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

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COMMON   occurs   38 times 18 in BB  •  19 in 12&12  •  1 in GV Definition in Merriam-Webster Online
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1.
  ... common.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.123
The doctors weren't trying to find how different we were from one another; they sought to find whatever personality traits, if any, this group of alcoholics had in common.


2.
  ... common and that you would like, in ...  BB Working With Others, p.95
But point out that we alcoholics have much in common and that you would like, in any case, to be friendly.


3.
  ... common are not too hard to understand.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.106
And these things which they have in common are not too hard to understand.


4.
  ... common effort, the well-understood fact that in ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.124
Service, gladly rendered, obligations squarely met, troubles well accepted or solved with God's help, the knowledge that at home or in the world outside we are partners in a common effort, the well-understood fact that in God's sight all human beings are important, the proof that love freely given surely brings a full return, the certainty that we are no longer isolated and alone in self-constructed prisons, the surety that we need no longer be square pegs in round holes but can fit and belong in God's scheme of things -- these are the permanent and legitimate satisfactions of right living for which no amount of pomp and circumstance, no heap of material possessions, could possibly be substitutes.


5.
  ... common enough, we A.A.'s find we need ...  12&12 Step Ten, p.92
Although these attitudes are common enough, we A.A.'s find we need something much better in order to keep our balance.


6.
  ... common form of trouble too.  BB Into Action, p.79
That's a common form of trouble too.


7.
  ... common good is the essence of all ...  12&12 Contents (Tradition Twelve), p.13
Subordinating personal aims to the common good is the essence of all Twelve Traditions.


8.
  ... common good, we realize that the sacrificial ...  12&12 Tradition Twelve, p.184
Because A.A.'s Twelve Traditions repeatedly ask us to give up personal desires for the common good, we realize that the sacrificial spirit -- well symbolized by anonymity -- is the foundation of them all.


9.
  ... common ground of tolerance, understanding and love.  BB The Family Afterward, p.122
All members of the family should meet upon the common ground of tolerance, understanding and love.


10.
  ... common interest in A.A. and spiritual things, ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.119
Their common suffering as drinkers, their common interest in A.A. and spiritual things, often enhance such unions.


11.
  ... common journey.  BB A Vision For You, pp.152-153
You will be bound to them with new and wonderful ties, for you will escape disaster together and you will commence shoulder to shoulder your common journey.


12.
  ... common manifestations.  BB How It Works, p.64
Being convinced that self, manifested in various ways, was what had defeated us, we considered its common manifestations.


13.
  ... common peril is one element in the ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.17
The feeling of having shared in a common peril is one element in the powerful cement which binds us.


14.
  ... common problem and help others to recover ...  Grapevine Preamble
A.A. Preamble -- Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship of people who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism.


15.
  ... common problems and to help fellow sufferers ...  12&12 Foreword, p.15
Alcoholics Anonymous is a worldwide fellowship of more than one hundred thousand(*) alcoholic men and women who are banded together to solve their common problems and to help fellow sufferers in recovery from that age-old, baffling malady, alcoholism.


16.
  ... common sense.  BB Into Action, p.77
When it will serve any good purpose, we are willing to announce our convictions with tact and common sense.


17.
  ... common sense and will power that he ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.22
What has become of the common sense and will power that he still sometimes displays with respect to other matters?


18.
  ... common sense, their will power?  BB To Wives, p.107
What had become of their judgment, their common sense, their will power?


19.
  Common sense would thus become uncommon sense.  BB Bill's Story, p.13
Common sense would thus become uncommon sense.


20.
  ... common solution.  BB There Is A Solution, p.17
The tremendous fact for every one of us is that we have discovered a common solution.


21.
  ... common suffering as drinkers, their common interest ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.119
Their common suffering as drinkers, their common interest in A.A. and spiritual things, often enhance such unions.


22.
  ... common suffering; one having a vast potential ...  BB Appendix IV, The Lasker Award, p.571
"The American Public Health Association presents a Lasker Group Award for 1951 to Alcoholics Anonymous in recognition of its unique and highly successful approach to that age-old public health and social problem, alcoholism ... In emphasizing alcoholism as an illness, the social stigma associated with this condition is being blotted out ... Historians may one day recognize Alcoholics Anonymous to have been a great venture in social pioneering which forged a new instrument for social action; a new therapy based on the kinship of common suffering; one having a vast potential for the myriad other ills of mankind."


23.
  Common symptoms of emotional insecurity are worry, ...  12&12 Contents (Step Four), p.6
Common symptoms of emotional insecurity are worry, anger, self-pity, and depression.


24.
  ... common symptoms of emotional insecurity are worry, ...  12&12 Step Four, p.52
The most common symptoms of emotional insecurity are worry, anger, self-pity, and depression.


25.
  ... common: they cannot start drinking without developing ...  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxx
All these, and many others, have one symptom in common: they cannot start drinking without developing the phenomenon of craving.


26.
  ... common to most denominations.  BB Working With Others, p.94
We are dealing only with general principles common to most denominations.


27.
  ... common welfare came first.  12&12 Tradition One, p.131
How well they saw that their common welfare came first.


28.
  ... common welfare comes first.  BB Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.563
Hence our common welfare comes first.


29.
  ... common welfare comes first.  12&12 Tradition One (Long), p.189
Hence our common welfare comes first.


30.
  ... Common welfare comes first. How best to ...  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.


31.
  ... common welfare first? What in Heaven's name ...  12&12 Tradition One, p.130
"How," they ask, "can such a crowd of anarchists function at all? How can they possibly place their common welfare first? What in Heaven's name holds them together?"


32.
  ... common welfare is paramount.  BB Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.563
On such issues our common welfare is paramount.


33.
  ... common welfare is paramount.  12&12 Tradition Four (Long), p.189
On such issues our common welfare is paramount.


34.
  ... common welfare should come first; personal recovery ...  BB Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.562
One -- Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon A.A. unity.


35.
  ... common welfare should come first; personal recovery ...  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.


36.
  ... common welfare should come first; personal recovery ...  12&12 Tradition One, p.129
"Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon A.A. unity."


37.
  ... common with all the others.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.106
But certainly each genuine one has something in common with all the others.


38.
  ... common with these people, though he may ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.131
Being possessed of a spiritual experience, the alcoholic will find he has much in common with these people, though he may differ with them on many matters.


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