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

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BEGINNING   occurs   45 times 17 in BB  •  28 in 12&12 Definition in Merriam-Webster Online
See also...   beginnings
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begotten
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1.
  ... beginning.  BB Bill's Story, p.12
Nothing more was required of me to make my beginning.


2.
  ... beginning.  BB There Is A Solution, p.19
We feel that elimination of our drinking is but a beginning.


3.
  ... beginning.  BB More About Alcoholism, p.35
He made a beginning.


4.
  ... beginning.  BB How It Works, p.71
If you have already made a decision, and an inventory of your grosser handicaps, you have made a good beginning.


5.
  ... beginning.  12&12 Step Seven, p.73
But this is the barest beginning.


6.
  ... beginning and end of all.  BB We Agnostics, p.49
Instead of regarding ourselves as intelligent agents, spearheads of God's ever advancing Creation, we agnostics and atheists chose to believe that our human intelligence was the last word, the alpha and the omega, the beginning and end of all.


7.
  ... beginning, and he senses that he stands ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.109
His own character may still be gravely defective, but he somehow knows that God has enabled him to make a mighty beginning, and he senses that he stands at the edge of new mysteries, joys, and experiences of which he had never even dreamed.


8.
  ... beginning, and keep trying.  12&12 Step Six, p.68
The only urgent thing is that we make a beginning, and keep trying.


9.
  ... beginning and still doubted themselves, the rest ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.109
Looking at those who were only beginning and still doubted themselves, the rest of us were able to see the change setting in.


10.
  ... beginning, anonymity was not born of confidence; ...  12&12 Tradition Twelve, p.184
But in the beginning, anonymity was not born of confidence; it was the child of our early fears.


11.
  ... beginning as soon as you can.  12&12 Step Five, p.61
If this is the situation, by all means do so, for you ought to make a beginning as soon as you can.


12.
  ... beginning, even the smallest, is all that ...  12&12 Step Three, p.35
We can further add that a beginning, even the smallest, is all that is needed.


13.
  ... beginning his development.  BB To Wives, p.118
The chances are he will not for, like yourself, he is just beginning his development.


14.
  ... beginning of a fatal progression.  12&12 Step One, p.23
By going back in our own drinking histories, we could show that years before we realized it we were out of control, that our drinking even then was no mere habit, that it was indeed the beginning of a fatal progression.


15.
  ... beginning of a lifetime job.  12&12 Contents (Step Six), p.6
The beginning of a lifetime job.


16.
  ... beginning of a lifetime practice, it can ...  12&12 Step Four, p.50
Since Step Four is but the beginning of a lifetime practice, it can be suggested that he first have a look at those personal flaws which are acutely troublesome and fairly obvious.


17.
  ... beginning of his emergence into a new ...  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.


18.
  ... beginning of its unique and valuable service.  12&12 Foreword, p.18
In the view of its friends, this is but the beginning of its unique and valuable service.


19.
  ... beginning of lifetime practice.  12&12 Contents (Step Four), p.6
Step Four is beginning of lifetime practice.


20.
  ... beginning of my last debauch.  BB Bill's Story, p.8
In reality that was the beginning of my last debauch.


21.
  ... beginning of recovery a man will take, ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.125
At the beginning of recovery a man will take, as a rule, one of two directions.


22.
  ... beginning of the end.  12&12 Step Two, p.26
This is the beginning of the end.


23.
  ... beginning of the end of his old ...  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.


24.
  ... beginning of the end of isolation.  12&12 Contents (Step Eight), p.7
Step Eight is the beginning of the end of isolation.


25.
  ... beginning of the end of isolation from ...  12&12 Step Eight, p.82
It is the beginning of the end of isolation from our fellows and from God.


26.
  Beginning of true kinship with man and ...  12&12 Contents (Step Five), p.6
Beginning of true kinship with man and God.


27.
  ... beginning of true kinship with man and ...  12&12 Step Five, p.57
It was the beginning of true kinship with man and God.


28.
  ... beginning on Step Three.  12&12 Step Three, p.35
Every man and woman who has joined A.A. and intends to stick has, without realizing it, made a beginning on Step Three.


29.
  Beginning on the ground floor there would ...  12&12 Tradition Four, p.147
Beginning on the ground floor there would be a club; in the second story they would sober up drunks and hand them currency for their back debts; the third deck would house an educational project -- quite noncontroversial, of course.


30.
  ... beginning on this lifetime job.  12&12 Step Six, p.65
So Step Six -- "Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character" -- is A.A.'s way of stating the best possible attitude one can take in order to make a beginning on this lifetime job.


31.
  ... beginning, only the augury of a much ...  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xv
Many of our friends encourage us by saying that this is but a beginning, only the augury of a much larger future ahead.


32.
  ... beginning that we must never, no matter ...  12&12 Tradition Ten, p.176
As by some deep instinct, we A.A.'s have known from the very beginning that we must never, no matter what the provocation, publicly take sides in any fight, even a worthy one.


33.
  ... beginning, the couple ought to frankly face ...  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.


34.
  ... beginning, the press could not understand our ...  12&12 Tradition Eleven, p.182
In the beginning, the press could not understand our refusal of all personal publicity.


35.
  ... beginning, though if honestly and humbly made, ...  BB How It Works, p.63
This was only a beginning, though if honestly and humbly made, an effect, sometimes a very great one, was felt at once.


36.
  ... beginning to have morning "jitters" at times.  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.173
During these years, I drank as much as my purse permitted, still without paying too great a penalty, although I was beginning to have morning "jitters" at times.


37.
  ... beginning to lose his friends.  BB To Wives, p.109
Maybe he is beginning to lose his friends.


38.
  ... beginning to pay very dearly physically and, ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.174
By this time I was beginning to pay very dearly physically and, in hope of relief, voluntarily incarcerated myself at least a dozen times in one of the local sanitariums.


39.
  ... beginning to wonder how and why A.A. ...  12&12 Foreword, p.16
Students of human relations are beginning to wonder how and why A.A. functions as a society.


40.
  ... beginning we are obliged to admit that ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.37
But even in this type of beginning we are obliged to admit that our justification for a spree was insanely insufficient in the light of what always happened.


41.
  ... beginning, we have been positive that face-to-face ...  12&12 Tradition Eight, p.166
Almost from the beginning, we have been positive that face-to-face work with the alcoholic who suffers could be based only on the desire to help and be helped.


42.
  ... beginning, we have seen, when he commenced ...  12&12 Step Three, p.39
He made a beginning, we have seen, when he commenced to rely upon A.A. for the solution of his alcohol problem.


43.
  ... beginning we would go to any lengths ...  BB Into Action, p.76
Remember it was agreed at the beginning we would go to any lengths for victory over alcohol.


44.
  Beginning with Step Four, we commenced to ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.107
Beginning with Step Four, we commenced to search out the things in ourselves which had brought us to physical, moral, and spiritual bankruptcy.


45.
  Beginning with such complaints, a barrier arises.  BB The Family Afterward, p.126
Beginning with such complaints, a barrier arises.


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