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... thinking.
12&12 p.29,
Step Two
Since we were brighter than most folks (so we thought), the spoils of victory would be
ours for the thinking.
2.
... thinking.
12&12 p.30,
Step Two
3.
... thinking.
12&12 p.57,
Step Five
Either we were shy, and dared not draw near others, or we were apt to be noisy good fellows craving attention and companionship, but never getting it -- at least to our way of thinking.
4.
... thinking.
12&12 p.60,
Step Five
The second difficulty
is this: what comes to us alone may be garbled by our
own rationalization
and wishful thinking.
5.
... thinking.
12&12 p.119,
Step Twelve
The prospective partners need to be solid A.A.'s and long enough acquainted to know that
their compatibility at spiritual, mental, and emotional levels is a fact and not wishful thinking.
6.
... thinking.
12&12 p.185,
Tradition Twelve
7.
... thinking?
BB p.35,
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Of what is he thinking?
8.
... thinking.
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.
9.
... thinking.
BB p.52,
We Agnostics
10.
... thinking.
BB p.134,
The Family Afterward
This may hang on for months,
long after their mother has accepted dad's new way
of living and thinking.
11.
... thinking.
BB p.163,
A Vision For You
We know what you are thinking.
12.
... thinking about
humility commences to have a ...
12&12 p.74,
Step Seven
But when we have taken a square look at some of these defects, have discussed
them with another, and have become willing to have them
removed, our thinking about
humility commences to
have a wider meaning.
13.
... thinking about
our day we may face ...
BB p.86,
Into Action
14.
... thinking and
action have hurt us and ...
12&12 p.55,
Step Five
If we have swept the searchlight of Step Four back and forth over our careers, and it has revealed in stark relief those experiences we'd rather
not remember, if we have come to know how wrong thinking and action have hurt us and others, then the need to quit living by ourselves with those tormenting ghosts of yesterday gets more urgent than ever.
15.
... thinking and
depression vanish in a twinkling.
BB p.133,
The Family Afterward
Now about health: A body badly burned by alcohol does not
often recover overnight nor do twisted thinking and depression vanish in a twinkling.
16.
... thinking and
doing are the habits of ...
BB p.118,
To Wives
17.
... thinking and
honest appraisal.
12&12 p.54,
Step Four
18.
... thinking and
the human tendency to rationalize ...
12&12 p.104,
Step Eleven
He may have forgotten the possibility that his own wishful thinking and the human tendency to rationalize have distorted his so-called guidance.
19.
... thinking and
you hate to meet your ...
BB p.114,
To Wives
If your husband is a drinker, you probably worry over what other people are thinking and you hate to meet your friends.
20.
... thinking by
the new God-consciousness within.
BB p.13,
Bill's Story
21.
... thinking, didn't
we?
12&12 p.100,
Step Eleven
22.
... thinking, directly
caused by the action of ...
BB p.140,
To Employers
Can it be appreciated that he has been a victim of crooked thinking, directly caused by the action of alcohol on his brain?
23.
... thinking dominates
an alcoholic who repeats time ...
BB p.35,
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What sort of thinking dominates an alcoholic
who repeats time after time the desperate experiment
of the first drink?
24.
... thinking, especially
asking that it be divorced ...
BB p.86,
Into Action
Before we begin, we ask God to direct our thinking, especially asking that it
be divorced from self-pity, dishonest or self-seeking motives.
25.
... thinking had
to be abandoned.
BB p.48,
We Agnostics
26.
... thinking has
been characteristic of every single ...
BB p.37,
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To us it is not far-fetched,
for this kind of thinking has
been characteristic of every single one of us.
27.
... thinking how
they might present their discovery ...
BB p.159,
A Vision For You
Seeing much of each other, scarce an evening passed that someone's home did not shelter a little gathering of men and women, happy in their release, and
constantly thinking how
they might present their discovery to some newcomer.
28.
... thinking, imaginative
and likeable?
BB p.139,
To Employers
29.
... thinking is
cleared of wrong motives.
BB p.86,
Into Action
Our thought-life will be placed on a much higher plane when our thinking is cleared of wrong motives.
30.
... thinking is
fully established in an individual ...
BB p.24,
There Is A Solution
When this sort of thinking is
fully established in
an individual with alcoholic tendencies,
he has probably placed
himself beyond human aid, and unless locked up, may die or go permanently insane.
31.
... thinking it
over.
BB p.158,
A Vision For You
He had been thinking it over.
32.
... thinking lost
out because God deserted us.
12&12 p.31,
Step Two
More often, though, we had met up with some major calamity, and to our way of
thinking lost out because God deserted us.
33.
... thinking of
ourselves most of the time?
BB p.86,
Into Action
34.
... thinking of
the disgrace and hard times ...
BB p.116,
To Wives
You may be afraid your husband will lose his position; you are
thinking of the disgrace
and hard times which will befall you and the children.
35.
... thinking of
what we could do for ...
BB p.86,
Into Action
36.
... thinking or
advice.
BB p.70,
How It Works
37.
... thinking, solid
honesty, and genuine humility.
12&12 p.59,
Step Five
Only by discussing ourselves, holding back nothing, only by being willing to take advice and accept direction could we
set foot on the road to straight thinking, solid honesty, and genuine humility.
38.
... thinking takes
no real account of the ...
12&12 p.36,
Step Three
39.
... thinking was
soft and mushy when we ...
BB p.53,
We Agnostics
Hence we are at pains to tell why we think our present faith is reasonable, why we think it more sane and logical to believe than not
to believe, why we say our former thinking was soft and mushy when we threw up our hands in doubt and said, "We don't know."
40.
... thinking we
believe this universe needs no ...
BB p.49,
We Agnostics
We read wordy books and indulge in windy arguments, thinking we believe this universe needs no God to explain it.
41.
... thinking, when
enchanted by a starlit night, ...
BB p.46,
We Agnostics
Yet, in other moments, we found ourselves thinking, when enchanted by a starlit night, "Who, then, made all
this?"
42.
... thinking will,
as time passes, be more ...
BB p.87,
Into Action
Nevertheless, we find
that our thinking will, as time passes, be more and more on the plane of inspiration.
43.
... thinking: "Yes,
what you tell us is ...
BB p.38,
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