From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... themselves.
12&12 p.66,
Step Six
2.
... themselves.
BB p.58,
How It Works
Those who do not recover
are people who cannot or will not completely give themselves to this simple program, usually men and women who are constitutionally incapable of being honest with themselves.
3.
... themselves.
BB p.73,
Into Action
They only thought they had lost their egoism and fear; they only thought they
had humbled themselves.
4.
... themselves.
BB p.103,
Working With Others
5.
... themselves?
BB p.107,
To Wives
6.
... themselves.
BB p.114,
To Wives
7.
... themselves.
BB p.156,
A Vision For You
8.
... themselves.
BB p.568(570),
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience
With few exceptions our
members find that they have
tapped an unsuspected
inner resource which they
presently identify
with their own conception
of a Power greater than
themselves.
9.
... themselves.
BB xxvi(xxiv),
The Doctor's Opinion
10.
... themselves again
and we would forgive and ...
BB p.106,
To Wives
11.
... themselves all
over the world.
12&12 p.168,
Tradition Eight
Eight tons of books and literature per month do not package and channel themselves all over the world.
12.
... themselves an
A.A. group provided that as ...
12&12 p.147,
Tradition Four
So confident of this had we become that the original statement of A.A. tradition carried this significant sentence:
"Any two or three alcoholics gathered together for sobriety may call themselves an A.A. group provided that as a group they have no other affiliation."
13.
... themselves an
A.A. group, provided that, as ...
12&12 p.189,
Tradition Three (Long)
Any two or three alcoholics gathered together for sobriety may call themselves an A.A. group, provided that, as a
group, they have no other affiliation.
14.
... themselves an
A.A. group, provided that, as ...
BB p.563(565),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
Any two or three alcoholics gathered together for sobriety may call themselves an A.A. group, provided that, as a
group, they have no other affiliation.
15.
... themselves, and
had they stuck to their ...
12&12 p.178,
Tradition Ten
Had they been left to themselves, and had they stuck to
their one goal, they might have
found the rest of the answer.
16.
... themselves, and
have discovered the joy of ...
BB p.163,
A Vision For You
When a few men in this city have found themselves, and have discovered the joy of helping others to face life again, there will be no stopping until everyone in that town has had his opportunity to recover
-- if he can and will.
17.
... themselves, and
still more in the Power ...
BB xxvii(xxv),
The Doctor's Opinion
They believe in themselves,
and still more in the Power which pulls chronic alcoholics back from the gates of death.
18.
... themselves and
their best results can be ...
BB p.569(571),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
Dr. G. Kirby Collier, psychiatrist:
"I have felt that A.A. is a group unto themselves and their best results can be had under
their own guidance, as a result of their philosophy.
19.
... themselves and
were able to justify the ...
12&12 p.60,
Step Five
Lacking both practice and humility,
they had deluded themselves
and were able to justify
the most arrant nonsense
on the ground that this was what God had told them.
20.
... themselves are
organized.
12&12 p.172,
Tradition Nine
Then, in seeming contradiction, we proceed to create special service boards and committees
which in themselves are organized.
21.
... themselves as
helpless as those who had ...
BB p.33,
More About Alcoholism
Several of our crowd, men of thirty or less, had been drinking only
a few years, but they found themselves as helpless as those who had
been drinking twenty years.
22.
... themselves as
messiahs representing A.A. before the ...
12&12 p.187,
Tradition Twelve
We simply couldn't afford
to take the chance of letting self-appointed members present themselves as messiahs representing
A.A. before the whole public.
23.
... themselves as
'self-insurance.'
BB p.572(574),
Appendix V, The Religious View on A.A.
24.
... themselves before
microphones and cameras.
12&12 p.185,
Tradition Twelve
25.
... themselves certain
facts about their lives.
BB p.72,
Into Action
26.
... themselves cut
off from God's help and ...
12&12 p.105,
Step Eleven
All this should be very encouraging news for those who recoil from prayer because they don't believe in it, or because
they feel themselves cut off from God's help and direction.
27.
... themselves exceptions
to the rule, therefore nonalcoholic.
BB p.31,
More About Alcoholism
By every form of self-deception and experimentation, they will try to prove themselves exceptions to the rule, therefore nonalcoholic.
28.
... themselves for
others.
BB p.159,
A Vision For You
29.
... themselves have
been ill-conceived, but that makes ...
12&12 p.171,
Tradition Eight
True, some of the projects
to which A.A.'s have attached themselves have been
ill-conceived, but that makes not the slightest difference with the principle involved.
30.
... themselves, if
they are to re-create their ...
BB xxviii(xxvi),
The Doctor's Opinion
In nearly all cases, their
ideals must be grounded in a power greater than themselves, if
they are to re-create their lives.
31.
... themselves into
thousands.
12&12 p.142,
Tradition Three
32.
... themselves is
the underlying cause of their ...
12&12 p.44,
Step Four
Alcoholics especially should be able
to see that instinct run wild in themselves is the underlying
cause of their destructive drinking.
33.
... themselves, mother
and children demand that he ...
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.
34.
... themselves neglected.
BB p.126,
The Family Afterward
The family will be affected also, pleasantly at first, as
they feel their money troubles are about to be solved, then not so pleasantly as they find
themselves neglected.
35.
... themselves off,
those who have become prejudiced ...
12&12 p.28,
Step Two
There will be those who have
drifted into indifference, those filled with self-sufficiency who have cut
themselves off, those who
have become prejudiced
against religion, and
those who are downright
defiant because God has failed to fulfill their demands.
36.
... themselves once
more.
BB p.105,
To Wives
Some of us veered from extreme to extreme, ever hoping that one day our loved ones would be themselves once more.
37.
... themselves ought
to be fully supported by ...
12&12 p.190,
Tradition Seven (Long)
Seven -- The A.A. groups themselves ought to be fully supported by the voluntary contributions of their own members.
38.
... themselves ought
to be fully supported by ...
BB p.564(566),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
7. The A.A. groups themselves ought to be fully supported by the voluntary contributions of their own members.
39.
... themselves out
of jobs, family, and friends ...
12&12 p.51,
Step Four
But all alcoholics who have drunk themselves out of jobs, family, and friends will need to cross-examine themselves ruthlessly to determine how their own personality defects
have thus demolished
their security.
40.
... themselves "problem
drinkers," but cannot endure the ...
12&12 p.33,
Step Two
Some will be willing to term themselves "problem drinkers," but
cannot endure the suggestion that they are in fact mentally ill.
41.
... themselves ruthlessly
to determine how their own ...
12&12 p.52,
Step Four
But all alcoholics who have drunk themselves out of jobs, family, and friends will need to cross-examine themselves ruthlessly to determine how their own personality defects
have thus demolished
their security.
42.
... themselves saved
from death, but still floating ...
12&12 p.131,
Tradition One
Like us, they had suddenly
found themselves saved from death, but still floating upon a perilous sea.
43.
... themselves seemed
more intelligent than that.
BB p.54,
We Agnostics
44.
... themselves solely
to the relief of cancer.
12&12 p.150,
Tradition Five
But once these men had hit upon a cure, once it became apparent that only
by their united effort
could this be accomplished, then all of them
would feel bound to devote themselves solely to the relief of cancer.
45.
... themselves that
really got us down.
12&12 p.30,
Step Two
46.
... themselves that
the pain will be lessened ...
12&12 p.78,
Step Eight
But if a willing start is
made, then the great advantages of doing this
will so quickly reveal themselves that the pain will be lessened as one obstacle after another melts away.
47.
... themselves, that
their fellows may enjoy sound ...
BB p.133,
The Family Afterward
48.
... themselves that
they destroy their lives, they ...
12&12 p.64,
Step Six
When men and women pour so much alcohol into themselves that
they destroy their lives,
they commit a most unnatural act.
49.
... themselves, the
rest of us were able ...
12&12 p.109,
Step Twelve
Looking at those who were
only beginning and still
doubted themselves, the rest of us were able to see the change setting in.
50.
... themselves to
any number of ideas, people, ...
12&12 p.120,
Step Twelve
In partnership with others -- women and men -- they can devote themselves to any number of ideas, people, and constructive projects.
51.
... themselves to
attempting to rule their fellows.
12&12 p.43,
Step Four
We have also seen men and women who go power-mad, who devote themselves to attempting to rule their fellows.
52.
... themselves to
be secure in their persons, ...
12&12 p.42,
Step Four
If men and women didn't exert themselves to be secure in their persons, made no effort to harvest food or construct shelter, there would be no survival.
53.
... themselves, to
take a certain attitude toward ...
BB p.50,
We Agnostics
They flatly declare that
since they have come to believe in a Power greater than themselves, to take a certain attitude toward that Power, and to do certain simple things, there has been
a revolutionary change in their way of living and thinking.
54.
... themselves to
their liabilities.
12&12 p.46,
Step Four
This is because people
who are driven by pride of
self unconsciously blind themselves to their liabilities.
55.
... themselves to
this simple program, usually men ...
BB p.58,
How It Works
Those who do not recover
are people who cannot or will not completely give themselves to this simple program, usually men and women who are constitutionally incapable of being honest with themselves.
56.
... themselves to
this sole aim.
12&12 p.178,
Tradition Ten
57.
... themselves to
us as friends.
12&12 p.181,
Tradition Eleven
On almost every newsfront, the men and women of the press have attached themselves to us as
friends.
58.
... themselves --
two emotions quite as unhealthy as ...
12&12 p.44,
Step Four
Demands made upon other people for too much attention, protection,
and love can only invite domination or revulsion in the protectors themselves -- two emotions quite as unhealthy as the
demands which evoked
them.
59.
... themselves were
trying to conceal.
12&12 p.56,
Step Five
They will tell how they tried to carry the load alone; how much they suffered of irritability, anxiety,
remorse, and depression; and how, unconsciously seeking
relief, they would sometimes accuse even their best friends of the very character defects they
themselves were trying to conceal.
60.
... themselves with
as individuals.
BB p.28,
There Is A Solution
We think it no concern of ours what religious bodies our members identify themselves with as individuals.
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