From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... own.
12&12 p.56,
Step Five
2.
... own.
12&12 p.61,
Step Five
3.
... own.
12&12 p.78,
Step Eight
Triumphantly we seize
upon his misbehavior as
the perfect excuse for minimizing or forgetting our own.
4.
... own.
12&12 p.104,
Step Eleven
5.
... own.
12&12 p.155,
Tradition Six
6.
... own.
12&12 p.159,
Tradition Six
7.
... own.
BB p.78,
Into Action
We stick to our own.
8.
... own.
BB p.92,
Working With Others
9.
... own.
BB p.94,
Working With Others
10.
... own.
BB p.160,
A Vision For You
Impressed by those who
visited him at the hospital, he capitulated entirely
when, later, in an upper room of this house, he heard the story of some man whose experience closely tallied with his own.
11.
... own a
little company.
BB p.149,
To Employers
12.
... own achievements.
12&12 p.70,
Step Seven
Much of the everyday talk we hear, and a great deal of what we read, highlights man's pride in his own achievements.
13.
... own acquaintances.
BB p.112,
To Wives
14.
... own actions
are partly responsible.
BB p.83,
Into Action
15.
... own affairs,
each A.A. group should be ...
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.
16.
... own affairs,
each A.A. group should be ...
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.
17.
... own, became
accustomed to wearing the family ...
BB p.131,
The Family Afterward
18.
... own besetting
evil.
12&12 p.30,
Step Two
Self-righteousness,
the very thing that we had contemptuously condemned in others, was
our own besetting evil.
19.
... own book.
BB xvii,
Foreword to Second Edition
The fledgling society,
which had been nameless, now began to be called Alcoholics Anonymous, from the title
of its own book.
20.
... own case.
12&12 p.26,
Step Two
21.
... own character
defects have not been so ...
12&12 p.53,
Step Four
Some will object to many of the questions posed, because they think their own character defects have
not been so glaring.
22.
... own character
may still be gravely defective, ...
12&12 p.109,
Step Twelve
His own character may still be gravely defective, but he somehow
knows that God has enabled him to make a mighty beginning, and he
senses that he stands at
the edge of new mysteries, joys, and experiences of which he had never even dreamed.
23.
... own circumstances,
he needs to develop the ...
12&12 p.40,
Step Three
All by himself, and in the light of his own circumstances, he needs
to develop the quality
of willingness.
24.
... own circumstances,
ought to decide for themselves.
BB p.103,
Working With Others
25.
... own club
worse than the distant alcoholics ...
12&12 p.163,
Tradition Seven
I who had boasted my generosity that morning
was treating my own club worse than the distant alcoholics who
had forgotten to send the
Foundation their dollars.
26.
... own community.
BB p.152,
A Vision For You
27.
... own conception,
however inadequate, was sufficient to ...
BB p.46,
We Agnostics
Our own conception,
however inadequate, was sufficient to make the approach and to effect a contact with Him.
28.
... own conception,
however limited it was.
BB p.47,
We Agnostics
29.
... own conception
of a Power greater than ...
BB p.568(570),
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience
With few exceptions our
members find that they have
tapped an unsuspected
inner resource which they
presently identify
with their own conception of a Power greater than themselves.
30.
... own conception
of God?"
BB p.12,
Bill's Story
31.
... own conception
of God.
BB p.47,
We Agnostics
32.
... own conclusion.
BB p.92,
Working With Others
33.
... own conduct
and so adjust myself serenely ...
12&12 p.52,
Step Four
These are the sort of fundamental inquiries
that can disclose the source of my discomfort
and indicate whether I
may be able to alter my own conduct and so adjust myself serenely to self-discipline.
34.
... own conduct
over the years past.
BB p.69,
How It Works
35.
... 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.
36.
... own conscience.
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.
37.
... own conscience.
BB p.132,
The Family Afterward
38.
... 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.
39.
... own conscience
as a guide to action.
12&12 p.147,
Tradition Four
This meant, of course, that
we had been given the courage to declare each A.A. group an individual entity, strictly reliant on its own conscience as a guide to action.
40.
... own contributions.
Grapevine,
Preamble
41.
... own convictions
are.
BB p.93,
Working With Others
42.
... own convictions
have not worked and why ...
BB p.93,
Working With Others
But he will be curious to
learn why his own convictions have not worked and why yours seem to work so well.
43.
... own Creator.
12&12 p.63,
Step Six
He goes on to explain that
any person capable of enough willingness and honesty
to try repeatedly Step Six on all his faults -- without any reservations whatever -- has indeed come a long way spiritually, and is therefore entitled to be
called a man who is sincerely trying to grow in the image and likeness of his own Creator.
44.
... own Creator.
12&12 p.98,
Step Eleven
And we will be comforted
and assured that our own destiny in that realm will be secure for so long as we try, however falteringly, to find and
do the will of our own Creator.
45.
... own death
warrant.
12&12 p.174,
Tradition Nine
Unless each A.A. member follows to the best of his ability our suggested Twelve Steps to recovery, he almost certainly signs his own death warrant.
46.
... own deepest
instinct.
12&12 p.64,
Step Six
47.
... own defects.
12&12 p.46,
Step Four
As soon as he begins to be
more objective, the newcomer can fearlessly, rather than
fearfully, look at his
own defects.
48.
... own defects
and admit them.
BB p.99,
Working With Others
49.
... own defects,
he will ask, "Just how ...
12&12 p.50,
Step Four
50.
... own defects,
past and present.
12&12 p.46,
Step Four
This the sponsor promptly proves by talking freely and easily, and without exhibitionism, about his own defects, past and present.
51.
... own defects,
there will be little need ...
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.
52.
... own desires,
was obliged to conform to ...
12&12 p.136,
Tradition Two
One of the first members of A.A., entirely contrary to his
own desires, was obliged to conform to group opinion.
53.
... own destiny.
12&12 p.71,
Step Seven
54.
... own destiny
in that realm will be ...
12&12 p.98,
Step Eleven
And we will be comforted
and assured that our own destiny in that realm will be secure for so long as we try, however falteringly, to find and
do the will of our own Creator.
55.
... own destruction?
12&12 p.117,
Step Twelve
So our question will be
this: How, by ignorance, compulsion, and self-will, do we misuse this gift for our own destruction?
56.
... own diagnosis,
and deciding his situation hopeless, ...
BB xxxi(xxix),
The Doctor's Opinion
The patient had made his
own diagnosis, and deciding his situation
hopeless, had hidden in
a deserted barn determined to die.
57.
... own difficulties.
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.
58.
... own doctor.
BB p.143,
To Employers
59.
... own doctor
is willing to tell him ...
BB p.92,
Working With Others
60.
... own domestic
problems, tell the newcomer's family ...
BB p.100,
Working With Others
If you have been successful in solving your own domestic problems, tell the newcomer's family how that was accomplished.
61.
... own drinking
experience you can be uniquely ...
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.
62.
... own drinking
histories, we could show that ...
12&12 p.23,
Step One
By going back in our own drinking histories, we could show
that years before we realized it we were out of control, that our drinking
even then was no mere habit, that it was indeed the beginning of a
fatal progression.
63.
... own drinking,
or lack of it.
BB p.139,
To Employers
64.
... own experience
by the dozen.
BB p.42,
More About Alcoholism
65.
... own experience
does provide certain answers that ...
12&12 p.117,
Step Twelve
We A.A.'s cannot pretend to
offer full answers to age-old perplexities, but our
own experience does provide certain answers that work for us.
66.
... own experience,
how the queer mental condition ...
BB p.92,
Working With Others
Show him, from your own experience, how the queer
mental condition surrounding that first drink prevents normal functioning of
the will power.
67.
... own experience,
of course.
12&12 p.27,
Step Two
68.
... own family,
but we cannot disclose anything ...
BB p.74,
Into Action
It may be one of our own family, but we cannot disclose anything to our
wives or our parents which
will hurt them and make them unhappy.
69.
... own fault,
so feuds of years' standing ...
BB p.78,
Into Action
Sometimes the man we are
calling upon admits his own fault, so feuds of years' standing melt away in an hour.
70.
... own firms.
12&12 p.180,
Tradition Eleven
Employers learn that great corporations have
set their approval upon us, and wish to discover what can be done
about alcoholism in their own firms.
71.
... own good.
12&12 p.29,
Step Two
72.
... own group,
or A.A. as a whole, ...
12&12 p.107,
Step Twelve
For the time being, we who
were atheist or agnostic discovered
that our own group, or A.A. as a whole, would suffice as a higher power.
73.
... own guidance,
as a result of their ...
BB p.569(571),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
Dr. G. Kirby Collier, psychiatrist:
"I have felt that A.A. is a group unto themselves and their best
results can be had under
their own guidance, as a
result of their philosophy.
74.
... own house
is in order.
BB p.164,
A Vision For You
75.
... own ideas
about the alcohol problem in ...
12&12 p.35,
Step Three
Already a willingness has been achieved to cast out one's own will and one's own ideas about the alcohol problem in favor of those suggested by A.A.
76.
... own illness
that we have in our ...
12&12 p.112,
Step Twelve
Can we have the same kind of
confidence and faith in
these people who have been infected and sometimes
crippled by our own illness that we have in our sponsors?
77.
... own image
in the mirror be too ...
12&12 p.37,
Step Three
Should his own image in the
mirror be too awful to contemplate (and it usually is), he might first
take a look at the results normal people are getting from self-sufficiency.
78.
... own, in
the moment of stress.
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.
79.
... own inadequacy.
BB xxix(xxvii),
The Doctor's Opinion
Faced with this problem,
if a doctor is honest with
himself, he must sometimes feel his own inadequacy.
80.
... own individual
strength and intelligence, for just ...
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
For just so long as we were convinced that we could live
exclusively by our own
individual strength
and intelligence, for just that long was a working faith in a Higher Power impossible.
81.
... own intelligence
and labor, men will have ...
12&12 p.71,
Step Seven
82.
... own kind.
12&12 p.144,
Tradition Three
83.
... own language
and from his own point ...
BB p.29,
There Is A Solution
Each individual, in the
personal stories, describes in his own language and from his own point of view the way he established his relationship with God.
84.
... own life
over to the care of ...
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?
85.
... own lives.
BB p.60,
How It Works
86.
... own lives
and sanity.
12&12 p.151,
Tradition Five
For us, if we neglect those who are still sick, there is unremitting
danger to our own lives and sanity.
87.
... own lives,
God helping a little now ...
12&12 p.75,
Step Seven
The notion that we would still live our own lives, God helping a little now and then, began to evaporate.
88.
... own making.
12&12 p.116,
Step Twelve
These were the new attitudes that finally brought many of us an inner strength and peace that could not be deeply
shaken by the shortcomings of others
or by any calamity not of
our own making.
89.
... own making.
BB p.62,
How It Works
90.
... own making.
BB p.103,
Working With Others
91.
... own members.
12&12 p.190,
Tradition Seven (Long)
Seven -- The A.A. groups themselves ought to be fully supported by the voluntary contributions of their own members.
92.
... own members.
BB p.564(566),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
7. The A.A. groups themselves ought to be fully supported by the voluntary contributions of their own members.
93.
... own members
did.
12&12 p.182,
Tradition Eleven
There was actually a time
when the press of America
thought the anonymity
of A.A. was better for us than
some of our own members
did.
94.
... own mind
was about made up.
12&12 p.137,
Tradition Two
95.
... own misery.
BB p.133,
The Family Afterward
96.
... own misfortunes
and understood his.
BB p.160,
A Vision For You
97.
... own mistakes.
BB p.67,
How It Works
98.
... own mistakes
fed my gnawing anxieties.
12&12 p.52,
Step Four
99.
... own moral
fiber, can claim "soundness of ...
12&12 p.33,
Step Two
Yet no alcoholic, soberly analyzing his destructive behavior,
whether the destruction fell on the dining-room furniture or his own moral fiber, can claim "soundness of mind" for himself.
100.
... own, my
heart filled with pity.
12&12 p.162,
Tradition Seven
101.
... own near-fatal
encounter with the juggernaut of ...
12&12 p.37,
Step Three
Each of us has had his own near-fatal encounter with the juggernaut of self-will, and has suffered enough under its weight to be willing to look for something better.
102.
... own parents.
BB p.115,
To Wives
103.
... own particular
case, that nothing my company ...
BB p.141,
To Employers
I know, in my own particular case, that nothing my company could
have done would have stopped me for, so long as I
was able to hold my position, I could not possibly realize how serious my situation was.
104.
... own peace
of mind at the expense ...
12&12 p.84,
Step Nine
While we may be quite willing to reveal the very worst, we must be sure to remember that we cannot buy
our own peace of mind at the expense of others.
105.
... own personality
defects have thus demolished their ...
12&12 p.52,
Step Four
But all alcoholics who have drunk themselves out of jobs, family, and friends will need to cross-examine themselves ruthlessly
to determine how their own personality defects have thus demolished their security.
106.
... own personality
flaws and for a discussion ...
12&12 p.56,
Step Five
Psychiatrists and psychologists point out the deep need every human being has for practical insight and knowledge of his own personality flaws and for
a discussion of them with an understanding and trustworthy person.
107.
... own point
of view the way he ...
BB p.29,
There Is A Solution
Each individual, in the
personal stories, describes in his own language and from his own point of view the way he established his relationship with God.
108.
... own positions
by trying to help serious ...
BB p.147,
To Employers
They often jeopardize
their own positions by trying to help serious drinkers who
should have been fired long
ago, or else given an opportunity to
get well.
109.
... own power.
BB p.62,
How It Works
110.
... own purposes.
12&12 p.178,
Tradition Ten
Instead, the Washingtonians permitted politicians
and reformers, both alcoholic and nonalcoholic, to use the
society for their own purposes.
111.
... own purposes,
the damage might be irreparable.
12&12 p.187,
Tradition Twelve
If even one publicly got drunk, or was lured into using A.A.'s name for his own purposes, the damage might
be irreparable.
112.
... own rationalization
and wishful thinking.
12&12 p.60,
Step Five
The second difficulty
is this: what comes to us alone may be garbled by our
own rationalization
and wishful thinking.
113.
... own reactions,
it is possible for you ...
BB p.139,
To Employers
Drinking occasionally, and understanding your own
reactions, it is possible for you to become
quite sure of many things which, so far as the alcoholic is concerned, are not always
so.
114.
... own reasoning?
BB p.54,
We Agnostics
115.
... own recovery.
BB p.94,
Working With Others
It is important for him to realize that your attempt
to pass this on to him plays
a vital part in your own recovery.
116.
... own recovery
proves that!
BB p.153,
A Vision For You
117.
... own recovery,
try to help others and ...
BB p.90,
Working With Others
You should be described to him as one of a fellowship who, as
part of their own recovery, try to help others and who will be glad to talk to him if he cares to see you.
118.
... own religion
that would aid his recovery.
12&12 p.153,
Tradition Five
Finally, he saw that I
wasn't attempting to change his religious views, that I wanted him to find the grace in his own religion that would aid his recovery.
119.
... own resources.
12&12 p.22,
Step One
120.
... own resources,
never grows up.
12&12 p.43,
Step Four
121.
... own reward,
whether his brother has yet ...
12&12 p.109,
Step Twelve
And then he discovers that by the divine paradox of this kind of giving he has found his own reward, whether his brother has yet received anything or not.
122.
... own right.
12&12 p.49,
Step Four
123.
... own righteousness.
12&12 p.67,
Step Six
124.
... own roof.
BB p.127,
The Family Afterward
He is not likely to get far in any direction if he fails to show unselfishness and
love under his own roof.
125.
... own satisfaction,
whether they are one of ...
BB p.34,
More About Alcoholism
How then shall we help our readers determine, to
their own satisfaction, whether
they are one of us?
126.
... own selfish
ends.
BB p.87,
Into Action
127.
... own shortcomings.
12&12 p.30,
Step Two
128.
... own sick
brother?
12&12 p.141,
Tradition Three
129.
... own skin
at another person's expense.
BB p.74,
Into Action
130.
... own sobriety.
BB p.119,
To Wives
131.
... own sobriety
and a mighty happy life.'
12&12 p.152,
Tradition Five
132.
... own specialty.
12&12 p.150,
Tradition Five
133.
... own specification.
12&12 p.176,
Tradition Ten
Others fell apart because of sheer self-righteousness while trying to enforce upon the rest of mankind some millennium
of their own specification.
134.
... own spiritual
demonstration.
BB p.98,
Working With Others
135.
... own steam,
but that in our groups ...
12&12 p.152,
Tradition Five
I insisted that few drunks could ever get well on their own steam, but that in our groups we could do together
what we could not do separately.
136.
... own stories.
BB p.125,
The Family Afterward
137.
... own story.
12&12 p.152,
Tradition Five
138.
... own strong
personal attachment to him, the ...
BB p.137,
To Employers
Because of the employee's special ability, or of his own strong personal attachment to him, the employer has sometimes
kept such a man at work long beyond a reasonable period.
139.
... own, then
such a choice will be ...
12&12 p.61,
Step Five
If you have developed a high confidence in him, and
his temperament and problems are close to your
own, then such a choice will be good.
140.
... own times,
we have seen millions die ...
12&12 p.176,
Tradition Ten
In our own times, we have seen millions die in political and economic wars often spurred by religious and racial difference.
141.
... own voluntary
contributions.
BB xix,
Foreword to Second Edition
142.
... own way.
12&12 p.101,
Step Eleven
Aided by such instruction and example
as we can find, it is essentially an individual adventure,
something which each one of us works out in his own way.
143.
... own way.
12&12 p.160,
Tradition Seven
144.
... own way.
BB p.60,
How It Works
Each person is like an actor who wants to run the whole show; is forever trying to arrange the lights, the ballet, the scenery and the
rest of the players in his
own way.
145.
... own way,
had constantly thrown us into ...
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.
146.
... own way,
the worse matters got.
BB p.66,
How It Works
147.
... own way
they will let him know ...
BB p.134,
The Family Afterward
148.
... own wayward
mate might be hospitalized and ...
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.
149.
... own will.
12&12 p.40,
Step Three
150.
... own will
and his own life over ...
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?
151.
... own will
and one's own ideas about ...
12&12 p.35,
Step Three
Already a willingness has been achieved to cast out one's own will and one's own ideas about the alcohol problem in favor of those suggested by A.A.
152.
... own will
into all sorts of situations ...
12&12 p.104,
Step Eleven
With the best of intentions, he tends to force his own will into all sorts of situations and problems
with the comfortable assurance that he is acting under God's specific direction.
153.
... own will
power.
BB p.33,
More About Alcoholism
Young people may be encouraged by this man's experience to think that
they can stop, as he did, on their own will power.
154.
... own willful
desires, they revolt, and resist ...
12&12 p.53,
Step Four
When we habitually try to
manipulate others to
our own willful desires, they revolt, and resist us heavily.
155.
... own willingness
to confide and your full ...
12&12 p.61,
Step Five
The real tests of the situation are your own willingness to confide
and your full confidence
in the one with whom you share
your first accurate self-survey.
156.
... own willpower
just wouldn't work on alcohol.
12&12 p.63,
Step Six
157.
... own wishful
thinking and the human tendency ...
12&12 p.104,
Step Eleven
He may have forgotten the possibility that his own
wishful thinking and
the human tendency to rationalize have distorted his so-called guidance.
158.
... own work,
has told us of his ...
BB p.162,
A Vision For You
We are greatly indebted
to the doctor in attendance there, for he, although it might prejudice his own work, has told us of his belief in ours.
159.
... own wrong-doing
as a means of destroying ...
BB p.80,
Into Action
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