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... over!
12&12 p.73,
Step Seven
When we have finally admitted without reservation that we are powerless over alcohol, we are apt to breathe a great sigh of relief, saying, "Well, thank God that's over!
2.
... over.
12&12 p.134,
Tradition Two
3.
... over.
12&12 p.136,
Tradition Two
"I was bowled over.
4.
... over.
BB p.9,
Bill's Story
5.
... over.
BB p.95,
Working With Others
6.
... over.
BB p.158,
A Vision For You
He had been thinking it over.
7.
... over 100,000
groups.
BB p.16,
Bill's Story (Note)
8.
... over 90
countries.
BB xxii,
Foreword to Third Edition
By March 1976, when this edition went to the printer, the total worldwide membership
of Alcoholics Anonymous was conservatively estimated at more than 1,000,000, with almost 28,000 groups meeting in over 90 countries.
9.
... over a
bout, an alcoholic, sometimes the ...
BB p.140,
To Employers
When drinking, or getting over a bout, an alcoholic, sometimes the model of honesty when normal, will do incredible things.
10.
... over a
highball.
BB p.110,
To Wives
11.
... over a
period of time.
BB p.567(569),
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience
Most of our experiences are what the psychologist William
James calls the "educational variety" because they develop slowly over a period of time.
12.
... over a
seemingly tragic experience out of ...
BB p.132,
The Family Afterward
Outsiders are sometimes shocked when we
burst into merriment
over a seemingly tragic experience out of the past.
13.
... over a
spree, a certain amount of ...
BB p.143,
To Employers
For most alcoholics who are drinking, or who are just getting over a spree, a certain amount of physical treatment is desirable,
even imperative.
14.
... over a
trifle.
BB p.126,
The Family Afterward
15.
... over a
very different snag.
12&12 p.79,
Step Eight
16.
... over again.
12&12 p.121,
Step Twelve
17.
... over again.
BB p.22,
There Is A Solution
18.
... over alcohol.
BB p.26,
There Is A Solution
19.
... over alcohol.
BB p.76,
Into Action
20.
... over alcohol,
and came to believe that ...
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.
21.
... over alcohol,
but we also perceived that ...
12&12 p.34,
Step Three
We saw that we were powerless over alcohol, but we also perceived that faith of
some kind, if only in A.A. itself, is possible to anyone.
22.
... over alcohol,
can be practiced with absolute ...
12&12 p.68,
Step Six
Only Step One, where we made the 100 percent admission we were
powerless over alcohol, can be practiced
with absolute perfection.
23.
... over alcohol
is his first step toward ...
12&12 p.73,
Step Seven
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.
24.
... over alcohol
-- that our lives had become ...
12&12 p.21,
Step One
25.
... over alcohol
-- that our lives had become ...
BB p.59,
How It Works
26.
... over alcohol,
we are apt to breathe ...
12&12 p.73,
Step Seven
When we have finally admitted without reservation that we are powerless over alcohol, we are apt to breathe a great sigh of relief, saying, "Well, thank God that's over!
27.
... over alcoholism.
BB p.114,
To Wives
28.
... over alcoholism
must remember he did much ...
BB p.127,
The Family Afterward
We know there are difficult wives and families, but the man who is
getting over alcoholism must remember he did much to make them so.
29.
... over-all public
relations and they guarantee the ...
BB p.565(567),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
They are authorized by the groups to handle our over-all public relations and they guarantee the integrity
of our principal newspaper, the A.A. Grapevine.
30.
... over an
outlay of twenty-five dollars' worth ...
12&12 p.177,
Tradition Ten
A corporation director who had just voted a company expenditure of a hundred thousand dollars would appear at an
A.A. business meeting and blow his top over an outlay of twenty-five dollars' worth of needed postage stamps.
31.
... over and
over, and unless this person ...
BB xxix(xxvii),
The Doctor's Opinion
This is repeated over and
over, and unless this person can experience an
entire psychic change there is very little hope of his recovery.
32.
Over and
over, he would say: "That's ...
BB p.157,
A Vision For You
33.
... over and
over will often enable us ...
12&12 p.103,
Step Eleven
Just saying it over and over will often enable us to clear a channel choked up with anger, fear, frustration, or misunderstanding, and permit us to return to the surest help of all -- our search for God's will, not our own, in the moment of stress.
34.
... over and
through him with the certainty ...
BB p.56,
We Agnostics
35.
... over, and
unless this person can experience ...
BB xxix(xxvii),
The Doctor's Opinion
This is repeated over and
over, and unless this person can experience an
entire psychic change there is very little hope of his recovery.
36.
... over another,
that nothing like a central ...
12&12 p.16,
Foreword
Why is it, they ask, that in A.A. no member can be set in personal authority over another, that nothing like a central government can
anywhere be seen?
37.
... over-anxious, for
that might spoil matters.
BB p.91,
Working With Others
38.
Over any
considerable period we get worse, ...
BB p.30,
More About Alcoholism
39.
... over beams
in the cellar, and in ...
BB p.176,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
If my wife was planning to
go out in the afternoon, I would get a large supply of liquor and smuggle it home and hide it in the coal bin, the clothes chute, over door jambs, over beams in the cellar, and in cracks in the cellar tile.
40.
... over by
the mortgage holder, my mother-in-law ...
BB p.5,
Bill's Story
The house was taken over by the mortgage holder, my mother-in-law died, my wife and father-in-law became ill.
41.
... over-concentration on
financial success.
BB p.127,
The Family Afterward
42.
... over door
jambs, over beams in the ...
BB p.176,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
If my wife was planning to
go out in the afternoon, I would get a large supply of liquor and smuggle it home and hide it in the coal bin, the clothes chute, over door jambs, over beams in the cellar, and in cracks in the cellar tile.
43.
... over drinking
for good.
BB p.112,
To Wives
44.
... over drinking
until we have done our ...
BB p.77,
Into Action
Simply we tell him that we
will never get over drinking until we have done our utmost to straighten out the past.
45.
... over drinking
will require a transformation of ...
BB p.143,
To Employers
46.
... over drinking,
you need not be alarmed.
BB p.120,
To Wives
47.
... over, eleven
new ones have been added, ...
BB xii,
Preface
Six of the stories in Part II have been carried over, eleven new ones have been added, and eleven taken out.
48.
... over factories
and managements, but my wife ...
BB p.2,
Bill's Story
I failed to persuade my
broker friends to send me out looking over factories and managements, but my wife
and I decided to go anyway.
49.
... over fifteen
minutes.
BB p.179,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
Wishing to be polite, though I felt very badly, I said, "Let's make the call," and extracted from my wife a promise that we would not stay
over fifteen minutes.
50.
... over from
the second edition; eight new ...
BB xii,
Preface
Nine of the stories in Part II ("They Stopped in Time") were carried over from the second edition; eight new stories were added.
51.
... over from
yesterday.
12&12 p.102,
Step Eleven
Possibly today will see a continuation of a serious and as yet unresolved problem left over from yesterday.
52.
... over, he
would say: "That's me. That's ...
BB p.157,
A Vision For You
53.
... over his
house to be certain no ...
BB p.22,
There Is A Solution
If he can afford it, he may have liquor concealed all over his house to be certain no one gets his entire supply away from him to throw down the wastepipe.
54.
... over his
life, he can readily get ...
12&12 p.50,
Step Four
Looking back over his life, he can readily get under way by consideration of questions such as these:
55.
... over his
reduced status, whose judgment, fortified ...
12&12 p.135,
Tradition Two
The elder statesman is
the one who sees the wisdom of the group's decision, who holds no resentment over his reduced status, whose judgment, fortified by
considerable experience, is sound, and
who is willing to sit quietly on the sidelines
patiently awaiting developments.
56.
... over hurt
pride could be rewon.
BB p.125,
The Family Afterward
Husbands and wives have
sometimes been obliged
to separate for a time until new perspective, new victory over hurt pride could be rewon.
57.
... over in
the other direction when, in ...
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.
58.
... over-indulged.
BB p.134,
The Family Afterward
59.
... over-indulged.
BB p.135,
The Family Afterward
60.
... over into
tomorrow, making, of course, any ...
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.
61.
... over it.
12&12 p.107,
Step Twelve
Step One showed us an amazing paradox: We found that we
were totally unable to be
rid of the alcohol obsession until we first admitted that we were
powerless over it.
62.
... over it,
and if you are interested, ...
BB p.147,
To Employers
63.
... over it,
you may already be asking ...
BB p.20,
There Is A Solution
If you are an alcoholic who wants to get over it, you may already be asking -- "What do I have to do?"
64.
... over long
distance from Virginia.
BB p.137,
To Employers
65.
Over many
protests, these things were accomplished.
12&12 p.161,
Tradition Seven
66.
... over membership,
leadership, and money?
BB xviii,
Foreword to Second Edition
67.
... over my
craving for liquor much during ...
BB p.181,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
Unlike most of our crowd, I
did not get over my craving for liquor much during the first two and one-half years of abstinence.
68.
... over night.
BB p.100,
Working With Others
69.
... over now.
BB p.8,
Bill's Story
But that was over now.
70.
... over one
hundred others appear to have ...
BB xxv(xxiii),
The Doctor's Opinion
71.
... over others;
that it reach all important ...
BB p.575,
Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form)
XII. The Conference shall observe the spirit of A.A. tradition, taking care that it never becomes the seat of perilous wealth or power; that sufficient operating funds and reserve be its prudent financial principle; that it place none of its members in a position of
unqualified authority over others; that it reach all important decisions by
discussion, vote, and,
whenever possible, by
substantial unanimity; that its actions never be personally punitive nor an incitement to public controversy; that
it never perform acts of government, and
that, like the Society it
serves, it will always remain democratic in thought
and action.
72.
... over our
careers, and it has revealed ...
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.
73.
... over people
and circumstances.
12&12 p.92,
Step Ten
When temporary good fortune came our way, we indulged ourselves in fantasies
of still greater victories over people and circumstances.
74.
... over property,
money, and authority.
12&12 p.191,
Tradition Seven (Long)
Experience has often warned us that nothing can
so surely destroy our spiritual heritage as futile disputes over property, money, and authority.
75.
... over property,
money, and authority.
BB p.564(566),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
Experience has often warned us that nothing can
so surely destroy our spiritual heritage as futile disputes over property, money, and authority.
76.
... over-remorseful and
make many resolutions, but never ...
BB xxx(xxviii),
The Doctor's Opinion
77.
... over such
matters.
BB p.28,
There Is A Solution
78.
... over that
chunk of money played havoc ...
12&12 p.161,
Tradition Seven
79.
... over that
evening in Washington.
BB p.41,
More About Alcoholism
80.
... over that
evening to meet a friend ...
BB p.179,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
About this time a lady called up my wife one Saturday afternoon saying she wanted me to come over that evening to meet a friend of hers who might help me.
81.
... over the
amount you take, you are ...
BB p.44,
We Agnostics
If, when you honestly want
to, you find you cannot quit
entirely, or if when drinking, you have little
control over the amount you take, you are probably alcoholic.
82.
... over the
barrel, all right -- but where ...
12&12 p.25,
Step Two
83.
... over the
Bridge of Reason toward the ...
BB p.53,
We Agnostics
84.
... over the
dam.
BB p.78,
Into Action
85.
... over the
first two or three high ...
12&12 p.47,
Step Four
86.
... over the
group.
12&12 p.149,
Tradition Four
87.
... over the
hypocrisy, bigotry, and crushing self-righteousness ...
12&12 p.30,
Step Two
We gloated over the hypocrisy, bigotry, and
crushing self-righteousness that clung to so many 'believers' even in their Sunday best.
88.
... over the
idea that the Higher Power ...
12&12 p.75,
Step Seven
We began to get over the idea that the Higher Power was a sort of bush-league pinch hitter, to be called upon only in an emergency.
89.
... over the
last ounce of food, our ...
BB p.128,
The Family Afterward
90.
... over the
list of business acquaintances and ...
BB p.76,
Into Action
As we look over the list of business acquaintances and friends we have hurt, we may
feel diffident about going to some of them on a spiritual basis.
91.
... over the
names these defects should be ...
12&12 p.48,
Step Four
To avoid falling into confusion over the names these defects should be
called, let's take a universally recognized list of major human failings -- the Seven Deadly Sins of pride, greed, lust, anger, gluttony, envy, and sloth.
92.
... over the
NBC network, said, in part: ...
BB p.570(572),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
Dr. W. W. Bauer, broadcasting under the
auspices of The American Medical Association in 1946, over the NBC network, said, in part: "Alcoholics Anonymous are no crusaders; not a temperance society.
93.
... over the
sins of the twentieth century; ...
BB p.61,
How It Works
He is like the retired business man who lolls in the Florida sunshine in the winter complaining of the sad state of the nation; the minister who sighs over the sins of the twentieth century; politicians and reformers who are sure all
would be Utopia if the rest
of the world would only behave; the outlaw safe cracker who thinks society has wronged him; and the alcoholic who has lost all
and is locked up.
94.
... over the
spectacular recovery of a brother ...
12&12 p.185,
Tradition Twelve
Enthusiastic over the
spectacular recovery of a brother alcoholic, we'd sometimes discuss those intimate and harrowing aspects of his
case meant for his sponsor's ear alone.
95.
... over the
spree, he begins to think ...
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.
96.
... over the
state of the nations, nor ...
BB p.132,
The Family Afterward
We try not to indulge in cynicism over the state of the nations, nor do we carry the world's troubles on our shoulders.
97.
... over the
threshold of that home into ...
BB p.160,
A Vision For You
Many a man, yet dazed from his hospital experience,
has stepped over the threshold of that home into
freedom.
98.
... over the
world.
12&12 p.38,
Step Three
99.
... over the
world.
12&12 p.168,
Tradition Eight
Eight tons of books and literature per month do not package and channel themselves all over the world.
100.
... over the
world, statements just like this ...
12&12 p.64,
Step Six
101.
Over the
years, every conceivable deviation from ...
12&12 p.146,
Tradition Four
102.
... over the
years in the Big Book ...
BB xii,
Preface
All changes made over the years in the Big Book (A.A. members' fond nickname for this volume) have had the same purpose: to represent the
current membership of
Alcoholics Anonymous more accurately, and thereby
to reach more alcoholics.
103.
... over the
years past.
BB p.69,
How It Works
104.
... over them.
BB p.51,
We Agnostics
105.
... over them.
BB p.126,
The Family Afterward
106.
... over them
may bear witness to those ...
BB p.63,
How It Works
Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy Power, Thy Love, and Thy Way of life.
107.
... over them,
too.
12&12 p.122,
Step Twelve
When, with God's help, we calmly accepted our lot, then we found we could live at peace with ourselves and show others who still suffered the same fears that they could get over them, too.
108.
... "Over There."
BB p.1,
Bill's Story
109.
... over there
on the hillside; there was ...
BB p.10,
Bill's Story
I could almost hear the sound of the preacher's voice as I sat, on still Sundays, way over there on the hillside; there was that proffered temperance
pledge I never signed; my grandfather's
good natured contempt of some church folk and their doings; his insistence that the spheres really had their music; but his denial of the
preacher's right to tell him how he must listen; his fearlessness as he spoke
of these things just before he died; these recollections welled
up from the past.
110.
... over to
a bookshelf and took up ...
12&12 p.143,
Tradition Three
111.
... over to
a Higher Power.
12&12 p.38,
Step Three
So it is by circumstance rather than by any virtue that we have been driven to A.A., have admitted defeat, have acquired the rudiments
of faith, and now want to make a decision to turn our will and our lives over to a Higher Power.
112.
... over to
a newfound Providence, then what ...
12&12 p.35,
Step Three
113.
... over to
get me.
BB p.179,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
114.
... over to
God as we understood Him.
BB p.60,
How It Works
Being convinced, we were
at Step Three, which is that
we decided to turn our will and our life over to God as we understood Him.
115.
... over to
the care of God as ...
12&12 p.34,
Step Three
116.
... over to
the care of God as ...
12&12 p.35,
Step Three
In fact, the effectiveness of the whole A.A. program will rest upon how well and earnestly we have
tried to come to "a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him."
117.
... over to
the care of God as ...
12&12 p.107,
Step Twelve
Consequently, in Step
Three we turned our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
118.
... over to
the care of God as ...
BB p.59,
How It Works
119.
... over to
the care of Something or ...
12&12 p.36,
Step Three
If I keep on turning my life and my will over to the care of Something or Somebody else, what will become of me?
120.
... over to
the care of whatever God ...
12&12 p.35,
Step Three
No matter how much one wishes to try, exactly how can he turn his own will and his own life over to the care of whatever God he thinks there is?
121.
... over to
the care, protection, and guidance ...
12&12 p.35,
Step Three
Isn't it true that in all matters touching upon alcohol, each of them has decided to turn his or her life over to the care, protection, and guidance of Alcoholics
Anonymous?
122.
... over to
the Higher Power?
12&12 p.39,
Step Three
So how, exactly, can the willing person continue to turn his will and his life over to the Higher Power?
123.
... over to
the nearest barroom and try ...
BB p.31,
More About Alcoholism
124.
... over to
the undertaker or the asylum.
BB p.7,
Bill's Story
125.
... over two
million.
BB p.162,
A Vision For You (Note)
There is A.A. activity in approximately 150 countries, with an estimated membership
of over two million.
126.
... over two
million have recovered through A.A.
12&12 p.15,
Foreword (Note)
127.
... over us.
12&12 p.105,
Step Eleven
128.
... over us
all.
12&12 p.125,
Step Twelve
For it is only by accepting and solving our problems that
we can begin to get right with ourselves and
with the world about us, and with Him who presides over us all.
129.
... over us
all.
12&12 p.192,
Tradition Twelve (Long)
This to the end that our great
blessings may never spoil us; that we shall forever live in thankful contemplation of Him who presides over us all.
130.
... over us
all.
BB p.14,
Bill's Story
131.
... over us
all.
BB p.566(568),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
This to the end that our great
blessings may never spoil us; that we shall forever live in thankful contemplation of Him who presides over us all.
132.
... over us:
first we were smitten by ...
12&12 p.22,
Step One
The tyrant alcohol wielded a double-edged sword over us: first we were smitten by an insane urge that condemned us to go on drinking, and then by an
allergy of the body that insured we would ultimately destroy ourselves in the process.
133.
... over what
other people are thinking and ...
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.
134.
... over when
he thinks of all the ...
12&12 p.39,
Step Three
His financial insecurity worries him
sick, and panic takes over when he thinks of all the bridges to
safety that alcohol burned behind him.
135.
... over which
we could not possibly have ...
BB p.118,
To Wives
At such moments we forget that alcoholism is
an illness over which we
could not possibly have had any power.
136.
... over will
often enable us to clear ...
12&12 p.103,
Step Eleven
Just saying it over and over will often enable us to clear a channel choked up with anger, fear, frustration, or misunderstanding, and permit us to return to the surest help of all -- our search for God's will, not our own, in the moment of stress.
137.
... over with
self-reliance and contentment.
BB xxxi(xxix),
The Doctor's Opinion
From a trembling, despairing, nervous wreck, had emerged a man brimming over with self-reliance and contentment.
138.
... over your
drinking.
BB p.148,
To Employers
139.
... over your
head.
BB p.108,
To Wives
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