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1.
... group?
12&12 p.112,
Step Twelve
Can we bring the same
spirit of
love and
tolerance into our
sometimes
deranged family lives that we bring to
our
A.A. group?
2.
... group.
12&12 p.130,
Tradition One
The
moment this
Twelfth
Step work forms a
group, another
discovery is made -- that most
individuals cannot
recover unless there is a
group.
3.
... group.
12&12 p.130,
Tradition One
4.
... group.
12&12 p.133,
Tradition Two
Then, too, he
misses his
home group.
5.
... group.
12&12 p.133,
Tradition Two
Growing pains now
beset the
group.
6.
... group.
12&12 p.134,
Tradition Two
In no
sense whatever can
its
members govern or
direct the
group.
7.
... group.
12&12 p.139,
Tradition Three
8.
... group?
12&12 p.142,
Tradition Three
"But," he
asked, "will you let me
join your
group?
9.
... group.
12&12 p.149,
Tradition Four
10.
... group.
12&12 p.150,
Tradition Five
Every
doctor concerned
would at
times wish he could
devote himself to his
chosen field rather than
work only with the
group.
11.
... group.
BB p.573(575),
Appendix VI, How to Get in Touch With A.A.
12.
... group.
BB xix,
Foreword to Second Edition
Soon
A.A. was
beset by these
very
problems on every
side and in every
group.
13.
... Group #1. Rule #62."
12&12 p.149,
Tradition Four
14.
... group after group saw these possibilities, they ...
12&12 p.141,
Tradition Three
As
group after
group saw these
possibilities, they finally
abandoned all
membership regulations.
15.
... group an individual entity, strictly reliant on ...
12&12 p.147,
Tradition Four
16.
... group, and he is the founder.
12&12 p.133,
Tradition Two
17.
... group and swallowed up in it?"
12&12 p.129,
Tradition One
Is he to be
dominated by his
group and
swallowed up in it?"
18.
... group and will, if you wish, correspond ...
BB p.573(575),
Appendix VI, How to Get in Touch With A.A.
This
headquarters will
give the
location of the
nearest family group and will, if you
wish,
correspond with you about your
special problems.
19.
... group, another discovery is made -- that most ...
12&12 p.130,
Tradition One
The
moment this
Twelfth
Step work forms a
group, another
discovery is made -- that most
individuals cannot
recover unless there is a
group.
20.
... group, as such, should never go into ...
12&12 p.190,
Tradition Six (Long)
An
A.A. group, as such, should
never go into
business.
21.
... group, as such, should never go into ...
BB p.564(566),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
An
A.A. group, as such, should
never go into
business.
22.
... group, as such, simply couldn't handle this ...
12&12 p.149,
Tradition Four
An
A.A. group, as such,
simply couldn't
handle this
sort of
project.
23.
... group as their higher power, claims for ...
12&12 p.96,
Step Eleven
To
certain newcomers
and to those one-
time agnostics who still
cling
to the
A.A. group as their
higher power,
claims for the
power of
prayer may,
despite all the
logic and
experience in
proof of it, still be
unconvincing or quite
objectionable.
24.
... group, at Akron, Ohio, in 1935.
BB p.156,
A Vision For You (Note)
This
resulted in
A.A.'s
first group, at
Akron,
Ohio, in
1935.
25.
... Group Award for 1951 to Alcoholics Anonymous ...
BB p.571(573),
Appendix IV, The Lasker Award
26.
... group can bind itself to no one.
12&12 p.190,
Tradition Six (Long)
An
A.A. group can
bind itself to no one.
27.
... group can bind itself to no one.
BB p.564(566),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
An
A.A. group can
bind itself to no one.
28.
... group can manage its affairs exactly as ...
12&12 p.146,
Tradition Four
29.
... group cannot get along without him, who ...
12&12 p.135,
Tradition Two
The
bleeding deacon is
one who is just as
surely convinced that the
group
cannot get along without him, who
constantly connives for
reelection
to
office, and who
continues to be
consumed
with
self-
pity.
30.
... group's chairman.
12&12 p.111,
Step Twelve
They make us, let us say, the
group's
chairman.
31.
... group's chores.
12&12 p.134,
Tradition Two
Theirs is the sometimes
thankless privilege of doing the
group's
chores.
32.
... group's chores, if the area's telephone rings ...
12&12 p.175,
Tradition Nine
If
nobody does the
group's
chores, if the
area's
telephone rings unanswered, if we do not
reply to our
mail, then
A.A. as we
know it would
stop.
33.
... group committee can issue a single directive ...
12&12 p.173,
Tradition Nine
34.
... group conscience.
12&12 p.132,
Tradition Two
"For our
group purpose
there is but one
ultimate authority -- a
loving God as He may
express Himself
in our
group conscience.
35.
... group conscience.
12&12 p.132,
Tradition Two
These
practical folk then
read Tradition Two, and
learn that the
sole authority in
A.A. is a
loving God as He may
express Himself
in the
group conscience.
36.
... group conscience.
12&12 p.138,
Tradition Two
"So
spoke the
group conscience.
37.
... group conscience.
12&12 p.189,
Tradition Two (Long)
Two -- For our
group purpose there is but one
ultimate authority -- a
loving God as He may
express Himself in our
group
conscience.
38.
... group conscience.
BB p.562(564),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
Two -- For our
group purpose there is but one
ultimate authority -- a
loving God as He may
express Himself in our
group
conscience.
39.
... group conscience.
BB p.563(565),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
2. For our
group purpose
there is but one
ultimate authority -- a
loving God as He may
express Himself
in our
group conscience.
40.
... group conscience decree the terms upon which ...
12&12 p.134,
Tradition Two
41.
... group conscience; in fact, these are the ...
12&12 p.135,
Tradition Two
42.
... group conscience is about to take over.
12&12 p.134,
Tradition Two
The
group conscience is
about to take over.
43.
... group conscience, well-advised by its elders, will ...
12&12 p.135,
Tradition Two
This is the
experience which has
led us to the
conclusion
that our
group conscience, well-
advised
by
its elders, will be in the
long run wiser than any
single leader.
44.
... group could stand almost any amount of ...
12&12 p.146,
Tradition Four
When
A.A.'s
Traditions
were
first published, in
1946, we had
become sure that an
A.A. group could
stand almost any
amount of
battering.
45.
... group's decision, who holds no resentment over ...
12&12 p.135,
Tradition Two
46.
... group do?
12&12 p.142,
Tradition Three
What should the group do?
47.
... group doesn't need it, and I won't ...
12&12 p.143,
Tradition Three
This
group doesn't
need it,
and I won't have it!
48.
... group, exactly like the individual, must eventually ...
12&12 p.146,
Tradition Four
49.
... group forever?
12&12 p.134,
Tradition Two
Still more
important,
murmurs are
heard in the
body politic, which
swell into a
loud cry: "Do these
oldtimers think they can
run this
group forever?
50.
... group had actually been formed, though no ...
BB xvii,
Foreword to Second Edition
When the
broker returned
to New
York in the
fall of
1935, the
first A.A. group had
actually been
formed,
though no one
realized it at the
time.
51.
... group had exercised its right to be ...
12&12 p.149,
Tradition Four
Thus it was that under
Tradition Four an
A.A. group had
exercised its right to be
wrong.
52.
... group had many membership rules.
12&12 p.139,
Tradition Three
"At one
time," he says, "every
A.A. group had many
membership rules.
53.
... group had the right to be wrong.
12&12 p.147,
Tradition Four
Every
group had the
right to
be
wrong.
54.
... group, half its membership might angrily rush ...
12&12 p.177,
Tradition Ten
Disliking the
attempt
of some to
manage a
group,
half its membership might
angrily
rush off to
form another
group more to their
liking.
55.
... group has but one primary purpose -- to ...
12&12 p.150,
Tradition Five
"Each
group has but one
primary purpose -- to
carry its message to the
alcoholic
who still
suffers."
56.
... group has but one primary purpose -- to ...
BB p.562(564),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
Five -- Each
group has but one
primary purpose -- to
carry its message to the
alcoholic
who still
suffers.
57.
... group's hierarchy of service -- self-appointed, of course, ...
12&12 p.133,
Tradition Two
These are the
growing group's
hierarchy of
service --
self-
appointed, of
course,
because there is no other way.
58.
... group, if it is strong enough, self-righteously ...
12&12 p.37,
Step Three
Every such
pressure group,
if it is
strong enough,
self-
righteously imposes its will upon the
rest.
59.
... group inevitably turns to them for advice.
12&12 p.135,
Tradition Two
60.
... group's informal rotating committee, the intergroup association ...
12&12 p.174,
Tradition Nine
61.
... group into business; too many busybody cooks ...
12&12 p.156,
Tradition Six
Whereupon we
tried A.A. hospitals -- they all
bogged down because you cannot
put an
A.A. group into
business; too many
busybody cooks spoil the
broth.
62.
... group its rotating committee, and the groups ...
12&12 p.191,
Tradition Nine (Long)
63.
... group its rotating committee, and the groups ...
BB p.565(567),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
64.
... group itself.
12&12 p.174,
Tradition Nine
The same
stern threat applies to the
group itself.
65.
... group may cooperate with anyone, such cooperation ...
12&12 p.190,
Tradition Six (Long)
While an
A.A. group may
cooperate with anyone, such
cooperation ought
never
to go so far as
affiliation or
endorsement,
actual or
implied.
66.
... group may cooperate with anyone, such cooperation ...
BB p.564(566),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
While an
A.A. group may
cooperate with anyone, such
cooperation ought
never
go so far as
affiliation or
endorsement,
actual or
implied.
67.
... group may elect its secretary, the large ...
12&12 p.191,
Tradition Nine (Long)
68.
... group may elect its secretary, the large ...
BB p.565(567),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
69.
... group might have his own specialty.
12&12 p.150,
Tradition Five
True, each
physician in
such a
group might have his
own
specialty.
70.
... group more to their liking.
12&12 p.177,
Tradition Ten
Disliking the
attempt
of some to
manage a
group,
half its membership might
angrily
rush off to
form another
group more to their
liking.
71.
... group must survive or the individual will ...
12&12 p.130,
Tradition One
It
becomes plain that the
group must survive or the
individual will not.
72.
... group needs the least possible organization.
12&12 p.191,
Tradition Nine (Long)
73.
... group needs the least possible organization.
BB p.565(567),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
74.
... group now has a so-called rotating committee, ...
12&12 p.134,
Tradition Two
In either
case, the
group now
has a so-called
rotating committee, very
sharply
limited in
its authority.
75.
... group of alcoholics had in common.
12&12 p.123,
Step Twelve
The
doctors weren't
trying to find how
different we were from one another; they
sought to find whatever
personality traits, if
any, this
group of
alcoholics had in
common.
76.
... group of doctors possessed a cancer cure, ...
12&12 p.151,
Tradition Five
77.
... group of people who have solved their ...
12&12 p.27,
Step Two
Here's a very
large group of
people who have
solved their
alcohol problem.
78.
... group of physicians who might find a ...
12&12 p.150,
Tradition Five
Alcoholics Anonymous can be
likened
to a
group of
physicians
who might find a
cure for
cancer, and upon whose
concerted work would
depend the
answer for
sufferers of this
disease.
79.
... group of principles, spiritual in their nature, ...
12&12 p.15,
Foreword
80.
... group of related principles to help ensure ...
BB p.574,
Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form)
81.
... group of so-called problem drinkers.
12&12 p.122,
Step Twelve
82.
... group's oldest member.
12&12 p.142,
Tradition Three
He
talked frankly with
that
group's
oldest member.
83.
... group opinion.
12&12 p.136,
Tradition Two
84.
... group, or A.A. as a whole, would ...
12&12 p.107,
Step Twelve
For the
time being, we who were
atheist or
agnostic discovered that our
own
group, or
A.A. as a
whole, would
suffice as a
higher power.
85.
... group or member should ever, in such ...
12&12 p.192,
Tradition Ten (Long)
86.
... group or member should ever, in such ...
BB p.565(567),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
87.
... group or upon a Higher Power hasn't ...
12&12 p.38,
Step Three
88.
... group ought never endorse, finance, or lend ...
12&12 p.155,
Tradition Six
89.
... group ought never endorse, finance or lend ...
BB p.562(564),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
90.
... group ought not do anything which would ...
12&12 p.147,
Tradition Four
In
charting this
enormous expanse of
freedom, we
found it
necessary to
post only
two storm signals: A
group ought not do
anything which would
greatly injure A.A. as a
whole, nor ought it
affiliate itself with anything or anybody else.
91.
... group ought to be a spiritual entity ...
12&12 p.190,
Tradition Five (Long)
92.
... group ought to be a spiritual entity ...
BB p.563(565),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
5. Each
Alcoholics Anonymous group ought to be
a
spiritual entity
having but one
primary purpose -- that of
carrying its message to the
alcoholic
who still
suffers.
93.
... group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining ...
12&12 p.160,
Tradition Seven
94.
... group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining ...
BB p.562(564),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
95.
... group promptly took shape at New York, ...
BB xvii,
Foreword to Second Edition
96.
... group provided that as a group they ...
12&12 p.147,
Tradition Four
97.
... group, provided that, as a group, they ...
12&12 p.189,
Tradition Three (Long)
Any
two or
three alcoholics gathered together for
sobriety may
call themselves an
A.A. group,
provided that, as a
group,
they have no other
affiliation.
98.
... group, provided that, as a group, they ...
BB p.563(565),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
Any
two or
three alcoholics gathered together for
sobriety may
call themselves an
A.A. group,
provided that, as a
group,
they have no other
affiliation.
99.
... group purpose there is but one ultimate ...
12&12 p.132,
Tradition Two
"For our
group purpose
there is but one
ultimate authority -- a
loving God as He may
express Himself
in our
group conscience.
100.
... group purpose there is but one ultimate ...
12&12 p.189,
Tradition Two (Long)
Two -- For our
group purpose there is but one
ultimate authority -- a
loving God as He may
express Himself in our
group
conscience.
101.
... group purpose there is but one ultimate ...
BB p.562(564),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
Two -- For our
group purpose there is but one
ultimate authority -- a
loving God as He may
express Himself in our
group
conscience.
102.
... group purpose there is but one ultimate ...
BB p.563(565),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
2. For our
group purpose
there is but one
ultimate authority -- a
loving God as He may
express Himself
in our
group conscience.
103.
... group purposes.
12&12 p.160,
Tradition Seven
104.
... group received into its membership a salesman ...
12&12 p.143,
Tradition Three
Not
long after the
man with the
double stigma knocked for
admission,
A.A.'s other
group received into
its membership a
salesman
we shall call
Ed.
105.
... group, regional committee, or individual should ever ...
12&12 p.189,
Tradition Four (Long)
And no
group,
regional committee, or
individual should ever take any
action that might
greatly affect A.A. as a
whole without
conferring
with the
trustees of the
General Service Board.
106.
... group, regional committee, or individual should ever ...
BB p.563(565),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
And no
group,
regional committee, or
individual should ever take any
action that might
greatly affect A.A. as a
whole without
conferring
with the
trustees of the
General Service Board.
107.
... group saw these possibilities, they finally abandoned ...
12&12 p.141,
Tradition Three
As
group after
group saw these
possibilities, they finally
abandoned all
membership regulations.
108.
... group should be autonomous except in matters ...
12&12 p.146,
Tradition Four
"Each
group should be
autonomous except in
matters affecting other
groups or
A.A. as a
whole."
109.
... group should be autonomous except in matters ...
BB p.562(564),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
110.
... group should be responsible to no other ...
12&12 p.189,
Tradition Four (Long)
111.
... group should be responsible to no other ...
BB p.563(565),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
4. With
respect to
its own affairs, each
A.A. group should be
responsible to no other
authority than
its own conscience.
112.
... group should soon achieve this ideal; that ...
12&12 p.190,
Tradition Seven (Long)
113.
... group should soon achieve this ideal; that ...
BB p.564(566),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
114.
... group the higher power, would presently love ...
12&12 p.109,
Step Twelve
From
great numbers of such
experiences, we could
predict that the
doubter
who still
claimed that he hadn't got the "
spiritual angle," and who
still
considered his well-
loved A.A. group the
higher power, would
presently love God and call Him by
name.
115.
... group there how to run its business?
12&12 p.173,
Tradition Nine
Who is more
unpopular than the
oldtime A.A.,
full of
wisdom, who
moves to another
area and
tries to tell the
group there
how to
run its business?
116.
... group they have no other affiliation."
12&12 p.147,
Tradition Four
117.
... group, they have no other affiliation.
12&12 p.189,
Tradition Three (Long)
Any
two or
three alcoholics gathered together for
sobriety may
call themselves an
A.A. group,
provided that, as a
group,
they have no other
affiliation.
118.
... group, they have no other affiliation.
BB p.563(565),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
Any
two or
three alcoholics gathered together for
sobriety may
call themselves an
A.A. group,
provided that, as a
group,
they have no other
affiliation.
119.
... group they may mark a new epoch ...
BB xxvi(xxiv),
The Doctor's Opinion
120.
... group, those scores have since multiplied themselves ...
12&12 p.142,
Tradition Three
Since this was a very
early group, those
scores have since
multiplied themselves into
thousands.
121.
... group to buy.
BB p.5,
Bill's Story
Stocks were at the
low point of
1932, and I had somehow
formed a
group to
buy.
122.
... group to function.
12&12 p.134,
Tradition Two
Such are the
simple services that
enable the
group to
function.
123.
... group to send in its list of ...
12&12 p.140,
Tradition Three
124.
... group, too, can deteriorate and die.
12&12 p.174,
Tradition Nine
125.
... group unto themselves and their best results ...
BB p.569(571),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
Dr. G.
Kirby Collier,
psychiatrist:
"I have
felt that
A.A. is a
group unto themselves and their
best results can be had under
their
own guidance, as a
result of their
philosophy.
126.
... group was given five thousand dollars to ...
12&12 p.161,
Tradition Seven
One
A.A. group was
given five thousand dollars to do
with what it would.
127.
... group was in anguish so deep that ...
12&12 p.144,
Tradition Three
The
group was in
anguish so
deep that all
fraternal
charity had
vanished.
128.
... group was right and I was wrong; ...
12&12 p.138,
Tradition Two
The
group was
right and I was
wrong; the
voice on the
subway was not the
voice of
God.
129.
... group was struck at Akron, Ohio, in ...
BB xv,
Foreword to Second Edition
The
spark that was to
flare
into the
first A.A. group was
struck at
Akron,
Ohio, in
June 1935, during a
talk between a New
York stockbroker and an
Akron
physician.
130.
... group was to be autonomous and there ...
BB xix,
Foreword to Second Edition
It was
thought that no
alcoholic man or
woman could be
excluded from
our
Society; that our
leaders might
serve but
never govern; that each
group was to be
autonomous and
there was to be no
professional class of
therapy.
131.
... group with medication and education had come ...
12&12 p.148,
Tradition Four
By his
eloquence he
allayed all
fears,
despite advice from the
Foundation that it could
issue no
charter, and that
ventures which
mixed an
A.A. group with
medication and
education had
come to
sticky ends elsewhere.
132.
... group would have to stick to its ...
12&12 p.147,
Tradition Four
The
A.A. group would have to
stick to
its course or be
hopelessly
lost.
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