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


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1.
  ... members.  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xviii
By the close of 1941, A.A. numbered 8,000 members.


2.
  ... members.  BB There Is A Solution, p.28
Many who once were in this class are now among our members.


3.
  ... 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.


4.
  ... members.  BB Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.564
7. The A.A. groups themselves ought to be fully supported by the voluntary contributions of their own members.


5.
  ... members.  BB Appendix VI, How to Get in Touch With A.A., p.573
This is a world clearing house for the Al-Anon Family Groups, composed largely of the wives, husbands and friends of A.A. members.


6.
  ... members.  12&12 Contents (Tradition Seven), p.11
Placing the responsibility of supporting A.A. headquarters directly upon A.A. members.


7.
  ... members.  12&12 Contents (Tradition Eleven), p.12
We seek publicity for A.A. principles, not A.A. members.


8.
  ... members.  12&12 Tradition Eight, p.168
At times, they were actually shunned by fellow members.


9.
  ... members.  12&12 Tradition Eight, p.169
So we hire A.A. staff members.


10.
  ... members.  12&12 Tradition Ten, p.176
It could almost be said that we were born with it, for, as one oldtimer recently declared, "Practically never have I heard a heated religious, political, or reform argument among A.A. members.


11.
  ... members.  12&12 Tradition Eleven, p.182
Here was something rare in the world -- a society which said it wished to publicize its principles and its work, but not its individual members.


12.
  ... members.  12&12 Tradition Seven (Long), p.190
Seven -- The A.A. groups themselves ought to be fully supported by the voluntary contributions of their own members.


13.
  ... members alike found they could do no ...  12&12 Tradition Nine, p.173
But long ago, trustees and staff members alike found they could do no more than make suggestions, and very mild ones at that.


14.
  ... members and enforce obedience to necessary rules ...  12&12 Tradition Nine, p.172
Did anyone ever hear of a society which couldn't somehow discipline its members and enforce obedience to necessary rules and regulations?


15.
  ... members and friends of A.A. have asked ...  12&12 Introduction, p.14
In recent years some members and friends of A.A. have asked if it would be wise to update the language, idioms, and historical references in the book to present a more contemporary image for the Fellowship.


16.
  ... members and have witnessed our return to ...  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxv
Convincing testimony must surely come from medical men who have had experience with the sufferings of our members and have witnessed our return to health.


17.
  ... members, and whose story of the early ...  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.


18.
  ... members are left who deliberately break anonymity ...  12&12 Tradition Eleven, p.183
Only a few A.A. members are left who deliberately break anonymity at the public level.


19.
  ... members as individuals have been asked to ...  12&12 Tradition Eight, p.170
These are only a few of the jobs which A.A. members as individuals have been asked to fill.


20.
  ... members began to run rest homes and ...  12&12 Tradition Eight, p.167
Even greater furors were provoked when A.A. members began to run rest homes and farms for alcoholics, when some hired out to corporations as personnel men in charge of the alcoholic problem in industry, when some became nurses on alcoholic wards, when others entered the field of alcohol education.


21.
  ... members both among fellow alcoholics and before ...  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.


22.
  ... members, but he surely won't take orders.  12&12 Tradition Nine, p.173
This doesn't mean an A.A. won't take advice or suggestions from more experienced members, but he surely won't take orders.


23.
  ... members, but the banished have come back ...  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."


24.
  ... members call it "God-consciousness."  BB Appendix II, Spiritual Experience, p.568
Our more religious members call it "God-consciousness."


25.
  ... members could ever have imagined.  BB Foreword to Fourth Edition, p.xxiii
Like so much of A.A.'s basic text, those words have proved to be far more visionary than the founding members could ever have imagined.


26.
  ... members could have hoped to reach.  BB Foreword to Fourth Edition, pp.xxiii-xxiv
The stories added to this edition represent a membership whose characteristics -- of age, gender, race, and culture -- have widened and have deepened to encompass virtually everyone the first 100 members could have hoped to reach.


27.
  ... members did.  12&12 Tradition Eleven, p.182
There was actually a time when the press of America thought the anonymity of A.A. was better for us than some of our own members did.


28.
  ... members find that they have tapped an ...  BB Appendix II, Spiritual Experience, p.567
With few exceptions our members find that they have tapped an unsuspected inner resource which they presently identify with their own conception of a Power greater than themselves.


29.
  ... members' fond nickname for this volume) have ...  BB Preface, p.xii
All changes made over the years in the Big Book (A.A. members' fond nickname for this volume) have had the same purpose: to represent the current membership of Alcoholics Anonymous more accurately, and thereby to reach more alcoholics.


30.
  ... members foresaw that they should dedicate themselves ...  12&12 Tradition Ten, p.178
The early members foresaw that they should dedicate themselves to this sole aim.


31.
  ... members from A.A. copy; frequently, they have ...  12&12 Tradition Eleven, p.183
Since that time, editors and rewrite men have repeatedly deleted names and pictures of members from A.A. copy; frequently, they have reminded ambitious individuals of A.A.'s anonymity policy.


32.
  ... members govern or direct the group.  12&12 Tradition Two, p.134
In no sense whatever can its members govern or direct the group.


33.
  ... members had tried to make money out ...  12&12 Tradition Seven, p.161
We took this violent new tack because here and there members had tried to make money out of their A.A. connections, and we feared we'd be exploited.


34.
  ... members has no counterpart among the job ...  12&12 Tradition Eight (Note), p.169
(*) The work of present-day staff members has no counterpart among the job categories of commercial organizations. These A.A.'s bring a wide range of business and professional experience to their service at The General Service Office.


35.
  ... members have bought farms or rest homes ...  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.


36.
  ... members have suffered severely from self-justification during ...  12&12 Step Four, p.46
First off, they can be told that the majority of A.A. members have suffered severely from self-justification during their drinking days.


37.
  ... members having substantial sobriety time behind them ...  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xvii
By late 1937, the number of members having substantial sobriety time behind them was sufficient to convince the membership that a new light had entered the dark world of the alcoholic.


38.
  ... members identify themselves with as individuals.  BB There Is A Solution, p.28
We think it no concern of ours what religious bodies our members identify themselves with as individuals.


39.
  ... members in a position of unqualified authority ...  BB Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form), p.575
XII. The Conference shall observe the spirit of A.A. tradition, taking care that it never becomes the seat of perilous wealth or power; that sufficient operating funds and reserve be its prudent financial principle; that it place none of its members in a position of unqualified authority over others; that it reach all important decisions by discussion, vote, and, whenever possible, by substantial unanimity; that its actions never be personally punitive nor an incitement to public controversy; that it never perform acts of government, and that, like the Society it serves, it will always remain democratic in thought and action.


40.
  ... members into A.A. show-offs.  12&12 Tradition Twelve, p.185
They had changed from A.A. members into A.A. show-offs.


41.
  ... members, it is thought by many of ...  12&12 Foreword, p.15
Though the essays which follow were written mainly for members, it is thought by many of A.A.'s friends that these pieces might arouse interest and find application outside A.A. itself.


42.
  Members of a family should watch such ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.125
Members of a family should watch such matters carefully, for one careless, inconsiderate remark has been known to raise the very devil.


43.
  ... members of A.A., entirely contrary to his ...  12&12 Tradition Two, p.135
One of the first members of A.A., entirely contrary to his own desires, was obliged to conform to group opinion.


44.
  ... members of Alcoholics Anonymous.  BB Foreword to Third Edition, p.xxii
The Twelve Steps that summarize the program may be called los Doce Pasos in one country, les Douze Etapes in another, but they trace exactly the same path to recovery that was blazed by the earliest members of Alcoholics Anonymous.


45.
  ... members of Alcoholics Anonymous came to see ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.42
"Two of the members of Alcoholics Anonymous came to see me.


46.
  ... members of Alcoholics Anonymous, now restored as ...  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.


47.
  ... members of Alcoholics Anonymous to be read ...  BB Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A., p.570
The American Psychiatric Association requested, in 1949, that a paper be prepared by one of the older members of Alcoholics Anonymous to be read at the Association's annual meeting of that year.


48.
  ... members of Alcoholics Anonymous, who have demonstrated ...  12&12 Tradition Five, p.150
Just as firmly bound by obligation are the members of Alcoholics Anonymous, who have demonstrated that they can help problem drinkers as others seldom can.


49.
  ... members of religious bodies, we sometimes select ...  BB Into Action, p.87
If not members of religious bodies, we sometimes select and memorize a few set prayers which emphasize the principles we have been discussing.


50.
  ... members of that time.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.123
They finally came up with a conclusion that shocked the A.A. members of that time.


51.
  ... members of the Conference acting as the ...  BB Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form), p.574
VI. The Conference recognizes that the chief initiative and active responsibility in most world service matters should be exercised by the trustee members of the Conference acting as the General Service Board.


52.
  ... members of the family should meet upon ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.122
All members of the family should meet upon the common ground of tolerance, understanding and love.


53.
  ... members or groups.  12&12 Contents (Tradition Nine), p.12
The General Service Conference, the board of trustees, and group committees cannot issue directives to A.A. members or groups.


54.
  ... members; others started in the club, pitched ...  12&12 Tradition Four, p.148
Some would start at the top and come through to the bottom, becoming club members; others started in the club, pitched a binge, were hospitalized, then graduated to education on the third floor.


55.
  ... members ought not be broadcast, filmed, or ...  BB Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.565
Our names and pictures as A.A. members ought not be broadcast, filmed, or publicly printed.


56.
  ... members ought not be broadcast, filmed, or ...  12&12 Tradition Eleven (Long), p.192
Our names and pictures as A.A. members ought not be broadcast, filmed, or publicly printed.


57.
  ... members ought to be anonymous at the ...  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xix
It was decided that all members ought to be anonymous at the level of press, radio, TV and films.


58.
  ... members present themselves as messiahs representing A.A. ...  12&12 Tradition Twelve, p.187
We simply couldn't afford to take the chance of letting self-appointed members present themselves as messiahs representing A.A. before the whole public.


59.
  ... members recover and by which their Society ...  12&12 Foreword, p.15
It presents an explicit view of the principles by which A.A. members recover and by which their Society functions.


60.
  ... members recover, and how our society functions.  12&12 Introduction, p.14
Bill W., who along with Dr. Bob S. founded Alcoholics Anonymous in 1935, wrote the book to share 18 years of collective experience within the Fellowship on how A.A. members recover, and how our society functions.


61.
  ... members render prodigies of service, and receive ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.120
We daily see such members render prodigies of service, and receive great joys in return.


62.
  ... members resolved to keep our Society out ...  12&12 Tradition Ten, p.178
As we surveyed the wreck of that movement, early A.A. members resolved to keep our Society out of public controversy.


63.
  ... members served them.  12&12 Tradition Eight, p.170
Drunk farms, educational ventures, state legislatures, and commissions advertised the fact that A.A. members served them.


64.
  ... members; surely there is none which more ...  12&12 Tradition One, p.129
We believe there isn't a fellowship on earth which lavishes more devoted care upon its individual members; surely there is none which more jealously guards the individual's right to think, talk, and act as he wishes.


65.
  ... members, the proportion is nearly one-third.  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.


66.
  ... members themselves as 'self-insurance.'  BB Appendix V, The Religious View on A.A., p.572
The A.A. plan is described by the members themselves as 'self-insurance.'


67.
  ... members to impose obedience upon the rest ...  12&12 Tradition Nine, p.172
Doesn't nearly every society on earth give authority to some of its members to impose obedience upon the rest and to punish or expel offenders?


68.
  ... members to one another, "will that guy ...  12&12 Tradition Three, p.144
"When, oh when," groaned members to one another, "will that guy get drunk?"


69.
  ... members to tell their stories.  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xviii
In the spring of 1940, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. gave a dinner for many of his friends to which he invited A.A. members to tell their stories.


70.
  ... members waxed prosperous.  12&12 Tradition Seven, p.161
So A.A., the movement, started and stayed broke, while its individual members waxed prosperous.


71.
  ... members were.  12&12 Tradition Seven, p.162
Looking at this avalanche of mail one morning at the office, I paced up and down ranting how irresponsible and tightwad my fellow members were.


72.
  ... members who, for a variety of reasons, ...  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?


73.
  ... members who have crossed the threshold just ...  12&12 Step Two, p.27
You will find many members who have crossed the threshold just this way.


74.
  ... members who never seem to get on ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.114
Though the earning power of most A.A.'s is relatively high, we have some members who never seem to get on their feet moneywise, and still others who encounter heavy financial reverses.


75.
  Members who select such full-time careers do ...  12&12 Tradition Eight, p.170
Members who select such full-time careers do not professionalize A.A.'s Twelfth Step."


76.
  ... members with computers can participate in meetings ...  BB Foreword to Fourth Edition, p.xxiv
Taking advantage of technological advances, for example, A.A. members with computers can participate in meetings online, sharing with fellow alcoholics across the country or around the world.


77.
  ... members with the same burning enthusiasm with ...  12&12 Tradition Three, p.143
These ideas he sold to fellow members with the same burning enthusiasm with which he distributed automobile polish.


78.
  ... members would find hard to match.  12&12 Tradition Eleven, p.182
Ever since, these friends have reported A.A. with an enthusiasm which the most ardent members would find hard to match.


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