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... point:
12&12 p.107,
Step Twelve
2.
... point.
12&12 p.157,
Tradition Six
3.
... point.
12&12 p.182,
Tradition Eleven
Then they got the point.
4.
... point.
BB p.12,
Bill's Story
5.
... point.
BB p.48,
We Agnostics
Simply because it is impossible to explain
what we see, feel, direct, and use, without a reasonable assumption as a starting point.
6.
... point.
BB p.59,
How It Works
7.
... point.
BB p.149,
To Employers
8.
... point.
BB p.153,
A Vision For You
9.
... point, a
point at which we say, ...
12&12 p.66,
Step Six
Even then the best of us will discover to our dismay that there is always a
sticking point, a point at which we say, "No, I can't give this up yet."
10.
... point, about
a hundred of our Society ...
12&12 p.182,
Tradition Eleven
11.
... point, and
have brought out the very ...
12&12 p.78,
Step Eight
We've repeatedly strained the patience of
our best friends to a snapping point, and have brought out the very worst in those who didn't think much of us to begin with.
12.
... point, and
I was thoroughly miserable.
BB p.178,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
I was self conscious and
ill at ease most of the time, my health was at the breaking point, and I was thoroughly miserable.
13.
... point at
which we abandon limited objectives, ...
12&12 p.69,
Step Six
14.
... point at
which we depart from the ...
12&12 p.65,
Step Six
When they drive us blindly, or we willfully
demand that they supply us
with more satisfactions or pleasures than are possible or due us, that is
the point at which we depart
from the degree of perfection that God wishes for us here on earth.
15.
... point at
which we say, "No, I ...
12&12 p.66,
Step Six
Even then the best of us will discover to our dismay that there is always a
sticking point, a point at which we say, "No, I can't give this up yet."
16.
... point-blank declaration
that God had done for ...
BB p.11,
Bill's Story
But my friend sat before me, and he made the
point-blank declaration that God had done for him what he could not do for himself.
17.
... point-blank why
he could not recover.
BB p.26,
There Is A Solution
18.
... point for
all of us.
12&12 p.33,
Step Two
19.
... point has
helped many of us.
BB p.142,
To Employers
20.
... point he
firmly but lovingly commences to ...
12&12 p.119,
Step Twelve
21.
... point imagination
toward the right objectives.
12&12 p.100,
Step Eleven
Perhaps the real trouble was our almost total inability to point imagination toward the right objectives.
22.
... point in
our lives came when we ...
12&12 p.75,
Step Seven
A great turning point in our lives came when we sought for humility as something we
really wanted, rather than as something
we must have.
23.
... point in
the drinking of every alcoholic, ...
BB p.24,
There Is A Solution
At a certain point in the
drinking of every alcoholic, he passes into
a state where the most powerful desire to stop drinking is of absolutely no avail.
24.
... point insistently.
12&12 p.85,
Step Nine
25.
... point is
reached, little can be done ...
BB p.22,
There Is A Solution
26.
... point is,
that we are willing to ...
BB p.60,
How It Works
27.
... point, it
might be well to explain ...
BB p.142,
To Employers
28.
... point of
1932, and I had somehow ...
BB p.5,
Bill's Story
29.
... point of
advantage in the approach that ...
BB p.572(574),
Appendix V, The Religious View on A.A.
"I think that psychologically speaking there is a point of
advantage in the approach that is being made in this movement that
cannot be duplicated.
30.
... point of
despair that nothing but oblivion ...
12&12 p.45,
Step Four
As we morbidly pursue
this melancholy activity, we may sink to such a point of despair that nothing but oblivion looks possible as a solution.
31.
... point of
divorce or bankruptcy are mystified ...
BB p.35,
More About Alcoholism
Friends who have reasoned with him after a spree which has brought him
to the point of divorce or
bankruptcy are mystified when he walks directly into a saloon.
32.
... point of
professionalism, money and spirituality do ...
12&12 p.166,
Tradition Eight
33.
... point of
self-destruction.
BB p.56,
We Agnostics
Post-war disillusionment, ever
more serious alcoholism, impending
mental and physical collapse, brought him to
the point of self-destruction.
34.
... point of
view.
12&12 p.113,
Step Twelve
We naturally congratulate ourselves on what later proves to be a far too easy and superficial point of view.
35.
... point of
view.
BB p.52,
We Agnostics
We had to ask ourselves why we shouldn't apply to our human problems this same readiness to change our point of view.
36.
... point of
view, the spiritual ideas of ...
12&12 p.17,
Foreword
In it alcoholism was described from the alcoholic's point of view, the spiritual ideas of the Society were codified for the first time in the Twelve Steps, and the application of these Steps to the alcoholic's dilemma was made clear.
37.
... point of
view the way he established ...
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.
38.
... point of
view, though we cooperate widely ...
BB xx,
Foreword to Second Edition
Neither does A.A. take any particular medical point of view, though we cooperate widely with the men of medicine as well as with the
men of religion.
39.
... point on,
progress will be rapid.
BB p.134,
The Family Afterward
40.
... point: One
of our friends is a ...
BB p.135,
The Family Afterward
41.
... point out
that his defects of character ...
BB p.100,
Working With Others
42.
... point out
that we alcoholics have much ...
BB p.95,
Working With Others
But point out that we alcoholics have much in common and that you would like,
in any case, to be friendly.
43.
... point out
the deep need every human ...
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.
44.
... point that
out and urge more attention ...
BB p.119,
To Wives
45.
... point: that
there is plenty wrong with ...
12&12 p.48,
Step Four
But all who are in the least reasonable will agree upon one point: that there is plenty wrong with us alcoholics about which plenty will have to be done if we are to expect sobriety, progress, and
any real ability to cope with life.
46.
... point we
got a divorce and took ...
BB p.106,
To Wives
47.
... point, we
were squarely confronted with the ...
BB p.53,
We Agnostics
48.
... point we
will want to summon all ...
12&12 p.85,
Step Nine
But if no such opportunity presents
itself, at some point we will want to summon all our courage, head straight for the person concerned, and lay our cards on the table.
49.
... point we
wish to emphasize and re-emphasize, ...
BB p.39,
More About Alcoholism
This is a point we wish to emphasize and re-emphasize, to smash home upon our alcoholic readers as it
has been revealed to us out
of bitter experience.
50.
... point where
he could have a spiritual ...
BB p.119,
To Wives
Your husband will be the first to say it was your devotion and care which brought him to the point where
he could have a spiritual experience.
51.
... point where
he desperately wants to stop ...
BB p.110,
To Wives
52.
... point where
it would hit them.
12&12 p.23,
Step One
It was obviously necessary to raise the bottom the rest of us had hit to the point where it would hit them.
53.
... point where
nature comes closest to the ...
BB p.572(574),
Appendix V, The Religious View on A.A.
Edward Dowling, S.J.,(*) of the Queen's Work staff, says, "Alcoholics Anonymous is natural; it
is natural at the point
where nature comes closest to the supernatural, namely in
humiliations and in consequent humility.
54.
... point where
we could quit on our ...
BB p.34,
More About Alcoholism
As we look back, we feel we had gone on drinking many years beyond the point where we could quit on our will power.
55.
... point with
pride to the good lives ...
12&12 p.45,
Step Four
No doubt we shall point with pride to the good lives we thought we led before the bottle cut us down.
56.
... point you
would label him as a ...
BB p.37,
More About Alcoholism
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