From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... Three.
12&12 p.35,
Step Three
Every man and woman who has joined A.A. and intends to stick has, without realizing it, made a beginning on Step Three.
2.
... Three.
12&12 p.41,
Step Three
Once we have come into agreement with these ideas,
it is really easy to begin the practice of Step Three.
3.
... Three.
12&12 p.142,
Tradition Three
4.
... Three.
BB p.63,
How It Works
5.
... Three.
BB p.156,
A Vision For You (Note)
6.
... three.
BB xvii,
Foreword to Second Edition
7.
... three absolutely
blank books.
BB p.174,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
8.
... three alcoholics
gathered together for sobriety may ...
12&12 p.146,
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."
9.
... three alcoholics
gathered together for sobriety may ...
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.
10.
... three alcoholics
gathered together for sobriety may ...
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.
11.
... three alcoholics
in that town, who now ...
BB p.158,
A Vision For You
So, you see, there were three
alcoholics in that town,
who now felt they had to give to others what they had found, or be sunk.
12.
... three --
began to return as time passed.
BB xx,
Foreword to Second Edition
13.
... Three calls
for affirmative action, for it ...
12&12 p.34,
Step Three
Like all the remaining Steps, Step Three calls for affirmative action, for
it is only by action that we can cut away the self-will which has always blocked the entry of God -- or, if you like, a Higher Power -- into our lives.
14.
... three corporations
and became president of them ...
12&12 p.148,
Tradition Four
15.
... three drinks
-- no more!
BB p.154,
A Vision For You
16.
... three drunks
looked hungrily on from the ...
12&12 p.137,
Tradition Two
Arriving home, I found Lois cooking as usual, while three drunks looked hungrily on from the kitchen door.
17.
... three exceptional
men lost to this world ...
BB p.137,
To Employers
Here were three exceptional men lost to this world because I did not understand alcoholism
as I do now.
18.
... three floors.
12&12 p.148,
Tradition Four
19.
... three, got
to be routine.
BB p.5,
Bill's Story
20.
... three groups.
12&12 p.17,
Foreword
21.
... three had
succeeded with seven more.
BB p.159,
A Vision For You
22.
... three high
hurdles, the course ahead began ...
12&12 p.47,
Step Four
23.
... three huge
volumes of a financial reference ...
BB p.2,
Bill's Story
We gave up our positions and off we roared on a motorcycle,
the sidecar stuffed with
tent, blankets, a change of clothes, and three huge volumes of a financial reference service.
24.
... three husband,
you may be in luck.
BB p.113,
To Wives
25.
... Three is
given a determined and persistent ...
12&12 p.40,
Step Three
Then it is explained that other Steps of the A.A. program can be practiced with success
only when Step Three is given a determined and persistent trial.
26.
... Three is
like the opening of a ...
12&12 p.34,
Step Three
Practicing Step Three is like the opening of a door which to all
appearances is still
closed and locked.
27.
... three languages.
BB xxiii,
Foreword to Fourth Edition
28.
... three little
mottoes which are apropos.
BB p.135,
The Family Afterward
29.
... three months.
BB p.159,
A Vision For You
He was there three months.
30.
... three-months leave
of absence, has taken a ...
BB p.138,
To Employers
He has just returned from
a three-months leave of absence, has taken a cure, looks fine, and to clinch the matter, the board of directors told him this was his last chance."
31.
... Three opens
the door.
12&12 p.40,
Step Three
To make this increasingly possible
is the purpose of A.A.'s Twelve Steps, and Step Three opens the door.
32.
... three or
four months the goose hung ...
BB p.7,
Bill's Story
33.
Three --
Our membership ought to include all ...
12&12 p.189,
Tradition Three (Long)
34.
... three parts,
under the same headings that ...
BB xii,
Preface
"Bill's Story," "Doctor Bob's Nightmare," and one other personal history from the first edition were retained intact; three were edited and one of these was retitled; new versions of two stories were written, with
new titles; thirty completely new stories were added; and the story section was divided into
three parts, under the same headings that are used now.
35.
... three personal
experiences.
BB p.29,
There Is A Solution
36.
... three pertinent
ideas:
BB p.60,
How It Works
Our description of the alcoholic, the chapter to
the agnostic, and our personal adventures before and after make clear three pertinent ideas:
37.
... Three represents
our first attempt to do ...
12&12 p.34,
Step Three
38.
... three sections
of personal stories as follows.
BB xii,
Preface
This fourth edition includes the Twelve Concepts for World Service and revises the
three sections of personal stories as follows.
39.
... three spoke
in a very different voice.
12&12 p.142,
Tradition Three
40.
... three statements.
12&12 p.26,
Step Two
41.
... three successful
groups emerged -- the first at ...
12&12 p.16,
Foreword
After three years of trial and error in selecting the most
workable tenets upon which the Society could
be based, and after a large amount of failure in getting alcoholics to recover,
three successful groups emerged -- the first at Akron, the second at New York, and the third at Cleveland.
42.
... "Three Talks
to Medical Societies by Bill ...
BB p.570(572),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
(This address is now available in pamphlet form at nominal cost through most A.A. groups or from Box 459, Grand Central Station, New York, NY 10163, under the title "Three Talks to Medical Societies by Bill W." -- formerly called "Bill on Alcoholism" and earlier "Alcoholism the
Illness.")
43.
Three --
The only requirement for A.A. membership ...
BB p.562(564),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
44.
Three: This
husband has gone much further ...
BB p.109,
To Wives
45.
... three times,
I got drunk on the ...
BB p.157,
A Vision For You
46.
... three visitors.
BB p.159,
A Vision For You
He had three visitors.
47.
... Three, was
simplicity itself.
12&12 p.141,
Tradition Three
48.
... Three we
turned our will and our ...
12&12 p.107,
Step Twelve
Consequently, in Step
Three we turned our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
49.
... three weeks;
then I went to Atlantic ...
BB p.179,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
This dry spell lasted for about three weeks; then I went to Atlantic City to attend several days' meeting of a national society of which
I was a member.
50.
... three were
edited and one of these ...
BB xi,
Preface
"Bill's Story," "Doctor Bob's Nightmare," and one other personal history from the first edition were retained intact; three were edited and one of these was retitled; new versions of two stories were written, with
new titles; thirty completely new stories were added; and the story section was divided into
three parts, under the same headings that are used now.
51.
... three, where
the alcoholic sickness is discussed ...
BB p.140,
To Employers
If this presents difficulty, re-reading chapters two and three, where the alcoholic sickness is discussed at length might
be worth while.
52.
... Three, which
is that we decided to ...
BB p.60,
How It Works
Being convinced, we were
at Step Three, which is that
we decided to turn our will and our life over to God as we understood Him.
53.
... three would
do for a start.
12&12 p.147,
Tradition Four
In imagination the gleaming center was to go up several stories more, but three would do for a start.
54.
... three years.
BB p.173,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
55.
Three years
ago, when my head doctor, ...
12&12 p.136,
Tradition Two
Three years ago, when my head doctor, Silkworth, began to tell me of the idea of helping drunks by spirituality,
I thought it was crackpot stuff, but I've changed my mind.
56.
... three years,
and this in the face ...
BB p.138,
To Employers
I pointed out that I had had
nothing to drink whatever for three years, and this in the face of
difficulties that would have made nine out of ten men drink their heads off.
57.
... three years
I spent in Boston, Chicago, ...
BB p.172,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
The next three years I spent in Boston, Chicago, and Montreal in the employ of a
large manufacturing
concern, selling railway supplies, gas engines of all sorts, and many other items of heavy hardware.
58.
... three years
of this, I wound up ...
BB p.175,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
After three years of this, I wound up in the local hospital where they attempted to help me, but I
would get my friends to smuggle me a quart, or I
would steal the alcohol
about the building, so that I got rapidly worse.
59.
... three years
of trial and error in ...
12&12 p.16,
Foreword
After three years of trial and error in selecting the most
workable tenets upon which the Society could
be based, and after a large amount of failure in getting alcoholics to recover,
three successful groups emerged -- the first at Akron, the second at New York, and the third at Cleveland.
60.
... three years
old, an event occurred demonstrating ...
12&12 p.135,
Tradition Two
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