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1.
  ... now.  BB Preface, pp.xi-xii
"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.


2.
  ... now.  BB Bill's Story, p.6
No -- not now.


3.
  ... now.  BB Bill's Story, p.8
But that was over now.


4.
  ... now.  BB Bill's Story, p.16
We have it with us right here and now.


5.
  ... now.  BB More About Alcoholism, p.43
My old manner of life was by no means a bad one, but I would not exchange its best moments for the worst I have now.


6.
  ... now.  BB We Agnostics, p.55
His story is so interesting that some of it should be told now.


7.
  ... now.  BB How It Works, p.58
Our stories disclose in a general way what we used to be like, what happened, and what we are like now.


8.
  ... now!  BB How It Works, p.59
May you find Him now!


9.
  ... now.  BB The Family Afterward, p.124
Showing others who suffer how we were given help is the very thing which makes life seem so worth while to us now.


10.
  ... now.  BB To Employers, p.137
Here were three exceptional men lost to this world because I did not understand alcoholism as I do now.


11.
  ... now?  BB A Vision For You, p.154
After all, had he not been sober six months now?


12.
  ... now.  BB A Vision For You, pp.156-157
The use of spiritual principles in such cases was not so well understood as it is now.


13.
  ... now.  BB A Vision For You, p.157
I was once, but I'm a nobody now.


14.
  ... now.  12&12 Step Two, p.26
Second, to get sober and to stay sober, you don't have to swallow all of Step Two right now.


15.
  ... now.  12&12 Step Two, p.27
I can't say upon what occasion or upon what day I came to believe in a Power greater than myself, but I certainly have that belief now.


16.
  ... now.  12&12 Step Ten, p.89
It requires an admission and correction of errors now.


17.
  ... now.  12&12 Tradition Three, p.140
"Maybe this sounds comical now.


18.
  ... now a most effective member of Alcoholics ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.135
Though he is now a most effective member of Alcoholics Anonymous, he still smokes and drinks coffee, but neither his wife nor anyone else stands in judgment.


19.
  Now about health: A body badly burned ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.133
Now about health: A body badly burned by alcohol does not often recover overnight nor do twisted thinking and depression vanish in a twinkling.


20.
  Now about sex.  BB How It Works, p.68
Now about sex.


21.
  ... now about the man who first uttered ...  12&12 Step Eleven, p.101
We'll think now about the man who first uttered the prayer.


22.
  ... now about to ask forgiveness for ourselves, ...  12&12 Step Eight, p.78
If we are now about to ask forgiveness for ourselves, why shouldn't we start out by forgiving them, one and all?


23.
  ... now accept and adjust to either without ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.112
Can we now accept and adjust to either without despair or pride?


24.
  ... now accounted no less than a medical ...  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xvi
He had also been greatly helped by the late Dr. William D. Silkworth, a New York specialist in alcoholism who is now accounted no less than a medical saint by A.A. members, and whose story of the early days of our Society appears in the next pages.


25.
  ... now among our members.  BB There Is A Solution, p.28
Many who once were in this class are now among our members.


26.
  ... now, and a further look at what ...  12&12 Step Eleven, p.101
It ought to be followed by a good look at where we stand now, and a further look at what might happen in our lives were we able to move closer to the ideal we have been trying to glimpse.


27.
  ... now, and it would -- if only you'd ...  12&12 Tradition Two, p.136
It should be doing just as well now, and it would -- if only you'd help me.


28.
  ... now and then?  BB To Employers, p.142
If he says yes, does he really mean it, or down inside does he think he is fooling you, and that after rest and treatment he will be able to get away with a few drinks now and then?


29.
  Now and then a serious drinker, being ...  BB A Vision For You, p.151
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."


30.
  Now and then, A.A. members have bought ...  12&12 Tradition Eight, p.170
Now and then, A.A. members have bought farms or rest homes where badly beat-up topers could find needed care.


31.
  ... now and then and he is as ...  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxxii
I see him now and then and he is as fine a specimen of manhood as one could wish to meet.


32.
  ... now and then, began to evaporate.  12&12 Step Seven, p.75
The notion that we would still live our own lives, God helping a little now and then, began to evaporate.


33.
  Now and then, grateful benefactors had endowed ...  12&12 Tradition Seven, p.161
Now and then, grateful benefactors had endowed clubhouses, and as a result there was sometimes outside interference in our affairs.


34.
  Now and then the family will be ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.123
Now and then the family will be plagued by spectres from the past, for the drinking career of almost every alcoholic has been marked by escapades, funny, humiliating, shameful or tragic.


35.
  Now and then we may be granted ...  12&12 Step Eleven, p.98
Now and then we may be granted a glimpse of that ultimate reality which is God's kingdom.


36.
  ... now at Step Three.  BB How It Works, p.63
We were now at Step Three.


37.
  ... now available in pamphlet form at nominal ...  BB Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A., p.570
(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.")


38.
  ... now backing education -- liquor trade association style.  12&12 Tradition Six, p.158
It would be bound to appear that A.A. was now backing education -- liquor trade association style.


39.
  ... now be so sure that we weren't ...  12&12 Step Five, p.59
If all our lives we had more or less fooled ourselves, how could we now be so sure that we weren't still self-deceived?


40.
  ... now be yours.  BB To Wives, p.119
You feel he should now be yours.


41.
  ... now, because if I did not drink ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.175
I was between Scylla and Charybdis now, because if I did not drink my stomach tortured me, and if I did my nerves did the same thing.


42.
  ... now become able to do, feel, and ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.106
When a man or a woman has a spiritual awakening, the most important meaning of it is that he has now become able to do, feel, and believe that which he could not do before on his unaided strength and resources alone.


43.
  ... now become possible.  12&12 Foreword, p.17
This established identification with alcoholic readers and proved to them that the virtually impossible had now become possible.


44.
  ... now become the rapacious creditor, bleeds us ...  12&12 Step One, p.21
Alcohol, now become the rapacious creditor, bleeds us of all self-sufficiency and all will to resist its demands.


45.
  ... now becomes just how and by what ...  12&12 Step Three, p.34
Therefore our problem now becomes just how and by what specific means shall we be able to let Him in?


46.
  ... now began to be called Alcoholics Anonymous, ...  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xvii
The fledgling society, which had been nameless, now began to be called Alcoholics Anonymous, from the title of its own book.


47.
  ... now begins to mean the nourishing ingredient ...  12&12 Step Seven, p.74
Where humility had formerly stood for a forced feeding on humble pie, it now begins to mean the nourishing ingredient which can give us serenity.


48.
  ... now being harnessed promise such a quantity ...  12&12 Step Seven, p.70
The immense resources now being harnessed promise such a quantity of material blessings that many have come to believe that a man-made millennium lies just ahead.


49.
  ... now believe, or am I even willing ...  BB We Agnostics, p.47
"Do I now believe, or am I even willing to believe, that there is a Power greater than myself?"


50.
  ... now beset the group.  12&12 Tradition Two, p.133
Growing pains now beset the group.


51.
  ... 'Now boys, please go heavier on the ...  12&12 Tradition Seven, p.163
He concluded his remarks by saying, 'Now boys, please go heavier on the hat tonight, will you?'


52.
  ... now clamored for material security.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.121
Financial importance was no longer our principal aim; we now clamored for material security.


53.
  ... now clearly see that we have been ...  12&12 Step Seven, p.76
We now clearly see that we have been making unreasonable demands upon ourselves, upon others, and upon God.


54.
  ... now come to a close.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.125
These little studies of A.A.'s Twelve Steps now come to a close.


55.
  Now comes the biggest question yet.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.111
Now comes the biggest question yet.


56.
  Now comes the election.  12&12 Tradition Two, p.134
Now comes the election.


57.
  ... now commence to ransack memory for the ...  12&12 Step Eight, p.81
Having carefully surveyed this whole area of human relations, and having decided exactly what personality traits in us injured and disturbed others, we can now commence to ransack memory for the people to whom we have given offense.


58.
  ... now conceive the psychiatrist's job to be ...  BB Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A., p.569
I now conceive the psychiatrist's job to be the task of breaking down the patient's inner resistance so that which is inside him will flower, as under the activity of the A.A. program."


59.
  "Now," concludes the oldtimer, "suppose I'd been ...  12&12 Tradition Five, p.153
"Now," concludes the oldtimer, "suppose I'd been obliged to talk to this man on religious grounds?


60.
  ... now declare that none but a Higher ...  12&12 Step Two, p.25
Having reduced us to a state of absolute helplessness, you now declare that none but a Higher Power can remove our obsession.


61.
  ... now depend upon Somebody or Something else.  12&12 Step Three, p.39
Surely he must now depend upon Somebody or Something else.


62.
  ... now do for some stricken acquaintance and ...  BB A Vision For You, pp.160-161
He and his wife would leave elated by the thought of what they could now do for some stricken acquaintance and his family.


63.
  "Now do tell!  12&12 Tradition Three, p.143
"Now do tell!


64.
  ... now endeavoring to be helpful to him.  BB Working With Others, p.94
Outline the program of action, explaining how you made a self-appraisal, how you straightened out your past and why you are now endeavoring to be helpful to him.


65.
  ... now enters maturity, it has begun to ...  12&12 Foreword, p.18
As A.A. now enters maturity, it has begun to reach into forty foreign lands.(*)


66.
  ... now felt they had to give to ...  BB A Vision For You, p.158
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.


67.
  ... now fully understanding how much he himself ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.119
The alcoholic, realizing what his wife has endured, and now fully understanding how much he himself did to damage her and his children, nearly always takes up his marriage responsibilities with a willingness to repair what he can and to accept what he can't.


68.
  ... now go back to husband number one.  BB To Wives, p.110
Let's now go back to husband number one.


69.
  ... now going on.  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xx
Alcohol being no respecter of persons, we are an accurate cross section of America, and in distant lands, the same democratic evening-up process is now going on.


70.
  ... now growing up among them.  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxviii
We feel, after many years of experience, that we have found nothing which has contributed more to the rehabilitation of these men than the altruistic movement now growing up among them.


71.
  ... now has a group, and he is ...  12&12 Tradition Two, p.133
He visits preachers, doctors, editors, policemen, and bartenders ... with the result that Middletown now has a group, and he is the founder.


72.
  ... now has a so-called rotating committee, very ...  12&12 Tradition Two, p.134
In either case, the group now has a so-called rotating committee, very sharply limited in its authority.


73.
  ... now has been rated as a saint.  12&12 Step Eleven, p.99
Its author was a man who for several hundred years now has been rated as a saint.


74.
  ... now he has become a superior person ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.129
Dad may feel that for years his drinking has placed him on the wrong side of every argument, but that now he has become a superior person with God on his side.


75.
  ... now, he reflects that he may not ...  12&12 Tradition Two, p.132
Alone now, he reflects that he may not be able to stay sober, or even alive, unless he passes on to other alcoholics what was so freely given him.


76.
  ... now, I fared forth in high hope.  BB Bill's Story, p.7
Understanding myself now, I fared forth in high hope.


77.
  'Now I get it!  12&12 Tradition Five, p.153
'Now I get it!


78.
  Now I had what it takes!  BB Bill's Story, p.6
Now I had what it takes!


79.
  ... now, I suspected, a little cracked about ...  BB Bill's Story, p.9
So that was it -- last summer an alcoholic crackpot; now, I suspected, a little cracked about religion.


80.
  Now I was to plunge into the ...  BB Bill's Story, p.8
Now I was to plunge into the dark, joining that endless procession of sots who had gone on before.


81.
  Now if this is not turning one's ...  12&12 Step Three, p.35
Now if this is not turning one's will and life over to a newfound Providence, then what is it?


82.
  ... now in its fold, Alcoholics Anonymous has ...  BB Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.561
To those now in its fold, Alcoholics Anonymous has made the difference between misery and sobriety, and often the difference between life and death.


83.
  ... now includes twelve new stories; eight were ...  BB Preface, p.xii
Part III now includes twelve new stories; eight were removed (in addition to the two that were transferred to Part I).


84.
  ... now is that we exult in some ...  12&12 Step Six, p.66
What we must recognize now is that we exult in some of our defects.


85.
  ... now is to be at the place ...  BB Working With Others, p.102
Your job now is to be at the place where you may be of maximum helpfulness to others, so never hesitate to go anywhere if you can be helpful.


86.
  ... now it appears that there are certain ...  12&12 Step Three, p.40
But now it appears that there are certain things which only the individual can do.


87.
  ... now joined.  BB There Is A Solution, p.17
But that in itself would never have held us together as we are now joined.


88.
  ... now know more about alcoholism.  BB To Employers, p.141
You now know more about alcoholism.


89.
  Now let's ponder the need for a ...  12&12 Step Four, p.48
Now let's ponder the need for a list of the more glaring personality defects all of us have in varying degrees.


90.
  Now let's take the guy full of ...  12&12 Step Two, p.31
Now let's take the guy full of faith, but still reeking of alcohol.


91.
  ... now made more acute because he cannot ...  12&12 Step Three, p.39
He relies upon the assurance that his many troubles, now made more acute because he cannot use alcohol to kill the pain, can be solved, too.


92.
  ... now make up more than one-fourth of ...  BB Foreword to Third Edition, p.xxii
Women now make up more than one-fourth of the membership; among newer members, the proportion is nearly one-third.


93.
  ... now means a great deal to his ...  BB A Vision For You, p.156
As we shall see, he now means a great deal to his community, and the major liabilities of thirty years of hard drinking have been repaired in four.


94.
  ... now measure up to that cherished vision.  BB To Wives, p.118
It is the most natural thing in the world, once his liquor problem is solved, to feel that he will now measure up to that cherished vision.


95.
  ... now on a different basis; the basis ...  BB How It Works, p.68
For we are now on a different basis; the basis of trusting and relying upon God.


96.
  ... now ought to be willing to try ...  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.


97.
  ... now, our lives have been largely devoted ...  12&12 Step Seven, p.74
Until now, our lives have been largely devoted to running from pain and problems.


98.
  ... now overwhelmed us, especially when we remembered ...  12&12 Step Eight, p.79
But the prospect of actually visiting or even writing the people concerned now overwhelmed us, especially when we remembered in what poor favor we stood with most of them.


99.
  ... now propose bothers us an awful lot ...  12&12 Tradition Two, p.137
But I think I speak for everyone here when I say that what you now propose bothers us an awful lot more.'


100.
  ... now ready to let God remove from ...  BB Into Action, p.76
Are we now ready to let God remove from us all the things which we have admitted are objectionable?


101.
  ... now recognized, our defects were still there.  12&12 Step Five, p.58
Though now recognized, our defects were still there.


102.
  ... now remembered what my alcoholic friends had ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.41
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.


103.
  ... now remove from me every single defect ...  BB Into Action, p.76
I pray that you now remove from me every single defect of character which stands in the way of my usefulness to you and my fellows.


104.
  ... now reread this prayer several times very ...  12&12 Step Eleven, p.99
As beginners in meditation, we might now reread this prayer several times very slowly, savoring every word and trying to take in the deep meaning of each phrase and idea.


105.
  ... now restored as citizens of the world, ...  12&12 Tradition Ten, p.177
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.


106.
  ... now returned home, leaving behind his first ...  BB A Vision For You, p.159
He now returned home, leaving behind his first acquaintance, the lawyer and the devil-may-care chap.


107.
  ... now ruined or damaged.  BB The Family Afterward, p.123
But the head of the house has spent years in pulling down the structures of business, romance, friendship, health -- these things are now ruined or damaged.


108.
  ... now see and accept actual reality.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.122
He's still ambitious, but not absurdly so, because he can now see and accept actual reality.


109.
  ... now see it, being very careful not ...  BB Into Action, p.83
We ought to sit down with the family and frankly analyze the past as we now see it, being very careful not to criticize them.


110.
  ... now see scores of members.  BB A Vision For You, p.162
Then, in this eastern city, there are informal meetings such as we have described to you, where you may now see scores of members.


111.
  ... now see that when we began to ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.37
We now see that when we began to drink deliberately, instead of casually, there was little serious or effective thought during the period of premeditation of what the terrific consequences might be.


112.
  ... now seen in Tradition Three, was simplicity ...  12&12 Tradition Three, p.141
The answer, now seen in Tradition Three, was simplicity itself.


113.
  ... now sees many men who have such ...  BB Bill's Story, p.14
The good doctor now sees many men who have such experiences.


114.
  ... now shows any mark of dissipation.  BB The Family Afterward, p.133
Hardly one of our crowd now shows any mark of dissipation.


115.
  ... now -- sober -- paid our own way.  12&12 Tradition Seven, p.160
They figured that it was high time we now -- sober -- paid our own way.


116.
  ... now, still smarting from that admission, he ...  12&12 Step Two, p.25
But now, still smarting from that admission, he is faced with something really impossible.


117.
  ... now take them all -- every one?  BB Into Action, p.76
Can He now take them all -- every one?


118.
  ... now taking shape in Asia.  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xv
Some are just now taking shape in Asia.


119.
  ... now tapped a source of power much ...  BB A Vision For You, p.163
You forget that you have just now tapped a source of power much greater than yourself.


120.
  ... now that almost no A.A. in our ...  12&12 Tradition Eight, p.171
It is significant, now that almost no A.A. in our Fellowship breaks anonymity at the public level, that nearly all these fears have subsided.


121.
  Now, that attitude is far removed from ...  12&12 Tradition Nine, p.174
Now, that attitude is far removed from central government, isn't it?


122.
  ... now that God can remove whatever self-will ...  BB How It Works, p.71
We hope you are convinced now that God can remove whatever self-will has blocked you off from Him.


123.
  ... now that through you several families have ...  BB A Vision For You, p.153
Suppose now that through you several families have adopted this way of life.


124.
  ... now that we are sober?  12&12 Step Four, p.45
If we were pretty nice people all along, except for our drinking, what need is there for a moral inventory now that we are sober?


125.
  ... now that we ought never to name ...  12&12 Tradition Nine, p.174
It is clear now that we ought never to name boards to govern us, but it is equally clear that we shall always need to authorize workers to serve us.


126.
  Now that we're in A.A. and sober, ...  12&12 Step Ten, p.92
Now that we're in A.A. and sober, and winning back the esteem of our friends and business associates, we find that we still need to exercise special vigilance.


127.
  Now, the domestic problem: There may be ...  BB Working With Others, p.98
Now, the domestic problem: There may be divorce, separation, or just strained relations.


128.
  ... now the General Service Office.  12&12 Tradition Three (Note), p.140
(*) In 1954, the name of the Alcoholic Foundation, Inc., was changed to the General Service Board of Alcoholics Anonymous, Inc., and the Foundation office is now the General Service Office.


129.
  ... now the General Service Office.  12&12 Tradition Four (Note), p.148
(*) In 1954, the name of the Alcoholic Foundation, Inc., was changed to the General Service Board of Alcoholics Anonymous, Inc., and the Foundation office is now the General Service Office.


130.
  ... now the General Service Office.  12&12 Tradition Seven (Note), p.162
(*) In 1954, the name of the Alcoholic Foundation, Inc., was changed to the General Service Board of Alcoholics Anonymous, Inc., and the Foundation office is now the General Service Office.


131.
  ... now the General Service Office.  12&12 Tradition Eight (Note), p.168
(*) In 1954, the name of the Alcoholic Foundation, Inc., was changed to the General Service Board of Alcoholics Anonymous, Inc., and the Foundation office is now the General Service Office.


132.
  ... now the General Service Office.  12&12 Tradition Nine (Note), p.173
(*) In 1954, the name of the Alcoholic Foundation, Inc., was changed to the General Service Board of Alcoholics Anonymous, Inc., and the Foundation office is now the General Service Office.


133.
  ... now the General Service Office.  12&12 Tradition Eleven (Note), p.182
(*) In 1954, the name of the Alcoholic Foundation, Inc., was changed to the General Service Board of Alcoholics Anonymous, Inc., and the Foundation office is now the General Service Office.


134.
  ... now the newcomer has probably arrived at ...  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.


135.
  ... now the same question raised in Tradition ...  12&12 Tradition Four, p.146
Comes now the same question raised in Tradition One.


136.
  ... now the time has come when he ...  12&12 Step Eight, p.77
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.


137.
  ... now the words "Of myself I am ...  12&12 Step Seven, p.75
But now the words "Of myself I am nothing, the Father doeth the works" began to carry bright promise and meaning.


138.
  Now these are about to be cast ...  BB Into Action, p.72
Now these are about to be cast out.


139.
  Now these are commonplace observations on drinkers ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.20
Now these are commonplace observations on drinkers which we hear all the time.


140.
  Now, this house will hardly accommodate its ...  BB A Vision For You, p.161
Now, this house will hardly accommodate its weekly visitors, for they number sixty or eighty as a rule.


141.
  ... now, though, the chances are that he ...  12&12 Step Three, p.39
By now, though, the chances are that he has become convinced that he has more problems than alcohol, and that some of these refuse to be solved by all the sheer personal determination and courage he can muster.


142.
  ... now time, the struggling groups thought, to ...  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xvii
It was now time, the struggling groups thought, to place their message and unique experience before the world.


143.
  ... now upon the sea and ponder what ...  12&12 Step Eleven, p.100
Let us look now upon the sea and ponder what its mystery is; and let us lift our eyes to the far horizon, beyond which we shall seek all those wonders still unseen.


144.
  ... now want to make a decision to ...  12&12 Step Three, p.38
So it is by circumstance rather than by any virtue that we have been driven to A.A., have admitted defeat, have acquired the rudiments of faith, and now want to make a decision to turn our will and our lives over to a Higher Power.


145.
  ... now was a river which led to ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.109
The persistent use of meditation and prayer, we found, did open the channel so that where there had been a trickle, there now was a river which led to sure power and safe guidance from God as we were increasingly better able to understand Him.


146.
  ... now was good enough for us.  12&12 Step Two, p.29
The here and now was good enough for us.


147.
  ... now we begin to have a spiritual ...  BB Into Action, p.75
We may have had certain spiritual beliefs, but now we begin to have a spiritual experience.


148.
  Now we come to another kind of ...  12&12 Step Two, p.29
Now we come to another kind of problem: the intellectually self-sufficient man or woman.


149.
  Now we go out to our fellows ...  BB Into Action, p.76
Now we go out to our fellows and repair the damage done in the past.


150.
  Now we need more action, without which ...  BB Into Action, p.76
Now we need more action, without which we find that "Faith without works is dead."


151.
  ... now we see ourselves as chips off ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.123
But now we see ourselves as chips off the same old block.


152.
  Now we try to put spiritual principles ...  BB To Wives, p.116
Now we try to put spiritual principles to work in every department of our lives.


153.
  ... now we've got him strapped down tight.(*)  BB A Vision For You, p.156
Understand he was once a well-known lawyer in town, but just now we've got him strapped down tight.(*)


154.
  Now, what about the rest of the ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.109
Now, what about the rest of the Twelfth Step?


155.
  Now, what of prayer?  12&12 Step Eleven, p.102
Now, what of prayer?


156.
  ... now willing that you should have all ...  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.


157.
  Now willing to commence the search for ...  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?"


158.
  ... now willing to work hard at the ...  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.


159.
  ... now, with the help of God as ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.113
Can we now, with the help of God as we understand Him, handle them as well and as bravely as our nonalcoholic friends often do?


160.
  Now you are getting back into the ...  BB Working With Others, p.102
Now you are getting back into the social life of this world.


161.
  ... now you are making your second visit ...  BB Working With Others, p.96
Suppose now you are making your second visit to a man.


162.
  ... now you know that he can stop ...  BB To Wives, p.116
And now you know that he can stop if he will!


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