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


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1.
  ... really a horrible nightmare, this earning money, ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.177
It was really a horrible nightmare, this earning money, getting liquor, smuggling it home, getting drunk, morning jitters, taking large doses of sedatives to make it possible for me to earn more money, and so on ad nauseam.


2.
  ... really a means of gaining true independence ...  12&12 Step Three, p.36
Therefore dependence, as A.A. practices it, is really a means of gaining true independence of the spirit.


3.
  ... really a self-seeker even when trying to ...  BB How It Works, p.61
Is he not really a self-seeker even when trying to be kind?


4.
  ... really able to leave it behind us.  12&12 Step Ten, p.89
When this is done, we are really able to leave it behind us.


5.
  ... really acquired the habit of accurate self-appraisal.  12&12 Step Ten, p.89
The emphasis on inventory is heavy only because a great many of us have never really acquired the habit of accurate self-appraisal.


6.
  ... really admitted them, even to ourselves?  12&12 Step Five, p.59
How could we be certain that we had made a true catalog of our defects and had really admitted them, even to ourselves?


7.
  ... really afraid of," he said, "is our ...  12&12 Tradition Three, p.142
"What we are really afraid of," he said, "is our reputation.


8.
  ... really ails the alcoholic, and lack of ...  BB To Employers, p.139
To me, this incident illustrates lack of understanding as to what really ails the alcoholic, and lack of knowledge as to what part employers might profitably take in salvaging their sick employees.


9.
  ... really and truly want to quit drinking ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.181
But if you really and truly want to quit drinking liquor for good and all, and sincerely feel that you must have some help, we know that we have an answer for you.


10.
  ... really are, and how unconscious of that ...  12&12 Step Three, p.36
In this area it is startling to discover how dependent we really are, and how unconscious of that dependence.


11.
  ... really are, followed by a sincere attempt ...  12&12 Step Five, p.58
To those who have made progress in A.A., it amounts to a clear recognition of what and who we really are, followed by a sincere attempt to become what we could be.


12.
  ... really are, for that means blind faith ...  BB Bill's Story, p.10
Few people really are, for that means blind faith in the strange proposition that this universe originated in a cipher and aimlessly rushes nowhere.


13.
  ... really be, the conversation will start easily ...  12&12 Step Five, p.61
When your mission is carefully explained, and it is seen by the recipient of your confidence how helpful he can really be, the conversation will start easily and will soon become eager.


14.
  ... really beating ourselves with the club of ...  12&12 Step Four, p.47
We had to see that when we harbored grudges and planned revenge for such defeats, we were really beating ourselves with the club of anger we had intended to use on others.


15.
  ... really bother and burn us, we say ...  12&12 Step Five, p.55
But of the things which really bother and burn us, we say nothing.


16.
  ... really clean house.  12&12 Step Five, p.56
Some people are unable to stay sober at all; others will relapse periodically until they really clean house.


17.
  ... really commence to solve their problems.  BB More About Alcoholism, p.43
Most alcoholics have to be pretty badly mangled before they really commence to solve their problems.


18.
  ... really competent to give or ought not ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.111
Perhaps we try to give them advice about their affairs which we aren't really competent to give or ought not give at all.


19.
  ... really dealing with fellow sufferers, people whose ...  12&12 Step Eight, p.78
In many instances we are really dealing with fellow sufferers, people whose woes we have increased.


20.
  ... really deluged us.  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xviii
Then Jack Alexander wrote a feature article in the Saturday Evening Post and placed such a compelling picture of A.A. before the general public that alcoholics in need of help really deluged us.


21.
  ... really depended upon God, we couldn't very ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.116
If we really depended upon God, we couldn't very well play God to our fellows nor would we feel the urge wholly to rely on human protection and care.


22.
  ... really didn't.  12&12 Step Ten, p.94
The temptation here is to imagine that we had good motives and reasons when we really didn't.


23.
  ... really disliked or hated them.  12&12 Step Ten, p.92
Most of us must admit that we have loved but a few; that we have been quite indifferent to the many so long as none of them gave us trouble; and as for the remainder -- well, we have really disliked or hated them.


24.
  ... really do it!"  12&12 Tradition Six, p.159
I certainly won't be the guy to land A.A. in big-time trouble, and this would really do it!"


25.
  ... really do not know why they do ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.23
But in their hearts they really do not know why they do it.


26.
  ... really does.  BB Into Action, p.88
It works -- it really does.


27.
  ... really does love you with his better ...  BB To Wives, p.108
You can see that he really does love you with his better self.


28.
  ... really dominated us.  BB How It Works, p.66
We began to see that the world and its people really dominated us.


29.
  ... really easy to begin the practice of ...  12&12 Step Three, p.40
Once we have come into agreement with these ideas, it is really easy to begin the practice of Step Three.


30.
  ... really ethical Charlie's proposal was.  12&12 Tradition Two, p.136
There were a few twinges of conscience until I saw how really ethical Charlie's proposal was.


31.
  ... really exhaustive survey of our past life ...  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.


32.
  ... really feels there is something rather sinful ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.135
His wife is one of those persons who really feels there is something rather sinful about these commodities, so she nagged, and her intolerance finally threw him into a fit of anger.


33.
  ... really finish.  12&12 Step Eight, p.77
It is a task which we may perform with increasing skill, but never really finish.


34.
  ... really goes somewhere; have seen the most ...  BB Bill's Story, p.15
I have seen hundreds of families set their feet in the path that really goes somewhere; have seen the most impossible domestic situations righted; feuds and bitterness of all sorts wiped out.


35.
  ... really going somewhere, that life is 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.


36.
  ... really going to try the program, the ...  12&12 Step Nine, p.83
The moment we tell our families that we are really going to try the program, the process has begun.


37.
  ... really good prayer.  12&12 Step Eleven, p.99
First let's look at a really good prayer.


38.
  ... really got us down.  12&12 Step Two, p.30
But it was the morality of the religionists themselves that really got us down.


39.
  ... really had their music; but his denial ...  BB Bill's Story, p.10
I could almost hear the sound of the preacher's voice as I sat, on still Sundays, way over there on the hillside; there was that proffered temperance pledge I never signed; my grandfather's good natured contempt of some church folk and their doings; his insistence that the spheres really had their music; but his denial of the preacher's right to tell him how he must listen; his fearlessness as he spoke of these things just before he died; these recollections welled up from the past.


40.
  ... really hadn't cleaned house so that the ...  12&12 Step Two, p.32
The fact was we really hadn't cleaned house so that the grace of God could enter us and expel the obsession.


41.
  ... really handle inebriates.  12&12 Tradition Eight, p.170
A state drunk farm wanted a manager who could really handle inebriates.


42.
  ... really happy and useful living.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.114
Only by this means can we improve our chances for really happy and useful living.


43.
  ... really hard up just then; the groups ...  12&12 Tradition Seven, p.164
The Foundation was really hard up just then; the groups weren't sending in enough for the support of the office; we had been tossing in all the book income and even that hadn't been enough.


44.
  ... really have, even under pressure and difficulty.  BB Bill's Story, p.15
The joy of living we really have, even under pressure and difficulty.


45.
  ... really have is a daily reprieve contingent ...  BB Into Action, p.85
What we really have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition.


46.
  ... really impossible.  12&12 Step Two, p.25
But now, still smarting from that admission, he is faced with something really impossible.


47.
  ... really issue them an invitation to become ...  12&12 Step Eight, p.80
We really issue them an invitation to become contemptuous and vengeful.


48.
  ... really licked this time.  BB More About Alcoholism, p.42
They grinned, which I didn't like so much, and then asked me if I thought myself alcoholic and if I were really licked this time.


49.
  ... really like to get over drinking for ...  BB To Wives, p.112
But after his next binge, ask him if he would really like to get over drinking for good.


50.
  ... really love them.  12&12 Step Six, p.66
We really love them.


51.
  ... really makes an accurate and unsparing survey ...  12&12 Step Eight, p.77
Every A.A. has found that he can make little headway in this new adventure of living until he first backtracks and really makes an accurate and unsparing survey of the human wreckage he has left in his wake.


52.
  ... really makes sense in the light of ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.23
Sometimes these excuses have a certain plausibility, but none of them really makes sense in the light of the havoc an alcoholic's drinking bout creates.


53.
  ... really mean it, or down inside does ...  BB To Employers, p.142
If he says yes, does he really mean it, or down inside does he think he is fooling you, and that after rest and treatment he will be able to get away with a few drinks now and then?


54.
  ... really mean the only reason you are ...  12&12 Tradition Five, p.152
"Still dubious, he demanded, 'Do you really mean the only reason you are here is to try and help me and to help yourself?'


55.
  ... really necessary.  12&12 Step Eleven, p.96
So it isn't surprising that we often tend to slight serious meditation and prayer as something not really necessary.


56.
  ... really need a moral inventory.  12&12 Step Four, p.45
Our present anxieties and troubles, we cry, are caused by the behavior of other people -- people who really need a moral inventory.


57.
  ... really need is a truly open mind.  12&12 Step Two, p.26
Third, all you really need is a truly open mind.


58.
  ... really needed it.  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.171
No beer or liquor was sold in the neighborhood, except at the State liquor agency where perhaps one might procure a pint if he could convince the agent that he really needed it.


59.
  ... really needed the money for groceries, but ...  12&12 Tradition Seven, p.162
Lois really needed the money for groceries, but that didn't stop me.


60.
  ... really neglectful.  BB To Wives, p.119
Sometimes he will be so interested that he becomes really neglectful.


61.
  ... really news.  12&12 Tradition Seven, p.160
When a society composed entirely of alcoholics says it's going to pay its bills, that's really news.


62.
  ... really rocked him.  12&12 Tradition Five, p.153
"This really rocked him.


63.
  ... really saying to every serious drinker, "You ...  12&12 Tradition Three, p.139
For A.A. is really saying to every serious drinker, "You are an A.A. member if you say so.


64.
  ... really saying to us that we now ...  12&12 Step Seven, p.76
It is really saying to us that we now ought to be willing to try humility in seeking the removal of our other shortcomings just as we did when we admitted that we were powerless over alcohol, and came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.


65.
  ... really servants, not senators.  12&12 Tradition Two, p.134
And so they make the belated discovery that they are really servants, not senators.


66.
  ... really set us thinking.  12&12 Tradition Twelve, p.185
This phenomenon of contrast really set us thinking.


67.
  ... really sloth in five syllables.  12&12 Step Six, p.67
Consider, too, our talents for procrastination, which is really sloth in five syllables.


68.
  ... really talking about the kind of love ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.106
When the Twelfth Step is seen in its full implication, it is really talking about the kind of love that has no price tag on it.


69.
  ... really tried, 50% got sober at once ...  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xx
Of alcoholics who came to A.A. and really tried, 50% got sober at once and remained that way; 25% sobered up after some relapses, and among the remainder, those who stayed on with A.A. showed improvement.


70.
  ... really tried a moral inventory is that ...  12&12 Step Four, p.49
But the testimony of A.A.'s who have really tried a moral inventory is that pride and fear of this sort turn out to be bogeymen, nothing else.


71.
  ... really want to punish.  12&12 Step Ten, p.94
We sometimes hurt those we love because they need to be "taught a lesson," when we really want to punish.


72.
  ... really want to stop, and hardly one ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.33
We doubt if many of them can do it, because none will really want to stop, and hardly one of them, because of the peculiar mental twist already acquired, will find he can win out.


73.
  ... really wanted.  12&12 Step Seven, p.72
With a proper display of honesty and morality, we'd stand a better chance of getting what we really wanted.


74.
  ... really wanted, rather than as something we ...  12&12 Step Seven, p.75
A great turning point in our lives came when we sought for humility as something we really wanted, rather than as something we must have.


75.
  ... really wants to get over drinking, you ...  BB To Wives, p.120
If you are satisfied he really wants to get over drinking, you need not be alarmed.


76.
  ... 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.


77.
  ... really wants to pay the price.  BB To Wives, p.108
Especially when he has before him a way to stop his drinking and abuse if he really wants to pay the price.


78.
  ... really we hadn't.  12&12 Step Two, p.32
We supposed we had humility when really we hadn't.


79.
  ... really worked in others, and we had ...  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.


80.
  ... really works.  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.


81.
  ... really works.  12&12 Tradition Two, p.132
They dubiously ask an experienced A.A. member if this really works.


82.
  ... really works in daily living is still ...  12&12 Step Four, p.43
Without a searching and fearless moral inventory, most of us have found that the faith which really works in daily living is still out of reach.


83.
  ... really wrong.  12&12 Step Ten, p.94
There are cases where our ancient enemy, rationalization, has stepped in and has justified conduct which was really wrong.


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