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... sobriety.
BB
Working With Others, p.100
2.
... sobriety.
BB
To Wives, p.118
3.
... sobriety.
BB
To Wives, p.119
4.
... sobriety.
BB
To Employers, p.146
5.
... sobriety.
BB
A Vision For You, p.152
6.
... sobriety.
12&12
Contents (Step One), p.5
7.
... sobriety.
12&12
Step Three, p.39
8.
... sobriety.
12&12
Step Five, p.62
This feeling of being at one with God and man, this emerging from isolation through the open and honest sharing of our terrible burden of guilt, brings us to a resting place where we may prepare ourselves for the following Steps toward a full and meaningful sobriety.
9.
... sobriety.
12&12
Step Nine, p.83
There will be those who ought to be dealt with just as soon as we become reasonably confident that we can maintain our sobriety.
10.
... sobriety.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.106
Here we begin to practice all Twelve Steps of the program in our daily lives so that we and those about us may find emotional sobriety.
11.
... sobriety?
12&12
Step Twelve, p.111
Can we love the whole pattern of living as eagerly as we do the small segment of it we discover
when we try to help other alcoholics achieve sobriety?
12.
... sobriety.
12&12
Tradition Five, p.151
13.
... sobriety.
12&12
Tradition Five, p.153
But as he calmed down, he began to listen while I tried to show him that humility was the
main key to sobriety.
14.
... sobriety.
12&12
Tradition Five, p.154
Years later, this tough Irish customer liked to say, "My sponsor sold me one idea, and that was sobriety.
15.
... sobriety.
Grapevine
Preamble
16.
... sobriety and
a contented, useful life.
12&12
Step Three, p.39
More sobriety brought about by the admission of alcoholism
and by attendance at a few
meetings is very good indeed, but it is bound to be a far cry from permanent sobriety and a contented, useful life.
17.
... sobriety and
a mighty happy life.'
12&12
Tradition Five, p.152
18.
... sobriety, and
emotional turmoil before serenity.
12&12
Step Ten, pp.93-94
How heartily we A.A.'s can agree with him, for we know that
the pains of drinking had
to come before sobriety, and emotional turmoil before serenity.
19.
... sobriety, and
often the difference between life ...
BB
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.561
To those now in its fold, Alcoholics Anonymous has
made the difference between misery and sobriety, and often the difference between life and death.
20.
... sobriety and
peace of mind.
12&12
Contents (Step Five), p.6
21.
... sobriety and
peace of mind than this ...
12&12
Step Five, p.55
22.
... sobriety and
peace of mind will still ...
12&12
Step Four, p.50
By now the newcomer has probably arrived at the following conclusions:
that his character defects, representing instincts gone astray, have been the primary
cause of his drinking and
his failure at life; that unless he is now willing to work hard at the elimination of
the worst of these defects,
both sobriety and peace of mind will still elude him; that all the faulty
foundation of his life will have to be torn out and built anew on bedrock.
23.
... sobriety and
self-discipline had qualified him to ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.32
Then he fell victim to a belief which practically
every alcoholic has --
that his long period of sobriety and self-discipline had qualified
him to drink as other men.
24.
... sobriety begins
to be taken as a ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.128
As soon as his sobriety begins to be taken as a matter of course, the family may look at their strange new dad with apprehension, then
with irritation.
25.
... sobriety brought
about by the admission of ...
12&12
Step Three, p.39
More sobriety brought about by the admission of alcoholism
and by attendance at a few
meetings is very good indeed, but it is bound to be a far cry from permanent sobriety and a contented, useful life.
26.
Sobriety can't
be kept unless it is ...
12&12
Contents (Tradition Five), p.11
27.
... sobriety --
first, last, and all the time ...
12&12
Step Four, p.45
This being so, we think it logically follows that
sobriety -- first, last, and all the time -- is the
only thing we need to work for.
28.
... sobriety for
problem drinkers.
12&12
Foreword, p.16
29.
Sobriety had
to be its sole objective.
12&12
Tradition Four, p.147
30.
... sobriety --
if any -- will be precarious.
12&12
Step One, p.21
31.
... sobriety is
enough.
BB
Into Action, p.82
32.
... sobriety, June
10, 1935.
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.171
33.
... sobriety may
call themselves an A.A. group, ...
BB
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.563
Any two or three alcoholics gathered together for sobriety may call themselves an A.A. group, provided that, as a group, they have no other affiliation.
34.
... sobriety may
call themselves an A.A. group ...
12&12
Tradition Four, pp.146-147
So confident of this had we become that the original statement of A.A. tradition carried this significant sentence:
"Any two or three alcoholics gathered together for sobriety may call themselves an A.A. group provided that as a group they have no other affiliation."
35.
... sobriety may
call themselves an A.A. group, ...
12&12
Tradition Three (Long), p.189
Any two or three alcoholics gathered together for sobriety may call themselves an A.A. group, provided that, as a group, they have no other affiliation.
36.
... sobriety no
matter how isolated you are.
BB
Appendix VI, How to Get in Touch With A.A., p.573
If there is none nearby, you
will be invited to carry on a correspondence which will
do much to insure your sobriety no matter how isolated you are.
37.
... sobriety or
contentment for us.
12&12
Step Four, p.43
Without a willing and persistent effort to do
this, there can be little sobriety or contentment for us.
38.
... sobriety, progress,
and any real ability to ...
12&12
Step Four, p.48
But all who are in the least reasonable will agree upon one point: that there is plenty wrong with us alcoholics about which plenty will have to be done if we are to expect sobriety, progress, and any real ability to cope with life.
39.
... sobriety than
anything else.
BB
The Family Afterward, p.129
During those first days of convalescence, this will
do more to insure his sobriety than anything else.
40.
... sobriety that
we've had.
12&12
Tradition Three, p.139
41.
... sobriety, the
aim of our services is ...
12&12
Tradition Nine, p.175
Just as the aim of each A.A. member is personal sobriety, the aim of our services is to bring sobriety within reach of all who want it.
42.
... sobriety, they
still haven't much chance of ...
12&12
Step Seven, p.70
Nearly all A.A.'s have found, too, that unless they develop much more of this precious quality than may be required
just for sobriety, they still haven't much chance of becoming truly happy.
43.
... sobriety time
behind them was sufficient to ...
BB
Foreword to Second Edition, p.xvii
By late 1937, the number of members having substantial sobriety time behind them was sufficient to convince
the membership that a new
light had entered the dark world of the alcoholic.
44.
... sobriety unless
we give it away.
12&12
Tradition Five, p.151
It is the great paradox of
A.A. that we know we can seldom keep the precious gift of sobriety unless we give it away.
45.
... sobriety, we
are in a short time ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.33
46.
... sobriety which
renewed my wife's hope.
BB
Bill's Story, p.5
Nevertheless, I still
thought I could control
the situation, and there were periods of sobriety which renewed my wife's hope.
47.
... sobriety within
reach of all who want ...
12&12
Contents (Tradition Nine), p.12
48.
... sobriety within
reach of all who want ...
12&12
Tradition Nine, p.175
Just as the aim of each A.A. member is personal sobriety, the aim of our services is to bring sobriety within reach of all who want it.
49.
... sobriety would
be some place like the ...
BB
Working With Others, p.101
His only chance for sobriety
would be some place like the Greenland Ice Cap, and even there an Eskimo might turn up with a bottle of scotch and ruin everything!
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