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... sober.
BB
Bill's Story, p.9
He was sober.
2.
... sober.
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.36
3.
... sober.
BB
Into Action, p.82
4.
... sober.
12&12
Contents (Step Five), p.6
5.
... sober?
12&12
Step Four, p.45
If we were pretty nice people all along, except for our drinking, what
need is there for a moral inventory now that we are sober?
6.
... sober.
12&12
Step Five, pp.56-57
Most of us would declare that without a fearless admission of our defects to
another human being we could not stay sober.
7.
... sober.
12&12
Tradition Three, p.143
8.
... sober A.A.
member has been granted a ...
12&12
Step Six, p.64
It is plain for everybody
to see that each sober A.A. member has been granted a release from this very obstinate and potentially fatal obsession.
9.
... sober and
able to be of this ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.127
10.
... sober and
happy in our A.A. work.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.112
11.
... sober and
help other alcoholics.
BB
Foreword to Fourth Edition, p.xxiv
In any meeting, anywhere, A.A.'s share experience, strength, and hope with each other, in order to stay sober and help other alcoholics.
12.
... sober and
help other alcoholics to achieve ...
Grapevine
Preamble
13.
... sober and
in good spirits.
BB
To Wives, pp.115-116
14.
... sober and
keep emotional balance under all ...
12&12
Contents (Step Ten), p.8
15.
... sober and
to stay sober, you don't ...
12&12
Step Two, p.26
16.
... sober, and
winning back the esteem of ...
12&12
Step Ten, p.92
Now that we're in A.A. and sober, and winning back the esteem of our friends and business associates, we find that we
still need to exercise special vigilance.
17.
... sober at
all.
12&12
Step Seven, p.70
18.
... sober at
all; others will relapse periodically ...
12&12
Step Five, p.56
Some people are unable to stay sober at all; others will relapse periodically until they really clean house.
19.
... sober at
once and remained that way; ...
BB
Foreword to Second Edition, p.xx
Of alcoholics who came to
A.A. and really tried, 50% got
sober at once and remained that way; 25% sobered up after some relapses, and among the remainder, those who stayed on with A.A. showed improvement.
20.
... sober breath.
BB
Bill's Story, p.4
Mercifully, no one could guess that I was to have
no real employment for five years, or hardly draw a sober breath.
21.
... sober but
a few months, he saw ...
BB
A Vision For You, p.154
22.
... sober, considerate,
and helpful, regardless of what ...
BB
Working With Others, p.99
These things will come to pass naturally and in good time provided, however, the alcoholic continues to demonstrate that he can be sober, considerate, and helpful, regardless of
what anyone says or does.
23.
... sober day
by day.
BB
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A., p.570
Learning to depend upon a higher power and absorb himself in his work with other alcoholics, he remains sober day by day.
24.
... sober, does
he not work hard and ...
BB
To Employers, p.139
25.
... sober during
the day, at least up ...
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.177
My phobia for sleeplessness demanded
that I get drunk every night, but in order to get more liquor for the next night, I had to stay sober during the day, at least up to four o'clock.
26.
... sober enough
to earn money, I would ...
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, pp.175-176
Not being a man of means, I knew that if I did not stay sober enough to earn money, I would run out of liquor.
27.
... sober even
through the day, though I ...
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.177
I used to promise my wife, my friends, and my children that I would drink no more -- promises which seldom kept me sober even through the day, though I was very sincere when I made them.
28.
... sober fact
that it does not work ...
12&12
Tradition Eight, p.166
We do not decry professionalism in other fields, but we accept the sober fact that it does not work for us.
29.
... sober, father
usually obeyed.
BB
The Family Afterward, p.131
30.
... sober for
a long stretch, we could ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.33
Most of us have believed that if we remained sober for a long stretch, we could thereafter drink normally.
31.
... sober for
a year or more, becoming ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.34
In the early days of our drinking we occasionally remained
sober for a year or more, becoming serious drinkers again later.
32.
... sober, for
there will be no home ...
BB
Into Action, p.82
33.
... sober for
years, often pay dearly for ...
12&12
Step Five, p.56
34.
... sober himself.
BB
Foreword to Second Edition, p.xvi
Prior to his journey to Akron, the broker had worked hard with many alcoholics on the theory that only an alcoholic could help an alcoholic, but he had succeeded only in keeping
sober himself.
35.
... sober, it
can be understood why we ...
12&12
Tradition Seven, p.160
When you add to this the habitual supposition
that people ought to give money to alcoholics trying to stay sober, it can be understood why we thought we deserved a pile of folding money.
36.
... sober, keep
in emotional balance, and live ...
12&12
Step Ten, p.88
Then comes the acid test: can we stay sober, keep in emotional balance, and live to good purpose under all conditions?
37.
... sober Monday
till after the dinner, and ...
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.179
I got tight that night, stayed sober Monday till after the dinner, and then proceeded
to get tight again.
38.
... sober --
month after month.
12&12
Tradition Three, p.144
39.
... sober nowadays,
don't we often try to ...
12&12
Step Eleven, p.100
40.
... sober only
by the grace of God ...
12&12
Step Ten, p.92
As an insurance against
"big-shot-ism" we can often check ourselves by remembering that we are today sober only by the grace of God and that any success we may be having is
far more His success than ours.
41.
... sober, or
even alive, unless he passes ...
12&12
Tradition Two, pp.132-133
Alone now, he reflects that he may not be able to stay sober, or even alive, unless he passes on to other alcoholics what was so freely given him.
42.
... sober --
paid our own way.
12&12
Tradition Seven, p.160
43.
... sober six
months now?
BB
A Vision For You, p.154
44.
... sober, some
others had.
12&12
Tradition Two, p.137
45.
... sober, that
after all, only a bare ...
12&12
Step Three, p.39
Of course the sponsor points out that our friend's life is still unmanageable even though he is sober, that after all, only a bare start on A.A.'s program has been made.
46.
... sober, that
motive became secondary.
BB
A Vision For You, p.159
Though they knew they must help other alcoholics if they
would remain sober, that motive became secondary.
47.
... sober the
rest of his life.
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.40
He was positive that this humiliating experience, plus the knowledge he had acquired,
would keep him sober the rest of his life.
48.
... sober, though
he's been in here eight ...
BB
A Vision For You, p.156
49.
... sober; unless
I accept life completely on ...
BB
Acceptance, p.417
Until I could accept my alcoholism, I could not stay
sober; unless I accept life completely on life's terms, I cannot be happy.
50.
... sober up
drunks and hand them currency ...
12&12
Tradition Four, p.147
Beginning on the ground
floor there would be a club; in
the second story they would
sober up drunks and hand them currency for their back debts; the third deck would house an educational project -- quite noncontroversial, of course.
51.
... sober, you
don't have to swallow all ...
12&12
Step Two, p.26
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