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... really a
horrible nightmare, this earning money, ...
BB p.177,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
It was really a horrible
nightmare, this earning money, getting liquor, smuggling it home, getting drunk, morning jitters, taking large doses of sedatives to make it possible for me to earn more money, and so on ad nauseam.
2.
... really a
means of gaining true independence ...
12&12 p.36,
Step Three
Therefore dependence, as A.A. practices it, is really a means of gaining true independence of the
spirit.
3.
... really a
self-seeker even when trying to ...
BB p.61,
How It Works
4.
... really able
to leave it behind us.
12&12 p.89,
Step Ten
5.
... really acquired
the habit of accurate self-appraisal.
12&12 p.89,
Step Ten
The emphasis on inventory is heavy only because a great many of us have never really acquired the habit of accurate self-appraisal.
6.
... really admitted
them, even to ourselves?
12&12 p.59,
Step Five
How could we be certain that we had made a true catalog of our defects and
had really admitted them,
even to ourselves?
7.
... really afraid
of," he said, "is our ...
12&12 p.142,
Tradition Three
8.
... really ails
the alcoholic, and lack of ...
BB p.139,
To Employers
To me, this incident illustrates lack of understanding as to what really ails the alcoholic, and lack of knowledge as to what part employers might profitably take in salvaging their sick employees.
9.
... really and
truly want to quit drinking ...
BB p.181,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
But if you really and truly
want to quit drinking liquor for good and all, and sincerely
feel that you must have some
help, we know that we have an
answer for you.
10.
... really are,
and how unconscious of that ...
12&12 p.36,
Step Three
In this area it is startling to discover
how dependent we really
are, and how unconscious of that dependence.
11.
... really are,
followed by a sincere attempt ...
12&12 p.58,
Step Five
To those who have made progress in A.A., it amounts to a clear recognition of what and who we really are, followed by a sincere attempt to become what we could be.
12.
... really are,
for that means blind faith ...
BB p.10,
Bill's Story
Few people really are, for that means blind faith in the strange proposition
that this universe originated in a cipher
and aimlessly rushes nowhere.
13.
... really be,
the conversation will start easily ...
12&12 p.61,
Step Five
When your mission is carefully explained,
and it is seen by the recipient of your confidence how helpful
he can really be, the conversation will start easily and will soon become eager.
14.
... really beating
ourselves with the club of ...
12&12 p.47,
Step Four
We had to see that when we harbored grudges and planned revenge for such defeats, we were really beating ourselves with the club of
anger we had intended to
use on others.
15.
... really bother
and burn us, we say ...
12&12 p.55,
Step Five
16.
... really clean
house.
12&12 p.56,
Step Five
Some people are unable to
stay sober at all; others will relapse periodically
until they really clean house.
17.
... really commence
to solve their problems.
BB p.43,
More About Alcoholism
Most alcoholics have to be pretty badly mangled before they really commence to solve their problems.
18.
... really competent
to give or ought not ...
12&12 p.111,
Step Twelve
Perhaps we try to give them advice about their affairs which we aren't
really competent to give or ought not give at all.
19.
... really dealing
with fellow sufferers, people whose ...
12&12 p.78,
Step Eight
20.
... really deluged
us.
BB xviii,
Foreword to Second Edition
Then Jack Alexander wrote a feature article in the Saturday Evening Post and placed such a compelling picture of A.A. before the general public that alcoholics in need of help really deluged us.
21.
... really depended
upon God, we couldn't very ...
12&12 p.116,
Step Twelve
If we really depended upon God, we couldn't very well play God to our fellows nor would we feel the urge wholly to rely on human protection and care.
22.
... really didn't.
12&12 p.94,
Step Ten
23.
... really disliked
or hated them.
12&12 p.92,
Step Ten
Most of us must admit that we
have loved but a few; that we
have been quite indifferent to the many so
long as none of them gave us trouble; and as for
the remainder -- well, we
have really disliked or hated them.
24.
... really do
it!"
12&12 p.159,
Tradition Six
25.
... really do
not know why they do ...
BB p.23,
There Is A Solution
26.
... really does.
BB p.88,
Into Action
It works -- it really does.
27.
... really does
love you with his better ...
BB p.108,
To Wives
28.
... really dominated
us.
BB p.66,
How It Works
29.
... really easy
to begin the practice of ...
12&12 p.41,
Step Three
Once we have come into agreement with these ideas,
it is really easy to begin the practice of Step Three.
30.
... really ethical
Charlie's proposal was.
12&12 p.136,
Tradition Two
31.
... really exhaustive
survey of our past life ...
12&12 p.79,
Step Eight
Though in some cases we
cannot make restitution
at all, and in some cases action ought to be deferred, we should nevertheless make an accurate and really exhaustive survey of our
past life as it has affected other people.
32.
... really feels
there is something rather sinful ...
BB p.135,
The Family Afterward
His wife is one of those persons who really feels there is something rather sinful about these commodities, so she nagged, and her intolerance finally threw him into a fit of anger.
33.
... really finish.
12&12 p.77,
Step Eight
34.
... really goes
somewhere; have seen the most ...
BB p.15,
Bill's Story
I have seen hundreds of families set their feet in the path that really goes somewhere; have seen the
most impossible domestic situations righted; feuds and bitterness of all sorts wiped out.
35.
... really going
somewhere, that life is not ...
12&12 p.107,
Step Twelve
He has been set on a path which
tells him he is really going somewhere, that life is not a dead end, not something to be endured or mastered.
36.
... really going
to try the program, the ...
12&12 p.83,
Step Nine
37.
... really good
prayer.
12&12 p.99,
Step Eleven
38.
... really got
us down.
12&12 p.30,
Step Two
39.
... really had
their music; but his denial ...
BB p.10,
Bill's Story
I could almost hear the sound of the preacher's voice as I sat, on still Sundays, way over there on the hillside; there was that proffered temperance
pledge I never signed; my grandfather's
good natured contempt of some church folk and their doings; his insistence that the spheres really had their music; but his denial of the
preacher's right to tell him how he must listen; his fearlessness as he spoke
of these things just before he died; these recollections welled
up from the past.
40.
... really hadn't
cleaned house so that the ...
12&12 p.32,
Step Two
The fact was we really hadn't
cleaned house so that the
grace of God could enter us and expel the obsession.
41.
... really handle
inebriates.
12&12 p.170,
Tradition Eight
42.
... really happy
and useful living.
12&12 p.114,
Step Twelve
43.
... really hard
up just then; the groups ...
12&12 p.164,
Tradition Seven
The Foundation was really hard up
just then; the groups weren't sending in enough for the support of
the office; we had been tossing in all the book income and even that hadn't
been enough.
44.
... really have,
even under pressure and difficulty.
BB p.15,
Bill's Story
45.
... really have
is a daily reprieve contingent ...
BB p.85,
Into Action
46.
... really impossible.
12&12 p.25,
Step Two
47.
... really issue
them an invitation to become ...
12&12 p.80,
Step Eight
48.
... really licked
this time.
BB p.42,
More About Alcoholism
They grinned, which I didn't like so much, and then asked me if I thought myself alcoholic and if I
were really licked this time.
49.
... really like
to get over drinking for ...
BB p.112,
To Wives
50.
... really love
them.
12&12 p.66,
Step Six
We really love them.
51.
... really makes
an accurate and unsparing survey ...
12&12 p.77,
Step Eight
Every A.A. has found that he can make little headway in this new adventure of living until he first backtracks and really makes an accurate and unsparing
survey of the human wreckage he has left in his
wake.
52.
... really makes
sense in the light of ...
BB p.23,
There Is A Solution
Sometimes these excuses have a certain plausibility, but none of
them really makes sense in the light of the havoc an alcoholic's drinking bout creates.
53.
... really mean
it, or down inside does ...
BB p.142,
To Employers
If he says yes, does he really mean it, or down inside does he think he is fooling you, and
that after rest and treatment he will be able to get away with a few drinks now and then?
54.
... really mean
the only reason you are ...
12&12 p.152,
Tradition Five
"Still dubious, he demanded, 'Do you really mean the only reason you are here is to try and help me and to help yourself?'
55.
... really necessary.
12&12 p.96,
Step Eleven
So it isn't surprising that we often tend to slight serious meditation and prayer as
something not really necessary.
56.
... really need
a moral inventory.
12&12 p.45,
Step Four
Our present anxieties
and troubles, we cry, are
caused by the behavior
of other people -- people who really need a moral inventory.
57.
... really need
is a truly open mind.
12&12 p.26,
Step Two
58.
... really needed
it.
BB p.171,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
No beer or liquor was sold in the neighborhood, except at
the State liquor agency where perhaps one might procure a pint if he could convince the
agent that he really needed it.
59.
... really needed
the money for groceries, but ...
12&12 p.162,
Tradition Seven
60.
... really neglectful.
BB p.119,
To Wives
61.
... really news.
12&12 p.160,
Tradition Seven
When a society composed
entirely of alcoholics says it's going to pay its bills, that's really news.
62.
... really rocked
him.
12&12 p.153,
Tradition Five
"This really rocked him.
63.
... really saying
to every serious drinker, "You ...
12&12 p.139,
Tradition Three
64.
... really saying
to us that we now ...
12&12 p.76,
Step Seven
It is really saying to us
that we now ought to be willing to try humility in seeking the removal of our other shortcomings just as we
did when we admitted that we were powerless over alcohol, and came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves
could restore us to sanity.
65.
... really servants,
not senators.
12&12 p.134,
Tradition Two
66.
... really set
us thinking.
12&12 p.185,
Tradition Twelve
67.
... really sloth
in five syllables.
12&12 p.67,
Step Six
68.
... really talking
about the kind of love ...
12&12 p.106,
Step Twelve
When the Twelfth Step is seen in its full implication, it is
really talking about the kind of love that has no price tag
on it.
69.
... really tried,
50% got sober at once ...
BB xx,
Foreword to Second Edition
Of alcoholics who came
to A.A. and really tried, 50% got sober at once and remained that way; 25% sobered up after some relapses, and among the remainder, those who stayed on with A.A. showed improvement.
70.
... really tried
a moral inventory is that ...
12&12 p.49,
Step Four
But the testimony of A.A.'s
who have really tried a moral inventory is that pride and fear of this sort turn out to be bogeymen, nothing else.
71.
... really want
to punish.
12&12 p.94,
Step Ten
We sometimes hurt those we love because they need to be "taught a lesson," when we
really want to punish.
72.
... really want
to stop, and hardly one ...
BB p.33,
More About Alcoholism
We doubt if many of them can
do it, because none will really want to stop, and hardly one of them, because of the peculiar mental twist already acquired, will find he can win out.
73.
... really wanted.
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
With a proper display of
honesty and morality,
we'd stand a better chance of getting what we
really wanted.
74.
... really wanted,
rather than as something 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.
75.
... really wants
to get over drinking, you ...
BB p.120,
To Wives
76.
... really wants
to live.
12&12 p.130,
Tradition One
At first he goes along because he must, but later he discovers a way of life he really wants to live.
77.
... really wants
to pay the price.
BB p.108,
To Wives
Especially when he has before him a way to stop his drinking and abuse if he really wants to pay the price.
78.
... really we
hadn't.
12&12 p.32,
Step Two
79.
... really worked
in others, and we had ...
BB p.25,
There Is A Solution
But we saw that it really worked in others, and we had
come to believe in the hopelessness and futility of life as we had
been living it.
80.
... really works.
12&12 p.132,
Tradition Two
81.
... really works.
BB p.28,
There Is A Solution
82.
... really works
in daily living is still ...
12&12 p.43,
Step Four
Without a searching
and fearless moral inventory, most of us have found that the faith which
really works in daily living is still out of reach.
83.
... really wrong.
12&12 p.94,
Step Ten
There are cases where our ancient enemy, rationalization, has stepped in and has justified conduct which
was really wrong.
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