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... practical."
12&12 p.100,
Step Eleven
It isn't practical."
2.
... practical.
12&12 p.101,
Step Eleven
3.
... practical advice.
BB p.96,
Working With Others
4.
... practical answer
is that since these things ...
BB p.153,
A Vision For You
5.
... practical application
at once.
BB xxvii(xxv),
The Doctor's Opinion
Many years ago one of the leading contributors
to this book came under our care in this hospital and while here he acquired some ideas which he put into practical application at once.
6.
... practical application
of anonymity.
12&12 p.185,
Tradition Twelve
7.
... practical approach
to his problems, the absence ...
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.
8.
... practical certainty
that we will be fired ...
12&12 p.86,
Step Nine
Do we instantly confess our irregularities to the firm, in the practical certainty that we will be fired and become unemployable?
9.
Practical experience
shows that nothing will so ...
BB p.89,
Working With Others
Practical experience shows that nothing will so much insure immunity from drinking as intensive work with other alcoholics.
10.
... practical folk
then read Tradition Two, and ...
12&12 p.132,
Tradition Two
These practical folk then read Tradition Two, and learn that the sole authority in A.A. is a loving God as He may express Himself in the group conscience.
11.
... practical individual
of today is a stickler ...
BB p.48,
We Agnostics
12.
... practical insight
and knowledge of his own ...
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.
13.
... practical it
actually is.
12&12 p.35,
Step Three
14.
... practical matter,
in its actual operation it ...
12&12 p.175,
Tradition Nine
Though Tradition Nine at first sight seems to deal with a purely practical matter, in its actual operation it discloses
a society without organization, animated only by the spirit
of service -- a true fellowship.
15.
... practical-minded beginner,
this Step looks hard, even ...
12&12 p.35,
Step Three
16.
... practical move
toward humility must consist of ...
12&12 p.58,
Step Five
17.
... practical program
of action.
BB p.9,
Bill's Story
18.
... practical purpose,
the active voice and the ...
BB p.574,
Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form)
II. The General Service Conference of A.A. has become, for nearly every practical purpose, the active voice and the effective conscience
of our whole Society in its world affairs.
19.
... practical reason
that we did not wish ...
12&12 p.108,
Step Twelve
At Step Six, many of us balked -- for the
practical reason that we did
not wish to have all our defects of character removed, because we still loved some of them too much.
20.
... practical reminder
that personal ambition has no ...
12&12 p.183,
Tradition Eleven
21.
... practical results.
12&12 p.23,
Step One
22.
... practical use,
day by day, in fair ...
12&12 p.88,
Step Ten
But when we approach Step
Ten we commence to put our A.A. way of living to practical use, day by day, in fair weather or foul.
23.
... practical use
of it.
BB p.130,
The Family Afterward
Nothing will help the man who is off on a spiritual tangent so much as the wife who adopts a sane spiritual program, making a better practical use of it.
24.
... practical way,
we might call it the ...
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.
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