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1.
... stay alive.
12&12 p.64,
Step Six
He did not
design man to
destroy himself by
alcohol,
but He did
give man instincts to
help him to
stay alive.
2.
... stay alive
himself.
12&12 p.24,
Step One
No, the
average alcoholic,
self-
centered in the
extreme,
doesn't
care for this
prospect --
unless he has
to do these things in
order to
stay alive himself.
3.
... stay away,
whichever seems best.
BB p.102,
Working With Others
Go or
stay away,
whichever seems best.
4.
... stay dry
anything like a year.
BB p.34,
More About Alcoholism
We
think few, to whom this book will
appeal, can
stay dry anything like a
year.
5.
... stay home
and make up the deficiency.
BB p.131,
The Family Afterward
Instead of
developing new
channels of
activity for
themselves,
mother and
children demand that he
stay home and make up the
deficiency.
6.
... stay lazy.
12&12 p.49,
Step Four
And with
genuine alarm at
the
prospect of
work, we
stay lazy.
7.
... stay, let
him steer the conversation in ...
BB p.95,
Working With Others
If you do
stay, let him
steer
the
conversation in any
direction he
likes.
8.
... stay married;
it is how to be ...
12&12 p.117,
Step Twelve
Our
main problem is not how
we are to
stay married; it
is how to be more
happily married by
eliminating
the
severe emotional twists that have so often
stemmed from
alcoholism.
9.
... stay on
the water wagon?
BB p.22,
There Is A Solution
Why can't he
stay on the
water wagon?
10.
... stay on
the water wagon even when ...
BB p.109,
To Wives
Two: Your
husband is
showing lack of
control, for he is
unable to
stay on the
water wagon even when he
wants to.
11.
... stay out
of this controversy.
BB p.69,
How It Works
We
want to
stay out of this
controversy.
12.
... stay poor.
12&12 p.165,
Tradition Seven
They
declared for the
principle that
A.A. must always
stay poor.
13.
... stay put,
if only people would do ...
BB p.61,
How It Works
If his
arrangements would only
stay put, if only people would do as
he
wished, the
show would be
great.
14.
... stay right
size.
12&12 p.122,
Step Twelve
He's
willing to
stay right size.
15.
... stay sober.
12&12 p.56,
Step Five
Most of us would
declare that without a
fearless admission of
our
defects to another
human being we could not
stay sober.
16.
... stay sober.
12&12 p.143,
Tradition Three
17.
... stay sober
and help other alcoholics.
BB xxiv,
Foreword to Fourth Edition
In any
meeting, anywhere,
A.A.'s
share experience,
strength,
and
hope with each other, in
order to
stay sober and
help other
alcoholics.
18.
... stay sober
and help other alcoholics to ...
Grapevine,
Preamble
19.
... stay sober
at all.
12&12 p.70,
Step Seven
For without some
degree of
humility, no
alcoholic
can
stay sober at all.
20.
... stay sober
at all; others will relapse ...
12&12 p.56,
Step Five
Some people are
unable to
stay sober at all; others will
relapse periodically
until they really
clean house.
21.
... stay sober,
it can be understood why ...
12&12 p.160,
Tradition Seven
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.
22.
... stay sober,
keep in emotional balance, and ...
12&12 p.88,
Step Ten
23.
... stay sober,
or even alive, unless he ...
12&12 p.133,
Tradition Two
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.
24.
... stay sober;
unless I accept life completely ...
BB p.417(449),
Acceptance
Until I could
accept my
alcoholism, I could not
stay sober;
unless I
accept life completely on
life's
terms, I cannot be
happy.
25.
... stay sober,
you don't have to swallow ...
12&12 p.26,
Step Two
Second, to get
sober and to
stay sober, you don't have to
swallow all of
Step Two right now.
26.
... stay whole
and so survive?"
BB p.561(563),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
27.
... stay whole,
or A.A. dies.
12&12 p.129,
Tradition One
We
stay whole, or
A.A. dies.
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