From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... people?
12&12 p.51,
Step Four
2.
... people.
12&12 p.56,
Step Five
3.
... people.
12&12 p.56,
Step Five
It has been validated in every century, and it characterizes the lives
of all spiritually centered and truly religious people.
4.
... 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.
5.
... people.
12&12 p.80,
Step Eight
6.
... people.
12&12 p.80,
Step Eight
To define the word "harm" in a practical way, we might call it the result of instincts in collision, which cause physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual
damage to people.
7.
... people.
12&12 p.86,
Step Nine
8.
... people.
12&12 p.104,
Step Eleven
9.
... 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.
10.
... 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.
11.
... people.
12&12 p.120,
Step Twelve
We threw money about in every direction with the purpose of pleasing ourselves and impressing other people.
12.
... people.
12&12 p.142,
Tradition Three
13.
... people.
12&12 p.155,
Tradition Six
We seriously thought
of rewriting the laws of
the land, and having it declared that alcoholics are sick people.
14.
... people.
12&12 p.161,
Tradition Seven
15.
... 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.
16.
... people.
BB p.22,
There Is A Solution
17.
... 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.
18.
... 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.
19.
... people!
BB p.31,
More About Alcoholism
20.
... people.
BB p.70,
How It Works
We have begun to learn tolerance, patience and
good will toward all men, even our enemies, for we look on them as sick people.
21.
... people.
BB p.81,
Into Action
22.
... people.
BB p.94,
Working With Others
23.
... people.
BB p.100,
Working With Others
24.
... people.
BB p.109,
To Wives
25.
... people.
BB p.125,
The Family Afterward
26.
... people.
BB p.146,
To Employers
27.
... people?"
BB p.152,
A Vision For You
"Where am I to find these people?"
28.
... people.
BB xxx(xxviii),
The Doctor's Opinion
29.
... people about
us.
BB p.77,
Into Action
30.
... people acting
that way toward us.
12&12 p.115,
Step Twelve
31.
... people against
us.
12&12 p.47,
Step Four
32.
... 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.
33.
... people ahead
of his own.
BB p.94,
Working With Others
34.
... people all
along, except for our drinking, ...
12&12 p.45,
Step Four
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?
35.
... people, and
a tendency to take advantage ...
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.
36.
... 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.
37.
... people, and
constructive projects.
12&12 p.120,
Step Twelve
In partnership with others -- women and men -- they can devote themselves to any number of ideas, people, and constructive projects.
38.
... 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?
39.
... people and
of economic insecurity will leave ...
BB p.84,
Into Action
40.
... people, and
sets them apart as a ...
BB xxx(xxviii),
The Doctor's Opinion
This phenomenon, as we have suggested, may be the manifestation of an allergy which differentiates these people, and sets them apart as a distinct entity.
41.
... people and
situations in the world in ...
12&12 p.108,
Step Twelve
In Step Eight, we continued our housecleaning, for we saw
that we were not only in conflict with ourselves, but also with
people and situations in
the world in which we lived.
42.
... people, and
sometimes used their shortcomings as ...
BB p.50,
We Agnostics
Instead, we looked at the
human defects of these
people, and sometimes used their shortcomings
as a basis of wholesale
condemnation.
43.
... people and
the alcoholic.
BB p.149,
To Employers
As to them, his policy is undoubtedly sound, but he
did not distinguish between such people and the alcoholic.
44.
... people annoy
us, for it brings a ...
12&12 p.67,
Step Six
In a perverse way we can actually take satisfaction from the fact that many people annoy us, for it brings a comfortable feeling of superiority.
45.
... people approached
in this way will be ...
BB p.75,
Into Action
46.
... people are
able to say that the ...
BB p.51,
We Agnostics
When many hundreds of
people are able to say that the consciousness of the Presence of God is today the most important fact of their lives, they present a powerful reason why one should have faith.
47.
... people are
as fanatical about sex as ...
BB p.70,
How It Works
48.
... people are
fallible, and even the best ...
12&12 p.115,
Step Twelve
We had refused to learn
the very hard lesson that overdependence upon
people is unsuccessful
because all people are fallible, and even the best of them will sometimes let us down, especially when our
demands for attention
become unreasonable.
49.
... people are
getting from self-sufficiency.
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.
50.
... people are
involved.
BB p.79,
Into Action
51.
... people are
more to blame.
BB p.61,
How It Works
52.
... people are
right.
BB p.87,
Into Action
53.
... people are
thinking and you hate to ...
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.
54.
... people are
trying to pull us down.
BB p.145,
To Employers
55.
... people are
unable to stay sober at ...
12&12 p.56,
Step Five
Some people are unable to stay sober at all; others will relapse periodically
until they really clean house.
56.
... people as
we have already thought they ...
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.
57.
... people at
all?
12&12 p.79,
Step Eight
58.
... people awaken
to the presence of a ...
12&12 p.110,
Step Twelve
To watch the eyes of men and women open with wonder as they move from darkness into light, to see their lives quickly fill with new purpose and meaning, to see whole families reassembled,
to see the alcoholic outcast received back into his community in
full citizenship, and
above all to watch these
people awaken to the presence of a loving God in their lives -- these things are the substance
of what we receive as we carry A.A.'s message to the next alcoholic.
59.
... people became
confused.
12&12 p.156,
Tradition Six
A.A. groups had their fling at education, and
when they began to publicly whoop up the merits of this or that brand, people became confused.
60.
... people began
to cut us off, nearly ...
12&12 p.57,
Step Five
Even before our drinking got bad and people began to cut us off, nearly all of us suffered
the feeling that we didn't quite belong.
61.
... people, but
at least God will show ...
BB p.67,
How It Works
We cannot be helpful to all people, but at least God will show us how to take a kindly and tolerant view of each and every one.
62.
... people, but
does not see why.
BB p.110,
To Wives
63.
... people, but
to a wider and wider ...
BB xxii,
Foreword to Third Edition
Surveys of groups in the
United States and Canada indicate that A.A. is reaching out, not only to more and more people, but to a wider and wider range.
64.
... people call
us precocious.
12&12 p.29,
Step Two
65.
... people can
truthfully assert that they love ...
12&12 p.92,
Step Ten
66.
... people cannot
be seen -- we send them ...
BB p.83,
Into Action
67.
... people claim
the guidance of God when ...
12&12 p.60,
Step Five
How many times have we heard well-intentioned people claim the guidance of God when it was all too plain
that they were sorely mistaken.
68.
... people concerned
now overwhelmed us, especially when ...
12&12 p.79,
Step Eight
But the prospect of actually visiting or even writing the people concerned now overwhelmed us, especially when we remembered in what poor favor we stood with most of
them.
69.
... people concerning
drink.
BB p.1,
Bill's Story
70.
... people continued
to wrong us and we ...
BB p.66,
How It Works
71.
... people, could
keep us on an emotional ...
12&12 p.90,
Step Ten
Anger, that occasional
luxury of more balanced people, could keep us on an emotional jag indefinitely.
72.
... people could
live and work together with ...
12&12 p.18,
Foreword
But it was by no means sure that such great numbers of yet erratic people could live and work together with harmony and good effect.
73.
... people, deranged
men.
BB p.149,
To Employers
74.
... people discover
they have a basis upon ...
BB p.99,
Working With Others
75.
... people do
one another, anyway?
12&12 p.80,
Step Eight
76.
... 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.
77.
... people everywhere.
BB p.34,
More About Alcoholism
We, who are familiar with the symptoms, see large numbers of potential alcoholics
among young people everywhere.
78.
... people familiar
with endless drives for charitable ...
12&12 p.165,
Tradition Seven
To people familiar with endless drives for charitable funds, A.A. presented a strange and refreshing
spectacle.
79.
People feared
for my sanity.
BB p.7,
Bill's Story
80.
... people filled
with anger and fear, society ...
12&12 p.37,
Step Three
81.
... people for
too much attention, protection, and ...
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.
82.
... people from
us.
12&12 p.185,
Tradition Twelve
83.
... people from
whom he made his livelihood?
BB p.155,
A Vision For You
Why, he argued, should he lose the remainder of his business, only to bring still more suffering to his family by
foolishly admitting
his plight to people from
whom he made his livelihood?
84.
... people had
temporarily let us run their ...
12&12 p.115,
Step Twelve
Where people had temporarily let us run their lives as though they were still children, we had felt very happy and secure ourselves.
85.
... people had
were irresistible.
BB p.160,
A Vision For You
The very practical approach to his problems,
the absence of intolerance of any kind, the informality, the
genuine democracy, the
uncanny understanding which these people had were irresistible.
86.
... people have
been more victimized by resentments ...
12&12 p.90,
Step Ten
87.
... people have
done to us!
12&12 p.25,
Step Two
88.
... people have
ever loved personal triumphs more ...
12&12 p.91,
Step Ten
For no people have ever loved personal triumphs more than we have loved them; we
drank of success as of a
wine which could never fail to make us feel elated.
89.
... people have
said to us: "I can ...
BB p.20,
There Is A Solution
90.
People have
said we must not go ...
BB p.100,
Working With Others
People have said we must not go where liquor is served; we must not have it in our homes;
we must shun friends who drink; we must avoid moving pictures which show drinking scenes; we must not go into bars; our friends must hide their bottles if we go to their houses; we mustn't think or be reminded about alcohol at
all.
91.
... people have
to admit that their imaginary ...
12&12 p.67,
Step Six
And even while staying within conventional bounds, many people have to admit that their imaginary
sex excursions are apt to be all dressed up as dreams of romance.
92.
... people haven't
even a nodding acquaintance with ...
12&12 p.70,
Step Seven
93.
... people he
had hurt.
BB p.156,
A Vision For You
94.
... people he
has hurt, and in what ...
12&12 p.77,
Step Eight
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.
95.
... people I
had hurt or toward whom ...
BB p.13,
Bill's Story
96.
... people I
have known are wrong?"
BB p.56,
We Agnostics
But later, alone in his room, he asked himself this question: "Is
it possible that all the religious people I have known are wrong?"
97.
... people I
see?
BB p.152,
A Vision For You
But am I to be consigned to a life where I shall be stupid, boring and glum, like some righteous people I see?
98.
... people, if
they construct a list of ...
12&12 p.68,
Step Six
But even these people, if they
construct a list of still milder defects, will be obliged to admit that they prefer to hang on to some of
them.
99.
... people in
a sinking ship.
BB p.152,
A Vision For You
100.
... people in
authority; they result from his ...
12&12 p.174,
Tradition Nine
His drunkenness and dissolution are not penalties inflicted by
people in authority; they
result from his personal
disobedience to spiritual principles.
101.
... people in
for the same reason.
BB p.177,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
We could not be invited out
because I would surely get tight, and my wife dared not invite people in for the same reason.
102.
... people in
the world ever made a ...
12&12 p.71,
Step Seven
But we are sure that no class of people in the world ever made a worse mess of trying to live by this formula than alcoholics.
103.
... people in
this country would think we'd ...
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.
104.
... people, including
ourselves, are to some extent ...
12&12 p.92,
Step Ten
Finally, we begin to see that all people, including ourselves,
are to some extent emotionally ill as well as frequently wrong, and then we approach
true tolerance and see what real love for our fellows actually means.
105.
... people, institutions
or principles with whom we ...
BB p.64,
How It Works
106.
... people is
unsuccessful because all people are ...
12&12 p.115,
Step Twelve
We had refused to learn
the very hard lesson that overdependence upon
people is unsuccessful
because all people are fallible, and even the best of them will sometimes let us down, especially when our
demands for attention
become unreasonable.
107.
... people, it
has also touched the lives ...
BB xxiii,
Foreword to Fourth Edition
As the message of recovery has reached larger numbers of people, it has also touched the lives of a vastly greater variety of suffering alcoholics.
108.
... people know
we are sorry.
BB p.78,
Into Action
109.
... people like
him.
BB p.109,
To Wives
110.
... people like
to call it nowadays.
BB p.61,
How It Works
111.
People like
you are too heartbreaking.
BB p.43,
More About Alcoholism
112.
... people lost
money -- but some became very ...
BB p.2,
Bill's Story
113.
... people lost
money in stocks through ignorance ...
BB p.2,
Bill's Story
114.
... people may
be encouraged by this man's ...
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.
115.
... people may
face.
BB p.121,
To Wives (Note)
116.
... people might
break our anonymity wide open.
12&12 p.185,
Tradition Twelve
Between these lines, it is
easy to read our fear that large numbers of incoming people might break our anonymity wide open.
117.
... people might
bring their problems.
BB p.160,
A Vision For You
Aside from fellowship
and sociability, the prime object was to provide a time and place where new people might bring their problems.
118.
... people might
say than the trouble this ...
12&12 p.142,
Tradition Three
We are much more afraid of what people might say than the trouble this strange alcoholic might
bring.
119.
... people's money.
12&12 p.147,
Tradition Four
120.
... people, much
shocked by their son's refusal ...
BB p.158,
A Vision For You
They were deeply religious people, much shocked by their son's refusal to have anything to do with the church.
121.
... people must
have depth and weight.
BB xxviii(xxvi),
The Doctor's Opinion
122.
People needed
to be told what alcoholism ...
12&12 p.155,
Tradition Six
People needed to be told what alcoholism was,
so we'd educate the public, even rewrite school and medical textbooks.
123.
... people no
longer signify much to them.
BB p.161,
A Vision For You
Being wrecked in the same vessel, being restored and united under one God, with hearts and minds attuned to the welfare of
others, the things which
matter so much to some people no longer signify much to them.
124.
... people, nonalcoholics,
report that as a result ...
12&12 p.15,
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.
125.
... people notified
my wife, who sent my ...
BB p.179,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
126.
... people, of
course, in all times and ...
12&12 p.88,
Step Ten
More experienced people, of course, in all times and places have practiced unsparing self-survey and criticism.
127.
... people, of
course, may conclude that they ...
12&12 p.67,
Step Six
Some people, of course, may
conclude that they are indeed ready to have all such defects taken from them.
128.
People of
faith have a logical idea ...
BB p.49,
We Agnostics
129.
... people of
very high spiritual development almost ...
12&12 p.60,
Step Five
It is worth noting that
people of very high spiritual development almost always insist on checking with friends or
spiritual advisers
the guidance they feel
they have received from God.
130.
... people often
may impose on you.
BB p.141,
To Employers
131.
... people often
throw to the winds every ...
12&12 p.44,
Step Four
132.
... people: one
devoted secretary and myself.
12&12 p.162,
Tradition Seven
133.
... people or
new events throw us off ...
12&12 p.91,
Step Ten
The quick inventory is
aimed at our daily ups and downs, especially those where
people or new events throw us off balance and tempt us to make mistakes.
134.
... people, or
presently may be, has to ...
BB p.30,
More About Alcoholism
135.
... people ought
to give money to alcoholics ...
12&12 p.160,
Tradition Seven
When you add to this the habitual supposition
that people ought to give money to alcoholics trying to stay sober, it can be understood why we thought we deserved a pile of folding money.
136.
... people --
people who really need a moral ...
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.
137.
... people presented
us with spiritual approaches, how ...
BB p.47,
We Agnostics
When people presented us
with spiritual approaches, how frequently did we all say,
"I wish I had what that man
has.
138.
... people protect
and take care of us ...
12&12 p.115,
Step Twelve
When we had taken the opposite tack and had insisted, like infants ourselves, that
people protect and take care of us or that the world owed us a living, then the result had
been equally unfortunate.
139.
... people really
are, for that means blind ...
BB p.10,
Bill's Story
Few people really are, for that means blind faith in the strange proposition
that this universe originated in a cipher
and aimlessly rushes nowhere.
140.
... people really
dominated us.
BB p.66,
How It Works
141.
... people recover,
to see them help others, ...
BB p.89,
Working With Others
To watch people recover, to see them help others, to watch loneliness vanish, to see a fellowship grow up about you, to have a host of friends -- this is an experience you must not miss.
142.
... people said
God had reserved this privilege ...
BB p.51,
We Agnostics
143.
... people said
we were of the "inferior" ...
12&12 p.123,
Step Twelve
144.
... people say
about us?
12&12 p.140,
Tradition Three
145.
... people say,
"What do they mean, no ...
12&12 p.172,
Tradition Nine
146.
... people, sentiment,
things, money, and ourselves?
BB p.54,
We Agnostics
147.
... people's shortcomings
and viewpoints and a respect ...
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.
148.
... people still
alive.
12&12 p.164,
Tradition Seven
They pointed out that the Foundation board already knew of a total of half a million dollars set aside for A.A. in the wills of people still alive.
149.
... people such
as these take this Step?
12&12 p.23,
Step One
Since Step One requires an admission
that our lives have become
unmanageable, how could people such as these take this Step?
150.
... 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.
151.
... people suspected
of mixed motives.
12&12 p.178,
Tradition Ten
152.
... people tell
us so.
BB p.70,
How It Works
Some people tell us so.
153.
... people than
any erected by the unconvinced ...
12&12 p.28,
Step Two
The roadblocks of indifference, fancied
self-sufficiency, prejudice, and defiance
often prove more solid and formidable for these people
than any erected by the unconvinced agnostic
or even the militant atheist.
154.
... people that
he is a sick person, ...
BB p.115,
To Wives
When you have carefully explained to such people that he is a sick person, you will have created a new atmosphere.
155.
... people that
way.
BB p.67,
How It Works
156.
... people, the
alcoholic leads a double life.
BB p.73,
Into Action
157.
... people their
high confidence in our future.
12&12 p.184,
Tradition Twelve
It is A.A.'s proved willingness to make these
sacrifices that gives
people their high confidence in our future.
158.
... people there
would have to have some ...
12&12 p.173,
Tradition Nine
159.
... people, they
will sooner or later fail ...
12&12 p.53,
Step Four
If we lean too heavily on
people, they will sooner or later fail us, for they are human,
too, and cannot possibly meet our incessant demands.
160.
... people, though
he may differ with them ...
BB p.131,
The Family Afterward
Being possessed of a spiritual experience,
the alcoholic will find he has much in common with these people, though he may differ with
them on many matters.
161.
... people to
cover up our deep-lying inferiorities.
12&12 p.123,
Step Twelve
162.
... people to
maintain his own sobriety.
BB p.119,
To Wives
163.
... people to
please, no lectures to be ...
BB p.18,
There Is A Solution
That the man who is making
the approach has had the same difficulty, that he obviously knows what he is
talking about, that his whole deportment shouts at the new prospect that he is a man with
a real answer, that he has
no attitude of Holier Than Thou, nothing whatever except the sincere desire to be helpful; that
there are no fees to pay, no axes
to grind, no people to please, no lectures to be endured -- these are the conditions we have found
most effective.
164.
... people to
such quiet sincerity will often ...
12&12 p.84,
Step Nine
165.
... people, to
tell them what A.A. is, ...
12&12 p.84,
Step Nine
166.
... people to
whom we have given offense.
12&12 p.81,
Step Eight
Having carefully surveyed this whole area of human relations, and having decided exactly what personality traits in us
injured and disturbed
others, we can now commence to ransack memory for the people to whom
we have given offense.
167.
... people tolerated
us, the more we withdrew ...
BB p.151,
A Vision For You
168.
... people, too,
were professionals.
12&12 p.167,
Tradition Eight
In all these instances, and more, it was claimed that A.A. knowledge and experience were being sold for money, hence these people, too, were professionals.
169.
... people try
to live by self-propulsion.
BB p.60,
How It Works
170.
... people turned
away from us, bored or ...
12&12 p.92,
Step Ten
171.
... people understand,
meets our simplest daily needs, ...
12&12 p.36,
Step Three
Silently and surely, electricity, that strange energy so few people understand, meets our simplest daily needs, and our most desperate ones, too.
172.
... people --
was not a basic solution of ...
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?
173.
... people, we
can promptly admit it -- to ...
12&12 p.93,
Step Ten
Whenever we fail any of these people, we can promptly admit it -- to ourselves always, and to
them also, when the admission would be helpful.
174.
... people, we
cannot make up others' minds ...
BB p.132,
The Family Afterward
175.
... people, we
could feel superior to all ...
12&12 p.30,
Step Two
176.
... people we
had harmed.
12&12 p.79,
Step Eight
These were some of the ways in which fear conspired with pride to hinder our making a list of all the people we had harmed.
177.
... people we
had harmed and became willing ...
12&12 p.108,
Step Twelve
We had to begin to make our
peace, and so we listed the
people we had harmed and became willing to set things right.
178.
... people we
had loved most to push ...
12&12 p.115,
Step Twelve
179.
... people, we
have found that we can ...
12&12 p.114,
Step Twelve
180.
... people we
have harmed, have reflected carefully ...
12&12 p.83,
Step Nine
After we have made the list of people we have harmed, have reflected carefully upon each instance, and have tried to possess ourselves of the right attitude in which to proceed, we will see that the making of direct amends divides those we should approach into several classes.
181.
... people we
have harmed, most of us ...
12&12 p.78,
Step Eight
182.
... people we
have hurt by our conduct, ...
BB p.70,
How It Works
We have listed the people we
have hurt by our conduct,
and are willing to straighten out the past if we can.
183.
... people we
know, or we depend upon ...
12&12 p.53,
Step Four
184.
... people we
need not, and probably should ...
BB p.76,
Into Action
To some people we need not,
and probably should not emphasize the spiritual
feature on our first approach.
185.
... people we
secure their consent.
BB p.80,
Into Action
186.
... people we
stand on our feet; we ...
BB p.83,
Into Action
187.
... people we
termed 'pure alcoholics.'
12&12 p.140,
Tradition Three
"We were resolved to admit nobody to A.A. but that hypothetical
class of people we termed 'pure alcoholics.'
188.
... people, we
would have to put our ...
12&12 p.116,
Step Twelve
It became clear that if we
ever were to feel emotionally secure among grown-up people, we would have to put our lives on a give-and-take basis; we would have to develop the sense of being in partnership or
brotherhood with all those around us.
189.
... people went
to the bookstores to get ...
BB xviii,
Foreword to Second Edition
News of this got on the world wires; inquiries poured in again and many people went to the bookstores to get the book "Alcoholics Anonymous."
190.
... people were
attracted to us as never ...
12&12 p.116,
Step Twelve
191.
... people were
concerned, we had to drop ...
12&12 p.47,
Step Four
192.
... people were
hurt, and how badly?
12&12 p.50,
Step Four
193.
... people were
often quite wrong.
BB p.66,
How It Works
194.
... people were
right after all.
BB p.11,
Bill's Story
195.
... people were
stalemated in the search for ...
12&12 p.130,
Tradition One
If strong people were stalemated in the search
for peace and harmony,
what was to become of our erratic band of alcoholics?
196.
... people were
to become our principal teachers ...
12&12 p.141,
Tradition Three
Could we then foresee that troublesome people were to
become our principal teachers of patience and
tolerance?
197.
... people were
to make astonishing recoveries and ...
12&12 p.140,
Tradition Three
How could we know that thousands of these sometimes frightening
people were to make astonishing recoveries and become our
greatest workers and intimate friends?
198.
... people when
they have a right to ...
BB p.115,
To Wives
Your desire to protect
him should not cause you to lie to people when they have a right to know where he is and
what he is doing.
199.
... people wherever
possible, except when to do ...
12&12 p.83,
Step Nine
"Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do
so would injure them or others."
200.
... people wherever
possible, except when to do ...
BB p.59,
How It Works
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do
so would injure them or others.
201.
... people who
are driven by pride of ...
12&12 p.46,
Step Four
This is because people who
are driven by pride of self unconsciously blind themselves to their
liabilities.
202.
... people who
attracted me because of their ...
BB p.178,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
About the time of the beer experiment I was thrown
in with a crowd of people who
attracted me because
of their seeming poise, health, and happiness.
203.
... people who
cannot or will not completely ...
BB p.58,
How It Works
Those who do not recover
are people who cannot or will
not completely give themselves to this simple
program, usually men and women who are constitutionally incapable of being honest with themselves.
204.
... people who
do not understand alcoholics.
BB p.74,
Into Action
205.
... people who
financially support them.
12&12 p.190,
Tradition Six (Long)
206.
... people who
financially support them.
BB p.564(566),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
207.
... people who
had money thought otherwise.
12&12 p.160,
Tradition Seven
208.
... people who
happen to be in the ...
12&12 p.44,
Step Four
If the pursuit of wealth
tramples upon people who happen to be in the way, then anger, jealousy, and revenge are
likely to be aroused.
209.
... people who
have been infected and sometimes ...
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?
210.
... people who
have found a way up ...
12&12 p.125,
Step Twelve
We have been talking about problems because we are problem people who have found a way up and out, and who wish to share our knowledge of that way with
all who can use it.
211.
... people who
have had them.
12&12 p.106,
Step Twelve
212.
... 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.
213.
... people who
have solved their alcohol problem.
12&12 p.27,
Step Two
214.
... people who
have, to some extent or ...
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.
215.
... people who
knew the A.A. pitch.
12&12 p.168,
Tradition Eight
At the Foundation(*) and intergroup offices, we
couldn't employ nonalcoholics as secretaries; we had to have people who knew the A.A. pitch.
216.
... people who
know.
12&12 p.168,
Tradition Eight
Sacks of letters on every conceivable A.A. problem ranging from a lonely-heart Eskimo to the growing pains of thousands of groups must be answered by people who know.
217.
... people who
know all about our drinking, ...
12&12 p.84,
Step Nine
We shall at once think of a few people who know all about our drinking, and who have been most affected by it.
218.
... people who
lecture us.
BB p.121,
To Wives
219.
... people who,
like us, are suffering from ...
12&12 p.92,
Step Ten
It will become more and more evident as we go forward that it is pointless to become angry, or to get hurt by people who, like us, are suffering from
the pains of growing up.
220.
... people who
loved us.
12&12 p.116,
Step Twelve
For alcoholism had been a lonely business, even though we had been surrounded by people who loved us.
221.
... people who
normally would not mix.
BB p.17,
There Is A Solution
222.
... people who
normally would not mix" (page ...
BB xxiii,
Foreword to Fourth Edition
When the phrase "We are people who normally would not mix" (page 17
of this book) was written
in 1939, it referred to a
Fellowship composed
largely of men (and a few women) with quite similar social, ethnic, and economic backgrounds.
223.
... people who
once believed as I do.
12&12 p.26,
Step Two
224.
... people who
proved that man could never ...
BB p.55,
We Agnostics
225.
... people who
really need a moral inventory.
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.
226.
... people who
rose above their problems.
BB p.55,
We Agnostics
Yet we had been seeing another kind of flight, a spiritual liberation from this world, people who rose above their problems.
227.
... people who
said that a problem had ...
BB p.42,
More About Alcoholism
228.
... people who
seemed to understand, the sense ...
12&12 p.57,
Step Five
When we reached A.A., and for
the first time in our lives stood among people who seemed to understand, the
sense of belonging was
tremendously exciting.
229.
... people, who
showed definite signs of alcoholism, ...
BB p.32,
More About Alcoholism
We have heard of a few instances where people, who
showed definite signs of alcoholism, were
able to stop for a long period because of an overpowering desire to
do so.
230.
People who
symbolize causes and ideas fill ...
12&12 p.181,
Tradition Eleven
231.
... people who,
though drinking foolishly and heavily ...
BB p.39,
More About Alcoholism
That may be true of certain
nonalcoholic people
who, though drinking foolishly and heavily at
the present time, are able to stop or moderate, because their brains and bodies have not
been damaged as ours were.
232.
... people who
understand us; we don't have ...
12&12 p.117,
Step Twelve
Through it we begin to learn right relations with people who understand us; we don't have to be alone any more.
233.
... people who
were scarcely more than potential ...
12&12 p.23,
Step One
As this trend grew, they were
joined by young people who were scarcely more than potential alcoholics.
234.
... people who
wronged us were perhaps spiritually ...
BB p.66,
How It Works
235.
... people whose
reactions are very different from ...
BB p.20,
There Is A Solution
236.
... people whose
woes we have increased.
12&12 p.78,
Step Eight
237.
... people will
ask you to drink.
BB p.102,
Working With Others
238.
... people will
be helped by such contacts.
BB p.131,
The Family Afterward
239.
... people will
sincerely try to practice the ...
12&12 p.24,
Step One
The answer is that few people will sincerely try to practice the A.A. program unless they have hit bottom.
240.
... people would
do as he wished, the ...
BB p.61,
How It Works
If his arrangements would only stay put, if only people would do as he wished, the
show would be great.
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