Family Afterward
81.
... other hand,
they took nothing, their self-pity ...
BB p.105,
To Wives
82.
... other hours
of our day better and ...
12&12 p.90,
Step Ten
For these minutes and sometimes hours spent in self-examination are bound to
make all the other hours of our day better and happier.
83.
... other human
being can provide such a ...
BB p.43,
More About Alcoholism
84.
... other human
being without any demand for ...
12&12 p.32,
Step Two
In no deep or meaningful sense had we ever taken stock of ourselves, made amends to those we had harmed, or freely given to any other human being without any demand for reward.
85.
... other human
beings have nearly always been ...
12&12 p.80,
Step Eight
Since defective relations with other human beings have nearly always been the immediate cause of our woes, including our alcoholism, no field of investigation
could yield more satisfying and valuable
rewards than this one.
86.
... other human
sickness can.
BB p.18,
There Is A Solution
An illness of this sort --
and we have come to believe
it an illness -- involves those about us in a
way no other human sickness can.
87.
... other ideas.
12&12 p.29,
Step Two
88.
... other ideas
on the subject.
BB p.173,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
89.
... other ills
of mankind."
BB p.571(573),
Appendix IV, The Lasker Award
"The American Public Health Association presents a Lasker Group Award for 1951 to Alcoholics Anonymous in recognition of its unique and highly successful approach to
that age-old public health and social problem, alcoholism ... In emphasizing alcoholism as an illness, the social stigma associated with
this condition is being
blotted out ... Historians may one day recognize Alcoholics Anonymous
to have been a great venture in social pioneering which forged a
new instrument for social action; a new therapy based on the kinship of common suffering; one having a vast potential for the myriad
other ills of mankind."
90.
... other, in
order to stay sober and ...
BB xxiv,
Foreword to Fourth Edition
In any meeting, anywhere, A.A.'s share experience, strength, and hope with each other, in order to stay sober and help other alcoholics.
91.
... other instances
only the closest scrutiny will ...
12&12 p.94,
Step Ten
92.
... other interests
so that the important appointment ...
BB xxix(xxvii),
The Doctor's Opinion
They took a drink a day or so prior to the date, and then the phenomenon of craving at
once became paramount to all other interests so that the important appointment
was not met.
93.
... other is
the bright spot of our ...
BB p.89,
Working With Others
94.
... other it
is there.
BB p.55,
We Agnostics
It may be obscured by calamity, by pomp, by worship of other things, but in some form or
other it is there.
95.
... other items
of heavy hardware.
BB p.173,
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.
96.
... other kind
of bankruptcy is like this ...
12&12 p.21,
Step One
97.
Other kinds
of disturbances -- jealousy, envy, self-pity, ...
12&12 p.90,
Step Ten
98.
... other man's.
BB p.67,
How It Works
99.
... other matters?
BB p.22,
There Is A Solution
What has become of the common sense and will power that he still sometimes displays with respect to
other matters?
100.
... other matters
I must still maintain my ...
12&12 p.36,
Step Three
But suppose that instinct still cries out, as it certainly will, "Yes, respecting alcohol, I guess I have to be
dependent upon A.A., but in all other matters I must still maintain my independence.
101.
... other measures
failed, work with another alcoholic ...
BB p.15,
Bill's Story
This sometimes nearly
drove me back to drink, but I soon found that when all other measures failed, work with another alcoholic would save the day.
102.
... other men.
BB p.22,
There Is A Solution
We know that while the alcoholic keeps away from drink, as he may do
for months or years, he reacts much like other men.
103.
... other men.
BB p.31,
More About Alcoholism
Neither does there appear
to be any kind of treatment which will make alcoholics of our kind like other men.
104.
... other men.
BB p.32,
More About Alcoholism
Then he fell victim to a belief which practically
every alcoholic has --
that his long period of sobriety and self-discipline had qualified him to drink as
other men.
105.
... other men.
BB p.105,
To Wives
106.
... other men
and their families.
BB p.119,
To Wives
You have been starving for his companionship, yet he spends long hours helping other men and their families.
107.
... other men
have begotten all sorts of ...
BB p.105,
To Wives
Our loyalty and the desire that our husbands hold up their heads and be like other men have begotten all sorts of predicaments.
108.
... other men
recover, and is a power ...
BB p.158,
A Vision For You
109.
... other methods
had failed completely.
BB xxv(xxiii),
The Doctor's Opinion
I personally know scores of cases who were of
the type with whom other methods had failed completely.
110.
... other moments,
we found ourselves thinking, when ...
BB p.46,
We Agnostics
Yet, in other moments, we found ourselves thinking, when
enchanted by a starlit
night, "Who, then, made all
this?"
111.
Other newspapers
and magazines wanted A.A. stories.
12&12 p.187,
Tradition Twelve
112.
... other notions;
we prayed God that she'd ...
12&12 p.31,
Step Two
The girl we wanted to marry had other notions; we prayed God that she'd change her mind, but she didn't.
113.
... other one's
happiness uppermost in mind.
BB p.82,
Into Action
114.
... other outside
agencies; that acceptance of large ...
12&12 p.190,
Tradition Seven (Long)
We think that each group should soon achieve this ideal; that any public solicitation of funds using the name of Alcoholics Anonymous
is highly dangerous, whether by groups, clubs, hospitals, or other outside agencies; that acceptance of large gifts from any source, or of contributions carrying any obligation whatever, is
unwise.
115.
... other outside
agencies; that acceptance of large ...
BB p.564(566),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
We think that each group should soon achieve this ideal; that any public solicitation of funds using the name of Alcoholics Anonymous
is highly dangerous, whether by groups, clubs, hospitals, or other outside agencies; that acceptance of large gifts from any source, or of contributions carrying any obligation whatever, is
unwise.
116.
... other pains
and trials.
12&12 p.31,
Step Two
117.
... other patients
here and with some misgiving, ...
BB xxvii(xxv),
The Doctor's Opinion
Later, he requested the
privilege of being allowed to tell his story to other patients here and with some
misgiving, we consented.
118.
... other people?
12&12 p.51,
Step Four
119.
... other people.
12&12 p.56,
Step Five
120.
... other people.
12&12 p.79,
Step Eight
Though in some cases we
cannot make restitution
at all, and in some cases action ought to be deferred, we should nevertheless make an accurate and really exhaustive survey of our
past life as it has affected other people.
121.
... other people.
12&12 p.80,
Step Eight
122.
... other people.
12&12 p.86,
Step Nine
123.
... other people.
12&12 p.104,
Step Eleven
124.
... other people.
12&12 p.108,
Step Twelve
We followed this up in Step Nine by making direct amends to those concerned, except when it
would injure them or other
people.
125.
... other people.
12&12 p.115,
Step Twelve
Our demand for emotional security, for
our own way, had constantly thrown us into
unworkable relations with other people.
126.
... other people.
12&12 p.120,
Step Twelve
We threw money about in every direction with the purpose of pleasing ourselves and impressing other people.
127.
... other people.
12&12 p.177,
Tradition Ten
Let us reemphasize that
this reluctance to fight one another or anybody else is not counted as some special virtue which makes us feel superior to other people.
128.
... other people.
BB p.24,
There Is A Solution
If these thoughts occur,
they are hazy and readily
supplanted with the old
threadbare idea that
this time we shall handle ourselves like other people.
129.
... other people.
BB p.30,
More About Alcoholism
Therefore, it is not surprising that our drinking careers have been
characterized by countless vain attempts to prove we could
drink like other people.
130.
... other people!
BB p.31,
More About Alcoholism
131.
... other people.
BB p.81,
Into Action
132.
... other people.
BB p.94,
Working With Others
133.
... other people.
BB p.109,
To Wives
134.
... other people
ahead of dependence on God.
BB p.98,
Working With Others
Some of us have taken very hard knocks to learn this truth: Job or no job
-- wife or no wife -- we simply do not stop drinking so long as we place dependence upon other people ahead of dependence on God.
135.
... other people
ahead of his own.
BB p.94,
Working With Others
136.
... other people,
and a tendency to take ...
BB p.125,
The Family Afterward
This is a condition which, in ordinary life, would produce untold grief; there might be scandalous gossip, laughter at the expense of
other people, and a tendency to take advantage of intimate information.
137.
... other people
and me?
12&12 p.50,
Step Four
When, and how, and in just what instances did my selfish
pursuit of the sex relation damage other people and me?
138.
... other people
are involved.
BB p.79,
Into Action
139.
... other people
are more to blame.
BB p.61,
How It Works
140.
... other people
are thinking and you hate ...
BB p.114,
To Wives
If your husband is a drinker, you probably worry over what other people are thinking and you hate to meet your friends.
141.
... other people
as we have already thought ...
12&12 p.102,
Step Eleven
Our immediate temptation will be to ask for specific solutions to specific problems, and for the ability to help other people as we have already thought they should
be helped.
142.
... other people,
but does not see why.
BB p.110,
To Wives
143.
... other people,
especially alcoholics.
BB p.119,
To Wives
Still another difficulty is that you may become jealous of the attention he bestows on
other people, especially alcoholics.
144.
... other people
for too much attention, protection, ...
12&12 p.44,
Step Four
Demands made upon other people for too much attention, protection,
and love can only invite domination or revulsion in the protectors themselves
-- two emotions quite as unhealthy as the
demands which evoked
them.
145.
... other people's
money.
12&12 p.147,
Tradition Four
146.
... other people,
or presently may be, has ...
BB p.30,
More About Alcoholism
147.
... other people
-- people who really need a ...
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.
148.
... other people's
shortcomings and viewpoints and a ...
BB p.19,
There Is A Solution
Most of us sense that real tolerance of other people's shortcomings
and viewpoints and a respect for their opinions
are attitudes which make
us more useful to others.
149.
... other people
suffer and often revolt.
12&12 p.44,
Step Four
When an individual's desire for prestige becomes uncontrollable, whether in the sewing circle or at the international conference table, other people suffer and often revolt.
150.
... other people
to maintain his own sobriety.
BB p.119,
To Wives
151.
... other people
-- was not a basic solution ...
BB p.52,
We Agnostics
We were having trouble with personal relationships, we couldn't control our emotional natures, we were a prey to misery and depression, we
couldn't make a living, we
had a feeling of uselessness, we were full
of fear, we were unhappy,
we couldn't seem to be of real
help to other people -- was not a basic solution of these bedevilments more important than whether we
should see newsreels of lunar flight?
152.
... other people
we secure their consent.
BB p.80,
Into Action
153.
... other people
were concerned, we had to ...
12&12 p.47,
Step Four
154.
... other people
who have instincts, too.
12&12 p.44,
Step Four
In these ways we are set in conflict not only with ourselves, but with other people who have instincts,
too.
155.
... other perplexities.
12&12 p.18,
Foreword
Everywhere there arose
threatening questions of membership, money, personal relations, public relations, management of groups, clubs, and scores of other perplexities.
156.
... other person
involved entirely.
BB p.67,
How It Works
Though a situation had
not been entirely our fault, we tried to disregard the other person involved entirely.
157.
... other personal
history from the first edition ...
BB xi,
Preface
"Bill's Story," "Doctor Bob's Nightmare," and one other personal history from the first edition were retained intact; three were edited and one of these was retitled; new versions of two stories were written, with
new titles; thirty completely new stories were added; and the story section was divided into three parts, under the same headings that are used now.
158.
... other personal
problems, and that I would ...
BB p.40,
More About Alcoholism
I reasoned I was not so far
advanced as most of you fellows, that I had been usually successful in licking my other personal problems, and
that I would therefore be successful where you men failed.
159.
... other places
of recuperation, ought to be ...
12&12 p.190,
Tradition Six (Long)
But hospitals, as well as
other places of recuperation, ought to
be well outside A.A. -- and medically supervised.
160.
... other places
of recuperation, ought to be ...
BB p.564(566),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
But hospitals, as well as
other places of recuperation, ought to
be well outside A.A. -- and medically supervised.
161.
... other problem.
BB p.69,
How It Works
162.
... other problem
we could possibly have.
12&12 p.76,
Step Seven
If that degree of humility could enable us to
find the grace by which such a deadly obsession could be banished, then there must be
hope of the same result respecting any other problem we could possibly
have.
163.
... other problems.
BB p.26,
There Is A Solution
164.
... other profound
changes in the household.
BB p.130,
The Family Afterward
165.
... other questions.
BB p.48,
We Agnostics
Faced with alcoholic destruction, we soon became as open minded on spiritual matters as we had tried to be
on other questions.
166.
... other relatives
or friends of alcoholics (in ...
12&12 p.118,
Step Twelve (Note)
Not a part of A.A., this worldwide fellowship
consists of spouses and
other relatives or friends of alcoholics
(in A.A. or still drinking).
167.
... other respects.
BB p.7,
Bill's Story
It relieved me somewhat to learn that in alcoholics the will is amazingly weakened when
it comes to combating liquor, though it often remains strong in other respects.
168.
... other respects
there was perfect freedom of ...
12&12 p.147,
Tradition Four
169.
... other respects,
where alcohol has been involved, ...
BB p.38,
More About Alcoholism
However intelligent we may have been in other respects, where alcohol has been involved,
we have been strangely insane.
170.
... other, scarce
an evening passed that someone's ...
BB p.159,
A Vision For You
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.
171.
... other serious
difficulties.
12&12 p.61,
Step Five
We shall want to speak with someone who is experienced, who not only has stayed dry but has been able to surmount other serious difficulties.
172.
... other shortcomings
just as we did when ...
12&12 p.76,
Step Seven
It is really saying to us
that we now ought to be willing to try humility in seeking the removal of our other shortcomings just as we
did when we admitted that we were powerless over alcohol, and came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves
could restore us to sanity.
173.
... other sick
ones and fellowships of Alcoholics ...
BB p.153,
A Vision For You
They will approach still other sick ones and fellowships of Alcoholics Anonymous
may spring up in each city and hamlet, havens for those who must find a way out.
174.
... other side
of that painful experience, this ...
12&12 p.99,
Step Eleven
And as he came out the other side of that painful experience, this
prayer was his expression of what he could then see, feel, and wish to become:
175.
... other simple
steps.
BB p.46,
We Agnostics
As soon as we admitted the
possible existence of
a Creative Intelligence, a Spirit
of the Universe underlying the totality
of things, we began to be
possessed of a new sense of power and direction, provided we
took other simple steps.
176.
... other societies.
12&12 p.175,
Tradition Nine
A.A. has to function, but at
the same time it must avoid those dangers of great wealth, prestige, and entrenched power which necessarily tempt other societies.
177.
... other societies,
we do have sex and ...
12&12 p.117,
Step Twelve
But just like all other societies, we do have sex and marital problems, and sometimes
they are distressingly acute.
178.
... other soldiers.
12&12 p.38,
Step Three
179.
... other solution."
BB p.43,
More About Alcoholism
180.
... other spiritual
approach, encourage him to follow ...
BB p.95,
Working With Others
If he thinks he can do the job in some other way, or prefers some other spiritual approach, encourage him
to follow his own conscience.
181.
... other spiritual
expressions which you find in ...
BB p.47,
We Agnostics
182.
... other Steps
of the A.A. program can ...
12&12 p.40,
Step Three
Then it is explained that other Steps of the A.A. program can be practiced with success
only when Step Three is given a determined and persistent trial.
183.
... other than
alcohol, we shall need to ...
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.
184.
... other than
our own.
12&12 p.159,
Tradition Six
185.
... other that
they may solve their common ...
Grapevine,
Preamble
Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength
and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism.
186.
... other things.
12&12 p.155,
Tradition Six
The moment we saw that we had
an answer for alcoholism, it was reasonable (or so it seemed at the time) for us to
feel that we might have the answer to a lot of other things.
187.
... other things,
but in some form or ...
BB p.55,
We Agnostics
It may be obscured by calamity, by pomp, by worship of other things, but in some form or
other it is there.
188.
Other thousands
came to a few A.A. ...
BB xx,
Foreword to Second Edition
189.
... other times
to come from without.
12&12 p.52,
Step Four
These stem from causes which
sometimes seem to be within us, and at other times to come from without.
190.
... other, to
accept spiritual help.
BB p.25,
There Is A Solution
We were in a position where life was becoming impossible, and if we had passed into the region from
which there is no return through human aid, we had but two alternatives: One was to
go on to the bitter end, blotting out the consciousness of
our intolerable situation as best we could;
and the other, to accept spiritual help.
191.
... other was
the fear of running out ...
BB p.175,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
192.
... other way.
12&12 p.133,
Tradition Two
These are the growing group's hierarchy of service -- self-appointed, of course, because there is no other way.
193.
... other way,
or prefers some other spiritual ...
BB p.95,
Working With Others
If he thinks he can do the job in some other way, or prefers some other spiritual approach, encourage him
to follow his own conscience.
194.
... other, when
justified -- these are everyday occurrences.
BB p.161,
A Vision For You
Cleaning up old scrapes, helping to settle family differences, explaining the disinherited son to his irate parents, lending money and securing jobs for each other, when justified -- these are everyday occurrences.
195.
... other with
these very things, when such ...
BB p.98,
Working With Others
Yet we do go to great extremes to provide each other with these very things, when such action is warranted.
196.
... other woman
forever.
BB p.106,
To Wives
In the midst of such pandemonium they may have rushed out threatening to live with
the other woman forever.
197.
... other women.
BB p.106,
To Wives
198.
... other words,
he talked my language.
BB p.180,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
199.
... other words,
to all of us -- this ...
12&12 p.74,
Step Seven
To those of us who have hitherto known only excitement, depression, or anxiety
-- in other words, to all of
us -- this newfound peace
is a priceless gift.
200.
... other words,
we treat sex as we ...
BB p.69,
How It Works
201.
... other would
have us all on a ...
BB p.69,
How It Works
One school would allow man no
flavor for his fare and the
other would have us all on a straight pepper diet.
202.
... other years
and, when it falls short, ...
BB p.123,
The Family Afterward
Today's life is measured against that of
other years and, when it falls short, the family may be unhappy.
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