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... spiritual.
12&12 p.190,
Tradition Six (Long)
We think, therefore,
that any considerable
property of genuine use to A.A. should be separately incorporated and managed, thus dividing the material
from the spiritual.
2.
... spiritual.
BB p.564(566),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
We think, therefore,
that any considerable
property of genuine use to A.A. should be separately incorporated and managed, thus dividing the material
from the spiritual.
3.
... spiritual about
A.A. too, and Catholic participation ...
BB p.572(574),
Appendix V, The Religious View on A.A.
There is something spiritual about A.A. too, and Catholic participation in it almost invariably results in poor Catholics becoming better Catholics."
4.
... spiritual about
an art museum or a ...
BB p.572(574),
Appendix V, The Religious View on A.A.
There is something spiritual about an art museum or a symphony, and
the Catholic Church approves of our use of them.
5.
... spiritual activities
if he expects to survive.
BB p.120,
To Wives
Your husband will see at once that he must redouble his spiritual activities if he expects to survive.
6.
... spiritual activities,
they should let him have ...
BB p.129,
The Family Afterward
Though the family does not
fully agree with dad's spiritual activities, they should let
him have his head.
7.
... spiritual advance!
12&12 p.156,
Tradition Six
Why, we thought, our Society of Alcoholics Anonymous might prove to be
the spearhead of a new
spiritual advance!
8.
... spiritual advice,
judges no one's conduct, issues ...
12&12 p.134,
Tradition Two
9.
... spiritual adviser.
BB p.63,
How It Works
We found it very desirable to take this spiritual step with an understanding person,
such as our wife, best friend, or spiritual adviser.
10.
... spiritual adviser,
earnestly asking God's help and ...
12&12 p.86,
Step Nine
Do we lay the matter before our sponsor or spiritual adviser, earnestly asking God's help and guidance -- meanwhile resolving to do the right
thing when it becomes clear, cost what it may?
11.
... spiritual adviser,
we make a careful review ...
12&12 p.89,
Step Ten
Then there are those occasions when alone, or in
the company of our sponsor or spiritual adviser, we make a careful review of our progress since the last time.
12.
... spiritual advisers
that we first felt truly ...
12&12 p.58,
Step Five
Often it was while working on this Step with our
sponsors or spiritual advisers that we first felt truly able to forgive others, no matter how deeply we felt they had wronged us.
13.
... spiritual advisers
the guidance they feel they ...
12&12 p.60,
Step Five
It is worth noting that people of very high spiritual development almost always insist on checking with friends or
spiritual advisers the guidance they feel they have
received from God.
14.
... spiritual after
all, they say.
BB p.128,
The Family Afterward
15.
... spiritual aim.
12&12 p.190,
Tradition Six (Long)
Six -- Problems of money, property, and authority may easily divert us from our primary
spiritual aim.
16.
... spiritual aim.
BB p.563(565),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
17.
... spiritual and
ethical compulsion, because hundreds may ...
12&12 p.133,
Tradition Two
He feels a spiritual and ethical compulsion, because hundreds may be suffering within reach of his help.
18.
... spiritual and
moral perfection; we want to ...
12&12 p.68,
Step Six
Therefore, it seems plain that few of us can quickly or easily become ready to aim at spiritual and moral perfection; we want to settle for only as much perfection as will get us by in life, according, of course, to our various and
sundry ideas of what will get us by.
19.
... "spiritual angle,"
and who still considered his ...
12&12 p.109,
Step Twelve
From great numbers of such experiences, we could
predict that the doubter
who still claimed that he
hadn't got the "spiritual angle," and who still considered his well-loved A.A. group the higher power, would presently love God and call Him by name.
20.
... spiritual answer
and program of action which ...
BB p.42,
More About Alcoholism
"Then they outlined the spiritual answer and program of action which a hundred of them had followed successfully.
21.
... spiritual approach.
BB p.180,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
But this was a man who had experienced many years of frightful drinking, who had had most all the drunkard's experiences
known to man, but who had been
cured by the very means I had been trying to employ, that is to say the spiritual approach.
22.
... spiritual approach,
encourage him to follow his ...
BB p.95,
Working With Others
If he thinks he can do the job in some other way, or prefers some other spiritual approach, encourage him
to follow his own conscience.
23.
... spiritual approach
in such cases as yours.
BB p.43,
More About Alcoholism
Though not a religious
person, I have profound
respect for the spiritual
approach in such cases as yours.
24.
... spiritual approaches,
how frequently did we all ...
BB p.47,
We Agnostics
When people presented
us with spiritual approaches, how frequently did we all say,
"I wish I had what that man
has.
25.
... spiritual as
well as an altruistic plane, ...
BB xxvi(xxiv),
The Doctor's Opinion
Though we work out our solution on the spiritual as well as an altruistic plane, we favor hospitalization
for the alcoholic who is very jittery or befogged.
26.
... spiritual as
well as moral.
BB p.45,
We Agnostics
27.
... spiritual atmosphere
with which the grace of ...
12&12 p.100,
Step Eleven
As though lying upon a sunlit beach, let us relax and breathe deeply of the spiritual atmosphere with which the grace of this prayer surrounds us.
28.
... spiritual awakening.
12&12 p.106,
Step Twelve
Our Twelfth Step also says that as a result of practicing all
the Steps, we have each found something called a spiritual awakening.
29.
... spiritual awakening
about which finally there was ...
12&12 p.109,
Step Twelve
30.
... "spiritual awakening"
are used many times in ...
BB p.567(569),
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience
The terms "spiritual experience" and "spiritual
awakening" are used many times in this book which, upon careful reading, shows that the personality change sufficient to bring about
recovery from alcoholism has manifested itself among us in many different forms.
31.
... spiritual awakening
as the result of these ...
12&12 p.106,
Step Twelve
"Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of
these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs."
32.
... spiritual awakening
as the result of these ...
BB p.60,
How It Works
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of
these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
33.
... spiritual awakening
as there are people who ...
12&12 p.106,
Step Twelve
34.
... spiritual awakening,
the most important meaning of ...
12&12 p.106,
Step Twelve
When a man or a woman has a
spiritual awakening, the
most important meaning
of it is that he has now become able to do, feel, and believe that which
he could not do before on his unaided strength and resources alone.
35.
... 'spiritual awakening'?"
they ask.
12&12 p.106,
Step Twelve
36.
... spiritual axiom
that every time we are ...
12&12 p.90,
Step Ten
It is a spiritual axiom that
every time we are disturbed, no matter what the cause, there
is something wrong with
us.
37.
... spiritual bankruptcy.
12&12 p.107,
Step Twelve
Beginning with Step Four, we commenced to search out the things in ourselves which
had brought us to physical, moral, and spiritual bankruptcy.
38.
... spiritual basis.
BB p.76,
Into Action
As we look over the list of business acquaintances and friends we have hurt, we may
feel diffident about going to some of them on a spiritual basis.
39.
... spiritual basis.
BB p.162,
A Vision For You
Understanding our work, he can do this with an eye
to selecting those who
are willing and able to recover on a spiritual basis.
40.
... spiritual basis
are not always easy alternatives ...
BB p.44,
We Agnostics
To be doomed to an alcoholic death or to live on a spiritual basis are not always easy alternatives to face.
41.
... spiritual basis,
he will also be doing ...
BB p.118,
To Wives
If your husband is trying
to live on a spiritual basis, he will also be doing everything in his power to
avoid disagreement or
contention.
42.
... spiritual basis
of life -- or else.
BB p.44,
We Agnostics
43.
... spiritual basis
or not, the alcoholic member ...
BB p.135,
The Family Afterward
Whether the family goes on a spiritual basis or not, the alcoholic
member has to if he would recover.
44.
... spiritual beliefs
and practices when we might ...
BB p.49,
We Agnostics
We used to amuse ourselves by cynically
dissecting spiritual beliefs and practices
when we might have observed that many spiritually-minded persons of all races, colors, and creeds were demonstrating a degree
of stability, happiness and usefulness which we should have sought ourselves.
45.
... spiritual beliefs,
but now we begin to ...
BB p.75,
Into Action
46.
... spiritual climate
in which A.A. was born, ...
12&12 p.177,
Tradition Ten
That is the spiritual climate in which A.A. was born, and by God's grace has nevertheless
flourished.
47.
... spiritual concepts.
BB p.568(570),
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience
Most emphatically we wish to say that any alcoholic capable of honestly facing his problems in the
light of our experience
can recover, provided
he does not close his mind to
all spiritual concepts.
48.
... spiritual condition.
BB p.85,
Into Action
49.
... spiritual condition.
BB p.85,
Into Action
50.
... spiritual condition
was.
12&12 p.122,
Step Twelve
It did not matter too much
what our material condition was, but it did matter what our spiritual condition was.
51.
... spiritual convictions
or not, they may do ...
BB p.130,
The Family Afterward
One more suggestion: Whether the
family has spiritual convictions or not, they may do well to examine the principles by which the alcoholic member is trying to live.
52.
... spiritual damage
to people.
12&12 p.80,
Step Eight
To define the word "harm" in a practical way, we might call it the result of instincts in collision, which cause physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual damage to people.
53.
... spiritual deficiency
-- he will know of it.
BB p.120,
To Wives
54.
... spiritual demonstration.
BB p.98,
Working With Others
55.
... spiritual development.
12&12 p.36,
Step Three
This, of course, is the process by which instinct
and logic always seek to bolster egotism, and so frustrate
spiritual development.
56.
... spiritual development.
12&12 p.114,
Step Twelve
57.
... spiritual development.
BB p.130,
The Family Afterward
Though some of his manifestations are alarming and disagreeable, we think
dad will be on a firmer foundation than
the man who is placing business or professional success
ahead of spiritual development.
58.
... spiritual development
almost always insist on checking ...
12&12 p.60,
Step Five
It is worth noting that people of very high spiritual development almost always insist on checking with friends or
spiritual advisers the guidance they feel they have
received from God.
59.
... spiritual discoveries.
BB p.77,
Into Action
He is going to be more interested in a demonstration of good will than in our talk of spiritual discoveries.
60.
... spiritual disease,
for we have been not ...
BB p.64,
How It Works
From it stem all forms of
spiritual disease, for we
have been not only mentally and physically ill, we have been
spiritually sick.
61.
... spiritual effort
is involved in avoiding excesses ...
12&12 p.66,
Step Six
62.
... spiritual entity
having but one primary purpose ...
12&12 p.190,
Tradition Five (Long)
Five -- Each Alcoholics Anonymous
group ought to be a spiritual entity having but one primary purpose -- that of carrying its message to the alcoholic
who still suffers.
63.
... spiritual entity
having but one primary purpose ...
BB p.563(565),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
5. Each Alcoholics Anonymous group ought to be a spiritual entity having but one primary purpose -- that of
carrying its message to the alcoholic
who still suffers.
64.
... spiritual experience.
BB p.27,
There Is A Solution
This hope, however, was destroyed by the doctor's
telling him that while his
religious convictions were very good, in his case they did not spell the necessary vital spiritual experience.
65.
... spiritual experience.
BB p.29,
There Is A Solution
66.
... spiritual experience.
BB p.56,
We Agnostics
One night, when confined in a hospital,
he was approached by an alcoholic who had known a
spiritual experience.
67.
... "Spiritual Experience."
BB p.47,
We Agnostics (Note)
68.
... spiritual experience.
BB p.75,
Into Action
69.
... spiritual experience.
BB p.119,
To Wives
Your husband will be the first to say it was your devotion and care which brought him to the point
where he could have a spiritual experience.
70.
... spiritual experience.
BB p.128,
The Family Afterward
71.
... spiritual experience.
BB p.158,
A Vision For You
72.
... spiritual experience.
BB p.568(570),
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience
Most of us think this awareness of a Power greater than ourselves is
the essence of spiritual experience.
73.
... spiritual experience
and a life of sane ...
BB p.130,
The Family Afterward
We have found nothing incompatible between a
powerful spiritual experience and a life of sane and happy usefulness.
74.
... "spiritual experience"
and "spiritual awakening" are used ...
BB p.567(569),
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience
The terms "spiritual experience" and "spiritual
awakening" are used many times in this book which, upon careful reading, shows that the personality change sufficient to bring about
recovery from alcoholism has manifested itself among us in many different forms.
75.
... spiritual experience
and told him about the ...
BB p.157,
A Vision For You
The two friends spoke of their spiritual experience and told him
about the course of action
they carried out.
76.
... spiritual experience,
following a meeting with an ...
BB xv,
Foreword to Second Edition
Six months earlier, the broker had been
relieved of his drink obsession by a sudden
spiritual experience, following a meeting with
an alcoholic friend who
had been in contact with the Oxford Groups of that day.
77.
... spiritual experience,
he conceded, was absolutely necessary, ...
BB p.155,
A Vision For You
A spiritual experience,
he conceded, was absolutely necessary,
but the price seemed high upon the basis suggested.
78.
... spiritual experience,
the alcoholic will find he ...
BB p.131,
The Family Afterward
Being possessed of a
spiritual experience,
the alcoholic will find he has much in common with these people, though he may differ with
them on many matters.
79.
... spiritual experience
they forgave each other and ...
BB p.124,
The Family Afterward
80.
... spiritual experience,
this business of resentment is ...
BB p.66,
How It Works
But with the alcoholic, whose hope is the maintenance and growth
of a spiritual experience, this business of resentment
is infinitely grave.
81.
... spiritual experience,
we ask that we be ...
BB p.79,
Into Action
Reminding ourselves
that we have decided to go to
any lengths to find a spiritual experience, we ask that we
be given strength and direction to do the right
thing, no matter what the personal consequences may be.
82.
... spiritual experience
will conquer.
BB p.44,
We Agnostics
If that be the case, you may be suffering from an illness
which only a spiritual experience will conquer.
83.
... spiritual experiences.
BB p.27,
There Is A Solution
84.
... spiritual experiences(*)
which have revolutionized our whole ...
BB p.25,
There Is A Solution
The great fact is just this, and nothing less: That we have had deep and
effective spiritual experiences(*) which have revolutionized our whole attitude toward life, toward our fellows and toward God's universe.
85.
... spiritual expressions
which you find in this ...
BB p.47,
We Agnostics
86.
... spiritual feature
freely.
BB p.93,
Working With Others
87.
... spiritual feature
on our first approach.
BB p.76,
Into Action
To some people we need not,
and probably should not emphasize the spiritual feature on our first approach.
88.
... spiritual fences.
BB p.135,
The Family Afterward
89.
... spiritual foundation
of all our traditions, ever ...
12&12 p.184,
Tradition Twelve
"Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all
our traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities."
90.
... spiritual foundation
of all our Traditions, ever ...
BB p.562(564),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
Twelve -- Anonymity is
the spiritual foundation
of all our Traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.
91.
... spiritual from
the material."
12&12 p.161,
Tradition Seven
92.
... spiritual ground
before you start and that ...
BB p.102,
Working With Others
But be sure you are on solid
spiritual ground before you start and that your
motive in going is thoroughly good.
93.
... spiritual growth
first -- then and only then ...
12&12 p.114,
Step Twelve
But when we are willing to place spiritual growth first -- then and only
then do we have a real chance.
94.
... spiritual growth
is lopsided, that for an ...
BB p.129,
The Family Afterward
He will perceive that his
spiritual growth is lopsided, that for an average man like himself, a spiritual life which does not include his family obligations may not be so perfect after all.
95.
... spiritual growth,
to effect our first conscious ...
BB p.47,
We Agnostics
At the start, this was all we needed to commence spiritual growth, to effect our first conscious relation with
God as we understood Him.
96.
... spiritual health
and self-respect to hundreds of ...
BB p.572(574),
Appendix V, The Religious View on A.A.
This self-insurance has
resulted in the restoration of physical, mental and spiritual health and self-respect to hundreds of men and women who would be hopelessly down and out without its unique but effective therapy."
97.
... spiritual help.
BB p.25,
There Is A Solution
We were in a position where life was becoming impossible, and if we had passed into the region from
which there is no return through human aid, we had but two alternatives: One was to
go on to the bitter end, blotting out the consciousness of
our intolerable situation as best we could;
and the other, to accept
spiritual help.
98.
... spiritual help.
BB p.27,
There Is A Solution
99.
... spiritual heritage
as futile disputes over property, ...
12&12 p.191,
Tradition Seven (Long)
Experience has often warned us that nothing can
so surely destroy our
spiritual heritage as futile disputes over property, money, and authority.
100.
... spiritual heritage
as futile disputes over property, ...
BB p.564(566),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
Experience has often warned us that nothing can
so surely destroy our
spiritual heritage as futile disputes over property, money, and authority.
101.
... spiritual hilltop;
simply lay out the kit ...
BB p.95,
Working With Others
Never talk down to an alcoholic from any moral or spiritual hilltop; simply lay out the kit of spiritual tools for his inspection.
102.
... spiritual ideas
of the Society were codified ...
12&12 p.17,
Foreword
In it alcoholism was described from the alcoholic's point of view, the spiritual ideas of the Society were codified for the first time in the Twelve Steps, and the application of these Steps to the alcoholic's dilemma was made clear.
103.
... spiritual in
their nature, which, if practiced ...
12&12 p.15,
Foreword
A.A.'s Twelve Steps are a group of principles, spiritual in
their nature, which, if practiced as a way of life, can expel the obsession to drink and enable the sufferer to become happily and usefully whole.
104.
... spiritual infancy
will quickly disappear.
BB p.129,
The Family Afterward
In the midst of an understanding and sympathetic family,
these vagaries of dad's
spiritual infancy will quickly disappear.
105.
... spiritual intoxication.
BB p.128,
The Family Afterward
106.
... spiritual justification
for so doing.
BB p.129,
The Family Afterward
Instead of treating the
family as he should, he may retreat further into himself and feel he has spiritual justification for
so doing.
107.
... spiritual liberation
from this world, people who ...
BB p.55,
We Agnostics
Yet we had been seeing another kind of flight, a spiritual liberation from this world, people who rose above their problems.
108.
... spiritual life.
BB p.35,
More About Alcoholism
109.
... spiritual life
is not a theory.
BB p.83,
Into Action
110.
... spiritual life
through work and self-sacrifice for ...
BB p.15,
Bill's Story
For if an alcoholic failed to perfect and enlarge his spiritual life through work and self-sacrifice for others, he
could not survive the certain trials and low spots ahead.
111.
... spiritual life
which does not include his ...
BB p.129,
The Family Afterward
He will perceive that his
spiritual growth is lopsided, that for an average man like himself, a spiritual life which does not include his family obligations may not be so perfect after all.
112.
... spiritual lines.
BB p.60,
How It Works
113.
... spiritual make-believe
have eventually seen the childishness ...
BB p.130,
The Family Afterward
Those of us who have spent
much time in the world of spiritual make-believe have eventually seen the childishness of it.
114.
... spiritual malady
is overcome, we straighten out ...
BB p.64,
How It Works
115.
... spiritual matters.
BB p.83,
Into Action
116.
... spiritual matters
as we had tried to ...
BB p.48,
We Agnostics
Faced with alcoholic destruction, we soon became as open minded on spiritual matters as we had tried to be
on other questions.
117.
... spiritual matters,
especially when we mention God, ...
BB p.45,
We Agnostics
But his face falls when we speak of spiritual matters, especially when
we mention God, for we have
re-opened a subject which our man thought he had neatly evaded or entirely ignored.
118.
... spiritual matters
is dangerous.
12&12 p.60,
Step Five
119.
... spiritual matters
morning, noon and night.
BB p.128,
The Family Afterward
120.
... spiritual means
to resolve his alcoholic dilemma ...
BB xvi,
Foreword to Second Edition
This physician had repeatedly tried spiritual means to resolve his alcoholic dilemma but had failed.
121.
... spiritual, mental,
and emotional levels is a ...
12&12 p.119,
Step Twelve
The prospective partners need to be solid A.A.'s and long enough acquainted to know that
their compatibility at spiritual, mental, and emotional levels is a fact and not wishful thinking.
122.
... spiritual, mental,
emotional, and physical.
12&12 p.117,
Step Twelve
Nearly every sound human being experiences, at
some time in life, a compelling desire to find a mate of the opposite sex with whom the fullest possible union can be made -- spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical.
123.
... spiritual mode
of living is a most ...
BB p.133,
The Family Afterward
124.
... spiritual nature,
which did not appeal to ...
BB p.178,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
I learned that it was something of a spiritual nature, which did not appeal
to me very much, but I thought it could do no harm.
125.
... spiritual objective
before we try to move ...
12&12 p.100,
Step Eleven
Well, meditation is like that, too; it helps to envision our spiritual objective before we try to move toward it.
126.
... spiritual or
was it medical?
12&12 p.156,
Tradition Six
127.
... 'spiritual' out
of my mouth than he ...
12&12 p.153,
Tradition Five
128.
... spiritual perfection.
BB p.60,
How It Works
129.
... spiritual plane.
BB p.116,
To Wives
130.
... spiritual power,
beauty, and love of which ...
12&12 p.100,
Step Eleven
Let us become willing to partake and be
strengthened and lifted up by the sheer spiritual power, beauty, and love of which these magnificent words are the
carriers.
131.
... spiritual principle
had its first major test.
12&12 p.38,
Step Three
132.
... spiritual principles.
12&12 p.130,
Tradition One
133.
... spiritual principles.
12&12 p.174,
Tradition Nine
His drunkenness and dissolution are not penalties inflicted by
people in authority;
they result from his personal disobedience
to spiritual principles.
134.
... spiritual principles.
BB p.93,
Working With Others
The main thing is that he be
willing to believe in a
Power greater than himself and that he live by
spiritual principles.
135.
... spiritual principles.
BB p.93,
Working With Others
When dealing with such a person, you had better use everyday language to describe
spiritual principles.
136.
... spiritual principles,
first because we must, and ...
12&12 p.174,
Tradition Nine
So we of A.A. do obey spiritual principles, first because we must, and ultimately because we love the kind of life such obedience brings.
137.
... spiritual principles
in such cases was not ...
BB p.156,
A Vision For You
138.
... spiritual principles
in their lives, we began ...
BB p.116,
To Wives
As our husbands began to
apply spiritual principles in their lives,
we began to see the desirability of doing so
too.
139.
... spiritual principles,
there is a much better ...
BB p.97,
Working With Others
Should they accept and practice spiritual principles, there is a much
better chance that the head of the family will recover.
140.
... spiritual principles
to work in every department ...
BB p.116,
To Wives
141.
... spiritual principles
unless we accepted many things ...
BB p.47,
We Agnostics
That was great news to us,
for we had assumed we could not make use of spiritual principles unless we accepted many things on faith which seemed difficult to believe.
142.
... spiritual principles
we think we ought not ...
BB p.83,
Into Action
Unless one's family expresses a desire to live upon spiritual principles we think we ought not to urge them.
143.
... spiritual principles
would solve all my problems.
BB p.42,
More About Alcoholism
144.
... spiritual program.
BB p.126,
The Family Afterward
145.
... spiritual program,
making a better practical use ...
BB p.130,
The Family Afterward
Nothing will help the man who is off on a spiritual tangent so much as the wife who adopts a sane spiritual program, making a better practical use of it.
146.
... spiritual program
of action and rest on ...
BB p.85,
Into Action
147.
... spiritual progress.
12&12 p.93,
Step Ten
Someone who knew what he
was talking about once remarked that pain was the touchstone of all spiritual
progress.
148.
... spiritual progress.
BB p.100,
Working With Others
149.
... spiritual progress;
it never preceded.
BB p.127,
The Family Afterward
150.
... spiritual progress
rather than spiritual perfection.
BB p.60,
How It Works
151.
... spiritual progress,
we saw through these fallacies.
12&12 p.115,
Step Twelve
152.
... spiritual quality
which today keynotes A.A. life ...
12&12 p.187,
Tradition Twelve
153.
... spiritual release,
but liked to tell ourselves ...
BB p.55,
We Agnostics
154.
... spiritual remedy,
ask him to look at ...
BB p.112,
To Wives
155.
... spiritual remedy
for his malady with a ...
BB xvi,
Foreword to Second Edition
But when the broker gave him
Dr. Silkworth's description of alcoholism and its hopelessness, the physician began to pursue the spiritual remedy for his malady with a
willingness he had never before been able to muster.
156.
... spiritual remedy
for his problem.
BB p.39,
More About Alcoholism
157.
... spiritual side
of life a fair hearing.
BB p.50,
We Agnostics
158.
... spiritual side
of our program.
12&12 p.152,
Tradition Five
159.
... spiritual significance.
12&12 p.192,
Tradition Twelve (Long)
Twelve -- And finally, we
of Alcoholics Anonymous believe that
the principle of anonymity has an immense
spiritual significance.
160.
... spiritual significance.
BB p.566(568),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
12. And finally, we of Alcoholics Anonymous
believe that the principle of anonymity
has an immense spiritual significance.
161.
... spiritual status.
BB p.101,
Working With Others
An alcoholic who cannot meet them, still has an alcoholic mind; there is something the matter with
his spiritual status.
162.
... spiritual step
with an understanding person, such ...
BB p.63,
How It Works
We found it very desirable to take this spiritual step with an understanding person,
such as our wife, best friend, or spiritual adviser.
163.
... spiritual structure
can be built.(*)
BB p.47,
We Agnostics
It has been repeatedly proven among us that upon this simple cornerstone a wonderfully effective
spiritual structure can
be built.(*)
164.
... spiritual stuff
makes sense.
BB p.159,
A Vision For You
165.
... spiritual substance
of anonymity is sacrifice.
12&12 p.184,
Tradition Twelve
166.
... spiritual tangent
so much as the wife ...
BB p.130,
The Family Afterward
Nothing will help the man who is off on a spiritual tangent so much as the wife who adopts a sane spiritual program, making a better practical use of it.
167.
... spiritual terms
deter you from honestly asking ...
BB p.47,
We Agnostics
Do not let any prejudice you may have against spiritual terms deter you from honestly asking yourself what they mean to
you.
168.
... spiritual things
made us bristle with antagonism.
BB p.48,
We Agnostics
Many of us have been so touchy that even casual reference to spiritual things made us bristle with antagonism.
169.
... spiritual things,
often enhance such unions.
12&12 p.119,
Step Twelve
Their common suffering
as drinkers, their common interest in A.A. and spiritual things, often enhance such unions.
170.
... spiritual tools
for his inspection.
BB p.95,
Working With Others
Never talk down to an alcoholic from any moral or spiritual hilltop; simply lay out the kit of spiritual tools for his inspection.
171.
... spiritual tools
laid at our feet.
BB p.25,
There Is A Solution
When, therefore, we were approached by those in
whom the problem had been solved, there was nothing left for us but to pick up the simple kit of spiritual tools laid at our feet.
172.
... spiritual understanding.
BB p.127,
The Family Afterward
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.
173.
... spiritual values
had to come first, and ...
12&12 p.71,
Step Seven
We had lacked the perspective to see that character-building and
spiritual values had to come first, and that material satisfactions were not the purpose of living.
174.
... spiritual way
of life.
BB p.160,
A Vision For You
In addition to these casual get-togethers, it became customary to set apart one night a week for a meeting to be attended by
anyone or everyone interested in a spiritual
way of life.
175.
... spiritual way
of life their road will ...
BB p.114,
To Wives
176.
... spiritual way
of living, thus relieving much ...
BB p.159,
A Vision For You
They experienced a few
distressing failures, but in those cases they made an effort to bring the man's family into a spiritual way of living, thus relieving much worry and suffering.
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