From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... recover.
12&12 p.189,
Tradition Three (Long)
2.
... recover.
BB p.26,
There Is A Solution
3.
... recover.
BB p.89,
Working With Others
4.
... recover.
BB p.97,
Working With Others
Should they accept and practice spiritual principles, there is a much
better chance that the head of the family will recover.
5.
... recover.
BB p.135,
The Family Afterward
Whether the family goes on a spiritual basis or not, the alcoholic
member has to if he would recover.
6.
... recover?
BB p.143,
To Employers
7.
... recover.
BB p.563(565),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
8.
... recover and
by which their Society functions.
12&12 p.15,
Foreword
It presents an explicit view of the principles by which A.A. members recover and by which
their Society functions.
9.
... recover, and
is a power in the ...
BB p.158,
A Vision For You
10.
... recover and
that he will go to ...
BB p.142,
To Employers
After satisfying yourself that your man wants to recover and that he will go to any extreme to do so, you may
suggest a definite course of action.
11.
... recover are
people who cannot or will ...
BB p.58,
How It Works
Those who do not recover are
people who cannot or will
not completely give themselves to this simple
program, usually men and women who are constitutionally incapable of being honest with themselves.
12.
... recover, but
I wouldn't.
BB p.6,
Bill's Story
The market would recover,
but I wouldn't.
13.
... recover by
himself.
BB p.92,
Working With Others
14.
... recover by
himself.
BB p.96,
Working With Others
15.
... recover fortune
and reputation and feels he ...
BB p.126,
The Family Afterward
16.
... recover from
a bad case of jitters.
BB p.39,
More About Alcoholism
We first saw Fred about a year ago in a hospital where he had
gone to recover from a bad case of jitters.
17.
... recover from
alcoholism.
Grapevine,
Preamble
Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength
and hope with each other that they may solve their
common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism.
18.
... recover had
been made.
12&12 p.18,
Foreword
19.
... recover, he
will tell you about it ...
BB p.146,
To Employers
If he is, and is still trying to recover, he will tell you about it even if it means the loss of his job.
20.
... recover --
if he can and will.
BB p.164,
A Vision For You
When a few men in this city have found themselves, and have discovered the joy of helping others to face life again, there will be no stopping until everyone in that town has had his opportunity to recover --
if he can and will.
21.
... recover if
they had the opportunity we ...
BB p.19,
There Is A Solution
22.
... recover if
they have the capacity to ...
BB p.58,
How It Works
There are those, too, who suffer from grave emotional and mental disorders, but many of them
do recover if they have the capacity to be honest.
23.
... recover on
a spiritual basis.
BB p.162,
A Vision For You
Understanding our work, he can do this with an eye
to selecting those who
are willing and able to
recover on a spiritual basis.
24.
... recover overnight
nor do twisted thinking and ...
BB p.133,
The Family Afterward
Now about health: A body badly burned by alcohol does not
often recover overnight nor do twisted thinking and depression vanish in a twinkling.
25.
... recover, provided
he does not close his ...
BB p.568(570),
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience
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.
26.
... recover they
must acquire an immediate and ...
BB p.567(569),
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience
Though it was not our intention to create such an impression, many alcoholics have nevertheless concluded that in order to
recover they must acquire an immediate and
overwhelming "God-consciousness" followed at once by a vast change in feeling and outlook.
27.
... recover, three
successful groups emerged -- the first ...
12&12 p.16,
Foreword
After three years of trial and error in selecting the most
workable tenets upon which the Society could
be based, and after a large amount of failure in getting alcoholics to recover, three successful groups emerged -- the first at Akron, the second at New York, and the third at Cleveland.
28.
... recover, to
see them help others, to ...
BB p.89,
Working With Others
To watch people recover, to see them help others, to watch loneliness vanish, to see a fellowship grow up about you, to have a host of friends -- this is an experience you must not miss.
29.
... recover unless
he has his family back.
BB p.99,
Working With Others
30.
... recover unless
there is a group.
12&12 p.130,
Tradition One
The moment this Twelfth
Step work forms a group, another discovery is made -- that most individuals cannot recover
unless there is a group.
31.
... recover, where
that state of mind existed ...
BB p.27,
There Is A Solution
I have never seen one single case recover, where that state of mind existed to the extent that
it does in you."
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