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Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... time.
12&12 p.32,
Step Two
Following each, he not only
drinks again, but
acts worse than the
last time.
2.
... time.
12&12 p.47,
Step Four
To see how
erratic emotions victimized us
often took a
long time.
3.
... time?
12&12 p.50,
Step Four
Just how did I
react to these
situations at the
time?
4.
... time.
12&12 p.73,
Step Seven
To get
completely away from our
aversion to the
idea of being
humble, to
gain a
vision of
humility as the
avenue to
true freedom of the
human spirit, to be
willing to
work for
humility as
something to be
desired for itself,
takes most of us a
long,
long time.
5.
... time.
12&12 p.84,
Step Nine
Good judgment will
suggest that we ought to take our
time.
6.
... time.
12&12 p.89,
Step Ten
Then there are those
occasions when alone, or in
the
company of our
sponsor or
spiritual adviser, we make a
careful
review of our
progress
since the
last time.
7.
... time.
12&12 p.92,
Step Ten
Such a
radical change in
our
outlook will take
time,
maybe a
lot of
time.
8.
... time.
12&12 p.93,
Step Ten
The
idea that we can be
possessively loving of
a few, can
ignore the many, and can
continue to
fear or
hate anybody, has to be
abandoned, if only a
little at a
time.
9.
... time.
12&12 p.123,
Step Twelve
They finally
came up with a
conclusion that
shocked
the
A.A. members of that
time.
10.
... time.
12&12 p.134,
Tradition Two
If the
founder and his
friends have
served well,
they may -- to their
surprise -- be
reinstated for a
time.
11.
... time.
12&12 p.168,
Tradition Eight
So somebody had to
look after the place
full time.
12.
... time.
12&12 p.177,
Tradition Ten
Nor does it
mean that the
members of
Alcoholics Anonymous, now
restored
as
citizens of the
world,
are
going to back away from their
individual responsibilities to
act as they see the
right upon
issues of our
time.
13.
... time.
12&12 p.185,
Tradition Twelve
The
charting of a
safe path between these
extremes
took a
long time.
14.
... time.
12&12 p.186,
Tradition Twelve
15.
... time.
BB p.13,
Bill's Story
At the
hospital I was
separated from
alcohol
for the
last time.
16.
... time.
BB p.20,
There Is A Solution
Now these are
commonplace observations on
drinkers which we
hear all
the
time.
17.
... time.
BB p.21,
There Is A Solution
It may
cause him to
die a few
years before his
time.
18.
... time.
BB p.23,
There Is A Solution
Some
drinkers have
excuses with which they are
satisfied part of the
time.
19.
... time.
BB p.26,
There Is A Solution
Nevertheless, he was
drunk in a
short time.
20.
... time.
BB p.32,
More About Alcoholism
But the
difficulty is that few
alcoholics have
enough desire to
stop while there is
yet time.
21.
... time.
BB p.42,
More About Alcoholism
They
grinned, which I didn't like so much, and
then
asked me if I
thought
myself
alcoholic and if I were really
licked this
time.
22.
... time!
BB p.54,
We Agnostics
So, in one way or another, we
discovered that
faith had been
involved
all the
time!
23.
... time.
BB p.75,
Into Action
When we
decide who is to
hear our
story, we
waste no
time.
24.
... time.
BB p.83,
Into Action
They will
change in
time.
25.
... time?
BB p.86,
Into Action
Were we
thinking of ourselves most of the
time?
26.
... time.
BB p.97,
Working With Others
We
seldom allow an
alcoholic to
live in our
homes for
long at a
time.
27.
... time.
BB p.109,
To Wives
But when he gets over the
spree, he
begins to
think once more how
he can
drink moderately
next time.
28.
... time.
BB p.110,
To Wives
We have
enjoyed such
evenings ourselves; we had a
good time.
29.
... time.
BB p.126,
The Family Afterward
He is
straining every
nerve to make up for
lost time.
30.
... time.
BB p.128,
The Family Afterward
He may tell
mother, who has been
religious all her
life, that
she doesn't
know what it's all about, and that she
had
better get his
brand of
spirituality while there is
yet time.
31.
... time."
BB p.151,
A Vision For You
Now and then a
serious drinker, being
dry at the
moment says, "I don't
miss it
at all.
Feel better.
Work better. Having a
better time."
32.
... time.
BB p.567(569),
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience
Most of our
experiences are what the
psychologist William
James calls the "
educational variety"
because they
develop slowly over a
period of
time.
33.
... time.
BB xvii,
Foreword to Second Edition
When the
broker returned
to New
York in the
fall of
1935, the
first A.A. group had
actually been
formed,
though no one
realized it at the
time.
34.
... time.
BB xvii,
Foreword to Second Edition
35.
... time a person imposes his instincts unreasonably ...
12&12 p.44,
Step Four
36.
Time after time, my instructors held up ...
12&12 p.26,
Step Two
Time after
time, my
instructors held up to me
the
basic principle of
all
scientific progress:
search and
research, again and again, always with the
open mind.
37.
Time after time newcomers have tried to ...
BB p.72,
Into Action
Time after
time newcomers have
tried to
keep to themselves
certain facts about their
lives.
38.
... time after time the desperate experiment of ...
BB p.35,
More About Alcoholism
39.
Time after time, their uncertain flames blew ...
12&12 p.139,
Tradition Three
Time after
time, their
uncertain flames blew out and couldn't be
relighted.
40.
Time after time, this apparent calamity has ...
BB p.116,
To Wives
Time after
time, this
apparent calamity has
been a
boon to us, for it
opened up a
path which
led to the
discovery of
God.
41.
... time agnostics who still cling to the ...
12&12 p.96,
Step Eleven
To
certain newcomers
and to those one-
time agnostics who still
cling
to the
A.A. group as their
higher power,
claims for the
power of
prayer may,
despite all the
logic and
experience in
proof of it, still be
unconvincing or quite
objectionable.
42.
... time all his protectors either flee or ...
12&12 p.43,
Step Four
In
time all his
protectors either
flee or
die, and he is once more
left
alone and
afraid.
43.
... time all was well.
BB p.40,
More About Alcoholism
"In this
frame of
mind, I
went about my
business and for a
time all was well.
44.
... time and attention.
BB p.149,
To Employers
45.
... time and energy in trying to carry ...
12&12 p.24,
Step One
46.
... time and place explain to all your ...
BB p.102,
Working With Others
At a
proper time and place
explain to all your
friends why
alcohol disagrees with you.
47.
... time and place where new people might ...
BB p.160,
A Vision For You
Aside from
fellowship
and
sociability, the
prime object was to
provide a
time and place where
new people might bring their
problems.
48.
... time and place would come -- I would ...
BB p.41,
More About Alcoholism
I now
remembered what my
alcoholic friends had
told me, how they
prophesied that if I had an
alcoholic mind, the
time and place would
come -- I would
drink again.
49.
... time, and was plagued by waves of ...
BB p.15,
Bill's Story
I was not too well at the
time, and was
plagued by
waves of
self-
pity and
resentment.
50.
... time, and you're broke.
12&12 p.136,
Tradition Two
But you're
giving this
work
full time, and you're
broke.
51.
... time, are able to stop or moderate, ...
BB p.39,
More About Alcoholism
That may be
true of
certain
nonalcoholic people who, though
drinking foolishly and
heavily at the
present
time, are able to
stop or
moderate, because their
brains and
bodies have not
been
damaged as ours were.
52.
... time as bad as ever.
BB p.33,
More About Alcoholism
Commencing to
drink
after a
period of
sobriety, we are in a
short
time as
bad as ever.
53.
... time, as I opened a letter which ...
BB p.136,
To Employers
Another
time, as I
opened a
letter which
lay on my
desk, a
newspaper clipping fell out.
54.
... time assistant manager of a corporation department ...
BB p.136,
To Employers
55.
... time, at Step Ten, we had begun ...
12&12 p.108,
Step Twelve
By this
time, at
Step Ten, we had
begun to get a
basis for
daily living, and we
keenly realized that we would
need
to
continue taking personal inventory, and
that when we were in the
wrong we ought to
admit it
promptly.
56.
... time avoiding certain alluring distractions of the ...
BB p.162,
A Vision For You
57.
... time behind them was sufficient to convince ...
BB xvii,
Foreword to Second Edition
58.
... time being, we who were atheist or ...
12&12 p.107,
Step Twelve
For the
time being, we who were
atheist or
agnostic discovered that our
own group, or
A.A. as a
whole, would
suffice as a
higher power.
59.
... time, but he failed to enlarge his ...
BB p.35,
More About Alcoholism
All went well for a
time, but he
failed to
enlarge his
spiritual life.
60.
... time, but he usually winds up with ...
BB p.101,
Working With Others
If the
alcoholic tries
to
shield himself he may
succeed for a
time, but he
usually
winds up with a
bigger explosion then
ever.
61.
... time, but I might as well get ...
BB p.6,
Bill's Story
As the
whisky rose to my
head I told myself I would
manage better next time, but I might as well
get
good and
drunk then.
62.
... time, but was not able to bring ...
BB xxxi(xxix),
The Doctor's Opinion
I
talked with him for some
time, but was not able to bring myself to
feel that I had
known him
before.
63.
... time, but will be seen later as ...
12&12 p.111,
Step Twelve
These will
appear as
big setbacks at the
time, but
will be seen
later as
stepping-
stones to
better things.
64.
... time came for him to speak in ...
12&12 p.143,
Tradition Three
At
length the
time came for him to
speak in a
meeting.
65.
... time careers do not professionalize A.A.'s Twelfth ...
12&12 p.170,
Tradition Eight
66.
... time-consumers?
12&12 p.89,
Step Ten
Aren't these
practices joy-
killers as well as
time-
consumers?
67.
... time day in old Winchester Cathedral came ...
BB p.10,
Bill's Story
68.
... time differentiate the true from the false.
BB xxviii(xxvi),
The Doctor's Opinion
The
sensation is so
elusive that, while they
admit it is
injurious, they
cannot after a
time differentiate the
true
from the
false.
69.
... time doing that and it doesn't work.
BB p.87,
Into Action
Many of us have
wasted a
lot
of
time doing that and it doesn't
work.
70.
... time, editors and rewrite men have repeatedly ...
12&12 p.183,
Tradition Eleven
71.
... time factor does distinguish one from another.
12&12 p.89,
Step Ten
Although all
inventories are
alike in
principle, the
time factor does
distinguish one from another.
72.
... time for legalities.
12&12 p.159,
Tradition Six
"But this is no
time for
legalities.
73.
... time for living together has come, it ...
BB p.99,
Working With Others
When the
time for
living together has
come, it will be
apparent to both
parties.
74.
... time) for us to feel that we ...
12&12 p.155,
Tradition Six
The
moment we saw that we had an
answer for
alcoholism, it
was
reasonable (or so it
seemed at the
time) for us to
feel that we might have the
answer to a
lot of other things.
75.
... time good characters will be revived the ...
12&12 p.45,
Step Four
76.
... time had we asked what God's will ...
12&12 p.31,
Step Two
At no
time had we
asked what
God's will was for us; instead we had been
telling Him what it ought to be.
77.
... time has a fractured skull.
BB p.38,
More About Alcoholism
Presently he is
hit again
and this
time has a
fractured skull.
78.
... time has come when he ought to ...
12&12 p.77,
Step Eight
To a
degree, he has already done this when
taking moral inventory, but now the
time
has
come when he ought to
redouble his
efforts to
see how many people he has
hurt, and in what
ways.
79.
... time has passed with no return to ...
BB xxxi(xxix),
The Doctor's Opinion
A
long time has
passed with no
return to
alcohol.
80.
... time he can take a drink without ...
BB xxx(xxviii),
The Doctor's Opinion
There is the
type who always
believes that after being
entirely free from
alcohol for a
period of
time he can take a
drink
without
danger.
81.
... time he did so.
BB p.116,
To Wives
But be
careful not to be
resentful about the
last
time he did so.
82.
... time, he lived in conscious companionship with ...
BB p.56,
We Agnostics
83.
... time he may try to hug the ...
BB p.129,
The Family Afterward
For a
time he may
try to
hug the new
treasure to
himself.
84.
... time," he says, "every A.A. group had ...
12&12 p.139,
Tradition Three
"At one
time," he says, "every
A.A. group had many
membership rules.
85.
... time he tries to look within himself.
12&12 p.49,
Step Four
Both his
pride and his
fear
beat him back every
time he
tries to
look within himself.
86.
... time he was quite shaky.
BB p.40,
More About Alcoholism
This
time he was quite
shaky.
87.
... time help, that was sure.
12&12 p.162,
Tradition Seven
We'd have to have some more
full-
time help, that was
sure.
88.
... time, I couldn't have bought anything else."
12&12 p.154,
Tradition Five
At the
time, I couldn't have
bought anything else."
89.
... time I had completed the course, I ...
BB p.2,
Bill's Story
By the
time I had
completed the
course, I
knew the
law was not for me.
90.
... time I had not thought of the ...
BB p.41,
More About Alcoholism
This
time I had not
thought
of the
consequences at all.
91.
... time I meant business.
BB p.5,
Bill's Story
Before then, I had
written lots of
sweet promises, but my
wife happily observed that this
time I
meant business.
92.
... time I returned to the hospital.
BB p.7,
Bill's Story
After a
time I
returned to
the
hospital.
93.
... time I was beating on the bar ...
BB p.6,
Bill's Story
In no
time I was
beating on
the
bar asking myself how it
happened.
94.
... time in all probability we have gained ...
12&12 p.74,
Step Seven
By this
time in all
probability we have
gained some
measure of
release from our more
devastating handicaps.
95.
... time in life, a compelling desire to ...
12&12 p.117,
Step Twelve
96.
... time in many years.
BB p.80,
Into Action
He
attended church for
the
first time in many
years.
97.
... time in our lives, and strenuously trying ...
12&12 p.96,
Step Eleven
98.
... time in our lives stood among people ...
12&12 p.57,
Step Five
When we
reached A.A., and for
the
first time in our
lives stood among people who
seemed to
understand, the
sense of
belonging was
tremendously exciting.
99.
... time in the past we have made ...
BB p.62,
How It Works
Sometimes they
hurt us,
seemingly without
provocation, but we
invariably find that at some
time in the
past we have made
decisions based on
self which
later placed us in a
position to
be
hurt.
100.
... time in the sort of effort which ...
BB p.19,
There Is A Solution
All of us
spend much of our
spare time in the
sort of
effort which we are
going to
describe.
101.
... time in the Twelve Steps, and the ...
12&12 p.17,
Foreword
102.
... time in the world of spiritual make-believe ...
BB p.130,
The Family Afterward
Those of us who have
spent much
time in the
world of
spiritual make-
believe
have
eventually seen the
childishness of it.
103.
... time is greatly puzzled.
12&12 p.130,
Tradition One
Every
newcomer, every
friend who
looks at
A.A. for the
first time is
greatly puzzled.
104.
... time is not yet, when in reality ...
12&12 p.85,
Step Nine
Or we may just
procrastinate,
telling ourselves the
time is
not
yet, when in
reality we
have already
passed up many a
fine chance to
right a
serious wrong.
105.
... time -- is the only thing we need ...
12&12 p.45,
Step Four
This being so, we
think it
logically follows that
sobriety --
first,
last, and all the
time -- is the
only thing we
need to
work
for.
106.
... time, is the very spirit of Step ...
12&12 p.87,
Step Nine
For the
readiness to take the
full consequences of our
past acts, and to take
responsibility for the well-being of others at
the same
time, is the very
spirit of
Step Nine.
107.
... time it must avoid those dangers of ...
12&12 p.175,
Tradition Nine
108.
... time it takes won't be missed.
12&12 p.89,
Step Ten
Once this
healthy practice has
become grooved, it will be so
interesting and
profitable that the
time it
takes won't be
missed.
109.
... time, it was billboarded throughout the entire ...
BB p.145,
To Employers
110.
... time later, and just as he thought ...
BB p.155,
A Vision For You
Some
time later, and just as
he
thought he was
getting control of his
liquor situation, he went
on a
roaring bender.
111.
... time losers.
12&12 p.30,
Step Two
We who had
won so
handsomely in a
walk turned into all-
time losers.
112.
... time, maybe a lot of time.
12&12 p.92,
Step Ten
Such a
radical change in
our
outlook will take
time,
maybe a
lot of
time.
113.
... time, men and reputation.
BB p.148,
To Employers
114.
... time, my instructors held up to me ...
12&12 p.26,
Step Two
Time after
time, my
instructors held up to me
the
basic principle of
all
scientific progress:
search and
research, again and again, always with the
open mind.
115.
... time newcomers have tried to keep to ...
BB p.72,
Into Action
Time after
time newcomers have
tried to
keep to themselves
certain facts about their
lives.
116.
... time nobody stirred.
12&12 p.144,
Tradition Three
But this
time nobody stirred.
117.
... time, none but the most desperate cases ...
12&12 p.22,
Step One
118.
... time nor limitation.
BB p.10,
Bill's Story
I
simply had to
believe
in a
Spirit of the
Universe, who
knew neither
time nor
limitation.
119.
... time nor take the quantities some of ...
BB p.33,
More About Alcoholism
To be
gravely affected,
one does not
necessarily have to
drink a
long time nor take the
quantities
some of us have.
120.
... time nothing could be seen but two ...
12&12 p.141,
Tradition Three
In that
time nothing could
be seen but
two struggling,
nameless groups of
alcoholics trying to
hold their
faces up to the
light.
121.
... time, nothing seemed so fragile, so easily ...
12&12 p.139,
Tradition Three
122.
... time of it in our world.
12&12 p.70,
Step Seven
Humility, as a
word and as
an
ideal, has a very
bad time of it in our
world.
123.
... time of the day or night.
BB p.97,
Working With Others
Your
telephone may
jangle at any
time of the
day or
night.
124.
... time of the day, whenever we find ...
12&12 p.89,
Step Ten
There's the
spot-
check inventory,
taken at any
time of the
day,
whenever we find ourselves
getting tangled up.
125.
... time of these occurrences, they may actually ...
12&12 p.80,
Step Eight
At the
time of these
occurrences, they may
actually have
given our
emotions violent twists which have since
discolored our
personalities and
altered our
lives for the
worse.
126.
... time on any one situation is to ...
BB p.96,
Working With Others
To
spend too much
time on any
one
situation is to
deny
some other
alcoholic an
opportunity to
live and be
happy.
127.
... time our friend of the hotel lobby ...
BB p.159,
A Vision For You
All this
time our
friend of
the
hotel lobby incident remained in that
town.
128.
Time out of mind we've been dependent ...
12&12 p.160,
Tradition Seven
Time out of
mind we've been
dependent upon somebody, usually
money-
wise.
129.
... time passed.
BB xx,
Foreword to Second Edition
But
great numbers of these
-- about
two out of
three --
began to
return as
time passed.
130.
... time passed, and confidence began to be ...
BB p.5,
Bill's Story
131.
... time passed we found that with the ...
12&12 p.121,
Step Twelve
But as
time passed we
found that with the
help of
A.A.'s
Twelve Steps we could
lose those
fears, no
matter what our
material prospects were.
132.
... time passes.
BB p.8,
Bill's Story
I was to
know happiness,
peace, and
usefulness,
in a way of
life that is
incredibly more
wonderful as
time passes.
133.
... time passes, be more and more on ...
BB p.87,
Into Action
Nevertheless, we find that our
thinking will, as
time passes, be more and
more on the
plane of
inspiration.
134.
... time provided, however, the alcoholic continues to ...
BB p.99,
Working With Others
These things will
come to
pass
naturally and in
good
time provided, however,
the
alcoholic continues to
demonstrate that he can be
sober,
considerate, and
helpful,
regardless
of what anyone says or does.
135.
... time sanity will have returned.
BB p.84,
Into Action
For by this
time sanity will
have
returned.
136.
... time secretaries hired.
12&12 p.161,
Tradition Seven
137.
... time secretary.
12&12 p.191,
Tradition Nine (Long)
138.
... time secretary.
BB p.565(567),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
139.
... time, seemed vitally important.
BB p.154,
A Vision For You
Had he been
successful in his
enterprise, he would have been
set on his
feet financially which, at the
time,
seemed vitally important.
140.
... time, so here's how!"
BB p.24,
There Is A Solution
The
alcoholic may say to himself in the most
casual way, "It won't
burn me
this
time, so here's how!"
141.
... time that of myself I was nothing; ...
BB p.13,
Bill's Story
I
admitted for the
first
time that of myself I was
nothing; that without Him I was
lost.
142.
... time that some form of moral psychology ...
BB xxvii(xxv),
The Doctor's Opinion
143.
... time the desperate experiment of the first ...
BB p.35,
More About Alcoholism
144.
... time, the Presence and Power of God ...
BB p.162,
A Vision For You
Many of us have
felt, for the
first time, the
Presence and
Power of
God within its walls.
145.
... time the recoveries numbered about one hundred.
12&12 p.17,
Foreword
At this
time the
recoveries numbered
about one
hundred.
146.
... time, the struggling groups thought, to place ...
BB xvii,
Foreword to Second Edition
It was now
time, the
struggling groups thought, to place their
message and
unique experience before the
world.
147.
... time, their uncertain flames blew out and ...
12&12 p.139,
Tradition Three
Time after
time, their
uncertain flames blew out and couldn't be
relighted.
148.
... time they will see that he is ...
BB p.134,
The Family Afterward
In
time they will see that he is a new
man and in their
own way they will
let him
know it.
149.
... time, this apparent calamity has been a ...
BB p.116,
To Wives
Time after
time, this
apparent calamity has
been a
boon to us, for it
opened up a
path which
led to the
discovery of
God.
150.
... time, this was a fairly large donation.
12&12 p.162,
Tradition Seven
151.
... time to clear away the wreck.
BB p.123,
The Family Afterward
It will take
time to
clear
away the
wreck.
152.
... time to consider it, my own mind ...
12&12 p.137,
Tradition Two
"Although I
asked Charlie
for a
little time to
consider it, my
own mind was about made up.
153.
... time to keep chasing a man who ...
BB p.96,
Working With Others
We find it a
waste of
time to
keep chasing a
man who cannot or will not
work
with you.
154.
... time to outgrow that serious handicap.
BB p.125,
The Family Afterward
It
takes some of us a
long
time to
outgrow that
serious handicap.
155.
... time to pitiful and incomprehensible demoralization.
BB p.30,
More About Alcoholism
156.
... time to the work.
BB p.19,
There Is A Solution
A few are
fortunate enough to be so
situated
that they can
give nearly
all their
time to the
work.
157.
... time trouble, and this would really do ...
12&12 p.159,
Tradition Six
I
certainly won't be the
guy to
land A.A. in
big-
time trouble, and this would
really do it!"
158.
... time trying to persuade him.
BB p.90,
Working With Others
If he does not
want to
stop drinking, don't
waste time trying to
persuade him.
159.
... time until new perspective, new victory over ...
BB p.125,
The Family Afterward
Husbands and
wives have
sometimes been
obliged to
separate for a
time until new
perspective, new
victory over
hurt pride could be
rewon.
160.
... time vice-president of the American Atheist Society, ...
12&12 p.26,
Step Two
So did a
friend of
mine who
was a one-
time vice-
president of the
American Atheist Society, but he got through with
room to
spare."
161.
... time, we acted as if the money ...
12&12 p.120,
Step Twelve
In our
drinking time, we
acted as if the
money supply was
inexhaustible, though between
binges we'd sometimes go to the other
extreme and
become almost
miserly.
162.
... time we are disturbed, no matter what ...
12&12 p.90,
Step Ten
It is a
spiritual axiom
that every
time we are
disturbed, no
matter what
the
cause, there is something
wrong with us.
163.
... time we had chartered an airplane to ...
BB p.9,
Bill's Story
There was that
time we had
chartered an
airplane to
complete a
jag!
164.
... time we have tried to professionalize our ...
12&12 p.166,
Tradition Eight
Every
time we have
tried to
professionalize our
Twelfth Step, the
result has been
exactly the
same: Our
single purpose
has been
defeated.
165.
... time we now -- sober -- paid our own ...
12&12 p.160,
Tradition Seven
They
figured that it was
high time we now --
sober --
paid our
own way.
166.
... time we played the big shot, we ...
12&12 p.47,
Step Four
We had to see that every
time we
played the
big shot, we
turned people against
us.
167.
... time we sailed for "Over There."
BB p.1,
Bill's Story
In
time we
sailed for "Over
There."
168.
... time we shall handle ourselves like other ...
BB p.24,
There Is A Solution
If these
thoughts occur,
they are
hazy and
readily
supplanted with the
old
threadbare idea that
this
time we shall
handle
ourselves like other people.
169.
... time we stayed broke.
BB p.4,
Bill's Story
This
time we
stayed broke.
170.
... time, we thought, to rebuild our shattered ...
12&12 p.121,
Step Twelve
There
simply wouldn't be
time, we
thought, to
rebuild our
shattered fortunes.
171.
... Time") were carried over from the second ...
BB xii,
Preface
Nine of the
stories in
Part II ("They
Stopped in
Time") were
carried over from the
second
edition;
eight new
stories were
added.
172.
... time when the press of America thought ...
12&12 p.182,
Tradition Eleven
There was
actually a
time
when the
press of
America
thought the
anonymity
of
A.A. was
better for us than
some of our
own members did.
173.
... time when we could commence to see ...
12&12 p.75,
Step Seven
174.
... time will be helpful, but we think ...
BB p.34,
More About Alcoholism
175.
... time wishing for what we have not, ...
12&12 p.67,
Step Six
Else why would we
consume such
great amounts of
time wishing for what we have
not, rather than
working for it, or
angrily looking for
attributes we shall
never
have, instead of
adjusting to the
fact, and
accepting it?
176.
... time with him?
BB p.142,
To Employers
If not, why
waste time with
him?
177.
... time with other alcoholics, but this activity ...
BB p.131,
The Family Afterward
Father will
necessarily spend much
time with other
alcoholics, but this
activity should be
balanced.
178.
... time workers.
12&12 p.168,
Tradition Eight
Neither could
A.A. itself
function without
full-
time workers.
179.
... time you and he have a heated ...
BB p.118,
To Wives
Next time you and he have a
heated discussion, no
matter what the
subject, it
should be the
privilege of either to
smile and say, "This is
getting serious.
180.
... time you get drunk.
BB p.147,
To Employers
You
put me on the
spot every
time you get
drunk.
181.
... time you may have to send for ...
BB p.97,
Working With Others
Another
time you may have to
send for the
police or an
ambulance.
182.
... time you quit.
BB p.91,
Working With Others
If he is not
communicative,
give him a
sketch of your
drinking career up to the
time you
quit.
183.
... time, you see, A.A. was on the ...
12&12 p.143,
Tradition Three
He
browbeat everybody, and
everybody expected that
he'd soon get
drunk -- for at the
time, you see,
A.A. was on the
pious side.
184.
... time you will feel no reluctance to ...
BB p.148,
To Employers
At the same
time you will
feel
no
reluctance to
rid yourself of those who cannot or will not
stop.
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