From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... state alcohol
commission wanted a paid researcher.
12&12 p.170,
Tradition Eight
2.
... state drunk
farm wanted a manager who ...
12&12 p.170,
Tradition Eight
3.
... state, Ed
had holed up in a ...
12&12 p.144,
Tradition Three
4.
... state is
known as "two-stepping."
12&12 p.113,
Step Twelve
5.
... state legislatures,
and commissions advertised the fact ...
12&12 p.170,
Tradition Eight
Drunk farms, educational ventures,
state legislatures,
and commissions advertised the fact that A.A. members served them.
6.
... State liquor
agency where perhaps one might ...
BB p.171,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
No beer or liquor was sold in the neighborhood, except at
the State liquor agency where perhaps one might procure a pint if he could convince the
agent that he really needed it.
7.
... state of
absolute helplessness, you now declare ...
12&12 p.25,
Step Two
Having reduced us to a state of absolute helplessness, you now declare that none but a Higher Power can remove our obsession.
8.
... state of
affairs.
12&12 p.106,
Step Twelve
9.
... state of
affairs, am I willing to ...
12&12 p.52,
Step Four
If I am unable to change
the present state of affairs, am I willing to take the measures necessary to shape my life to conditions as they
are?
10.
... state of
consciousness and being.
12&12 p.107,
Step Twelve
11.
... state of
continual disturbance and frustration.
12&12 p.76,
Step Seven
Living upon a basis of unsatisfied demands, we were in a state of
continual disturbance and frustration.
12.
... state of
mental goose-flesh that used to ...
BB p.54,
We Agnostics
13.
... state of
mind and body.
BB xiii,
Foreword to First Edition
We, of Alcoholics Anonymous, are more than one hundred men and women who have recovered from a seemingly hopeless state of mind and body.
14.
... state of
mind existed to the extent ...
BB p.27,
There Is A Solution
I have never seen one single case recover, where that state of mind existed to the extent that
it does in you."
15.
... state of
mind which became more and ...
BB p.172,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
My whole life seemed to be centered around doing what I wanted to do, without regard for the rights, wishes, or privileges of
anyone else; a state of mind which became more and more predominant as the years passed.
16.
... state of
mind which can be described ...
12&12 p.25,
Step Two
17.
... State of
New York where a paper ...
BB p.569(571),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
Following are excerpts from the comments of doctors present at the annual meeting (1944) of the Medical Society of the
State of New York where a paper on A.A. was read:
18.
... state of
our souls here or hereafter?
12&12 p.29,
Step Two
Why should we be bothered
with theological abstractions and religious duties, or with
the state of our souls here or hereafter?
19.
... state of
reasonableness.
BB p.48,
We Agnostics
20.
... state of
the nation; the minister who ...
BB p.61,
How It Works
He is like the retired business man who lolls in the Florida sunshine in the winter complaining of the sad
state of the nation; the minister who sighs over the sins of the twentieth century; politicians and reformers who are sure all
would be Utopia if the rest
of the world would only behave; the outlaw safe cracker who thinks society has wronged him; and the alcoholic who has lost all
and is locked up.
21.
... state of
the nations, nor do we ...
BB p.132,
The Family Afterward
We try not to indulge in cynicism over the state of the nations, nor do we carry the world's troubles on our shoulders.
22.
... state perfect
ideals.
12&12 p.68,
Step Six
23.
... state preceding
the first drink.
BB p.157,
A Vision For You
24.
State that
you know about his drinking, ...
BB p.141,
To Employers
25.
... state, the
wrong-doing of others, fancied or ...
BB p.66,
How It Works
26.
... state where
the most powerful desire to ...
BB p.24,
There Is A Solution
At a certain point in the
drinking of every alcoholic, he passes into
a state where the most powerful desire to stop drinking is of absolutely no avail.
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