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... place.
BB
Foreword to Second Edition, p.xv
2.
... place.
BB
We Agnostics, p.56
3.
... place?
BB
Into Action, p.75
4.
... place?
BB
Working With Others, p.101
Therefore, ask yourself on each occasion, "Have I any good social, business, or personal reason for going to this place?
5.
... place.
BB
To Wives, p.111
6.
... place.
BB
A Vision For You, p.152
7.
... place.
12&12
Step Five, p.62
8.
... place.
12&12
Step Eleven, p.100
9.
... place.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.119
10.
... place a
new man in the hospital ...
BB
A Vision For You, p.159
11.
... place, conspired
to let him know that ...
BB
A Vision For You, p.160
The expression on the faces of the women, that indefinable something
in the eyes of the men, the stimulating and electric
atmosphere of the place,
conspired to let him know that here was haven at last.
12.
... place dependence
upon other people ahead of ...
BB
Working With Others, p.98
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.
13.
... place, discredited
and almost broke.
BB
A Vision For You, p.154
14.
... place explain
to all your friends why ...
BB
Working With Others, p.102
15.
... place, flaws
which must be dealt with ...
12&12
Step Seven, p.73
Still goaded by sheer necessity, we reluctantly come to grips with those serious character flaws that made problem drinkers of us in
the first place, flaws which must be dealt with to prevent a retreat into alcoholism once again.
16.
... place full
time.
12&12
Tradition Eight, p.168
17.
... place God
first, we had deprived ourselves ...
12&12
Step Seven, p.75
18.
... place hat
for group purposes.
12&12
Tradition Seven, p.160
It was soon apparent that while alcoholics would spend lavishly on Twelfth Step cases, they had a terrific aversion to dropping money into a meeting-place hat for group purposes.
19.
... place himself
under lock and key or ...
BB
There Is A Solution, p.26
In the doctor's judgment
he was utterly hopeless;
he could never regain his position in society and he
would have to place himself
under lock and key or hire a bodyguard if he expected
to live long.
20.
... place in
a few months could seldom ...
BB
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience, p.567
What often takes place in a few months could seldom have been
accomplished by years
of self-discipline.
21.
... place in
A.A.
12&12
Contents (Tradition Eleven), p.12
22.
... place in
A.A.
12&12
Tradition Eleven, p.183
23.
... place in
A.A. where spirituality and money ...
12&12
Tradition Seven, p.163
24.
... place in
many eastern cities.
BB
A Vision For You, p.161
25.
... place in
society often tyrannize us.
12&12
Step Four, p.42
Our desires for sex, for material and emotional security, and for an important place in society often tyrannize us.
26.
... place in
the lives of their families ...
BB
Bill's Story, p.15
I have seen men come out of asylums and resume a vital place in the lives of their families and communities.
27.
... place in
us the best understanding of ...
12&12
Step Eleven, p.102
We ask simply that throughout the day God place in us the best understanding of His
will that we can have for that day, and that we be given the grace by which we may carry it out.
28.
... place instincts
first, we have got the ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.114
If we place instincts first, we have got the cart before the horse; we shall be pulled backward into disillusionment.
29.
... place like
the Greenland Ice Cap, and ...
BB
Working With Others, p.101
His only chance for sobriety would be some place like the Greenland Ice Cap, and even there an Eskimo might turn up with a bottle of scotch and ruin everything!
30.
... place me
at the head of vast ...
BB
Bill's Story, p.1
My talent for leadership, I imagined,
would place me at the head of vast enterprises which I
would manage with the utmost
assurance.
31.
... place money
first.
BB
The Family Afterward, p.127
32.
... place none
of its members in a ...
BB
Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form), p.575
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.
33.
... place, of
course."
12&12
Tradition Five, p.154
34.
... place principles
before personalities.
BB
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.562
Twelve -- Anonymity is
the spiritual foundation of all our Traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.
35.
... place principles
before personalities."
12&12
Contents (Tradition Twelve), p.13
Tradition Twelve -- "Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of
all our traditions, ever
reminding us to place principles before personalities."
36.
... place principles
before personalities."
12&12
Tradition Twelve, p.184
"Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of
all our traditions, ever
reminding us to place principles before personalities."
37.
... place principles
before personalities; that we are ...
BB
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.566
It reminds us that we are to place principles before personalities;
that we are actually to practice a genuine humility.
38.
... place principles
before personalities; that we are ...
12&12
Tradition Twelve (Long), p.192
It reminds us that we are to place principles before personalities;
that we are actually to practice a genuine humility.
39.
... place probably
contained more alcoholics per square ...
BB
A Vision For You, p.163
He had lived there but a few weeks when he found that the
place probably contained more alcoholics per square mile than any city in the country.
40.
... place recovery
above everything, for without recovery ...
BB
To Employers, p.143
We all had to place recovery
above everything, for without recovery we would
have lost both home and business.
41.
... place, saying,
"This is life for us; ...
12&12
Tradition Nine, p.173
Groups have tried to expel members, but the banished have come back to sit in the meeting place, saying, "This is life for us; you
can't keep us out."
42.
... place spiritual
growth first -- then and only ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.114
But when we are willing to place spiritual growth first -- then and only
then do we have a real chance.
43.
... place supplied
me with a dozen glasses ...
BB
Bill's Story, p.6
44.
... place the
outcome in God's hands or ...
BB
Into Action, p.80
He saw that he had to place the
outcome in God's hands or he would soon start drinking again, and all would be lost anyhow.
45.
... place the
problem, along with everything else, ...
BB
To Wives, p.120
46.
... place the
welfare of other people ahead ...
BB
Working With Others, p.94
47.
... place their
common welfare first? What in ...
12&12
Tradition One, p.130
"How," they ask, "can such a crowd of anarchists function at all? How can they possibly place their common welfare first? What in Heaven's name holds them together?"
48.
... place their
message and unique experience before ...
BB
Foreword to Second Edition, p.xvii
It was now time, the struggling groups thought, to place their message and unique experience before the world.
49.
... place themselves
before microphones and cameras.
12&12
Tradition Twelve, p.185
50.
... place, then
He must know in every ...
12&12
Step Five, p.59
If the Creator gave us our lives in the first place, then He must know in every detail where we have since gone
wrong.
51.
... place, there
are hundreds.
BB
A Vision For You, p.152
52.
... place, thing
or situation as being exactly ...
BB
Acceptance, p.417
When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing or situation -- some fact of my life -- unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment.
53.
... place, thing
or situation -- some fact of ...
BB
Acceptance, p.417
When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing or situation -- some fact of my life -- unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment.
54.
... place this
book where he can see ...
BB
Working With Others, p.90
55.
... place to
remember that inventory-taking is not ...
12&12
Step Ten, p.93
56.
... place, to
see how you would like ...
BB
Working With Others, p.90
You need this information
to put yourself in his place, to see how you would like him to approach you if the
tables were turned.
57.
... place us
in a position of trust.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.111
By a great deal of ardent Twelfth Step work we sometimes carry the message to so many alcoholics that they place us
in a position of trust.
58.
... place, we
think that some day its ...
BB
A Vision For You, p.161
59.
... place what
we have at his disposal.
BB
The Family Afterward, p.132
When we see a man sinking into the mire that is alcoholism, we give him first aid and place what we have at his disposal.
60.
... place whatever
for them to go.
12&12
Step Two, p.28
Since both ways have proved bitterly disappointing, they have concluded there is no place whatever for them to go.
61.
... place where
new people might bring their ...
BB
A Vision For You, p.160
Aside from fellowship and
sociability, the prime
object was to provide a time and place where new people might bring their problems.
62.
... place where
there is drinking, if we ...
BB
Working With Others, p.101
So our rule is not to avoid a
place where there is drinking, if we have a legitimate reason for being there.
63.
... place where
they have a bar.
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.36
64.
... place where
we can be quiet for ...
BB
Into Action, p.75
Returning home we find a place where we can be quiet for an hour, carefully reviewing what
we have done.
65.
... place where
we may prepare ourselves for ...
12&12
Step Five, p.62
This feeling of being at one with God and man, this emerging from isolation through the open and honest sharing of our terrible burden of guilt, brings us to a resting place where we may prepare ourselves for the following Steps toward a full and meaningful sobriety.
66.
... place where
you may be of maximum ...
BB
Working With Others, p.102
Your job now is to be at the place where you may be of maximum
helpfulness to others,
so never hesitate to go anywhere if you can be helpful.
67.
... place, which
was familiar for I had ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.36
I also had the notion that I
might find a customer for a
car at this place, which was familiar for I had been going
to it for years.
68.
... place with
my alcoholism.
12&12
Step Six, p.63
Change of scene, the best efforts of family, friends, doctors, and clergymen got no place
with my alcoholism.
69.
... place would
come -- I would drink again.
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.41
I now remembered what my alcoholic friends had told me, how they prophesied
that if I had an alcoholic mind, the time and place would come -- I would drink again.
70.
... place you
even more at ease.
12&12
Step Five, p.62
Before long, your listener may well tell a story or two about himself which will place you even more at ease.
71.
... place you
may require all you've got.
12&12
Step Five, p.61
No one ought to say the A.A. program requires no willpower; here is one place you may require all you've got.
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