From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... rest.
12&12 p.37,
Step Three
2.
... rest and
to punish or expel offenders?
12&12 p.172,
Tradition Nine
Doesn't nearly every society on earth give authority to some of its members to impose obedience upon the rest and to punish or expel offenders?
3.
... rest and
treatment he will be able ...
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?
4.
... rest his
nerves.
BB p.39,
More About Alcoholism
5.
... rest homes
and farms for alcoholics, when ...
12&12 p.167,
Tradition Eight
Even greater furors were provoked when
A.A. members began to run rest homes and farms for alcoholics, when
some hired out to corporations as personnel men in charge of the alcoholic problem in industry, when
some became nurses on alcoholic wards, when others entered the field of alcohol education.
6.
... rest homes
where badly beat-up topers could ...
12&12 p.170,
Tradition Eight
Now and then, A.A. members have bought farms or rest homes where badly beat-up topers could find needed care.
7.
... rest I
disregarded.
BB p.11,
Bill's Story
For myself, I had adopted
those parts which seemed convenient and not
too difficult; the rest I
disregarded.
8.
... rest of
A.A.'s program as enthusiastically as ...
12&12 p.27,
Step Two
To acquire it, I had only to stop fighting and practice the rest of A.A.'s program as enthusiastically as I could.
9.
... rest of
his life.
BB p.40,
More About Alcoholism
He was positive that this humiliating experience, plus the knowledge he had acquired, would keep him sober the rest of his life.
10.
... rest of
his life and insists on ...
BB p.129,
The Family Afterward
He may not see at once that he
has barely scratched a
limitless lode which will pay dividends only if he mines
it for the rest of his life
and insists on giving away the entire product.
11.
... rest of
mankind some millennium of their ...
12&12 p.176,
Tradition Ten
Others fell apart because of sheer self-righteousness while trying to enforce upon the rest of mankind some millennium
of their own specification.
12.
... rest of
the answer.
12&12 p.178,
Tradition Ten
Had they been left to themselves, and had they stuck to their one goal, they might have found the
rest of the answer.
13.
... rest of
the conversation our friend had ...
BB p.27,
There Is A Solution
14.
... rest of
the folks on our brainpower ...
12&12 p.29,
Step Two
15.
... rest of
the players in his own ...
BB p.60,
How It Works
Each person is like an actor who wants to run the whole show; is forever trying to arrange the lights, the ballet, the scenery and the
rest of the players in his
own way.
16.
... rest of
the players that these are ...
BB p.61,
How It Works
17.
... rest of
the program, they wondered why ...
BB p.73,
Into Action
18.
... rest of
the Twelfth Step?
12&12 p.109,
Step Twelve
19.
... rest of
the world would only behave; ...
BB p.62,
How It Works
He is like the retired business man who lolls in the Florida sunshine in the winter complaining of the sad state of the nation; the minister who sighs over the sins of the twentieth century; politicians and reformers who are sure all
would be Utopia if the rest
of the world would only behave; the outlaw safe cracker who thinks society has wronged him; and the alcoholic who has lost all
and is locked up.
20.
... rest of
us had gone through.
12&12 p.23,
Step One
21.
... rest of
us had hit to the ...
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.
22.
... rest of
us were able to see ...
12&12 p.109,
Step Twelve
Looking at those who were
only beginning and still
doubted themselves,
the rest of us were able to see the change setting in.
23.
... rest of
us who, less fortunate, don't ...
12&12 p.99,
Step Eleven
24.
... rest on
our laurels.
12&12 p.85,
Step Nine
25.
... rest on
our laurels.
BB p.85,
Into Action
26.
... rest quietly
with the thoughts of someone ...
12&12 p.100,
Step Eleven
27.
... rest to
earn their livelihood in a ...
12&12 p.155,
Tradition Six
We'd gather up derelicts from skid rows, sort out those who could get well, and make it possible for the
rest to earn their livelihood in a kind of quarantined confinement.
28.
... rest upon
how well and earnestly we ...
12&12 p.34,
Step Three
In fact, the effectiveness of the whole A.A. program will rest upon how well and earnestly we have
tried to come to "a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him."
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