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

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FEEL   occurs   67 times 43 in BB  •  24 in 12&12 Definition in Merriam-Webster Online
See also...   feels
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1.
  ... feel.  12&12 Step Two, p.27
The minute I stopped arguing, I could begin to see and feel.


2.
  ... feel a man is unthinking when he ...  BB Into Action, p.82
We feel a man is unthinking when he says that sobriety is enough.


3.
  ... feel a part.  BB Bill's Story, p.15
We commenced to make many fast friends and a fellowship has grown up among us of which it is a wonderful thing to feel a part.


4.
  ... feel absolutely free to come and go ...  BB To Wives, p.120
Make him feel absolutely free to come and go as he likes.


5.
  ... feel, after many years of experience, that ...  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxviii
We feel, after many years of experience, that we have found nothing which has contributed more to the rehabilitation of these men than the altruistic movement now growing up among them.


6.
  ... feel alone.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.120
Surrounded by so many A.A. friends, these so-called loners tell us they no longer feel alone.


7.
  ... feel, and believe that which he could ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.106
When a man or a woman has a spiritual awakening, the most important meaning of it is that he has now become able to do, feel, and believe that which he could not do before on his unaided strength and resources alone.


8.
  ... feel, and wish to become:  12&12 Step Eleven, p.99
And as he came out the other side of that painful experience, this prayer was his expression of what he could then see, feel, and wish to become:


9.
  ... feel as though we had been placed ...  BB Into Action, p.85
We feel as though we had been placed in a position of neutrality -- safe and protected.


10.
  ... Feel better. Work better. Having a better ...  BB A Vision For You, p.151
Now and then a serious drinker, being dry at the moment says, "I don't miss it at all. Feel better. Work better. Having a better time."


11.
  ... feel bound to devote themselves solely to ...  12&12 Tradition Five, p.150
But once these men had hit upon a cure, once it became apparent that only by their united effort could this be accomplished, then all of them would feel bound to devote themselves solely to the relief of cancer.


12.
  ... feel closer over a highball.  BB To Wives, p.110
His friends feel closer over a highball.


13.
  ... feel confident in our new way of ...  12&12 Step Nine, p.85
As soon as we begin to feel confident in our new way of life and have begun, by our behavior and example, to convince those about us that we are indeed changing for the better, it is usually safe to talk in complete frankness with those who have been seriously affected, even those who may be only a little or not at all aware of what we have done to them.


14.
  ... feel diffident about going to some of ...  BB Into Action, p.76
As we look over the list of business acquaintances and friends we have hurt, we may feel diffident about going to some of them on a spiritual basis.


15.
  ... feel, direct, and use, without a reasonable ...  BB We Agnostics, p.48
Simply because it is impossible to explain what we see, feel, direct, and use, without a reasonable assumption as a starting point.


16.
  ... feel elated.  12&12 Step Ten, pp.91-92
For no people have ever loved personal triumphs more than we have loved them; we drank of success as of a wine which could never fail to make us feel elated.


17.
  ... feel emotionally secure among grown-up people, we ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.116
It became clear that if we ever were to feel emotionally secure among grown-up people, we would have to put our lives on a give-and-take basis; we would have to develop the sense of being in partnership or brotherhood with all those around us.


18.
  ... feel fully responsible.  BB To Employers, p.143
It is better for him to feel fully responsible.


19.
  ... feel he can deal with you without ...  BB Working With Others, p.91
He will feel he can deal with you without being nagged by his family.


20.
  ... feel he has spiritual justification for so ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.129
Instead of treating the family as he should, he may retreat further into himself and feel he has spiritual justification for so doing.


21.
  ... feel he should now be yours.  BB To Wives, p.119
You feel he should now be yours.


22.
  ... feel heroic.  BB Bill's Story, p.1
War fever ran high in the New England town to which we new, young officers from Plattsburg were assigned, and we were flattered when the first citizens took us to their homes, making us feel heroic.


23.
  ... feel his own inadequacy.  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxix
Faced with this problem, if a doctor is honest with himself, he must sometimes feel his own inadequacy.


24.
  ... feel humility as something more than a ...  12&12 Step Seven, p.72
It was only at the end of a long road, marked by successive defeats and humiliations, and the final crushing of our self-sufficiency, that we began to feel humility as something more than a condition of groveling despair.


25.
  ... feel it.  BB The Family Afterward, p.126
They are all disappointed, and often let him feel it.


26.
  ... feel it better to let our friends ...  BB Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.565
We feel it better to let our friends recommend us.


27.
  ... feel it better to let our friends ...  12&12 Tradition Eleven (Long), p.192
We feel it better to let our friends recommend us.


28.
  ... feel it is something that might help ...  12&12 Step Eleven, p.96
To be sure, we feel it is something that might help us to meet an occasional emergency, but at first many of us are apt to regard it as a somewhat mysterious skill of clergymen, from which we may hope to get a secondhand benefit.


29.
  ... feel just a little superior to the ...  12&12 Step Six, p.66
Who, for example, doesn't like to feel just a little superior to the next fellow, or even quite a lot superior?


30.
  ... feel like those who had insisted the ...  BB We Agnostics, pp.52-53
When others showed us that "God-sufficiency" worked with them, we began to feel like those who had insisted the Wrights would never fly.


31.
  ... feel lonely, hurt, and left out as ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.120
At first many of these feel lonely, hurt, and left out as they witness so much domestic happiness about them.


32.
  ... feel lonely, sorry for himself.  BB Into Action, p.81
The husband begins to feel lonely, sorry for himself.


33.
  ... feel no reluctance to rid yourself of ...  BB To Employers, p.148
At the same time you will feel no reluctance to rid yourself of those who cannot or will not stop.


34.
  ... feel satisfied that there is no need ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.113
We temporarily cease to grow because we feel satisfied that there is no need for all of A.A.'s Twelve Steps for us.


35.
  ... feel satisfied with a proposal which does ...  BB We Agnostics, p.53
We agnostically inclined would not feel satisfied with a proposal which does not lend itself to reasonable approach and interpretation.


36.
  ... feel sorry for you.  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.181
If you think you are an atheist, an agnostic, a skeptic, or have any other form of intellectual pride which keeps you from accepting what is in this book, I feel sorry for you.


37.
  ... feel superior by pulling him down.  12&12 Step Ten, p.94
Or, the person concerned not being present, we thought we were helping others to understand him, when in actuality our true motive was to feel superior by pulling him down.


38.
  ... feel superior to all of them.  12&12 Step Two, p.30
In belaboring the sins of some religious people, we could feel superior to all of them.


39.
  ... feel superior to other people.  12&12 Tradition Ten, p.177
Let us reemphasize that this reluctance to fight one another or anybody else is not counted as some special virtue which makes us feel superior to other people.


40.
  ... feel that as psychiatrists directing a hospital ...  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxviii
If any feel that as psychiatrists directing a hospital for alcoholics we appear somewhat sentimental, let them stand with us a while on the firing line, see the tragedies, the despairing wives, the little children; let the solving of these problems become a part of their daily work, and even of their sleeping moments, and the most cynical will not wonder that we have accepted and encouraged this movement.


41.
  ... feel that each family, in the light ...  BB Working With Others, p.103
We feel that each family, in the light of their own circumstances, ought to decide for themselves.


42.
  ... feel that elimination of our drinking is ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.19
We feel that elimination of our drinking is but a beginning.


43.
  ... feel that for years his drinking has ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.129
Dad may feel that for years his drinking has placed him on the wrong side of every argument, but that now he has become a superior person with God on his side.


44.
  ... feel that he will now measure up ...  BB To Wives, p.118
It is the most natural thing in the world, once his liquor problem is solved, to feel that he will now measure up to that cherished vision.


45.
  ... feel that I had known him before.  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxxi
I talked with him for some time, but was not able to bring myself to feel that I had known him before.


46.
  ... feel that we might have the answer ...  12&12 Tradition Six, p.155
The moment we saw that we had an answer for alcoholism, it was reasonable (or so it seemed at the time) for us to feel that we might have the answer to a lot of other things.


47.
  ... feel that we understand as perhaps few ...  BB To Wives, p.104
As wives of Alcoholics Anonymous, we would like you to feel that we understand as perhaps few can.


48.
  ... feel that you must apologize as though ...  BB To Wives, p.115
You will no longer be self-conscious or feel that you must apologize as though your husband were a weak character.


49.
  ... feel that you must have some help, ...  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.


50.
  ... feel the ache.  BB There Is A Solution, p.23
They sound like the philosophy of the man who, having a headache, beats himself on the head with a hammer so that he can't feel the ache.


51.
  ... feel the nearness of our Creator.  BB Into Action, p.75
We begin to feel the nearness of our Creator.


52.
  ... feel the urge wholly to rely on ...  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.


53.
  ... feel their money troubles are about to ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.126
The family will be affected also, pleasantly at first, as they feel their money troubles are about to be solved, then not so pleasantly as they find themselves neglected.


54.
  ... feel themselves cut off from God's help ...  12&12 Step Eleven, p.105
All this should be very encouraging news for those who recoil from prayer because they don't believe in it, or because they feel themselves cut off from God's help and direction.


55.
  ... feel they have done well may dispute ...  12&12 Step Six, p.66
Some who feel they have done well may dispute this, so let's try to think it through a little further.


56.
  ... feel they have received from God.  12&12 Step Five, p.60
It is worth noting that people of very high spiritual development almost always insist on checking with friends or spiritual advisers the guidance they feel they have received from God.


57.
  ... feel they hold a mortgage on dad, ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.131
The family may feel they hold a mortgage on dad, so big that no equity should be left for outsiders.


58.
  ... feel they need no inventory are confronted ...  12&12 Step Four, p.46
The sponsors of those who feel they need no inventory are confronted with quite another problem.


59.
  ... feel this feeling rising.  BB To Employers, p.139
Even when you understand the malady better, you may feel this feeling rising.


60.
  ... feel unable to speak at meetings or ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.110
There are many opportunities even for those of us who feel unable to speak at meetings or who are so situated that we cannot do much face-to-face Twelfth Step work.


61.
  ... feel under no obligation to keep him ...  BB To Employers, p.147
But you should feel under no obligation to keep him on, for your obligation has been well discharged already.


62.
  ... feel we are on the Broad Highway, ...  BB Into Action, p.75
We feel we are on the Broad Highway, walking hand in hand with the Spirit of the Universe.


63.
  ... feel we had gone on drinking many ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.34
As we look back, we feel we had gone on drinking many years beyond the point where we could quit on our will power.


64.
  ... feel we need look no further for ...  BB Bill's Story, p.16
Most of us feel we need look no further for Utopia.


65.
  ... feel we ought to say to her ...  BB Into Action, p.81
We feel we ought to say to her that we have no right to involve another person.


66.
  ... feel you had better leave.  BB To Wives, p.108
If you are positive he is one of this type you may feel you had better leave.


67.
  ... feel your organization has no alcoholic problem, ...  BB To Employers, p.149
Even if you feel your organization has no alcoholic problem, it might pay to take another look down the line.


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