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1.
... members.   12&12 p.168, Tradition Eight
At times, they were actually shunned by fellow members.

2.
... members.   12&12 p.168, Tradition Eight
So we hire A.A. staff members.

3.
... members.   12&12 p.176, Tradition Ten
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.

4.
... members.   12&12 p.182, Tradition Eleven
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.

5.
... members.   12&12 p.190, Tradition Seven (Long)
Seven -- The A.A. groups themselves ought to be fully supported by the voluntary contributions of their own members.


6.
... members.   BB p.28, There Is A Solution   Go to page 28 in the Big Book
Many who once were in this class are now among our members.


7.
... members.   BB p.162, A Vision For You   Go to page 162 in the Big Book
Then, in this eastern city, there are informal meetings such as we have described to you, where you may now see scores of members.


8.
... members.   BB p.564(566), Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition   Display entire Appendix I
7. The A.A. groups themselves ought to be fully supported by the voluntary contributions of their own members.


9.
... members.   BB p.573(575), Appendix VI, How to Get in Touch With A.A.   Display entire Appendix VI
This is a world clearing house for the Al-Anon Family Groups, composed largely of the wives, husbands and friends of A.A. members.


10.
... members.   BB xviii, Foreword to Second Edition   Display entire Foreword to Second Edition
By the close of 1941, A.A. numbered 8,000 members.

11.
... members alike found they could do no ...   12&12 p.173, Tradition Nine
But long ago, trustees and staff members alike found they could do no more than make suggestions, and very mild ones at that.

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


13.
... members and have witnessed our return to ...   BB xxv(xxiii), The Doctor's Opinion   Display entire Doctor's Opinion
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.


14.
... members, and whose story of the early ...   BB xvi, Foreword to Second Edition   Display entire Foreword to Second Edition
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.

15.
... members are left who deliberately break anonymity ...   12&12 p.183, Tradition Eleven
Only a few A.A. members are left who deliberately break anonymity at the public level.

16.
... members as individuals have been asked to ...   12&12 p.170, Tradition Eight
These are only a few of the jobs which A.A. members as individuals have been asked to fill.

17.
... members began to run rest homes and ...   12&12 p.167, Tradition Eight
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.

18.
... members both among fellow alcoholics and before ...   12&12 p.187, Tradition Twelve
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.

19.
... members, but he surely won't take orders.   12&12 p.173, Tradition Nine
This doesn't mean an A.A. won't take advice or suggestions from more experienced members, but he surely won't take orders.

20.
... members, but the banished have come back ...   12&12 p.173, Tradition Nine
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."


21.
... members call it "God-consciousness."   BB p.568(570), Appendix II, Spiritual Experience   Display entire Appendix II
Our more religious members call it "God-consciousness."


22.
... members could ever have imagined.   BB xxiii, Foreword to Fourth Edition   Display entire Foreword to Fourth Edition
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.


23.
... members could have hoped to reach.   BB xxiv, Foreword to Fourth Edition   Display entire Foreword to Fourth Edition
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.

24.
... members did.   12&12 p.182, Tradition Eleven
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.


25.
... members find that they have tapped an ...   BB p.567(569), Appendix II, Spiritual Experience   Display entire Appendix II
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.


26.
... members' fond nickname for this volume) have ...   BB xii, Preface   Display entire Preface
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.

27.
... members foresaw that they should dedicate themselves ...   12&12 p.178, Tradition Ten
The early members foresaw that they should dedicate themselves to this sole aim.

28.
... members from A.A. copy; frequently, they have ...   12&12 p.183, Tradition Eleven
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.

29.
... members govern or direct the group.   12&12 p.134, Tradition Two
In no sense whatever can its members govern or direct the group.

30.
... members had tried to make money out ...   12&12 p.161, Tradition Seven
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.

31.
... members has no counterpart among the job ...   12&12 p.169, Tradition Eight (Note)
(*) The work of present-day staff members has no counterpart among the job categories of commercial organizations.

32.
... members have bought farms or rest homes ...   12&12 p.170, Tradition Eight
Now and then, A.A. members have bought farms or rest homes where badly beat-up topers could find needed care.

33.
... members have suffered severely from self-justification during ...   12&12 p.46, Step Four
First off, they can be told that the majority of A.A. members have suffered severely from self-justification during their drinking days.


34.
... members having substantial sobriety time behind them ...   BB xvii, Foreword to Second Edition   Display entire Foreword to Second Edition
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.


35.
... members identify themselves with as individuals.   BB p.28, There Is A Solution   Go to page 28 in the Big Book
We think it no concern of ours what religious bodies our members identify themselves with as individuals.


36.
... members in a position of unqualified authority ...   BB p.575, Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form)   Display entire Appendix VII
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.

37.
... members into A.A. show-offs.   12&12 p.185, Tradition Twelve
They had changed from A.A. members into A.A. show-offs.

38.
... members, it is thought by many of ...   12&12 p.15, Foreword
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.


39.
Members of a family should watch such ...   BB p.125, The Family Afterward   Go to page 125 in the Big Book
Members of a family should watch such matters carefully, for one careless, inconsiderate remark has been known to raise the very devil.

40.
... members of A.A., entirely contrary to his ...   12&12 p.135, Tradition Two
One of the first members of A.A., entirely contrary to his own desires, was obliged to conform to group opinion.


41.
... members of Alcoholics Anonymous.   BB xxii, Foreword to Third Edition   Display entire Foreword to Third Edition
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.


42.
... members of Alcoholics Anonymous came to see ...   BB p.42, More About Alcoholism   Go to page 42 in the Big Book
"Two of the members of Alcoholics Anonymous came to see me.

43.
... members of Alcoholics Anonymous, now restored as ...   12&12 p.177, Tradition Ten
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.


44.
... members of Alcoholics Anonymous to be read ...   BB p.570(572), Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.   Display entire Appendix III
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.

45.
... members of Alcoholics Anonymous, who have demonstrated ...   12&12 p.150, Tradition Five
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.


46.
... members of religious bodies, we sometimes select ...   BB p.87, Into Action   Go to page 87 in the Big Book
If not members of religious bodies, we sometimes select and memorize a few set prayers which emphasize the principles we have been discussing.

47.
... members of that time.   12&12 p.123, Step Twelve
They finally came up with a conclusion that shocked the A.A. members of that time.


48.
... members of the Conference acting as the ...   BB p.574, Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form)   Display entire Appendix VII
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.


49.
... members of the family should meet upon ...   BB p.122, The Family Afterward   Go to page 122 in the Big Book
All members of the family should meet upon the common ground of tolerance, understanding and love.

50.
... members; others started in the club, pitched ...   12&12 p.148, Tradition Four
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.

51.
... members ought not be broadcast, filmed, or ...   12&12 p.192, Tradition Eleven (Long)
Our names and pictures as A.A. members ought not be broadcast, filmed, or publicly printed.


52.
... members ought not be broadcast, filmed, or ...   BB p.565(567), Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition   Display entire Appendix I
Our names and pictures as A.A. members ought not be broadcast, filmed, or publicly printed.


53.
... members ought to be anonymous at the ...   BB xix, Foreword to Second Edition   Display entire Foreword to Second Edition
It was decided that all members ought to be anonymous at the level of press, radio, TV and films.

54.
... members present themselves as messiahs representing A.A. ...   12&12 p.187, Tradition Twelve
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.

55.
... members recover and by which their Society ...   12&12 p.15, Foreword
It presents an explicit view of the principles by which A.A. members recover and by which their Society functions.

56.
... members render prodigies of service, and receive ...   12&12 p.120, Step Twelve
We daily see such members render prodigies of service, and receive great joys in return.

57.
... members resolved to keep our Society out ...   12&12 p.179, Tradition Ten
As we surveyed the wreck of that movement, early A.A. members resolved to keep our Society out of public controversy.

58.
... members served them.   12&12 p.170, Tradition Eight
Drunk farms, educational ventures, state legislatures, and commissions advertised the fact that A.A. members served them.

59.
... members; surely there is none which more ...   12&12 p.129, Tradition One
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.


60.
... members, the proportion is nearly one-third.   BB xxii, Foreword to Third Edition   Display entire Foreword to Third Edition
Women now make up more than one-fourth of the membership; among newer members, the proportion is nearly one-third.


61.
... members themselves as 'self-insurance.'   BB p.572(574), Appendix V, The Religious View on A.A.   Display entire Appendix V
The A.A. plan is described by the members themselves as 'self-insurance.'

62.
... members to impose obedience upon the rest ...   12&12 p.172, Tradition Nine
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?

63.
... members to one another, "will that guy ...   12&12 p.144, Tradition Three
"When, oh when," groaned members to one another, "will that guy get drunk?"


64.
... members to tell their stories.   BB xviii, Foreword to Second Edition   Display entire Foreword to Second Edition
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.

65.
... members waxed prosperous.   12&12 p.161, Tradition Seven
So A.A., the movement, started and stayed broke, while its individual members waxed prosperous.

66.
... members were.   12&12 p.162, Tradition Seven
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.

67.
... members who, for a variety of reasons, ...   12&12 p.120, Step Twelve
And what can be said of many A.A. members who, for a variety of reasons, cannot have a family life?

68.
... members who have crossed the threshold just ...   12&12 p.27, Step Two
You will find many members who have crossed the threshold just this way.

69.
... members who never seem to get on ...   12&12 p.114, Step Twelve
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.

70.
Members who select such full-time careers do ...   12&12 p.170, Tradition Eight
Members who select such full-time careers do not professionalize A.A.'s Twelfth Step."


71.
... members with computers can participate in meetings ...   BB xxiv, Foreword to Fourth Edition   Display entire Foreword to Fourth Edition
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.

72.
... members with the same burning enthusiasm with ...   12&12 p.143, Tradition Three
These ideas he sold to fellow members with the same burning enthusiasm with which he distributed automobile polish.

73.
... members would find hard to match.   12&12 p.182, Tradition Eleven
Ever since, these friends have reported A.A. with an enthusiasm which the most ardent members would find hard to match.


Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.  The A.A. Preamble, copyright © The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission.  Permission to reprint does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous or The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.

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