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1.
  ... life.  BB Bill's Story, p.3
Drink was taking an important and exhilarating part in my life.


2.
  ... life.  BB Bill's Story, p.16
He could not, or would not, see our way of life.


3.
  ... life.  BB There Is A Solution, p.18
But not so with the alcoholic illness, for with it there goes annihilation of all the things worth while in life.


4.
  ... life.  BB More About Alcoholism, p.35
All went well for a time, but he failed to enlarge his spiritual life.


5.
  ... life.  BB More About Alcoholism, p.40
He was positive that this humiliating experience, plus the knowledge he had acquired, would keep him sober the rest of his life.


6.
  ... life.  BB We Agnostics, pp.50-51
Once confused and baffled by the seeming futility of existence, they show the underlying reasons why they were making heavy going of life.


7.
  ... life.  BB We Agnostics, p.54
Were nothing left but pure reason, it wouldn't be life.


8.
  ... life.  BB How It Works, p.63
More and more we became interested in seeing what we could contribute to life.


9.
  ... life.  BB How It Works, p.63
Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy Power, Thy Love, and Thy Way of life.


10.
  ... life.  BB How It Works, p.69
In this way we tried to shape a sane and sound ideal for our future sex life.


11.
  ... life.  BB Into Action, p.73
More than most people, the alcoholic leads a double life.


12.
  ... life?  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?


13.
  ... life.  BB Working With Others, p.97
The family should be offered your way of life.


14.
  ... life.  BB Working With Others, p.99
The wife should fully understand his new way of life.


15.
  ... life.  BB The Family Afterward, p.124
Henry Ford once made a wise remark to the effect that experience is the thing of supreme value in life.


16.
  ... life.  BB The Family Afterward, p.131
At the very beginning, the couple ought to frankly face the fact that each will have to yield here and there if the family is going to play an effective part in the new life.


17.
  ... life.  BB The Family Afterward, p.132
We absolutely insist on enjoying life.


18.
  ... life.  BB A Vision For You, p.153
Then you will know what it means to give of yourself that others may survive and rediscover life.


19.
  ... life.  BB A Vision For You, p.153
Suppose now that through you several families have adopted this way of life.


20.
  ... life.  BB A Vision For You, p.159
These men had found something brand new in life.


21.
  ... life.  BB A Vision For You, pp.159-160
In addition to these casual get-togethers, it became customary to set apart one night a week for a meeting to be attended by anyone or everyone interested in a spiritual way of life.


22.
  ... life.  12&12 Contents (Step Seven), p.7
Pain is the admission price to new life.


23.
  ... life.  12&12 Contents (Step Eleven), p.8
An unshakable foundation for life.


24.
  ... life.  12&12 Foreword, pp.15-16
Many people, nonalcoholics, report that as a result of the practice of A.A.'s Twelve Steps, they have been able to meet other difficulties of life.


25.
  ... life.  12&12 Step One, p.21
Proved beyond doubt by an immense experience, this is one of the facts of A.A. life.


26.
  ... life.  12&12 Step Two, p.27
Right there, Step Two gently and very gradually began to infiltrate my life.


27.
  ... life.  12&12 Step Two, p.29
"As material success founded upon no more than these ordinary attributes began to come to us, we felt we were winning at the game of life.


28.
  ... life.  12&12 Step Three, p.39
More sobriety brought about by the admission of alcoholism and by attendance at a few meetings is very good indeed, but it is bound to be a far cry from permanent sobriety and a contented, useful life.


29.
  ... life.  12&12 Step Four, p.44
These people often throw to the winds every chance for legitimate security and a happy family life.


30.
  ... life.  12&12 Step Four, p.48
But all who are in the least reasonable will agree upon one point: that there is plenty wrong with us alcoholics about which plenty will have to be done if we are to expect sobriety, progress, and any real ability to cope with life.


31.
  ... life.  12&12 Step Six, p.63
To him, this proposition will be no theory at all; it will be just about the largest fact in his life.


32.
  ... life.  12&12 Step Six, p.64
Here their powerful instinct to live can cooperate fully with their Creator's desire to give them new life.


33.
  ... life.  12&12 Step Seven, p.70
Many people haven't even a nodding acquaintance with humility as a way of life.


34.
  ... life.  12&12 Step Seven, p.71
Nor do we enter into debate with the many who still so passionately cling to the belief that to satisfy our basic natural desires is the main object of life.


35.
  ... life.  12&12 Step Seven, p.71
Instead of regarding the satisfaction of our material desires as the means by which we could live and function as human beings, we had taken these satisfactions to be the final end and aim of life.


36.
  ... life.  12&12 Step Seven, p.75
In every case, pain had been the price of admission into a new life.


37.
  ... life.  12&12 Step Ten, p.88
As we work the first nine Steps, we prepare ourselves for the adventure of a new life.


38.
  ... life.  12&12 Step Eleven, p.98
But when they are logically related and interwoven, the result is an unshakable foundation for life.


39.
  ... life.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.114
We have sometimes seen families broken apart by misunderstanding, tensions, or actual infidelity, who are reunited by the A.A. way of life.


40.
  ... life.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.114
But also like others, we often discover a greater challenge in the lesser and more continuous problems of life.


41.
  ... life?  12&12 Step Twelve, p.120
And what can be said of many A.A. members who, for a variety of reasons, cannot have a family life?


42.
  ... life.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.123
As to our grandiose behavior, we insisted that we had been possessed of nothing but a high and legitimate ambition to win the battle of life.


43.
  ... life.'  12&12 Tradition Five, p.152
"Of course, my answer was 'My own sobriety and a mighty happy life.'


44.
  ... life, a compelling desire to find a ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.117
Nearly every sound human being experiences, at some time in life, a compelling desire to find a mate of the opposite sex with whom the fullest possible union can be made -- spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical.


45.
  ... life a fair hearing.  BB We Agnostics, p.50
We never gave the spiritual side of life a fair hearing.


46.
  ... life, according, of course, to our various ...  12&12 Step Six, p.68
Therefore, it seems plain that few of us can quickly or easily become ready to aim at spiritual and moral perfection; we want to settle for only as much perfection as will get us by in life, according, of course, to our various and sundry ideas of what will get us by.


47.
  ... life actually depends upon obedience to spiritual ...  12&12 Tradition One, p.130
His life actually depends upon obedience to spiritual principles.


48.
  ... life again, often begins to assert himself.  BB The Family Afterward, p.131
Father, coming suddenly to life again, often begins to assert himself.


49.
  ... life again, there will be no stopping ...  BB A Vision For You, pp.163-164
When a few men in this city have found themselves, and have discovered the joy of helping others to face life again, there will be no stopping until everyone in that town has had his opportunity to recover -- if he can and will.


50.
  ... Life. Amen."  12&12 Step Eleven, p.99
It is by dying that one awakens to Eternal Life. Amen."


51.
  ... life among Alcoholics Anonymous is more than ...  BB A Vision For You, p.161
But life among Alcoholics Anonymous is more than attending gatherings and visiting hospitals.


52.
  ... life and death.  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.


53.
  ... life and death, Bill, and nothing but ...  12&12 Tradition Two, p.138
This is a matter of life and death, Bill, and nothing but the very best will do!'


54.
  ... life-and-death errand.  BB Into Action, p.75
He should realize that we are engaged upon a life-and-death errand.


55.
  ... life and happiness for others.  BB The Family Afterward, p.124
Cling to the thought that, in God's hands, the dark past is the greatest possession you have -- the key to life and happiness for others.


56.
  ... life and have begun, by our behavior ...  12&12 Step Nine, p.85
As soon as we begin to feel confident in our new way of life and have begun, by our behavior and example, to convince those about us that we are indeed changing for the better, it is usually safe to talk in complete frankness with those who have been seriously affected, even those who may be only a little or not at all aware of what we have done to them.


57.
  ... life and insists on giving away the ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.129
He may not see at once that he has barely scratched a limitless lode which will pay dividends only if he mines it for the rest of his life and insists on giving away the entire product.


58.
  ... life, and it comes first.  12&12 Tradition Six, p.159
Alcoholics Anonymous saved my life, and it comes first.


59.
  ... life and my will over to the ...  12&12 Step Three, p.36
If I keep on turning my life and my will over to the care of Something or Somebody else, what will become of me?


60.
  ... life, and the beginning of his emergence ...  12&12 Step Two, p.26
And so it is: the beginning of the end of his old life, and the beginning of his emergence into a new one.


61.
  ... life and the lives of your children?  BB To Wives, p.108
Is it right to let him ruin your life and the lives of your children?


62.
  ... life and was only living, one might ...  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxxi
He had lost everything worthwhile in life and was only living, one might say, to drink.


63.
  ... life anew.  BB To Wives, p.114
But sometimes you must start life anew.


64.
  ... life, as it has a way of ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.113
Then perhaps life, as it has a way of doing, suddenly hands us a great big lump that we can't begin to swallow, let alone digest.


65.
  ... life as it has affected other people.  12&12 Step Eight, p.79
Though in some cases we cannot make restitution at all, and in some cases action ought to be deferred, we should nevertheless make an accurate and really exhaustive survey of our past life as it has affected other people.


66.
  ... life as we had been living it.  BB There Is A Solution, p.25
But we saw that it really worked in others, and we had come to believe in the hopelessness and futility of life as we had been living it.


67.
  ... life as we once did and a ...  BB A Vision For You, p.151
There was an insistent yearning to enjoy life as we once did and a heartbreaking obsession that some new miracle of control would enable us to do it.


68.
  ... life as we see it, there is ...  BB We Agnostics, p.49
When, however, the perfectly logical assumption is suggested that underneath the material world and life as we see it, there is an All Powerful, Guiding, Creative Intelligence, right there our perverse streak comes to the surface and we laboriously set out to convince ourselves it isn't so.


69.
  ... life at last, and in the midst ...  BB Bill's Story, p.1
I was part of life at last, and in the midst of the excitement I discovered liquor.


70.
  ... life, at least from the alcoholic angle, ...  BB To Employers, p.149
We, who have collectively seen a great deal of business life, at least from the alcoholic angle, had to smile at this gentleman's sincere opinion.


71.
  ... life better than the best he had ...  BB Bill's Story, p.11
Then he had, in effect, been raised from the dead, suddenly taken from the scrap heap to a level of life better than the best he had ever known!


72.
  ... life brought about by years of alcoholism.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.117
To a surprising extent, A.A. has offset the damage to family life brought about by years of alcoholism.


73.
  ... life business of winning fame, money, and ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.123
We have seen that we were prodded by unreasonable fears or anxieties into making a life business of winning fame, money, and what we thought was leadership.


74.
  ... life can bring the much-desired result.  12&12 Step Three, p.40
Nothing short of continuous action upon these as a way of life can bring the much-desired result.


75.
  ... life, can expel the obsession to drink ...  12&12 Foreword, p.15
A.A.'s Twelve Steps are a group of principles, spiritual in their nature, which, if practiced as a way of life, can expel the obsession to drink and enable the sufferer to become happily and usefully whole.


76.
  ... life completely on life's terms, I cannot ...  BB Acceptance, p.417
Until I could accept my alcoholism, I could not stay sober; unless I accept life completely on life's terms, I cannot be happy.


77.
  ... life confirm this ageless truth.  12&12 Step Eleven, p.98
To an amazing extent the facts of A.A. life confirm this ageless truth.


78.
  ... life deals him.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.122
He learns that he can be content as long as he plays well whatever cards life deals him.


79.
  ... life depends on obedience to spiritual principles. ...  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.


80.
  ... life doesn't treat him right.  BB How It Works, p.61
He begins to think life doesn't treat him right.


81.
  ... life drinking ourselves into forgetfulness or had ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.123
It mattered little whether we had sat on the shore of life drinking ourselves into forgetfulness or had plunged in recklessly and willfully beyond our depth and ability.


82.
  ... life either with alcohol or without it.  BB A Vision For You, p.152
Some day he will be unable to imagine life either with alcohol or without it.


83.
  ... life everywhere.  12&12 Tradition Twelve, p.187
It is an all-pervading spiritual quality which today keynotes A.A. life everywhere.


84.
  ... life for him.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.119
And above all he is finally convinced that reckless romancing is not a way of life for him.


85.
  ... life for many more.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.112
And if these are facts of life for the many alcoholics who have recovered in A.A., they can become the facts of life for many more.


86.
  ... life for the many alcoholics who have ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.112
And if these are facts of life for the many alcoholics who have recovered in A.A., they can become the facts of life for many more.


87.
  ... life for us; you can't keep us ...  12&12 Tradition Nine, p.173
Groups have tried to expel members, but the banished have come back to sit in the meeting place, saying, "This is life for us; you can't keep us out."


88.
  ... life-giving grace of God; His gift to ...  12&12 Tradition One, p.129
Without unity, the heart of A.A. would cease to beat; our world arteries would no longer carry the life-giving grace of God; His gift to us would be spent aimlessly.


89.
  ... life, God was going to be our ...  BB How It Works, p.62
Next, we decided that hereafter in this drama of life, God was going to be our Director.


90.
  ... life had given us, we felt it ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.123
And considering the rough deal life had given us, we felt it perfectly natural that we were sensitive.


91.
  ... life, had secured a position, and was ...  BB Into Action, p.79
He had commenced our way of life, had secured a position, and was getting his head above water.


92.
  ... life has been given us or, if ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.28
A new life has been given us or, if you prefer, "a design for living" that really works.


93.
  ... life have I had a headache, which ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.172
Never once in my life have I had a headache, which fact leads me to believe that I was an alcoholic almost from the start.


94.
  ... life, he can readily get under way ...  12&12 Step Four, p.50
Looking back over his life, he can readily get under way by consideration of questions such as these:


95.
  ... life he finds that real happiness is ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.122
In later life he finds that real happiness is not to be found in just trying to be a number one man, or even a first-rater in the heartbreaking struggle for money, romance, or self-importance.


96.
  ... life he really wants to live.  12&12 Tradition One, p.130
At first he goes along because he must, but later he discovers a way of life he really wants to live.


97.
  ... life, he will never take advantage of ...  BB To Employers, p.146
Being on a radically different basis of life, he will never take advantage of the situation.


98.
  ... life I lived before.  BB More About Alcoholism, pp.42-43
I have since been brought into a way of living infinitely more satisfying and, I hope, more useful than the life I lived before.


99.
  ... life in him.  12&12 Step Three, p.36
Ask the polio sufferer confined to an iron lung who depends with complete trust upon a motor to keep the breath of life in him.


100.
  ... life in the sense that you can ...  BB We Agnostics, p.54
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.


101.
  ... life in the world of big business.  BB To Employers, p.136
Among many employers nowadays, we think of one member who has spent much of his life in the world of big business.


102.
  ... life, in which he so gloried, is ...  12&12 Step Two, p.25
His whole philosophy of life, in which he so gloried, is threatened.


103.
  ... life instead of how much you can ...  BB To Wives, p.120
You, as well as your husband, ought to think of what you can put into life instead of how much you can take out.


104.
  ... life is a vale of tears, though ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.133
We cannot subscribe to the belief that this life is a vale of tears, though it once was just that for many of us.


105.
  ... life is all about.  BB We Agnostics, p.49
People of faith have a logical idea of what life is all about.


106.
  ... life is good.  BB A Vision For You, p.151
It is joyous intimacy with friends and a feeling that life is good.


107.
  ... life is ideal and my business is ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.180
My home life is ideal and my business is as good as can be expected in these uncertain times.


108.
  ... life is measured against that of other ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.123
Today's life is measured against that of other years and, when it falls short, the family may be unhappy.


109.
  ... life is not a dead end, not ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.107
He has been set on a path which tells him he is really going somewhere, that life is not a dead end, not something to be endured or mastered.


110.
  ... life is not a theory.  BB Into Action, p.83
The spiritual life is not a theory.


111.
  ... life is still unmanageable even though he ...  12&12 Step Three, p.39
Of course the sponsor points out that our friend's life is still unmanageable even though he is sober, that after all, only a bare start on A.A.'s program has been made.


112.
  ... life is when lived on a spiritual ...  BB To Wives, p.116
We have elsewhere remarked how much better life is when lived on a spiritual plane.


113.
  ... life itself.  BB A Vision For You, p.151
The less people tolerated us, the more we withdrew from society, from life itself.


114.
  ... life itself to us, it is imperative ...  12&12 Tradition Ten, p.177
Since recovery from alcoholism is life itself to us, it is imperative that we preserve in full strength our means of survival.


115.
  ... life little by little.  BB Working With Others, p.102
While you were drinking, you were withdrawing from life little by little.


116.
  ... life more bearable.  BB Working With Others, p.97
And even though he continues to drink, the family will find life more bearable.


117.
  ... life -- of course we did.  BB We Agnostics, p.54
But we believed in life -- of course we did.


118.
  ... life of our Fellowship depends on this ...  12&12 Contents (Tradition Five), p.10
The life of our Fellowship depends on this principle.


119.
  ... life of our Fellowship requires the preservation ...  12&12 Tradition Five, p.150
The very life of our Fellowship requires the preservation of this principle.


120.
  ... life of sane and happy usefulness.  BB The Family Afterward, p.130
We have found nothing incompatible between a powerful spiritual experience and a life of sane and happy usefulness.


121.
  ... life of the Fellowship itself.  12&12 Foreword, p.15
A.A.'s Twelve Traditions apply to the life of the Fellowship itself.


122.
  ... life of the world is dependent upon ...  12&12 Tradition Eleven, p.181
Much of the political, economic, and religious life of the world is dependent upon publicized leadership.


123.
  ... life of this world.  BB Working With Others, p.102
Now you are getting back into the social life of this world.


124.
  ... life -- or else.  BB We Agnostics, p.44
But after a while we had to face the fact that we must find a spiritual basis of life -- or else.


125.
  ... life originated out of nothing, means nothing, ...  BB We Agnostics, p.49
Were our contentions true, it would follow that life originated out of nothing, means nothing, and proceeds nowhere.


126.
  ... life over to a newfound Providence, then ...  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?


127.
  ... life over to God as we understood ...  BB How It Works, p.60
Being convinced, we were at Step Three, which is that we decided to turn our will and our life over to God as we understood Him.


128.
  ... life over to the care of whatever ...  12&12 Step Three, p.35
No matter how much one wishes to try, exactly how can he turn his own will and his own life over to the care of whatever God he thinks there is?


129.
  ... life over to the care, protection, and ...  12&12 Step Three, p.35
Isn't it true that in all matters touching upon alcohol, each of them has decided to turn his or her life over to the care, protection, and guidance of Alcoholics Anonymous?


130.
  ... life over to the Higher Power?  12&12 Step Three, p.39
So how, exactly, can the willing person continue to turn his will and his life over to the Higher Power?


131.
  ... life preservers, they almost invariably got well.  12&12 Step One, p.22
But a few did, and when these laid hold of A.A. principles with all the fervor with which the drowning seize life preservers, they almost invariably got well.


132.
  ... life rather than give?  BB The Family Afterward, p.122
Is he not unconsciously trying to see what he can take from the family life rather than give?


133.
  ... life's responsibilities with his own resources, never ...  12&12 Step Four, p.43
This weak one, failing to meet life's responsibilities with his own resources, never grows up.


134.
  ... life rigidly by this kind of prayer, ...  12&12 Step Eleven, p.103
The A.A., or indeed any man, who tries to run his life rigidly by this kind of prayer, by this self-serving demand of God for replies, is a particularly disconcerting individual.


135.
  ... life run on self-will can hardly be ...  BB How It Works, p.60
The first requirement is that we be convinced that any life run on self-will can hardly be a success.


136.
  ... life seem so worth while to us ...  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.


137.
  ... life seemed to be centered around doing ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.172
My whole life seemed to be centered around doing what I wanted to do, without regard for the rights, wishes, or privileges of anyone else; a state of mind which became more and more predominant as the years passed.


138.
  ... life seems the only normal one.  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxviii
To them, their alcoholic life seems the only normal one.


139.
  ... life so as to shield him from ...  BB To Wives, p.120
We never, never try to arrange a man's life so as to shield him from temptation.


140.
  ... life so he will be shielded from ...  BB To Employers, pp.146-147
He will appreciate knowing you are not bothering your head about him, that you are not suspicious nor are you trying to run his life so he will be shielded from temptation to drink.


141.
  ... life story.  BB Into Action, p.73
But they had not learned enough of humility, fearlessness and honesty, in the sense we find it necessary, until they told someone else all their life story.


142.
  ... life successfully, as we became conscious of ...  BB How It Works, p.63
As we felt new power flow in, as we enjoyed peace of mind, as we discovered we could face life successfully, as we became conscious of His presence, we began to lose our fear of today, tomorrow or the hereafter.


143.
  ... life such obedience brings.  12&12 Tradition Nine, p.174
So we of A.A. do obey spiritual principles, first because we must, and ultimately because we love the kind of life such obedience brings.


144.
  ... life's terms, I cannot be happy.  BB Acceptance, p.417
Until I could accept my alcoholism, I could not stay sober; unless I accept life completely on life's terms, I cannot be happy.


145.
  ... life that he talks or thinks of ...  BB The Family Afterward, pp.125-126
He may either plunge into a frantic attempt to get on his feet in business, or he may be so enthralled by his new life that he talks or thinks of little else.


146.
  ... life that is incredibly more wonderful as ...  BB Bill's Story, p.8
I was to know happiness, peace, and usefulness, in a way of life that is incredibly more wonderful as time passes.


147.
  ... life, that our Creator expects us fully ...  12&12 Step Six, p.65
It is nowhere evident, at least in this life, that our Creator expects us fully to eliminate our instinctual drives.


148.
  ... life, that she doesn't know what it's ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.128
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.


149.
  ... life; that such a change could hardly ...  BB Appendix II, Spiritual Experience, p.567
He finally realizes that he has undergone a profound alteration in his reaction to life; that such a change could hardly have been brought about by himself alone.


150.
  ... life; that unless he is now willing ...  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.


151.
  ... life, that we were in full flight ...  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxvi
It did not satisfy us to be told that we could not control our drinking just because we were maladjusted to life, that we were in full flight from reality, or were outright mental defectives.


152.
  ... life their road will be smoother.  BB To Wives, p.114
If such women adopt a spiritual way of life their road will be smoother.


153.
  ... life, though your husband continues to drink.  BB To Wives, p.111
It is possible to have a full and useful life, though your husband continues to drink.


154.
  ... life through drinking and we certainly do ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.38
We have not lost everything in life through drinking and we certainly do not intend to.


155.
  ... life through work and self-sacrifice for others, ...  BB Bill's Story, pp.14-15
For if an alcoholic failed to perfect and enlarge his spiritual life through work and self-sacrifice for others, he could not survive the certain trials and low spots ahead.


156.
  ... life to conditions as they are?  12&12 Step Four, p.52
If I am unable to change the present state of affairs, am I willing to take the measures necessary to shape my life to conditions as they are?


157.
  ... life to find one much better.  BB To Wives, p.120
You will lose the old life to find one much better.


158.
  ... life to his employer and business associates.  12&12 Tradition Twelve, p.186
As he gained confidence, he felt it right to explain his new way of life to his employer and business associates.


159.
  ... life to suit ourselves.  BB Into Action, p.88
We do not tire so easily, for we are not burning up energy foolishly as we did when we were trying to arrange life to suit ourselves.


160.
  ... life to the care and direction of ...  BB A Vision For You, p.158
On the third day the lawyer gave his life to the care and direction of his Creator, and said he was perfectly willing to do anything necessary.


161.
  ... life, toward our fellows and toward God's ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.25
The great fact is just this, and nothing less: That we have had deep and effective spiritual experiences(*) which have revolutionized our whole attitude toward life, toward our fellows and toward God's universe.


162.
  ... life -- unacceptable to me, and I can ...  BB Acceptance, p.417
When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing or situation -- some fact of my life -- unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment.


163.
  ... life until self-searching becomes a regular habit, ...  12&12 Step Ten, p.88
For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching becomes a regular habit, until he is able to admit and accept what he finds, and until he patiently and persistently tries to correct what is wrong.


164.
  ... life, usually for the first time in ...  12&12 Step Eleven, p.96
We A.A.'s are active folk, enjoying the satisfactions of dealing with the realities of life, usually for the first time in our lives, and strenuously trying to help the next alcoholic who comes along.


165.
  ... life was becoming impossible, and if we ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.25
We were in a position where life was becoming impossible, and if we had passed into the region from which there is no return through human aid, we had but two alternatives: One was to go on to the bitter end, blotting out the consciousness of our intolerable situation as best we could; and the other, to accept spiritual help.


166.
  ... life was by no means a bad ...  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.


167.
  ... life was not easy for the two ...  BB A Vision For You, p.156
But life was not easy for the two friends.


168.
  ... life, we are no longer deeply disturbed ...  12&12 Step Eleven, p.105
The moment we catch even a glimpse of God's will, the moment we begin to see truth, justice, and love as the real and eternal things in life, we are no longer deeply disturbed by all the seeming evidence to the contrary that surrounds us in purely human affairs.


169.
  ... life we try to build.  12&12 Step Four, p.49
These fears are the termites that ceaselessly devour the foundations of whatever sort of life we try to build.


170.
  ... life were sufficient to overcome alcoholism, many ...  BB We Agnostics, p.44
If a mere code of morals or a better philosophy of life were sufficient to overcome alcoholism, many of us would have recovered long ago.


171.
  ... life where I shall be stupid, boring ...  BB A Vision For You, p.152
But am I to be consigned to a life where I shall be stupid, boring and glum, like some righteous people I see?


172.
  ... life where this same principle is involved.  12&12 Step Nine, p.86
Many a razor-edged question can arise in other departments of life where this same principle is involved.


173.
  ... life which brought us to this apparently ...  12&12 Tradition Two, p.132
What are these facts of A.A. life which brought us to this apparently impractical principle?


174.
  ... life which does not include his family ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.129
He will perceive that his spiritual growth is lopsided, that for an average man like himself, a spiritual life which does not include his family obligations may not be so perfect after all.


175.
  ... life which includes deep resentment leads only ...  BB How It Works, p.66
It is plain that a life which includes deep resentment leads only to futility and unhappiness.


176.
  ... life which knows no alcohol, he may ...  BB To Employers, p.146
Being somewhat weakened, and faced with physical and mental readjustment to a life which knows no alcohol, he may overdo.


177.
  ... life which we could never face up ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.113
These were problems of life which we could never face up to.


178.
  ... life which we specified, as a greedy ...  12&12 Step Two, p.31
Sometimes it's because God has not delivered us the good things of life which we specified, as a greedy child makes an impossible list for Santa Claus.


179.
  ... life will be placed on a much ...  BB Into Action, p.86
Our thought-life will be placed on a much higher plane when our thinking is cleared of wrong motives.


180.
  ... life will change.  BB Into Action, p.84
Our whole attitude and outlook upon life will change.


181.
  ... life will emerge when they are overcome.  BB To Wives, p.117
A better way of life will emerge when they are overcome.


182.
  ... life will have to be torn out ...  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.


183.
  Life will mean something at last.  BB A Vision For You, p.152
Life will mean something at last.


184.
  Life will take on new meaning.  BB Working With Others, p.89
Life will take on new meaning.


185.
  ... life with everyone?  12&12 Tradition Six, p.156
So why shouldn't we share our way of life with everyone?


186.
  ... life with these motives and God will ...  BB Working With Others, p.102
Keep on the firing line of life with these motives and God will keep you unharmed.


187.
  ... life without alcohol.  BB A Vision For You, p.152
He cannot picture life without alcohol.


188.
  ... life without faith!  BB We Agnostics, p.54
Imagine life without faith!


189.
  Life would be wonderful.  BB How It Works, p.61
Life would be wonderful.


190.
  ... life, would produce untold grief; there might ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.125
This is a condition which, in ordinary life, would produce untold grief; there might be scandalous gossip, laughter at the expense of other people, and a tendency to take advantage of intimate information.


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