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... problems.
BB
Bill's Story, p.13
My friend promised when
these things were done I would
enter upon a new relationship with my Creator; that I would have the elements of a way of living which answered all my
problems.
2.
... problems.
BB
Bill's Story, p.15
My wife and I abandoned ourselves with enthusiasm to the idea of helping other alcoholics to a solution
of their problems.
3.
... problems.
BB
There Is A Solution, p.26
4.
... problems.
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.42
5.
... problems.
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.43
Most alcoholics have to be pretty badly mangled before they really commence to solve their problems.
6.
... problems.
BB
We Agnostics, p.52
7.
... problems.
BB
We Agnostics, p.55
Yet we had been seeing another kind of flight, a spiritual liberation from this world,
people who rose above their problems.
8.
... problems.
BB
How It Works, p.69
We all have sex problems.
9.
... problems.
BB
Into Action, p.87
We usually conclude the
period of meditation
with a prayer that we be shown all through the day what our next step is to be, that we be given whatever we need to take care of such problems.
10.
... problems.
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.
11.
... problems.
BB
Appendix VI, How to Get in Touch With A.A., p.573
This headquarters will
give the location of the nearest family group and will, if you wish, correspond with you
about your special problems.
12.
... problems.
12&12
Contents (Step Twelve), p.9
13.
... problems.
12&12
Step Seven, p.74
14.
... problems.
12&12
Tradition Twelve, p.185
15.
... problems and
deficiencies.
BB
Bill's Story, p.13
16.
... problems and
explain our fellowship.
BB
We Agnostics, p.45
Many times we talk to a new man and watch his hope rise as we discuss his alcoholic problems and explain our fellowship.
17.
... problems, and
for the ability to help ...
12&12
Step Eleven, p.102
Our immediate temptation will be to ask for specific solutions to specific
problems, and for the ability
to help other people as we have already thought they should be helped.
18.
... problems and
how you propose to lick ...
12&12
Tradition Five, p.153
But from what you've told me about yourself and your problems and
how you propose to lick them,
I think I know what's wrong.'
19.
... problems, and
sometimes they are distressingly acute.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.117
But just like all other societies, we do have
sex and marital problems, and sometimes they are
distressingly acute.
20.
... problems, and
that I would therefore be ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.40
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.
21.
... problems and
the character defects which cause ...
12&12
Step Five, p.55
A.A. experience has taught us we cannot live alone with our pressing problems and the character defects which cause or aggravate them.
22.
... problems and
to help fellow sufferers in ...
12&12
Foreword, p.15
Alcoholics Anonymous
is a worldwide fellowship of more than one hundred thousand(*) alcoholic men and women who are banded together to solve their common problems and to help fellow sufferers in recovery from that age-old, baffling malady, alcoholism.
23.
... problems are
close to your own, then ...
12&12
Step Five, p.61
If you have developed a high confidence in him, and
his temperament and problems are close to your own, then such a choice will be good.
24.
... problems are
not the only ones that ...
12&12
Step Ten, p.91
25.
... problems as
He would have me.
BB
Bill's Story, p.13
I was to sit quietly when in
doubt, asking only for direction and strength to
meet my problems as He would
have me.
26.
... problems because
we are problem people who ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.125
We have been talking about problems because we are problem people who have found a way up
and out, and who wish to share our knowledge of that
way with all who can use it.
27.
... problems become
a part of their daily ...
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxviii
If any feel that as psychiatrists directing a hospital for
alcoholics we appear somewhat sentimental, let them stand with us a while on the firing line, see the tragedies, the despairing wives, the little children; let the solving of these problems become a part of their daily work, and even of their sleeping moments, and the
most cynical will not wonder that we have accepted
and encouraged this movement.
28.
... problems besides
alcohol will not yield to ...
12&12
Step Three, p.40
They have become persuaded, and rightly so,
that many problems besides alcohol will not yield to a headlong assault powered by the individual
alone.
29.
... problems by
a simple reliance upon the ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.52
When we saw others solve their problems by a simple reliance upon the Spirit of the Universe, we had to stop doubting the power of God.
30.
Problems descend
like an avalanche.
12&12
Tradition Two, p.133
31.
... problems easier
than you can the trivial ...
BB
To Wives, p.118
You and your husband will find that you can dispose of serious problems easier than you can the trivial ones.
32.
... problems he
despaired of ever solving them, ...
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxix
On the other hand -- and strange as this may seem to those who do not understand
-- once a psychic change has occurred, the very same person who seemed doomed, who had so many problems he despaired of ever solving them, suddenly finds himself easily able to control his desire for alcohol, the only
effort necessary being that required to follow a few simple rules.
33.
... problems, his
background, the seriousness of his ...
BB
Working With Others, p.90
Get an idea of his behavior, his problems, his background, the seriousness of his condition, and his religious leanings.
34.
... problems in
the light of our experience ...
BB
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience, p.568
Most emphatically we wish to say that any alcoholic capable of honestly facing his problems in the light of our experience can
recover, provided he does
not close his mind to all spiritual concepts.
35.
... problems ...
In this atmosphere the alcoholic often ...
BB
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A., p.570
They help others with similar problems ... In this atmosphere the alcoholic
often overcomes his excessive concentration upon himself.
36.
... problems indefinitely."
12&12
Step Six, p.69
37.
Problems of
intellectuality and self-sufficiency.
12&12
Contents (Step Two), p.5
38.
... problems of
life.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.114
But also like others, we often discover a greater challenge in the lesser and
more continuous problems of life.
39.
... problems of
life which we could never ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.113
40.
... Problems of
money, property, and authority may ...
BB
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.563
41.
... Problems of
money, property, and authority may ...
12&12
Tradition Six (Long), p.190
Six -- Problems of money, property, and authority may easily divert us from our primary spiritual aim.
42.
... problems of
money, property and prestige divert ...
BB
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.562
Six -- An A.A. group ought never endorse, finance or lend the A.A. name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property and prestige divert us from our primary purpose.
43.
... problems of
money, property and prestige divert ...
12&12
Contents (Tradition Six), p.11
Tradition Six -- "An A.A. group ought never endorse, finance or lend the A.A. name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property and prestige divert us from our
primary purpose."
44.
... problems of
money, property, and prestige divert ...
12&12
Tradition Six, p.155
"An A.A. group ought never endorse, finance, or lend the A.A. name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property, and prestige divert us from our
primary purpose."
45.
... problems of
personal importance, power, ambition, and ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.122
Let's here take note of our improved outlook upon the problems of personal importance, power, ambition, and leadership.
46.
... problems of
the community might engage attention.
BB
The Family Afterward, p.131
47.
Problems of
Twelfth Step work.
12&12
Contents (Step Twelve), p.9
48.
... problems on
every side and in every ...
BB
Foreword to Second Edition, p.xix
49.
... problems or
worries.
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.41
50.
... problems other
than alcohol, we shall need ...
12&12
Step Six, p.68
If we would gain any real advantage in the use of this Step on problems other than alcohol, we shall need to make a brand new venture into open-mindedness.
51.
... problems pile
up on them and become ...
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxviii
These allergic types can never safely use alcohol in any form at all; and once having formed the habit and found they cannot break it, once having lost their self-confidence, their reliance upon things human, their problems pile up
on them and become astonishingly difficult to solve.
52.
... problems squarely
that God might give him ...
BB
A Vision For You, pp.155-156
53.
... problems such
people may face. Alateen, for ...
BB
To Wives (Note), p.121
(*) The fellowship of Al-Anon Family Groups was formed about thirteen years after this chapter was written. Though it is entirely separate from Alcoholics Anonymous, it
uses the general principles of the A.A. program as a guide for husbands, wives, relatives, friends and others close to alcoholics. The foregoing pages (though addressed only to wives) indicate the problems such people may face. Alateen, for teen-aged children of alcoholics, is a part of Al-Anon.
54.
... problems, tell
the newcomer's family how that ...
BB
Working With Others, p.100
If you have been successful in solving your own domestic problems, tell the newcomer's family how that was accomplished.
55.
... problems than
alcohol, and that some of ...
12&12
Step Three, p.39
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.
56.
... problems that
it may appear that A.A. ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.125
We have been considering so many problems that it may appear that A.A. consists mainly of racking dilemmas and troubleshooting.
57.
... problems that
they will be persuaded to ...
BB
There Is A Solution, p.29
Our hope is that many alcoholic men and women, desperately in need, will see these pages, and we believe that it is only by fully disclosing ourselves and our problems
that they will be persuaded
to say, "Yes, I am one of them too; I must have this thing."
58.
... problems that
we can begin to get ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.125
For it is only by accepting and solving our problems that we can
begin to get right with ourselves and with
the world about us, and with Him who presides over us all.
59.
... problems, the
absence of intolerance of any ...
BB
A Vision For You, p.160
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.
60.
... problems this
same readiness to change our ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.52
We had to ask ourselves why we shouldn't apply to our human problems this same readiness to change our point of view.
61.
... problems to
such persons.
BB
The Family Afterward, p.133
62.
... problems today.
BB
Acceptance, p.417
63.
... problems too.
BB
To Wives, p.116
64.
... problems too;
the ensuing lack of fear, ...
BB
To Wives, p.116
When we do that, we find it solves our problems too; the ensuing lack of fear, worry and hurt feelings is a wonderful thing.
65.
... problems were
of our own making.
BB
Working With Others, p.103
66.
... problems will
arise.
BB
The Family Afterward, p.126
67.
... problems will
not be solved at once.
BB
To Wives, p.117
68.
... problems will
still be with you.
BB
To Wives, p.117
69.
... problems with
it instead of attempting to ...
12&12
Step Three, p.40
We had tried to bombard our
problems with it instead of
attempting to bring it
into agreement with God's intention for us.
70.
... problems with
the comfortable assurance that he ...
12&12
Step Eleven, p.104
With the best of intentions, he tends to force his own will into all sorts of situations and problems with
the comfortable assurance that he is acting
under God's specific direction.
71.
... problems with
you, if he knows you ...
BB
To Employers, p.144
If he feels free to discuss his problems with you,
if he knows you understand and will not be upset by anything he wishes to say, he will probably be off to a fast start.
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