From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... return.
12&12 p.120,
Step Twelve
2.
... return.
BB p.143,
To Employers
3.
... return and
continue my work.
BB p.173,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
When I got the fog out of my brain, I decided that quitting school was very foolish and that I had better return and continue my work.
4.
... return and
take my exams, all of ...
BB p.173,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
5.
... return as
time passed.
BB xx,
Foreword to Second Edition
6.
... return of
happiness and security.
BB p.123,
The Family Afterward
7.
... return, talk
with him.
BB p.144,
To Employers
8.
... return, the
certainty that we are no ...
12&12 p.124,
Step Twelve
Service, gladly rendered, obligations
squarely met, troubles well accepted or solved with God's help, the knowledge that at home or in
the world outside we are
partners in a common effort, the well-understood fact that in God's sight all human beings are important, the proof that
love freely given surely brings a full return, the certainty that we
are no longer isolated and alone in self-constructed prisons, the surety that we
need no longer be square pegs in round holes but can fit and belong in God's scheme of things -- these are
the permanent and legitimate satisfactions of right
living for which no amount of pomp and circumstance, no heap of material possessions, could possibly be substitutes.
9.
... return through
human aid, we had but ...
BB p.25,
There Is A Solution
We were in a position where life was becoming impossible, and if we had passed into the region from
which there is no return through human aid, we had but two alternatives: One was to
go on to the bitter end, blotting out the consciousness of
our intolerable situation as best we could;
and the other, to accept spiritual help.
10.
... return to
alcohol.
BB xxxi(xxix),
The Doctor's Opinion
11.
... return to
health.
BB xxv(xxiii),
The Doctor's Opinion
Convincing testimony must surely come from medical men who have had experience with the sufferings of our members and have witnessed our return to health.
12.
... return to
my former excessive indulgence.
BB p.174,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
I soon discovered that a
couple of drinks would alleviate my gastric distress, at least for a few hours at a time, so it was not at all difficult for me to return
to my former excessive
indulgence.
13.
... return to
the practice of that devotion ...
12&12 p.98,
Step Eleven
It is to be hoped that every
A.A. who has a religious connection which emphasizes meditation
will return to the practice of that devotion
as never before.
14.
... return to
the subject matter of this ...
BB p.143,
To Employers
To return to the subject matter of this book: It contains full suggestions by which the employee may solve his problem.
15.
... return to
the surest help of all ...
12&12 p.103,
Step Eleven
Just saying it over and over will often enable us to clear a channel choked up with anger, fear, frustration, or misunderstanding, and permit us to return to the surest help of all -- our search for God's will, not our own, in the moment of stress.
16.
... return to
us convinced.
12&12 p.23,
Step One
After a few such experiences, often years before the onset of extreme difficulties,
he would return to us convinced.
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