From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... sobriety.
12&12 p.39,
Step Three
2.
... sobriety.
12&12 p.62,
Step Five
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.
3.
... sobriety.
12&12 p.83,
Step Nine
There will be those who ought to be dealt with just as soon as we become reasonably confident that we can maintain our sobriety.
4.
... sobriety.
12&12 p.106,
Step Twelve
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.
5.
... sobriety?
12&12 p.111,
Step Twelve
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?
6.
... sobriety.
12&12 p.151,
Tradition Five
7.
... sobriety.
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.
8.
... sobriety.
12&12 p.154,
Tradition Five
Years later, this tough Irish customer liked to say, "My sponsor sold me one idea, and that was sobriety.
9.
... sobriety.
BB p.100,
Working With Others
10.
... sobriety.
BB p.118,
To Wives
11.
... sobriety.
BB p.119,
To Wives
12.
... sobriety.
BB p.146,
To Employers
13.
... sobriety.
BB p.152,
A Vision For You
14.
... sobriety.
Grapevine,
Preamble
15.
... sobriety and
a contented, useful life.
12&12 p.40,
Step Three
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.
16.
... sobriety and
a mighty happy life.'
12&12 p.152,
Tradition Five
17.
... sobriety, and
emotional turmoil before serenity.
12&12 p.94,
Step Ten
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.
18.
... sobriety, and
often the difference between life ...
BB p.561(563),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
To those now in its fold, Alcoholics Anonymous
has made the difference
between misery and sobriety, and often the difference between life and death.
19.
... sobriety and
peace of mind than this ...
12&12 p.55,
Step Five
20.
... sobriety and
peace of mind will still ...
12&12 p.50,
Step Four
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.
21.
... sobriety and
self-discipline had qualified him to ...
BB p.32,
More About Alcoholism
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.
22.
... sobriety begins
to be taken as a ...
BB p.128,
The Family Afterward
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.
23.
... sobriety brought
about by the admission of ...
12&12 p.39,
Step Three
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.
24.
... sobriety --
first, last, and all the time ...
12&12 p.45,
Step Four
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.
25.
... sobriety for
problem drinkers.
12&12 p.16,
Foreword
26.
Sobriety had
to be its sole objective.
12&12 p.147,
Tradition Four
27.
... sobriety --
if any -- will be precarious.
12&12 p.21,
Step One
28.
... sobriety is
enough.
BB p.82,
Into Action
29.
... sobriety, June
10, 1935.
BB p.171,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
30.
... sobriety may
call themselves an A.A. group ...
12&12 p.146,
Tradition Four
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."
31.
... sobriety may
call themselves an A.A. group, ...
12&12 p.189,
Tradition Three (Long)
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.
32.
... sobriety may
call themselves an A.A. group, ...
BB p.563(565),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
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.
33.
... sobriety no
matter how isolated you are.
BB p.573(575),
Appendix VI, How to Get in Touch With A.A.
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.
34.
... sobriety or
contentment for us.
12&12 p.43,
Step Four
Without a willing and persistent effort to do
this, there can be little sobriety or contentment for
us.
35.
... sobriety, progress,
and any real ability to ...
12&12 p.48,
Step Four
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.
36.
... sobriety than
anything else.
BB p.129,
The Family Afterward
During those first days of convalescence, this will
do more to insure his sobriety than anything else.
37.
... sobriety that
we've had.
12&12 p.139,
Tradition Three
38.
... sobriety, the
aim of our services is ...
12&12 p.175,
Tradition Nine
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.
39.
... sobriety, they
still haven't much chance of ...
12&12 p.70,
Step Seven
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.
40.
... sobriety time
behind them was sufficient to ...
BB xvii,
Foreword to Second Edition
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.
41.
... sobriety unless
we give it away.
12&12 p.151,
Tradition Five
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.
42.
... sobriety, we
are in a short time ...
BB p.33,
More About Alcoholism
43.
... sobriety which
renewed my wife's hope.
BB p.5,
Bill's Story
Nevertheless, I still
thought I could control
the situation, and there were periods of sobriety which renewed my wife's hope.
44.
... sobriety within
reach of all who want ...
12&12 p.175,
Tradition Nine
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.
45.
... sobriety would
be some place like the ...
BB p.101,
Working With Others
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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