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1.
... personal.
BB xxii,
Foreword to Third Edition
In
spite of the
great increase in the
size and the
span of this
Fellowship,
at
its core it
remains simple and
personal.
2.
... personal adventures
before and after make clear ...
BB p.60,
How It Works
Our
description of the
alcoholic, the
chapter to
the
agnostic, and our
personal adventures before and
after make
clear three pertinent ideas:
3.
... personal affair
which each one decides for ...
BB p.28,
There Is A Solution
This should be an
entirely personal affair which each one
decides for himself in the
light of
past associations, or his
present choice.
4.
... personal ambition
has no place in A.A.
12&12 p.183,
Tradition Eleven
This
Tradition is a
constant and
practical
reminder that
personal ambition has no place in
A.A.
5.
... personal anonymity.
12&12 p.192,
Tradition Eleven (Long)
6.
... personal anonymity.
BB p.565(567),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
7.
... personal anonymity
as A.A.'s greatest protection.
12&12 p.183,
Tradition Eleven
8.
... personal anonymity
at the level of press, ...
12&12 p.180,
Tradition Eleven
9.
... personal anonymity
at the level of press, ...
BB p.562(564),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
10.
... personal appeals
which may result from this ...
12&12 p.184,
Tradition Twelve
11.
... personal appeals
which may result from this ...
BB xiii,
Foreword to First Edition
It is
important that we
remain anonymous because
we are too few, at
present to
handle the
overwhelming
number of
personal appeals which may
result
from this
publication.
12.
... personal attachment
to him, the employer has ...
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.
13.
... personal authority
over another, that nothing like ...
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?
14.
... personal conquest
of this compulsion by the ...
12&12 p.22,
Step One
There was, they said, no such thing as the
personal
conquest of this
compulsion by the
unaided will.
15.
... personal consequences
may be.
BB p.79,
Into Action
Reminding ourselves that we have
decided to go to any
lengths to find a
spiritual experience,
we
ask that we be
given strength and
direction
to do the
right thing, no
matter what the
personal consequences may be.
16.
... personal contact
at all.
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.
17.
... personal contact
with some of us.
BB p.144,
To Employers
As our
work spreads and our
numbers increase, we
hope your
employees may be
put in
personal contact with some of us.
18.
... 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.
19.
... personal desires
for the common good, we ...
12&12 p.184,
Tradition Twelve
20.
... personal determination
and courage he can muster.
12&12 p.39,
Step Three
By now, though, the
chances are that he has
become convinced that he
has more
problems than
alcohol, and that some of these
refuse to be
solved by all
the
sheer personal determination and
courage he can
muster.
21.
... personal disobedience
to spiritual principles.
12&12 p.174,
Tradition Nine
22.
... personal distinction
as A.A. members both among ...
12&12 p.187,
Tradition Twelve
23.
... personal exertion
to conform to their principles ...
12&12 p.40,
Step Three
All of the
Twelve Steps require sustained and
personal exertion to
conform to their
principles and so, we
trust, to
God's will.
24.
... personal experience.
BB p.92,
Working With Others
25.
... personal experiences.
BB p.29,
There Is A Solution
26.
... personal fault,
like tardiness.
12&12 p.103,
Step Eleven
27.
... personal flaws
which are acutely troublesome and ...
12&12 p.50,
Step Four
Since
Step Four is but the
beginning of a
lifetime
practice, it can be
suggested that he
first
have a
look at those
personal
flaws which are
acutely troublesome and
fairly
obvious.
28.
... personal grandeur.
12&12 p.58,
Step Five
All of us saw, for
example, that we
lacked honesty and
tolerance, that we were
beset at
times by
attacks of
self-
pity or
delusions of
personal grandeur.
29.
... personal grievances
receive careful consideration.
BB p.574,
Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form)
30.
... personal history
from the first edition were ...
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.
31.
... personal housecleaning,
which many of us had ...
BB p.63,
How It Works
Next we
launched out on a
course of
vigorous action, the
first step of which is a
personal housecleaning, which many of us had
never attempted.
32.
... personal importance,
power, ambition, and leadership.
12&12 p.122,
Step Twelve
33.
... personal independence
in such matters.
12&12 p.37,
Step Three
Nobody is
going to
meddle with our
personal independence in such
matters.
34.
... personal inventory.
BB p.64,
How It Works
Therefore, we
started upon a
personal inventory.
35.
... personal inventory.
BB p.72,
Into Action
We have
admitted certain defects; we have
ascertained in a
rough
way what the
trouble is; we have
put our
finger on the
weak items in our
personal inventory.
36.
... personal inventory
and continue to set right ...
BB p.84,
Into Action
This
thought brings us to
Step Ten, which
suggests we
continue to
take
personal inventory
and
continue to
set right any new
mistakes as we
go along.
37.
... personal inventory,
and that when we were ...
12&12 p.108,
Step Twelve
By this
time, at
Step Ten, we had
begun to get a
basis for
daily living, and we
keenly realized that we would
need
to
continue taking personal inventory, and that
when we were in the
wrong we ought to
admit it
promptly.
38.
... personal inventory
and when we were wrong ...
12&12 p.88,
Step Ten
"
Continued to take
personal inventory and when we
were
wrong promptly admitted it."
39.
... personal inventory
and when we were wrong ...
BB p.59,
How It Works
10.
Continued to take
personal inventory and when we
were
wrong promptly admitted it.
40.
... personal inventory,
we have written down a ...
BB p.70,
How It Works
If we have been
thorough about our
personal inventory, we have
written down a
lot.
41.
... personal inventory,
what shall we do about ...
BB p.72,
Into Action
Having made our
personal inventory, what shall we do about it?
42.
... personal matter,
that his alcoholic derelictions, the ...
BB p.143,
To Employers
While on the
subject of
confidence, can you
adopt
the
attitude that so far as you are
concerned this will be a
strictly personal matter, that his
alcoholic
derelictions, the
treatment about to be
undertaken, will
never be
discussed without his
consent?
43.
... personal name,
designating himself instead as "a ...
BB xiii,
Foreword to First Edition
44.
... personal, or
sex relations, which had been ...
BB p.65,
How It Works
Was it our
self-
esteem, our
security, our
ambitions, our
personal, or
sex relations, which had
been
interfered with?
45.
... personal powerlessness.
12&12 p.21,
Step One
Every
natural instinct
cries out against the
idea of
personal powerlessness.
46.
... personal powerlessness
finally turn out to be ...
12&12 p.21,
Step One
Our
admissions of
personal powerlessness
finally
turn out to be
firm bedrock upon which
happy and
purposeful lives may be
built.
47.
... personal prestige
and power, for romance, and ...
12&12 p.114,
Step Twelve
48.
... personal problems,
and that I would therefore ...
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.
49.
... personal publicity.
12&12 p.182,
Tradition Eleven
In the
beginning, the
press could not
understand
our
refusal of all
personal
publicity.
50.
... personal reason
for going to this place?
BB p.101,
Working With Others
Therefore,
ask yourself on
each
occasion, "Have I any
good social,
business, or
personal reason for
going to this
place?
51.
... personal recovery.
BB p.574,
Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form)
52.
... personal recovery
depends upon A.A. unity."
12&12 p.129,
Tradition One
53.
... personal recovery
depends upon A.A. unity.
BB p.562(564),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
54.
... personal relations.
12&12 p.77,
Step Eight
55.
... personal relations
can deepen our insight.
12&12 p.80,
Step Eight
56.
... personal relations
every bit of information about ...
12&12 p.80,
Step Eight
While the
purpose of
making restitution to
others is
paramount, it is
equally necessary that we
extricate from an
examination of our
personal relations every
bit of
information about
ourselves and our
fundamental difficulties that we can.
57.
... personal relations,
public relations, management of groups, ...
12&12 p.18,
Foreword
58.
... personal relationship;
self esteem (fear).
BB p.65,
How It Works
59.
... personal relationships
(including sex) were hurt or ...
BB p.64,
How It Works
60.
... personal relationships,
we couldn't control our emotional ...
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?
61.
... personal relationships
which bring continuous or recurring ...
12&12 p.52,
Step Four
62.
... personal religious
affiliation, we include Catholics, Protestants, ...
BB xx,
Foreword to Second Edition
63.
... personal sacrifice
is too great for preservation ...
12&12 p.130,
Tradition One
64.
... personal satisfactions
he desires.
12&12 p.71,
Step Seven
Poverty will
disappear, and there will be such
abundance that
everybody can have all the
security and
personal satisfactions he
desires.
65.
... personal sex
relations; security (fear).
BB p.65,
How It Works
66.
... personal sobriety,
the aim of our services ...
12&12 p.175,
Tradition Nine
Just as the
aim of each
A.A. member is
personal sobriety, the
aim of our
services is to bring
sobriety within reach of all who
want it.
67.
... personal stories
and think: "Yes, that happened ...
BB xii,
Preface
If you have a
drinking problem, we
hope that you may
pause in
reading one of
the
forty-
two personal stories and
think: "Yes, that
happened
to me"; or, more
important, "Yes, I've
felt like that"; or, most
important, "Yes, I
believe this
program can
work for me too."
68.
... personal stories
as follows.
BB xii,
Preface
69.
... personal stories,
describes in his own language ...
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.
70.
... personal stories,
which was expanded to reflect ...
BB xi,
Preface
But the
chief change was in
the
section of
personal stories, which was
expanded to
reflect the
Fellowship's
growth.
71.
... personal stories
you will find a wide ...
BB p.50,
We Agnostics
In our
personal stories you
will find a
wide variation in the way each
teller approaches and
conceives of the
Power
which is
greater than himself.
72.
... personal survival.
12&12 p.151,
Tradition Five
Yet such a
failure wouldn't
jeopardize their
personal survival.
73.
... personal to
me this feeling was intensified.
BB p.12,
Bill's Story
When the
thought was
expressed that there might be a
God personal to me this
feeling was
intensified.
74.
... personal to
me, who was love, superhuman ...
BB p.10,
Bill's Story
When they
talked of a
God
personal to me, who was
love,
superhuman strength
and
direction, I
became
irritated and my
mind snapped shut against such a
theory.
75.
... personal triumphs
more than we have loved ...
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.
76.
... personal virtue,
but we do recognize it ...
12&12 p.74,
Step Seven
We may still have no very
high opinion of
humility as a
desirable personal virtue, but we do
recognize it as a
necessary aid to our
survival.
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