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... 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
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
The Foundation(*) wrote
letters to practically every news outlet in North America, setting forth our public relations policy of attraction rather than promotion, and
emphasizing personal anonymity as A.A.'s greatest protection.
8.
... personal anonymity
at the level of press, ...
12&12 p.180,
Tradition Eleven
"Our public relations
policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, and films."
9.
... personal anonymity
at the level of press, ...
BB p.562(564),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
Eleven -- Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we
need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of
press, radio and films.
10.
... personal appeals
which may result from this ...
12&12 p.184,
Tradition Twelve
Its foreword made this revealing statement: "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.
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
Because A.A.'s Twelve Traditions repeatedly ask us to give up personal desires for the common good, we realize that the sacrificial spirit -- well symbolized by anonymity -- is the foundation of them all.
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
His drunkenness and dissolution are not penalties inflicted by
people in authority;
they result from his personal disobedience to spiritual principles.
22.
... personal distinction
as A.A. members both among ...
12&12 p.187,
Tradition Twelve
Moved by the spirit of anonymity, we try to give up our natural desires for personal distinction as A.A. members both among fellow alcoholics and before the general public.
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
We have seen A.A.'s ask with much earnestness and faith for
God's explicit guidance on matters ranging all the way from a shattering domestic or
financial crisis to correcting a minor personal fault, like tardiness.
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)
V. Throughout our structure, a traditional "Right of Appeal" ought to prevail, so that minority
opinion will be heard and personal grievances receive careful consideration.
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
Let's here take note of our improved outlook upon the problems of personal importance, power, ambition, and leadership.
33.
... personal independence
in such matters.
12&12 p.37,
Step Three
34.
... personal inventory.
BB p.64,
How It Works
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
39.
... personal inventory
and when we were wrong ...
BB p.59,
How It Works
40.
... personal inventory,
we have written down a ...
BB p.70,
How It Works
41.
... personal inventory,
what shall we do about ...
BB p.72,
Into Action
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
When writing or speaking publicly about
alcoholism, we urge each of our Fellowship to
omit his personal name, designating himself instead as "a member of Alcoholics Anonymous."
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
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
Our desires for emotional security and
wealth, for personal prestige and power, for romance, and for family satisfactions -- all these have to be tempered and redirected.
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
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
Everywhere there arose
threatening questions of membership, money, personal relations, public relations, management of groups, clubs, and scores of other perplexities.
58.
... personal relationship;
self esteem (fear).
BB p.65,
How It Works
Mrs. Jones -- she's a nut, she snubbed me; she committed her husband for
drinking; he's my friend; she's a gossip --
personal relationship;
self esteem (fear).
59.
... personal relationships
(including sex) were hurt or ...
BB p.64,
How It Works
In most cases it was found
that our self-esteem, our pocketbooks, our ambitions, our personal relationships (including sex) were hurt or threatened.
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
To take inventory in this
respect we ought to consider carefully all
personal relationships which bring continuous or recurring trouble.
62.
... personal religious
affiliation, we include Catholics, Protestants, ...
BB xx,
Foreword to Second Edition
By personal religious affiliation, we include
Catholics, Protestants, Jews, Hindus, and a sprinkling
of Moslems and Buddhists.
63.
... personal sacrifice
is too great for preservation ...
12&12 p.130,
Tradition One
Realization dawns that
he is but a small part of a
great whole; that no personal sacrifice is too great for
preservation of the Fellowship.
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
My wife -- misunderstands and nags; likes Brown; wants the house put in her name -- pride; personal sex relations; security (fear).
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
This fourth edition includes the Twelve Concepts for World Service and revises the three sections of personal stories as follows.
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
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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