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... yet."
12&12 p.66,
Step Six
Even then the best of us will discover to our dismay that there is always a
sticking point, a point at which we say, "No, I can't give this up yet."
2.
... yet.
12&12 p.111,
Step Twelve
3.
... yet.
BB p.31,
More About Alcoholism
4.
... yet a
long way from making good ...
BB p.82,
Into Action
But he is yet a long way from making good to the wife or parents whom for years he has
so shockingly treated.
5.
... yet acquired
much actual humility.
12&12 p.58,
Step Five
But while this was a humiliating experience, it didn't necessarily mean that we
had yet acquired much actual humility.
6.
Yet Alcoholics
Anonymous is an exception.
12&12 p.173,
Tradition Nine
7.
Yet all
reasons for not drinking were ...
BB p.36,
More About Alcoholism
Yet all reasons for not drinking were easily pushed aside in favor of the foolish idea that he could take whiskey if only he mixed it
with milk!
8.
... yet be
a potential alcoholic.
BB p.34,
More About Alcoholism
9.
... yet be
unaffected.
BB p.74,
Into Action
10.
... yet...," but
we should not say to ...
12&12 p.69,
Step Six
Perhaps we shall be obliged in some cases still to say, "This I cannot give up yet...," but we should not say to ourselves, "This I will never give up!"
11.
Yet can
we?
12&12 p.66,
Step Six
Yet can we?
12.
... yet continuous,
it disturbed my wife.
BB p.2,
Bill's Story
13.
... yet dazed
from his hospital experience, has ...
BB p.160,
A Vision For You
Many a man, yet dazed from his hospital experience,
has stepped over the threshold of that home into
freedom.
14.
... yet definite
satisfaction.
12&12 p.67,
Step Six
15.
Yet early
next morning he searches madly ...
BB p.21,
There Is A Solution
16.
... yet erratic
people could live and work ...
12&12 p.18,
Foreword
But it was by no means sure that such great numbers of yet erratic people could live and work together with harmony and good effect.
17.
... yet find
a way to do so.
BB p.110,
To Wives
18.
... yet found
a happy solution.
BB p.104,
To Wives
Among us are wives, relatives and friends whose problem has been solved, as well as some who
have not yet found a happy solution.
19.
... yet found
no answer may begin to ...
BB xxi,
Foreword to Second Edition
Yet it is our great hope that all those who have as
yet found no answer may begin to find one in the pages of this book and will presently join us on the high road to a new freedom.
20.
... yet given
to those ever-urgent questions, "How ...
BB p.561(563),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
The "12 Traditions" of Alcoholics Anonymous
are, we A.A.'s believe, the
best answers that our experience has yet given to those ever-urgent questions, "How can A.A. best function?" and, "How can
A.A. best stay whole and so survive?"
21.
Yet he
got drunk again.
BB p.36,
More About Alcoholism
22.
Yet he
had no control whatever over ...
BB p.26,
There Is A Solution
23.
Yet, he
is alcoholic.
BB p.39,
More About Alcoholism
Yet, he is alcoholic.
24.
... yet he
spends long hours helping other ...
BB p.119,
To Wives
You have been starving for his companionship, yet he spends long hours helping other men and their families.
25.
Yet if
A.A.'s experience means anything at ...
12&12 p.56,
Step Five
Yet if A.A.'s experience means anything at all, this is not only unwise, but is actually a
perilous resolve.
26.
Yet in
ancient times material progress was ...
BB p.51,
We Agnostics
27.
Yet, in
other moments, we found ourselves ...
BB p.46,
We Agnostics
Yet, in other moments, we found ourselves thinking, when
enchanted by a starlit
night, "Who, then, made all
this?"
28.
Yet it
is only a step.
12&12 p.98,
Step Eleven
Yet it is only a step.
29.
Yet it
is our great hope that ...
BB xxi,
Foreword to Second Edition
Yet it is our great hope that all those who have as
yet found no answer may begin to find one in the pages of this book and will presently join us on the high road to a new freedom.
30.
Yet it
is true that our first ...
BB p.567(569),
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience
Yet it is true that our first printing gave many readers the impression
that these personality changes, or religious experiences, must be in
the nature of sudden and
spectacular upheavals.
31.
Yet its
elements are simple.
BB p.57,
We Agnostics
32.
... yet keep
God out of our lives.
12&12 p.34,
Step Three
33.
Yet let
him drink for a day, ...
BB p.21,
There Is A Solution
Yet let him drink for a day, and he frequently becomes disgustingly, and even dangerously anti-social.
34.
Yet many
of us still hung back.
12&12 p.59,
Step Five
35.
Yet no
alcoholic, soberly analyzing his destructive ...
12&12 p.33,
Step Two
Yet no alcoholic, soberly analyzing his destructive behavior,
whether the destruction fell on the dining-room furniture or his own moral fiber, can claim "soundness of mind" for himself.
36.
Yet not
a single one of them ...
12&12 p.170,
Tradition Eight
37.
... yet obscure,
have lost the power of ...
BB p.24,
There Is A Solution
38.
Yet often
such men had spectacular and ...
BB p.113,
To Wives
39.
... yet others
"Catholic" or "Protestant."
12&12 p.147,
Tradition Four
There would be real danger
should we commence to call
some groups "wet," others "dry," still others "Republican" or "Communist," and yet others "Catholic" or "Protestant."
40.
... yet reached.
BB p.561(563),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
41.
... yet realistic,
stocktaking is immensely reassuring.
12&12 p.46,
Step Four
42.
... yet received
anything or not.
12&12 p.109,
Step Twelve
And then he discovers that by the divine paradox of this kind of giving he has found his own reward, whether his brother has yet received anything or not.
43.
... yet relinquish,
we ought nevertheless to quit ...
12&12 p.108,
Step Twelve
So we decided that while
we still had some flaws of
character that we could not yet relinquish, we ought nevertheless to quit our stubborn, rebellious hanging on to
them.
44.
... yet sometimes
more durable, satisfactions when the ...
12&12 p.112,
Step Twelve
Can we steadfastly content ourselves with
the humbler, yet sometimes more durable, satisfactions when the brighter, more glittering achievements are denied
us?
45.
Yet such
a failure wouldn't jeopardize their ...
12&12 p.151,
Tradition Five
46.
... yet, there
it was.
BB p.54,
We Agnostics
We could not prove life in
the sense that you can prove
a straight line is the shortest distance between two points, yet, there it was.
47.
Yet these
instincts, so necessary for our ...
12&12 p.42,
Step Four
48.
Yet they
got well.
BB p.110,
To Wives
49.
... yet they
recognize at once that A.A. ...
12&12 p.130,
Tradition One
They see liberty verging on license, yet they recognize at once that A.A. has an irresistible strength
of purpose and action.
50.
... yet time.
BB p.32,
More About Alcoholism
51.
... yet 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.
52.
... yet unresolved
problem left over from yesterday.
12&12 p.102,
Step Eleven
Possibly today will see a continuation of a serious and as yet unresolved problem left over from yesterday.
53.
... yet usually,
at least in some small ...
12&12 p.107,
Step Twelve
What he has received is a free gift, and yet usually, at least in some small part, he has made himself ready to receive it.
54.
... yet was
flat on his back nevertheless.
BB p.40,
More About Alcoholism
The story he told is most instructive, for here was
a chap absolutely convinced he had to stop drinking, who had no excuse for drinking, who exhibited splendid judgment and determination in all his other concerns, yet was flat on his back nevertheless.
55.
Yet, we
believe we can make some ...
BB p.86,
Into Action
56.
Yet we
do go to great extremes ...
BB p.98,
Working With Others
Yet we do go to great extremes to provide each other with these very things, when such action is warranted.
57.
... yet we
do take them.
12&12 p.74,
Step Seven
58.
Yet we
find that's what we have ...
12&12 p.160,
Tradition Seven
Yet we find that's what we
have to be.
59.
Yet we
found it impossible.
BB p.34,
More About Alcoholism
60.
Yet we
had been seeing another kind ...
BB p.55,
We Agnostics
Yet we had been seeing another kind of flight, a spiritual liberation from this world, people who rose above their problems.
61.
Yet we
knew we had to make ...
12&12 p.108,
Step Twelve
62.
... yet, when
in reality we have already ...
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.
63.
Yet you
must not expect too much.
BB p.118,
To Wives
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