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From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)


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1.
  ... personal.  BB Foreword to Third Edition, p.xxii
In spite of the great increase in the size and the span of this Fellowship, at its core it remains simple and personal.


2.
  ... personal adventures before and after make clear ...  BB How It Works, p.60
Our description of the alcoholic, the chapter to the agnostic, and our personal adventures before and after make clear three pertinent ideas:


3.
  ... personal affair which each one decides for ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.28
This should be an entirely personal affair which each one decides for himself in the light of past associations, or his present choice.


4.
  ... personal aims to the common good is ...  12&12 Contents (Tradition Twelve), p.13
Subordinating personal aims to the common good is the essence of all Twelve Traditions.


5.
  ... personal ambition has no place in A.A.  12&12 Contents (Tradition Eleven), p.12
Eleventh Tradition is a constant reminder that personal ambition has no place in A.A.


6.
  ... personal ambition has no place in A.A.  12&12 Tradition Eleven, p.183
This Tradition is a constant and practical reminder that personal ambition has no place in A.A.


7.
  ... personal anonymity.  BB Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.565
11. Our relations with the general public should be characterized by personal anonymity.


8.
  ... personal anonymity.  12&12 Tradition Eleven (Long), p.192
Eleven -- Our relations with the general public should be characterized by personal anonymity.


9.
  ... personal anonymity as A.A.'s greatest protection.  12&12 Tradition Eleven, pp.182-183
The Foundation(*) wrote letters to practically every news outlet in North America, setting forth our public relations policy of attraction rather than promotion, and emphasizing personal anonymity as A.A.'s greatest protection.


10.
  ... personal anonymity at the level of press, ...  BB Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.562
Eleven -- Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio and films.


11.
  ... personal anonymity at the level of press, ...  12&12 Contents (Tradition Eleven), p.12
Tradition Eleven -- "Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio and films."


12.
  ... personal anonymity at the level of press, ...  12&12 Tradition Eleven, p.180
"Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, and films."


13.
  Personal anonymity at the public level is ...  12&12 Contents (Tradition Eleven), p.12
Personal anonymity at the public level is the cornerstone of our public relations policy.


14.
  ... personal appeals which may result from this ...  BB Foreword to First Edition, p.xiii
It is important that we remain anonymous because we are too few, at present to handle the overwhelming number of personal appeals which may result from this publication.


15.
  ... personal appeals which may result from this ...  12&12 Tradition Twelve, p.184
Its foreword made this revealing statement: "It is important that we remain anonymous because we are too few, at present, to handle the overwhelming number of personal appeals which may result from this publication.


16.
  ... personal attachment to him, the employer has ...  BB To Employers, p.137
Because of the employee's special ability, or of his own strong personal attachment to him, the employer has sometimes kept such a man at work long beyond a reasonable period.


17.
  ... personal authority over another, that nothing like ...  12&12 Foreword, p.16
Why is it, they ask, that in A.A. no member can be set in personal authority over another, that nothing like a central government can anywhere be seen?


18.
  ... personal conquest of this compulsion by the ...  12&12 Step One, p.22
There was, they said, no such thing as the personal conquest of this compulsion by the unaided will.


19.
  ... personal consequences may be.  BB Into Action, p.79
Reminding ourselves that we have decided to go to any lengths to find a spiritual experience, we ask that we be given strength and direction to do the right thing, no matter what the personal consequences may be.


20.
  ... personal contact at all.  12&12 Step Nine, p.83
There will be other cases where action ought to be deferred, and still others in which by the very nature of the situation we shall never be able to make direct personal contact at all.


21.
  ... personal contact with some of us.  BB To Employers, p.144
As our work spreads and our numbers increase, we hope your employees may be put in personal contact with some of us.


22.
  ... personal cost.  12&12 Tradition Five, p.150
In the radiance of such a miraculous discovery, any doctor would set his other ambitions aside, at whatever personal cost.


23.
  ... personal desires for the common good, we ...  12&12 Tradition Twelve, p.184
Because A.A.'s Twelve Traditions repeatedly ask us to give up personal desires for the common good, we realize that the sacrificial spirit -- well symbolized by anonymity -- is the foundation of them all.


24.
  ... personal determination and courage he can muster.  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.


25.
  ... personal disobedience to spiritual principles.  12&12 Tradition Nine, p.174
His drunkenness and dissolution are not penalties inflicted by people in authority; they result from his personal disobedience to spiritual principles.


26.
  ... personal distinction as A.A. members both among ...  12&12 Tradition Twelve, p.187
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.


27.
  ... personal exertion necessary to conform to God's ...  12&12 Contents (Step Three), p.6
Sustained and personal exertion necessary to conform to God's will.


28.
  ... personal exertion to conform to their principles ...  12&12 Step Three, p.40
All of the Twelve Steps require sustained and personal exertion to conform to their principles and so, we trust, to God's will.


29.
  ... personal experience.  BB Working With Others, p.92
Keep his attention focussed mainly on your personal experience.


30.
  ... personal experiences.  BB There Is A Solution, p.29
These are followed by forty-three personal experiences.


31.
  ... personal fault, like tardiness.  12&12 Step Eleven, p.103
We have seen A.A.'s ask with much earnestness and faith for God's explicit guidance on matters ranging all the way from a shattering domestic or financial crisis to correcting a minor personal fault, like tardiness.


32.
  ... personal flaws which are acutely troublesome and ...  12&12 Step Four, p.50
Since Step Four is but the beginning of a lifetime practice, it can be suggested that he first have a look at those personal flaws which are acutely troublesome and fairly obvious.


33.
  ... personal grandeur.  12&12 Step Five, p.58
All of us saw, for example, that we lacked honesty and tolerance, that we were beset at times by attacks of self-pity or delusions of personal grandeur.


34.
  ... personal grievances receive careful consideration.  BB Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form), p.574
V. Throughout our structure, a traditional "Right of Appeal" ought to prevail, so that minority opinion will be heard and personal grievances receive careful consideration.


35.
  ... personal history from the first edition were ...  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.


36.
  ... personal housecleaning, which many of us had ...  BB How It Works, p.63
Next we launched out on a course of vigorous action, the first step of which is a personal housecleaning, which many of us had never attempted.


37.
  ... personal importance.  12&12 Contents (Step Twelve), p.9
So do feelings about personal importance.


38.
  ... personal importance, power, ambition, and leadership.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.122
Let's here take note of our improved outlook upon the problems of personal importance, power, ambition, and leadership.


39.
  ... personal independence in such matters.  12&12 Step Three, p.37
Nobody is going to meddle with our personal independence in such matters.


40.
  ... personal inventory.  BB How It Works, p.64
Therefore, we started upon a personal inventory.


41.
  ... personal inventory.  BB Into Action, p.72
We have admitted certain defects; we have ascertained in a rough way what the trouble is; we have put our finger on the weak items in our personal inventory.


42.
  ... personal inventory and continue to set right ...  BB Into Action, p.84
This thought brings us to Step Ten, which suggests we continue to take personal inventory and continue to set right any new mistakes as we go along.


43.
  ... personal inventory, and that when we were ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.108
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.


44.
  ... personal inventory and when we were wrong ...  BB How It Works, p.59
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.


45.
  ... personal inventory and when we were wrong ...  12&12 Contents (Step Ten), p.8
Step Ten -- "Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it."


46.
  ... personal inventory and when we were wrong ...  12&12 Step Ten, p.88
"Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it."


47.
  ... personal inventory, we have written down a ...  BB How It Works, p.70
If we have been thorough about our personal inventory, we have written down a lot.


48.
  ... personal inventory, what shall we do about ...  BB Into Action, p.72
Having made our personal inventory, what shall we do about it?


49.
  ... personal matter, that his alcoholic derelictions, the ...  BB To Employers, p.143
While on the subject of confidence, can you adopt the attitude that so far as you are concerned this will be a strictly personal matter, that his alcoholic derelictions, the treatment about to be undertaken, will never be discussed without his consent?


50.
  ... personal name, designating himself instead as "a ...  BB Foreword to First Edition, p.xiii
When writing or speaking publicly about alcoholism, we urge each of our Fellowship to omit his personal name, designating himself instead as "a member of Alcoholics Anonymous."


51.
  ... personal, or sex relations, which had been ...  BB How It Works, p.65
Was it our self-esteem, our security, our ambitions, our personal, or sex relations, which had been interfered with?


52.
  ... personal powerlessness.  12&12 Step One, p.21
Every natural instinct cries out against the idea of personal powerlessness.


53.
  ... personal powerlessness finally turn out to be ...  12&12 Step One, p.21
Our admissions of personal powerlessness finally turn out to be firm bedrock upon which happy and purposeful lives may be built.


54.
  ... personal prestige and power, for romance, and ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.114
Our desires for emotional security and wealth, for personal prestige and power, for romance, and for family satisfactions -- all these have to be tempered and redirected.


55.
  ... personal problems, and that I would therefore ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.40
I reasoned I was not so far advanced as most of you fellows, that I had been usually successful in licking my other personal problems, and that I would therefore be successful where you men failed.


56.
  ... personal publicity.  12&12 Tradition Eleven, p.182
In the beginning, the press could not understand our refusal of all personal publicity.


57.
  ... personal reason for going to this place?  BB Working With Others, p.101
Therefore, ask yourself on each occasion, "Have I any good social, business, or personal reason for going to this place?


58.
  ... personal recovery.  BB Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form), p.574
A.A.'s Twelve Steps are principles for personal recovery.


59.
  ... personal recovery depends upon A.A. unity.  BB Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.562
One -- Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon A.A. unity.


60.
  ... personal recovery depends upon A.A. unity."  12&12 Tradition One, p.129
"Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon A.A. unity."


61.
  ... personal recovery depends upon A.A. unity." Without ...  12&12 Contents (Tradition One), p.9
Tradition One -- "Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon A.A. unity." Without unity, A.A. dies. Individual liberty, yet great unity. Key to paradox: each A.A.'s life depends on obedience to spiritual principles. The group must survive or the individual will not. Common welfare comes first. How best to live and work together as groups.


62.
  ... personal relations.  12&12 Contents (Step Eight), p.7
This and the next two Steps are concerned with personal relations.


63.
  ... personal relations.  12&12 Step Eight, p.77
Steps Eight and Nine are concerned with personal relations.


64.
  ... personal relations can deepen our insight.  12&12 Step Eight, p.80
Calm, thoughtful reflection upon personal relations can deepen our insight.


65.
  ... personal relations every bit of information about ...  12&12 Step Eight, p.80
While the purpose of making restitution to others is paramount, it is equally necessary that we extricate from an examination of our personal relations every bit of information about ourselves and our fundamental difficulties that we can.


66.
  ... personal relations, public relations, management of groups, ...  12&12 Foreword, p.18
Everywhere there arose threatening questions of membership, money, personal relations, public relations, management of groups, clubs, and scores of other perplexities.


67.
  ... personal relationship; self esteem (fear).  BB How It Works, p.65
Mrs. Jones -- she's a nut, she snubbed me; she committed her husband for drinking; he's my friend; she's a gossip -- personal relationship; self esteem (fear).


68.
  ... personal relationships (including sex) were hurt or ...  BB How It Works, p.64
In most cases it was found that our self-esteem, our pocketbooks, our ambitions, our personal relationships (including sex) were hurt or threatened.


69.
  ... personal relationships, we couldn't control our emotional ...  BB We Agnostics, p.52
We were having trouble with personal relationships, we couldn't control our emotional natures, we were a prey to misery and depression, we couldn't make a living, we had a feeling of uselessness, we were full of fear, we were unhappy, we couldn't seem to be of real help to other people -- was not a basic solution of these bedevilments more important than whether we should see newsreels of lunar flight?


70.
  ... personal relationships which bring continuous or recurring ...  12&12 Step Four, p.52
To take inventory in this respect we ought to consider carefully all personal relationships which bring continuous or recurring trouble.


71.
  ... personal religious affiliation, we include Catholics, Protestants, ...  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xx
By personal religious affiliation, we include Catholics, Protestants, Jews, Hindus, and a sprinkling of Moslems and Buddhists.


72.
  ... personal sacrifice is too great for preservation ...  12&12 Tradition One, p.130
Realization dawns that he is but a small part of a great whole; that no personal sacrifice is too great for preservation of the Fellowship.


73.
  ... personal satisfactions he desires.  12&12 Step Seven, pp.70-71
Poverty will disappear, and there will be such abundance that everybody can have all the security and personal satisfactions he desires.


74.
  ... personal sex relations; security (fear).  BB How It Works, p.65
My wife -- misunderstands and nags; likes Brown; wants the house put in her name -- pride; personal sex relations; security (fear).


75.
  ... personal sobriety, the aim of our services ...  12&12 Tradition Nine, p.175
Just as the aim of each A.A. member is personal sobriety, the aim of our services is to bring sobriety within reach of all who want it.


76.
  ... personal stories and think: "Yes, that happened ...  BB Preface, p.xii
If you have a drinking problem, we hope that you may pause in reading one of the forty-two personal stories and think: "Yes, that happened to me"; or, more important, "Yes, I've felt like that"; or, most important, "Yes, I believe this program can work for me too."


77.
  ... personal stories as follows.  BB Preface, p.xii
This fourth edition includes the Twelve Concepts for World Service and revises the three sections of personal stories as follows.


78.
  ... personal stories, describes in his own language ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.29
Each individual, in the personal stories, describes in his own language and from his own point of view the way he established his relationship with God.


79.
  ... personal stories, which was expanded to reflect ...  BB Preface, p.xi
But the chief change was in the section of personal stories, which was expanded to reflect the Fellowship's growth.


80.
  ... personal stories you will find a wide ...  BB We Agnostics, p.50
In our personal stories you will find a wide variation in the way each teller approaches and conceives of the Power which is greater than himself.


81.
  ... personal survival.  12&12 Tradition Five, p.151
Yet such a failure wouldn't jeopardize their personal survival.


82.
  ... personal to me this feeling was intensified.  BB Bill's Story, p.12
When the thought was expressed that there might be a God personal to me this feeling was intensified.


83.
  ... personal to me, who was love, superhuman ...  BB Bill's Story, p.10
When they talked of a God personal to me, who was love, superhuman strength and direction, I became irritated and my mind snapped shut against such a theory.


84.
  ... personal triumphs more than we have loved ...  12&12 Step Ten, p.91
For no people have ever loved personal triumphs more than we have loved them; we drank of success as of a wine which could never fail to make us feel elated.


85.
  ... personal virtue, but we do recognize it ...  12&12 Step Seven, p.74
We may still have no very high opinion of humility as a desirable personal virtue, but we do recognize it as a necessary aid to our survival.


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