From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... show.'
12&12 p.153,
Tradition Five
2.
... show?
BB p.61,
How It Works
And do not his actions make each of them wish to retaliate, snatching all they can get out of the show?
3.
... show a
sense of public responsibility.
12&12 p.157,
Tradition Six
It would be a good thing, they believed, for the liquor trade to show a sense of public responsibility.
4.
... show a
willingness to remedy your own ...
BB p.118,
To Wives
If you both show a willingness to remedy
your own defects, there will
be little need to criticize each other.
5.
Show any
longshoreman a Sunday supplement describing ...
BB p.52,
We Agnostics
Show any longshoreman
a Sunday supplement describing a proposal
to explore the moon by means of a rocket and he will
say, "I bet they do it -- maybe not so long either."
6.
... show doesn't
come off very well.
BB p.61,
How It Works
The show doesn't come off very
well.
7.
... show drinking
scenes; we must not go ...
BB p.101,
Working With Others
People have said we must not go where liquor is served; we must not have it in our homes;
we must shun friends who drink; we must avoid moving pictures which show drinking scenes; we must not go into bars; our friends must hide their bottles if we go to their houses; we mustn't think or be reminded about
alcohol at all.
8.
... show everybody
else how.
12&12 p.156,
Tradition Six
9.
Show him,
from your own experience, how ...
BB p.92,
Working With Others
Show him, from your own experience, how the queer
mental condition surrounding that first drink prevents normal functioning of
the will power.
10.
Show him
how they worked with you.
BB p.95,
Working With Others
Show him how they worked
with you.
11.
Show him
that as alcoholics, the writers ...
BB p.112,
To Wives
12.
... show him
that humility was the main ...
12&12 p.153,
Tradition Five
But as he calmed down, he began to listen while I tried to show him that humility was the main key to sobriety.
13.
Show him
the mental twist which leads ...
BB p.92,
Working With Others
14.
Show him
these things in yourself and ...
BB p.118,
To Wives
15.
Show him
you have confidence in his ...
BB p.112,
To Wives
16.
Show him
your copy of this book ...
BB p.112,
To Wives
17.
... show his
contrition for what they suffered.
BB p.126,
The Family Afterward
They expect him to give them
the nice times they used to
have before he drank so much, and to show his contrition for what
they suffered.
18.
... show how
the change came over them.
BB p.51,
We Agnostics
19.
... show, humbly
saying to ourselves many times ...
BB p.88,
Into Action
We constantly remind
ourselves we are no longer running the show, humbly saying to ourselves many times each day "Thy will be done."
20.
... show intolerance
or hatred of drinking as ...
BB p.103,
Working With Others
21.
... show irritation
when reproved for his delinquencies.
BB p.126,
The Family Afterward
He may take small interest in the children
and may show irritation
when reproved for his delinquencies.
22.
... show; is
forever trying to arrange the ...
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.
23.
... show it
to his alcoholic prospect.
BB p.148,
To Employers
24.
... show kindness
where we had shown none.
12&12 p.93,
Step Ten
25.
... show-offs.
12&12 p.185,
Tradition Twelve
26.
... show other
alcoholics precisely how we have ...
BB xiii,
Foreword to First Edition
27.
... show others
who still suffered the same ...
12&12 p.122,
Step Twelve
When, with God's help, we calmly accepted our lot, then we found we could live at peace with ourselves and
show others who still suffered the same fears that
they could get over them, too.
28.
... show ourselves.
BB p.76,
Into Action
We attempt to sweep away
the debris which has accumulated out of our effort to live on self-will and run the show ourselves.
29.
... show that
years before we realized it ...
12&12 p.23,
Step One
By going back in our own drinking histories, we
could show that years before
we realized it we were out of control, that our drinking
even then was no mere habit,
that it was indeed the beginning of a fatal progression.
30.
... show the
underlying reasons why they were ...
BB p.51,
We Agnostics
Once confused and baffled by the seeming futility of existence,
they show the underlying
reasons why they were making heavy going of life.
31.
Show them
that he has entered upon ...
BB p.100,
Working With Others
32.
... show them
the same tolerance, pity, and ...
BB p.67,
How It Works
We asked God to help us show them the same tolerance, pity, and patience that we would cheerfully grant a sick friend.
33.
... show to
his liking?
BB p.122,
The Family Afterward
34.
... show unselfishness
and love under his own ...
BB p.127,
The Family Afterward
He is not likely to get far in any direction if he fails to
show unselfishness
and love under his own roof.
35.
... show up.
12&12 p.167,
Tradition Eight
They just didn't show up.
36.
... show us
how to take a kindly ...
BB p.67,
How It Works
We cannot be helpful to all people, but at least God will show us how to take a kindly and
tolerant view of each and
every one.
37.
... show us
the way of patience, tolerance, ...
BB p.83,
Into Action
So we clean house with the
family, asking each morning in meditation
that our Creator show us
the way of patience, tolerance, kindliness
and love.
38.
... show would
be great.
BB p.61,
How It Works
If his arrangements would only stay put, if only people would do
as he wished, the show would
be great.
39.
... show you
how to create the fellowship ...
BB p.164,
A Vision For You
40.
... show you
how to have.
BB p.117,
To Wives
We urge you to try our program, for nothing will
be so helpful to your husband as the radically
changed attitude toward him which God will show you how to have.
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