From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... try.
12&12 p.153,
Tradition Five
2.
... try.
12&12 p.157,
Tradition Six
3.
... try.
BB p.28,
There Is A Solution
If what we have learned and felt and seen means anything at all, it means that all of us, whatever our race, creed, or color are the children of a living Creator with whom we may form
a relationship upon simple and understandable terms
as soon as we are willing
and honest enough to try.
4.
... try.
BB p.111,
To Wives
5.
... try again.
BB p.96,
Working With Others
6.
... try and
get them to see it!(*)
BB p.34,
More About Alcoholism
7.
... try and
help me and to help ...
12&12 p.152,
Tradition Five
"Still dubious, he demanded, 'Do you really mean the only reason you are here is to try and help me and to help yourself?'
8.
... try as
best we know how to ...
12&12 p.65,
Step Six
9.
... try beer
and wine?"
BB p.20,
There Is A Solution
10.
... try, exactly
how can he turn his ...
12&12 p.35,
Step Three
No matter how much one wishes to try, exactly how can he turn his own will and his own life over to the care of whatever God he thinks there is?
11.
... try for
better things tomorrow will be ...
12&12 p.95,
Step Ten
An honest regret for harms done, a genuine gratitude for blessings received, and
a willingness to try
for better things tomorrow will be the permanent assets we shall seek.
12.
... try hard
to seek them out.
12&12 p.120,
Step Twelve
13.
... try, however
falteringly, to find and do ...
12&12 p.98,
Step Eleven
And we will be comforted
and assured that our own destiny in that realm will be secure for so long as we try, however falteringly, to find and
do the will of our own Creator.
14.
... try humility
in seeking the removal of ...
12&12 p.76,
Step Seven
It is really saying to us
that we now ought to be willing to try humility in seeking the removal of our other shortcomings just as we
did when we admitted that we were powerless over alcohol, and came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves
could restore us to sanity.
15.
... try it
by himself for once; maybe ...
12&12 p.144,
Tradition Three
16.
Try it
more than once.
BB p.31,
More About Alcoholism
17.
... try leaving
liquor alone for one year.
BB p.34,
More About Alcoholism
If anyone questions whether he has entered this
dangerous area, let him try leaving liquor alone for one year.
18.
Try not
to condemn your alcoholic husband ...
BB p.108,
To Wives
19.
... try not
to indulge in cynicism over ...
BB p.132,
The Family Afterward
We try not to indulge in cynicism over the state of the nations, nor do we carry the world's troubles on our shoulders.
20.
... try our
method, unless the doctor thinks ...
BB p.114,
To Wives
If he is already committed to an institution, but can convince you and your doctor that he means business, give him a chance to try our method, unless the doctor thinks his mental condition too abnormal or dangerous.
21.
... try our
program, for nothing will be ...
BB p.117,
To Wives
We urge you to try our program, for nothing will be so helpful to your husband as the radically
changed attitude toward him which God will show you how to have.
22.
... try our
suggestions.
BB p.104,
To Wives
There is every evidence
that women regain their health as readily as men if they try our suggestions.
23.
... try repeatedly
Step Six on all his ...
12&12 p.63,
Step Six
He goes on to explain that
any person capable of enough willingness and honesty
to try repeatedly Step Six on all his faults -- without any reservations whatever -- has indeed come a long way spiritually, and is therefore entitled to be
called a man who is sincerely trying to grow in the image and likeness of his own Creator.
24.
... try some
controlled drinking.
BB p.31,
More About Alcoholism
25.
... try some
more controlled drinking, bearing in ...
12&12 p.23,
Step One
Why don't you try some more controlled drinking, bearing in mind meanwhile what we have
told you about alcoholism?"
26.
... try the
old game again, for he ...
BB p.152,
A Vision For You
27.
... try the
program, the process has begun.
12&12 p.83,
Step Nine
28.
... try this.
12&12 p.57,
Step Five
It seems plain that the grace of God will not enter to expel our destructive obsessions until we are willing to try this.
29.
... try this.
12&12 p.134,
Tradition Two
30.
... try to
answer for you.
BB p.110,
To Wives
31.
... try to
arrange a man's life so ...
BB p.120,
To Wives
32.
... try to
ask for those right things ...
12&12 p.102,
Step Eleven
Having opened our channel
as best we can, we try to ask for those right things of which we and
others are in the greatest need.
33.
... try to
avoid harming third parties, whoever ...
12&12 p.86,
Step Nine
And even in those cases where such a matter must be discussed, let's try to avoid harming third parties, whoever they may
be.
34.
... try to
be absolutely sure that we ...
12&12 p.87,
Step Nine
35.
... try to
be humbly grateful and exert ...
12&12 p.124,
Step Twelve
When by devoted service
to family, friends, business, or community
we attract widespread
affection and are sometimes singled out for posts of greater responsibility and trust, we try to be humbly grateful and exert ourselves the more in a spirit of love and service.
36.
... try to
build.
12&12 p.49,
Step Four
These fears are the termites that ceaselessly devour the
foundations of whatever sort of life we try to build.
37.
... try to
bypass Step Five.
12&12 p.55,
Step Five
So intense, though, is
our fear and reluctance
to do this, that many A.A.'s at
first try to bypass Step Five.
38.
... try to
carry A.A.'s message.
12&12 p.110,
Step Twelve
39.
... try to
change our plan.
BB p.75,
Into Action
It is important that he be able to keep a confidence; that he fully
understand and approve what we are driving
at; that he will not try to change our plan.
40.
... try to
cover up those feelings of ...
12&12 p.51,
Step Four
Did I try to cover up those feelings of inadequacy
by bluffing, cheating,
lying, or evading responsibility?
41.
... try to
discover where we have been ...
12&12 p.77,
Step Eight
First, we take a look backward and try to discover where we have
been at fault; next we make a vigorous attempt to repair the damage we have done; and third, having thus cleaned away the debris of the past, we consider how, with our newfound knowledge of ourselves, we may develop
the best possible relations with every human being we know.
42.
... try to
do by what he called ...
12&12 p.101,
Step Eleven
43.
... try to
do in the future.
BB p.79,
Into Action
44.
... try to
do much the same thing?
12&12 p.100,
Step Eleven
45.
... try to
dominate the whole family, either ...
12&12 p.81,
Step Eight
What happens when we try to
dominate the whole family, either by a rule of iron or by a constant outpouring of
minute directions for
just how their lives should
be lived from hour to hour?
46.
Try to
drink and stop abruptly.
BB p.31,
More About Alcoholism
47.
... try to
forget.
BB p.106,
To Wives
48.
... try to
give them advice about their ...
12&12 p.111,
Step Twelve
Perhaps we try to give them advice about their affairs which we aren't really competent to give or ought not give at all.
49.
... try to
give up our natural desires ...
12&12 p.187,
Tradition Twelve
Moved by the spirit of anonymity, we try to give up our natural desires for personal distinction
as A.A. members both among fellow alcoholics and before the general public.
50.
Try to
have him bring up the ...
BB p.111,
To Wives
51.
... try to
have it.
12&12 p.66,
Step Six
52.
... try to
have your husband read this ...
BB p.114,
To Wives
53.
... try to
help him about getting a ...
BB p.96,
Working With Others
54.
... try to
help other alcoholics achieve sobriety?
12&12 p.111,
Step Twelve
Can we love the whole pattern of living as eagerly as we do the small segment of it we discover
when we try to help other alcoholics achieve sobriety?
55.
... try to
help other alcoholics when he ...
BB p.94,
Working With Others
Make it plain he is under no obligation to you, that you hope only that he will try to help other alcoholics when he
escapes his own difficulties.
56.
... try to
help others and who will ...
BB p.90,
Working With Others
You should be described to him as one of a fellowship who, as
part of their own recovery, try to help others and who will be glad to talk to him if he cares to see you.
57.
... try to
help the wife of another ...
BB p.112,
To Wives
58.
... try to
hug the new treasure to ...
BB p.129,
The Family Afterward
59.
... try to
increase the pleasure of those ...
BB p.102,
Working With Others
If it is a happy occasion, try to increase the pleasure of
those there; if a business occasion, go and attend to your business enthusiastically.
60.
... try to
live by self-propulsion.
BB p.60,
How It Works
61.
... try to
make our will conform with ...
12&12 p.40,
Step Three
62.
... try to
manipulate others to our own ...
12&12 p.53,
Step Four
When we habitually try
to manipulate others
to our own willful desires, they revolt, and resist us heavily.
63.
... try to
move toward it.
12&12 p.100,
Step Eleven
Well, meditation is like that, too; it helps to envision our spiritual
objective before we
try to move toward it.
64.
... try to
pause and count your blessings.
BB p.119,
To Wives
65.
... try to
practice the A.A. program unless ...
12&12 p.24,
Step One
The answer is that few people will sincerely try to practice the A.A. program unless they have hit bottom.
66.
... try to
prove themselves exceptions to the ...
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.
67.
... try to
put spiritual principles to work ...
BB p.116,
To Wives
68.
Try to
remember that though God has ...
BB p.133,
The Family Afterward
Try to remember that though God has wrought miracles among us, we should never belittle a good doctor or psychiatrist.
69.
... try to
repair the damage immediately lest ...
BB p.99,
Working With Others
70.
... try to
see what its inner essence ...
12&12 p.101,
Step Eleven
71.
... try to
stop making unreasonable demands upon ...
12&12 p.93,
Step Ten
72.
... try to
take advantage of your kindness.
BB p.141,
To Employers
73.
... try to
tell your story.
BB p.91,
Working With Others
74.
... try to
think it through a little ...
12&12 p.66,
Step Six
Some who feel they have done
well may dispute this, so
let's try to think it through a little further.
75.
... try to
visualize how we might have ...
12&12 p.94,
Step Ten
Here we need only recognize that we did act or
think badly, try to visualize how we might
have done better, and resolve with God's help to carry these lessons over into tomorrow, making, of course, any amends still neglected.
76.
... try with
a will, or else fall ...
12&12 p.74,
Step Seven
But again we are driven on
by the inescapable conclusion which we draw
from A.A. experience, that
we surely must try with a will, or else fall by the wayside.
77.
... try, with
or without your cooperation, various ...
BB p.109,
To Wives
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