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... willing.
BB
Into Action, p.76
2.
... willing.
BB
Into Action, p.79
3.
... willing.
BB
A Vision For You, p.152
4.
... willing and
able to recover on a ...
BB
A Vision For You, p.162
Understanding our work,
he can do this with an eye to selecting those who are willing and able to recover on a spiritual basis.
5.
... willing and
honest enough to try.
BB
There Is A Solution, p.28
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.
6.
... willing --
and many were -- why shouldn't their ...
12&12
Tradition Eleven, p.182
Provided they were willing
-- and many were -- why shouldn't
their membership be publicized, thereby encouraging others to join us?
7.
... willing and
persistent effort to do this, ...
12&12
Step Four, p.43
Without a willing and persistent effort to do
this, there can be little sobriety or contentment
for us.
8.
... willing, by
day or night, to place ...
BB
A Vision For You, p.159
9.
... willing, it
shall not be repeated.
BB
Into Action, p.81
10.
... willing newcomer
feels sure A.A. is the ...
12&12
Step Three, p.35
Any willing newcomer feels sure A.A. is the only safe harbor for the foundering vessel he has become.
11.
... willing person
continue to turn his will ...
12&12
Step Three, p.39
So how, exactly, can the willing person continue to turn his will and his life over to the Higher Power?
12.
... willing --
shall sustain us in unity for ...
12&12
Tradition One, p.131
They live today in the Twelve Traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous,
which -- God willing -- shall sustain us in unity for so long as He may need us.
13.
... willing start
is made, then the great ...
12&12
Step Eight, p.77
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.
14.
... willing, that
he might be able to ...
12&12
Step Eleven, p.101
15.
... willing that
you should have all of ...
BB
Into Action, p.76
When ready, we say something like this: "My Creator, I am now willing that you should have all of me, good and bad.
16.
... willing to
aim toward perfection.
12&12
Step Six, p.69
17.
... willing to
announce our convictions with tact ...
BB
Into Action, p.77
When it will serve any good purpose, we are willing to announce our convictions
with tact and common sense.
18.
... willing to
apply the lessons it learned.
12&12
Tradition Four, p.149
Moreover, it had performed a great service for Alcoholics Anonymous, because it had
been humbly willing to apply the lessons it learned.
19.
... willing to
believe.
BB
We Agnostics, p.57
20.
... willing to
believe in a Power greater ...
BB
Bill's Story, p.12
21.
... willing to
believe in a Power greater ...
BB
Working With Others, p.93
The main thing is that he be
willing to believe in a Power greater than himself and that he live by spiritual principles.
22.
... willing to
believe, that there is a ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.47
23.
... willing to
believe, we emphatically assure him ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.47
As soon as a man can say that he does believe, or is
willing to believe, we emphatically assure him
that he is on his way.
24.
... willing to
bring former mistakes, no matter ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.124
We think each family which has been relieved owes something to those who have
not, and when the occasion requires, each member of it should be only too willing to bring former mistakes, no matter how grievous, out of their hiding places.
25.
... willing to
clean house and then asked ...
12&12
Step Six, p.63
But when I became willing to
clean house and then asked a Higher Power, God as I understood Him, to give me release, my obsession to drink vanished.
26.
... willing to
commence the search for his ...
12&12
Step Four, p.50
Now willing to commence the search for his
own defects, he will ask, "Just how do I go about this? How do I
take inventory of myself?"
27.
... willing to
depend upon a Higher Power, ...
12&12
Step Three, p.36
And the facts seem to be these:
The more we become willing to depend upon a Higher Power, the more independent we actually
are.
28.
... willing to
do anything necessary.
BB
A Vision For You, p.158
On the third day the lawyer gave his life to the care and direction of his Creator,
and said he was perfectly
willing to do anything necessary.
29.
... willing to
do that if necessary, but ...
BB
Into Action, p.79
We thought he ought to be
willing to do that if necessary, but if he were in jail he could provide nothing for either family.
30.
... willing to
get well, little charity, in ...
BB
Working With Others, p.97
For the type of alcoholic
who is able and willing to get well, little charity, in the ordinary sense of the word, is needed or wanted.
31.
... willing to
go to any length to ...
BB
How It Works, p.58
If you have decided you want
what we have and are willing to go
to any length to get it -- then you are ready to take certain steps.
32.
... willing to
go to jail if she ...
BB
Into Action, p.79
33.
... willing to
grow along spiritual lines.
BB
How It Works, p.60
34.
... willing to
grow toward it.
BB
How It Works, p.69
35.
... willing to
have a third party in ...
BB
To Employers, p.146
After your man has gone along without drinking for a few months, you may be able to make use of his services with other employees who are giving you the alcoholic run-around -- provided, of course, they are
willing to have a third party in the picture.
36.
... willing to
have my new-found Friend take ...
BB
Bill's Story, p.13
I ruthlessly faced my sins and became willing to have my new-found Friend take them away, root and branch.
37.
... willing to
have them removed, our thinking ...
12&12
Step Seven, p.74
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.
38.
... willing to
listen as the dying can ...
12&12
Step One, p.24
Then, and only then, do we become as open-minded to conviction and as willing to
listen as the dying can be.
39.
... willing to
look for something better.
12&12
Step Three, pp.37-38
Each of us has had his own near-fatal encounter with the juggernaut of self-will, and has suffered enough under its weight to be willing to look for something better.
40.
... willing to
maintain a certain simple attitude.
BB
There Is A Solution, pp.26-27
He can go anywhere on this earth where other free men may go
without disaster, provided he remains willing to maintain a certain simple attitude.
41.
... willing to
make amends.
BB
Into Action, p.76
42.
... willing to
make amends to them all.
BB
How It Works, p.59
43.
... willing to
make amends to them all."
12&12
Contents (Step Eight), p.7
Step Eight -- "Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all."
44.
... willing to
make amends to them all."
12&12
Step Eight, p.77
45.
... willing to
make amends where we have ...
BB
How It Works, p.69
We must be willing to make amends where we have done harm, provided that we do not bring
about still more harm in so doing.
46.
... willing to
make the effort.
BB
There Is A Solution, pp.25-26
47.
... willing to
make use of our experience, ...
BB
A Vision For You, p.153
Should you wish them above all
else, and be willing to make use of our experience, we are sure they
will come.
48.
... willing to
overlook his past performances.
BB
To Employers, p.141
49.
... willing to
partake and be strengthened and ...
12&12
Step Eleven, p.100
Let us become willing to partake and be strengthened and lifted
up by the sheer spiritual power, beauty, and love of which these
magnificent words are
the carriers.
50.
... willing to
place spiritual growth first -- then ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.114
But when we are willing to place spiritual growth first -- then and only
then do we have a real chance.
51.
... willing to
receive that grace of God ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.113
Well, we surely have a chance if we switch from "two-stepping" to "twelve-stepping," if we are
willing to receive that grace of God which can sustain and strengthen us
in any catastrophe.
52.
... willing to
reveal the very worst, we ...
12&12
Step Nine, p.84
While we may be quite willing to reveal the very worst, we must be sure to remember that we cannot buy our
own peace of mind at the expense of others.
53.
... willing to
set these matters straight.
BB
How It Works, p.67
54.
... willing to
set things right.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.108
We had to begin to make our peace, and so we listed the people we had harmed and became willing to set things right.
55.
... willing to
sit quietly on the sidelines ...
12&12
Tradition Two, p.135
The elder statesman is the
one who sees the wisdom of the group's decision, who holds no resentment over his reduced status, whose judgment, fortified by considerable experience, is sound, and
who is willing to sit quietly on the sidelines patiently awaiting developments.
56.
... willing to
stay right size.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.122
57.
... willing to
straighten out the past if ...
BB
How It Works, p.70
We have listed the people we
have hurt by our conduct, and
are willing to straighten
out the past if we can.
58.
... willing to
take advice and accept direction ...
12&12
Step Five, p.59
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.
59.
... willing to
take the measures necessary to ...
12&12
Step Four, p.52
If I am unable to change the
present state of affairs, am I willing to take the measures necessary to shape my life to conditions as they
are?
60.
... willing to
talk to one of them.
BB
To Wives, p.112
61.
... willing to
tell him that he is ...
BB
Working With Others, p.92
62.
... willing to
term themselves "problem drinkers," but ...
12&12
Step Two, p.33
Some will be willing to term themselves "problem drinkers," but
cannot endure the suggestion that they are in fact mentally ill.
63.
... willing to
try humility in seeking the ...
12&12
Step Seven, p.76
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.
64.
... willing to
try this.
12&12
Step Five, p.57
It seems plain that the grace of God will not enter to expel our destructive obsessions until we are
willing to try this.
65.
... willing to
turn the past to good ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.124
66.
... willing to
work for humility as something ...
12&12
Step Seven, p.73
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.
67.
... willing to
work hard at the elimination ...
12&12
Step Four, p.50
By now the newcomer has probably arrived at the following conclusions:
that his character defects, representing instincts gone astray, have been the primary
cause of his drinking and
his failure at life; that unless he is now willing to work hard at the elimination of
the worst of these defects,
both sobriety and peace of mind will still elude him; that all the faulty
foundation of his life will have to be torn out and built anew on bedrock.
68.
... willing to
work toward ourselves.
12&12
Step Six, p.65
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