From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... suggested.
BB p.155,
A Vision For You
A spiritual experience, he conceded, was absolutely necessary,
but the price seemed high upon the basis suggested.
2.
... suggested a
few years ago, that the ...
BB xxviii(xxvi),
The Doctor's Opinion
We believe, and so suggested a few years ago, that the action of alcohol on these
chronic alcoholics is
a manifestation of an allergy; that the phenomenon of craving is
limited to this class and
never occurs in the average temperate drinker.
3.
... suggested as
a program of recovery:
BB p.59,
How It Works
4.
... suggested by
A.A.
12&12 p.35,
Step Three
Already a willingness has been achieved to cast out one's own
will and one's own ideas about the alcohol problem in favor of those suggested by A.A.
5.
... suggested certain
attitudes a wife may take ...
BB p.122,
The Family Afterward
6.
... suggested he
write his first wife admitting ...
BB p.79,
Into Action
7.
... suggested inventory.
12&12 p.45,
Step Four
8.
... suggested, may
be the manifestation of an ...
BB xxx(xxviii),
The Doctor's Opinion
This phenomenon, as we have suggested, may be the manifestation of an allergy which differentiates these people, and sets them apart as a distinct entity.
9.
... suggested that
a conscientious examination is likely ...
12&12 p.53,
Step Four
To these it can be suggested that a conscientious examination is likely to
reveal the very defects the objectionable questions are concerned
with.
10.
... suggested that
he first have a look ...
12&12 p.50,
Step Four
Since Step Four is but the beginning of a lifetime
practice, it can be suggested that he first have a look at those personal flaws which are acutely troublesome and
fairly obvious.
11.
... suggested that
I'd take a hand in ...
12&12 p.153,
Tradition Five
12.
... suggested that
underneath the material world and ...
BB p.49,
We Agnostics
When, however, the perfectly logical assumption is
suggested that underneath the material
world and life as we see it, there is an All Powerful, Guiding, Creative Intelligence, right
there our perverse streak comes to the surface and we laboriously set out to convince ourselves it isn't so.
13.
... suggested that
we ought to become entirely ...
12&12 p.69,
Step Six
14.
... suggested that
you write the Al-Anon Family ...
BB p.573(575),
Appendix VI, How to Get in Touch With A.A.
Should you be the relative or friend of an alcoholic who
shows no immediate interest in A.A., it is suggested that you write the Al-Anon Family Groups, Inc., 1600 Corporate Landing Parkway, Virginia Beach, VA 23456, USA.
15.
... suggested Twelve
Steps to recovery, he almost ...
12&12 p.174,
Tradition Nine
Unless each A.A. member follows to the best of his ability our suggested Twelve Steps to recovery, he almost certainly signs his own death warrant.
16.
... suggested vast
laws and forces at work.
BB p.10,
Bill's Story
My intellectual heroes, the chemists, the
astronomers, even the
evolutionists, suggested vast laws and forces at work.
17.
... suggested what
then seemed a novel idea.
BB p.12,
Bill's Story
18.
... suggested, you'll
be sure to discover one ...
12&12 p.27,
Step Two
If you don't care for the one
I've suggested, you'll be sure
to discover one that suits if only you look and listen.
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