From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... 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
4.
... stay dry
anything like a year.
BB p.34,
More About Alcoholism
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
7.
... stay, let
him steer the conversation in ...
BB p.95,
Working With Others
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
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
12.
... stay over
fifteen minutes.
BB p.179,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
Wishing to be polite, though I felt very badly, I said, "Let's make the call," and extracted from my wife a promise that we would not stay
over fifteen minutes.
13.
... stay poor.
12&12 p.165,
Tradition Seven
14.
... 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.
15.
... stay right
size.
12&12 p.122,
Step Twelve
16.
... 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.
17.
... stay sober.
12&12 p.143,
Tradition Three
18.
... 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.
19.
... stay sober
and help other alcoholics to ...
Grapevine,
Preamble
20.
... stay sober
at all.
12&12 p.70,
Step Seven
21.
... 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.
22.
... stay sober
during the day, at least ...
BB p.177,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
My phobia for sleeplessness demanded that I get drunk every night, but in order to get more liquor for the next night, I had to stay sober during the day, at least up to four o'clock.
23.
... stay sober
enough to earn money, I ...
BB p.176,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
Not being a man of means, I knew that if I did not
stay sober enough to earn money, I would run out of liquor.
24.
... 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.
25.
... stay sober,
keep in emotional balance, and ...
12&12 p.88,
Step Ten
Then comes the acid test: can we stay sober, keep in emotional balance, and live to good purpose under all conditions?
26.
... 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.
27.
... 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.
28.
... stay sober,
you don't have to swallow ...
12&12 p.26,
Step Two
29.
... stay whole
and so survive?"
BB p.561(563),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
The "12 Traditions" of Alcoholics Anonymous
are, we A.A.'s believe, the
best answers that our experience has yet given to those ever-urgent questions, "How can A.A. best function?" and, "How can
A.A. best stay whole and so survive?"
30.
... stay whole,
or A.A. dies.
12&12 p.129,
Tradition One
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