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... sense.
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxvi
2.
... sense.
BB
Bill's Story, p.13
3.
... sense.
BB
Into Action, p.77
When it will serve any good purpose, we are willing to announce our convictions
with tact and common sense.
4.
... sense.
BB
Into Action, p.85
5.
... sense.
BB
A Vision For You, p.159
6.
... sense, and
high character.
BB
There Is A Solution, p.26
7.
... sense and
loving kindness is to let ...
BB
Into Action, p.82
It may be that both will decide that the way of good sense and loving kindness is to let by-gones be by-gones.
8.
... sense and
will power that he still ...
BB
There Is A Solution, p.22
What has become of the common sense and will power that he still sometimes displays with respect to other matters?
9.
... sense enough
never to go to the ...
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.176
During the subsequent fifteen years I had sense enough never to go to the hospital if I had been drinking, and very seldom did I receive patients.
10.
... sense had
we ever taken stock of ...
12&12
Step Two, p.32
In no deep or meaningful sense had we ever taken stock of ourselves, made amends to those we had harmed, or freely given to any other human being without any demand for reward.
11.
... sense he
has been transformed, because he ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.107
In a very real sense he has been transformed,
because he has laid hold of a source of strength which, in one way or another, he had hitherto denied himself.
12.
... sense in
the light of the havoc ...
BB
There Is A Solution, p.23
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.
13.
... sense it
includes meditation.
12&12
Step Eleven, p.102
14.
... sense more
deeply the inner meaning of ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.125
With each passing day of our lives, may every one of us sense more deeply the inner meaning of A.A.'s simple prayer:
15.
... sense of
being in partnership or brotherhood ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.116
It became clear that if we ever were to feel emotionally secure among grown-up people, we would have to put our lives on a give-and-take basis; we would have to develop
the sense of being in partnership or brotherhood with all those
around us.
16.
... sense of
belonging that comes to us.
12&12
Step Eleven, p.105
Perhaps one of the greatest rewards of meditation and prayer is
the sense of belonging that
comes to us.
17.
... sense of
belonging was tremendously exciting.
12&12
Step Five, p.57
When we reached A.A., and for
the first time in our lives stood among people who seemed to understand, the
sense of belonging was tremendously exciting.
18.
... sense of
direction flowed into them.
BB
We Agnostics, p.50
In the face of collapse and
despair, in the face of the
total failure of their human resources, they found that a new power, peace, happiness, and sense of direction flowed into them.
19.
... Sense of
duty.
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.181
1. Sense of duty.
20.
... sense of
ease and comfort which comes ...
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, pp.xxviii-xxix
They are restless, irritable and discontented, unless they
can again experience the
sense of ease and comfort which comes at once by taking a few drinks -- drinks which they see others taking with impunity.
21.
... sense of
His presence had been blotted ...
BB
Bill's Story, p.12
But soon the sense of His presence had been blotted out by worldly clamors, mostly those within myself.
22.
... sense of
impending calamity.
BB
Bill's Story, p.6
23.
... sense of
isolation, receive forgiveness and give ...
12&12
Contents (Step Five), p.6
Lose sense of isolation, receive forgiveness and give it; learn humility; gain honesty and realism about ourselves.
24.
... sense of
isolation we've always had.
12&12
Step Five, p.57
25.
... sense of
persecution, and a desire to ...
12&12
Step Four, p.53
26.
... sense of
power and direction, provided we ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.46
As soon as we admitted the
possible existence of a
Creative Intelligence, a Spirit of
the Universe underlying the totality
of things, we began to be possessed of a new sense of power and direction, provided we took other simple steps.
27.
... sense of
public responsibility.
12&12
Tradition Six, p.157
It would be a good thing, they
believed, for the liquor
trade to show a sense of public responsibility.
28.
... sense of
purpose, accompanied by a growing ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.130
This dream world has been replaced by a great sense of purpose, accompanied by a growing
consciousness of the power of God in our lives.
29.
... sense of
real satisfaction when I was ...
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxvii
There was, therefore, a sense of real satisfaction when I was asked to contribute a few words on a subject which is covered in
such masterly detail in these pages.
30.
... sense of
relief at finally facing ourselves ...
12&12
Step Four, p.50
As we persist, a brand-new kind of confidence is born, and the
sense of relief at finally facing ourselves is indescribable.
31.
... sense of
relief that we conclude our ...
12&12
Step Nine, p.85
After taking this preliminary trial at making amends, we may enjoy such a sense of relief that we conclude our task is finished.
32.
... sense of
relief will mount from minute ...
12&12
Step Five, p.62
33.
... sense of
responsibility for others.
BB
To Wives, pp.119-120
34.
... sense of
the word.
BB
Foreword to First Edition, pp.xiii-xiv
35.
... sense of
the word.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.110
36.
... sense of
the word, is needed or ...
BB
Working With Others, pp.97-98
For the type of alcoholic
who is able and willing to get well, little charity, in the ordinary sense of the word, is needed or wanted.
37.
... sense of
timing, courage, and prudence -- these ...
12&12
Step Nine, p.83
Good judgment, a careful sense of timing, courage, and prudence -- these are the qualities we shall need when we take Step Nine.
38.
... sense of
victory, followed by such a ...
BB
Bill's Story, p.14
39.
... sense practically
nobody has it.
12&12
Step Six, p.65
40.
... sense that
real tolerance of other people's ...
BB
There Is A Solution, p.19
Most of us sense that real tolerance of other people's shortcomings and
viewpoints and a respect for their opinions
are attitudes which make us
more useful to others.
41.
... sense that
these drinkers are abnormal, but ...
BB
There Is A Solution, p.23
In a vague way their families and friends sense that these drinkers are abnormal, but everybody hopefully awaits the day when the sufferer will rouse himself from his lethargy
and assert his power of will.
42.
... sense that
you can prove a straight ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.54
We could not prove life in the
sense that you can prove a straight line is the shortest distance between two points, yet, there it was.
43.
... sense the
flow of His Spirit into ...
BB
Into Action, p.85
44.
... sense, their
will power?
BB
To Wives, p.107
45.
... sense these
things, they will not take ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.127
If they sense these things,
they will not take so seriously his periods of crankiness, depression,
or apathy, which will disappear when there is tolerance, love, and spiritual understanding.
46.
... sense to
him.
BB
Working With Others, p.93
47.
... sense we
find it necessary, until they ...
BB
Into Action, p.73
But they had not learned enough of humility, fearlessness and honesty, in the sense we find it necessary, until they told someone else all their life story.
48.
... sense, we
still suffered many of the ...
12&12
Step Five, p.57
But we soon discovered
that while we weren't alone any more in a social sense, we still suffered many of the old pangs of anxious apartness.
49.
... sense whatever
can its members govern or ...
12&12
Tradition Two, p.134
50.
... sense when
a real tosspot calls a ...
12&12
Step Eight, p.78
51.
... sense, which
makes it virtually impossible for ...
BB
There Is A Solution, p.22
We are equally positive
that once he takes any alcohol whatever into his system, something happens, both in the bodily and mental sense, which makes it virtually impossible for him to stop.
52.
... sense would
thus become uncommon sense.
BB
Bill's Story, p.13
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