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


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1.
  ... thinking?  BB More About Alcoholism, p.35
Of what is he thinking?


2.
  ... thinking.  BB We Agnostics, p.50
They flatly declare that since they have come to believe in a Power greater than themselves, to take a certain attitude toward that Power, and to do certain simple things, there has been a revolutionary change in their way of living and thinking.


3.
  ... thinking.  BB We Agnostics, p.52
But in most fields our generation has witnessed complete liberation of our thinking.


4.
  ... thinking.  BB The Family Afterward, p.134
This may hang on for months, long after their mother has accepted dad's new way of living and thinking.


5.
  ... thinking.  BB A Vision For You, p.163
We know what you are thinking.


6.
  ... thinking.  12&12 Contents (Step Two), p.5
Negative and positive thinking.


7.
  ... thinking.  12&12 Step Two, p.29
Since we were brighter than most folks (so we thought), the spoils of victory would be ours for the thinking.


8.
  ... thinking.  12&12 Step Two, p.30
This all meant, of course, that we had substituted negative for positive thinking.


9.
  ... thinking.  12&12 Step Five, p.57
Either we were shy, and dared not draw near others, or we were apt to be noisy good fellows craving attention and companionship, but never getting it -- at least to our way of thinking.


10.
  ... thinking.  12&12 Step Five, p.60
The second difficulty is this: what comes to us alone may be garbled by our own rationalization and wishful thinking.


11.
  ... thinking.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.119
The prospective partners need to be solid A.A.'s and long enough acquainted to know that their compatibility at spiritual, mental, and emotional levels is a fact and not wishful thinking.


12.
  ... thinking.  12&12 Tradition Twelve, p.185
This phenomenon of contrast really set us thinking.


13.
  ... thinking about humility commences to have a ...  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.


14.
  ... thinking about our day we may face ...  BB Into Action, p.86
In thinking about our day we may face indecision.


15.
  ... thinking and action have hurt us and ...  12&12 Step Five, p.55
If we have swept the searchlight of Step Four back and forth over our careers, and it has revealed in stark relief those experiences we'd rather not remember, if we have come to know how wrong thinking and action have hurt us and others, then the need to quit living by ourselves with those tormenting ghosts of yesterday gets more urgent than ever.


16.
  ... thinking and depression vanish in a twinkling.  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.


17.
  ... thinking and doing are the habits of ...  BB To Wives, p.118
His ways of thinking and doing are the habits of years.


18.
  ... thinking and honest appraisal.  12&12 Step Four, p.54
It will be an aid to clear thinking and honest appraisal.


19.
  ... thinking and the human tendency to rationalize ...  12&12 Step Eleven, p.104
He may have forgotten the possibility that his own wishful thinking and the human tendency to rationalize have distorted his so-called guidance.


20.
  ... thinking and you hate to meet your ...  BB To Wives, p.114
If your husband is a drinker, you probably worry over what other people are thinking and you hate to meet your friends.


21.
  ... thinking by the new God-consciousness within.  BB Bill's Story, p.13
I was to test my thinking by the new God-consciousness within.


22.
  ... thinking, didn't we?  12&12 Step Eleven, p.100
Yes, we reveled in that sort of thinking, didn't we?


23.
  ... thinking, directly caused by the action of ...  BB To Employers, p.140
Can it be appreciated that he has been a victim of crooked thinking, directly caused by the action of alcohol on his brain?


24.
  ... thinking dominates an alcoholic who repeats time ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.35
What sort of thinking dominates an alcoholic who repeats time after time the desperate experiment of the first drink?


25.
  ... thinking, especially asking that it be divorced ...  BB Into Action, p.86
Before we begin, we ask God to direct our thinking, especially asking that it be divorced from self-pity, dishonest or self-seeking motives.


26.
  ... thinking had to be abandoned.  BB We Agnostics, p.48
This sort of thinking had to be abandoned.


27.
  ... thinking has been characteristic of every single ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.37
To us it is not far-fetched, for this kind of thinking has been characteristic of every single one of us.


28.
  ... thinking how they might present their discovery ...  BB A Vision For You, p.159
Seeing much of each other, scarce an evening passed that someone's home did not shelter a little gathering of men and women, happy in their release, and constantly thinking how they might present their discovery to some newcomer.


29.
  ... thinking, imaginative and likeable?  BB To Employers, p.139
Is he not usually brilliant, fast-thinking, imaginative and likeable?


30.
  ... thinking is cleared of wrong motives.  BB Into Action, p.86
Our thought-life will be placed on a much higher plane when our thinking is cleared of wrong motives.


31.
  ... thinking is fully established in an individual ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.24
When this sort of thinking is fully established in an individual with alcoholic tendencies, he has probably placed himself beyond human aid, and unless locked up, may die or go permanently insane.


32.
  ... thinking it over.  BB A Vision For You, p.158
He had been thinking it over.


33.
  ... thinking lost out because God deserted us.  12&12 Step Two, p.31
More often, though, we had met up with some major calamity, and to our way of thinking lost out because God deserted us.


34.
  ... thinking of ourselves most of the time?  BB Into Action, p.86
Were we thinking of ourselves most of the time?


35.
  ... thinking of the disgrace and hard times ...  BB To Wives, p.116
You may be afraid your husband will lose his position; you are thinking of the disgrace and hard times which will befall you and the children.


36.
  ... thinking of what we could do for ...  BB Into Action, p.86
Or were we thinking of what we could do for others, of what we could pack into the stream of life?


37.
  ... thinking or advice.  BB How It Works, p.70
We avoid hysterical thinking or advice.


38.
  ... thinking, solid honesty, and genuine humility.  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.


39.
  ... thinking takes no real account of the ...  12&12 Step Three, p.36
The trouble is that this kind of thinking takes no real account of the facts.


40.
  ... thinking was soft and mushy when we ...  BB We Agnostics, p.53
Hence we are at pains to tell why we think our present faith is reasonable, why we think it more sane and logical to believe than not to believe, why we say our former thinking was soft and mushy when we threw up our hands in doubt and said, "We don't know."


41.
  ... thinking we believe this universe needs no ...  BB We Agnostics, p.49
We read wordy books and indulge in windy arguments, thinking we believe this universe needs no God to explain it.


42.
  ... thinking, when enchanted by a starlit night, ...  BB We Agnostics, p.46
Yet, in other moments, we found ourselves thinking, when enchanted by a starlit night, "Who, then, made all this?"


43.
  ... thinking will, as time passes, be more ...  BB Into Action, p.87
Nevertheless, we find that our thinking will, as time passes, be more and more on the plane of inspiration.


44.
  ... thinking: "Yes, what you tell us is ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.38
Some of you are thinking: "Yes, what you tell us is true, but it doesn't fully apply.


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