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1.
  ... help.  BB There Is A Solution, p.25
We were in a position where life was becoming impossible, and if we had passed into the region from which there is no return through human aid, we had but two alternatives: One was to go on to the bitter end, blotting out the consciousness of our intolerable situation as best we could; and the other, to accept spiritual help.


2.
  ... help.  BB There Is A Solution, p.27
Some of our alcoholic readers may think they can do without spiritual help.


3.
  ... help.  BB More About Alcoholism, p.43
As to two of you men, whose stories I have heard, there is no doubt in my mind that you were 100% hopeless, apart from divine help.


4.
  ... help.  BB How It Works, p.62
We had to have God's help.


5.
  ... help.  BB Into Action, p.84
Then we resolutely turn our thoughts to someone we can help.


6.
  ... help.  BB Working With Others, p.90
Don't deal with him when he is very drunk, unless he is ugly and the family needs your help.


7.
  ... help.  BB Working With Others, p.95
Tell him that if he wants to get well you will do anything to help.


8.
  ... help.  BB To Wives, p.111
They need your companionship and your help.


9.
  ... help.  BB To Wives, p.116
At first, some of us did not believe we needed this help.


10.
  ... help.  BB To Employers (Note), p.150
(*) See Appendix VI -- We shall be happy to hear from you if we can be of help.


11.
  ... help.  BB A Vision For You, p.162
Many of us, former patients, go there to help.


12.
  ... help.  BB Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A., p.569
Dr. Harry M. Tiebout, psychiatrist: "As a psychiatrist, I have thought a great deal about the relationship of my specialty to A.A. and I have come to the conclusion that our particular function can very often lie in preparing the way for the patient to accept any sort of treatment or outside help.


13.
  ... help.  12&12 Step Seven, p.75
Refusing to place God first, we had deprived ourselves of His help.


14.
  ... help.  12&12 Step Eleven, p.98
It is a step in the development of that kind of humility that makes it possible for us to receive God's help.


15.
  ... help.  12&12 Tradition Two, p.133
He feels a spiritual and ethical compulsion, because hundreds may be suffering within reach of his help.


16.
  ... help alcoholics and friends of A.A. understand ...  12&12 Introduction, p.14
We hope that the collective spiritual experience of the A.A. pioneers captured in these pages continues to help alcoholics and friends of A.A. understand the principles of our program.


17.
  ... help an alcoholic, but he had succeeded ...  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xvi
Prior to his journey to Akron, the broker had worked hard with many alcoholics on the theory that only an alcoholic could help an alcoholic, but he had succeeded only in keeping sober himself.


18.
  ... help and be helped.  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.


19.
  ... help and direction.  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.


20.
  ... help and guidance -- meanwhile resolving to do ...  12&12 Step Nine, p.86
Do we lay the matter before our sponsor or spiritual adviser, earnestly asking God's help and guidance -- meanwhile resolving to do the right thing when it becomes clear, cost what it may?


21.
  ... help, and he tries to meet these ...  BB To Employers, p.137
Nearly every modern employer feels a moral responsibility for the well-being of his help, and he tries to meet these responsibilities.


22.
  ... help and the drastic step is indicated ...  BB Into Action, p.80
If we have obtained permission, have consulted with others, asked God to help and the drastic step is indicated we must not shrink.


23.
  ... help, but the help doesn't come.  12&12 Step Two, p.32
Valiantly he tries to fight alcohol, imploring God's help, but the help doesn't come.


24.
  ... help, but they could not be expected ...  12&12 Tradition Eight, p.169
Volunteer committeemen and assistants could be of great help, but they could not be expected to carry this load day in and day out.


25.
  ... help doesn't come.  12&12 Step Two, p.32
Valiantly he tries to fight alcohol, imploring God's help, but the help doesn't come.


26.
  ... help ensure that various elements of A.A.'s ...  BB Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form), p.574
Written by co-founder Bill W. in 1962, the Twelve Concepts for World Service provide a group of related principles to help ensure that various elements of A.A.'s service structure remain responsive and responsible to those they serve.


27.
  ... help everyone to better understand the alcoholic.  BB Foreword to First Edition, p.xiii
We think this account of our experiences will help everyone to better understand the alcoholic.


28.
  ... help fellow sufferers in recovery from that ...  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.


29.
  ... help had been rebuffed, these words rang ...  12&12 Tradition Three, p.144
After all his pleas for help had been rebuffed, these words rang in his fevered mind: "They have deserted me. I have been deserted by my own kind. This is the end ... nothing is left."


30.
  ... help him about getting a job, or ...  BB Working With Others, p.96
If he is, you might try to help him about getting a job, or give him a little financial assistance.


31.
  ... help him, even if it be only ...  BB To Employers, p.141
He wants to quit drinking and you want to help him, even if it be only a matter of good business.


32.
  ... help him -- his doctor, his minister, and ...  12&12 Tradition Twelve, pp.185-186
He also wanted to tell others who had tried to help him -- his doctor, his minister, and close friends.


33.
  ... help him see where he has failed ...  BB Working With Others, p.93
Perhaps your story will help him see where he has failed to practice the very precepts he knows so well.


34.
  ... help him to stay alive.  12&12 Step Six, p.64
He did not design man to destroy himself by alcohol, but He did give man instincts to help him to stay alive.


35.
  ... help himself except by helping others.  BB Appendix V, The Religious View on A.A., p.572
The Episcopal magazine, The Living Church, observes editorially: "The basis of the technique of Alcoholics Anonymous is the truly Christian principle that a man cannot help himself except by helping others.


36.
  ... help his brother alcoholic, the one who ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.109
Even the newest of newcomers finds undreamed rewards as he tries to help his brother alcoholic, the one who is even blinder than he.


37.
  ... help if we can drop all resistance ...  12&12 Step Eleven, p.99
It will help if we can drop all resistance to what our friend says.


38.
  ... help if we were surely to know ...  12&12 Step Five, p.59
We'd have to have outside help if we were surely to know and admit the truth about ourselves -- the help of God and another human being.


39.
  ... help in quieting stormy emotions.  12&12 Step Ten, p.90
A spot-check inventory taken in the midst of such disturbances can be of very great help in quieting stormy emotions.


40.
  ... help in those strange mental blank spots.  BB More About Alcoholism, p.42
I saw that will power and self-knowledge would not help in those strange mental blank spots.


41.
  ... help is noted on page 121.  BB To Wives (Note), p.104
(*) Written in 1939, when there were few women in A.A., this chapter assumes that the alcoholic in the home is likely to be the husband. But many of the suggestions given here may be adapted to help the person who lives with a woman alcoholic -- whether she is still drinking or is recovering in A.A. A further source of help is noted on page 121.


42.
  ... help is the very thing which makes ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.124
Showing others who suffer how we were given help is the very thing which makes life seem so worth while to us now.


43.
  ... help it is too much for us.  BB How It Works, p.59
Without help it is too much for us.


44.
  ... help it might be well to disregard ...  BB To Employers, p.139
If you desire to help it might be well to disregard your own drinking, or lack of it.


45.
  ... help me!"  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxix
Men have cried out to me in sincere and despairing appeal: "Doctor, I cannot go on like this! I have everything to live for! I must stop, but I cannot! You must help me!"


46.
  ... help me.  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.179
About this time a lady called up my wife one Saturday afternoon saying she wanted me to come over that evening to meet a friend of hers who might help me.


47.
  ... help me.  12&12 Tradition Two, p.136
It should be doing just as well now, and it would -- if only you'd help me.


48.
  ... help me and to help yourself?'  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?'


49.
  ... help me, but I would get my ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.175
After three years of this, I wound up in the local hospital where they attempted to help me, but I would get my friends to smuggle me a quart, or I would steal the alcohol about the building, so that I got rapidly worse.


50.
  ... help meet their needs.  BB There Is A Solution, p.20
Our very lives, as ex-problem drinkers, depend upon our constant thought of others and how we may help meet their needs.


51.
  ... help my banker friend understand.  BB To Employers, p.138
I wanted to throw up my hands in discouragement, for I saw that I had failed to help my banker friend understand.


52.
  ... help of A.A.'s Twelve Steps we could ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.121
But as time passed we found that with the help of A.A.'s Twelve Steps we could lose those fears, no matter what our material prospects were.


53.
  ... help of all -- our search for God's ...  12&12 Step Eleven, p.103
Just saying it over and over will often enable us to clear a channel choked up with anger, fear, frustration, or misunderstanding, and permit us to return to the surest help of all -- our search for God's will, not our own, in the moment of stress.


54.
  ... help of God and another human being.  12&12 Step Five, p.59
We'd have to have outside help if we were surely to know and admit the truth about ourselves -- the help of God and another human being.


55.
  ... help of God as we understand Him, ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.113
Can we now, with the help of God as we understand Him, handle them as well and as bravely as our nonalcoholic friends often do?


56.
  ... help of Thy Power, Thy Love, and ...  BB How It Works, p.63
Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy Power, Thy Love, and Thy Way of life.


57.
  ... help one another.  12&12 Tradition Ten, p.178
At first, the society was composed entirely of alcoholics trying to help one another.


58.
  ... help other alcoholics.  BB Foreword to Fourth Edition, p.xxiv
In any meeting, anywhere, A.A.'s share experience, strength, and hope with each other, in order to stay sober and help other alcoholics.


59.
  ... help other alcoholics achieve sobriety?  12&12 Step Twelve, p.111
Can we love the whole pattern of living as eagerly as we do the small segment of it we discover when we try to help other alcoholics achieve sobriety?


60.
  ... help other alcoholics if they would remain ...  BB A Vision For You, p.159
Though they knew they must help other alcoholics if they would remain sober, that motive became secondary.


61.
  ... help other alcoholics to achieve sobriety.  Grapevine Preamble
Our primary purpose is to stay sober and help other alcoholics to achieve sobriety.


62.
  ... help other alcoholics when he escapes his ...  BB Working With Others, p.94
Make it plain he is under no obligation to you, that you hope only that he will try to help other alcoholics when he escapes his own difficulties.


63.
  ... help other drinkers.  BB To Wives, p.112
Drinkers like to help other drinkers.


64.
  ... help other people as we have already ...  12&12 Step Eleven, p.102
Our immediate temptation will be to ask for specific solutions to specific problems, and for the ability to help other people as we have already thought they should be helped.


65.
  ... help others.  BB The Family Afterward, p.132
We have recovered, and have been given the power to help others.


66.
  ... help others and who will be glad ...  BB Working With Others, p.90
You should be described to him as one of a fellowship who, as part of their own recovery, try to help others and who will be glad to talk to him if he cares to see you.


67.
  ... help others to recover from alcoholism.  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.


68.
  ... help others, to watch loneliness vanish, to ...  BB Working With Others, p.89
To watch people recover, to see them help others, to watch loneliness vanish, to see a fellowship grow up about you, to have a host of friends -- this is an experience you must not miss.


69.
  ... help others with similar problems ... In this ...  BB Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A., p.570
They help others with similar problems ... In this atmosphere the alcoholic often overcomes his excessive concentration upon himself.


70.
  ... help our readers determine, to their own ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.34
How then shall we help our readers determine, to their own satisfaction, whether they are one of us?


71.
  ... help problem drinkers as others seldom can.  12&12 Tradition Five, p.150
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.


72.
  ... help 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.


73.
  ... help serious drinkers who should have been ...  BB To Employers, p.147
They often jeopardize their own positions by trying to help serious drinkers who should have been fired long ago, or else given an opportunity to get well.


74.
  ... help, some men will try to take ...  BB To Employers, p.141
Seeing your attempt to understand and help, some men will try to take advantage of your kindness.


75.
  ... help some of them.  BB Bill's Story, p.14
Perhaps I could help some of them.


76.
  ... help, that was sure.  12&12 Tradition Seven, p.162
We'd have to have some more full-time help, that was sure.


77.
  ... help, the knowledge that at home or ...  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.


78.
  ... help the man who is off on ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.130
Nothing will help the man who is off on a spiritual tangent so much as the wife who adopts a sane spiritual program, making a better practical use of it.


79.
  ... help the next alcoholic who comes along.  12&12 Step Eleven, p.96
We A.A.'s are active folk, enjoying the satisfactions of dealing with the realities of life, usually for the first time in our lives, and strenuously trying to help the next alcoholic who comes along.


80.
  ... help the person who lives with a ...  BB To Wives (Note), p.104
(*) Written in 1939, when there were few women in A.A., this chapter assumes that the alcoholic in the home is likely to be the husband. But many of the suggestions given here may be adapted to help the person who lives with a woman alcoholic -- whether she is still drinking or is recovering in A.A. A further source of help is noted on page 121.


81.
  ... help the public to a better realization ...  BB Working With Others, p.103
Some day we hope that Alcoholics Anonymous will help the public to a better realization of the gravity of the alcoholic problem, but we shall be of little use if our attitude is one of bitterness or hostility.


82.
  ... help the wife of another serious drinker.  BB To Wives, p.112
Meanwhile you might try to help the wife of another serious drinker.


83.
  ... help them.  12&12 Step Ten, p.93
With those we dislike we can begin to practice justice and courtesy, perhaps going out of our way to understand and help them.


84.
  ... help them discover a chink in the ...  12&12 Step Four, p.46
The problem is to help them discover a chink in the walls their ego has built, through which the light of reason can shine.


85.
  ... help; they will be honored by our ...  BB Into Action, p.75
Most people approached in this way will be glad to help; they will be honored by our confidence.


86.
  ... help those we criticize; we are trying ...  12&12 Step Six, p.67
Here we are not trying to help those we criticize; we are trying to proclaim our own righteousness.


87.
  ... help to carry these lessons over into ...  12&12 Step Ten, p.94
Here we need only recognize that we did act or think badly, try to visualize how we might have done better, and resolve with God's help to carry these lessons over into tomorrow, making, of course, any amends still neglected.


88.
  ... help to other people -- was not a ...  BB We Agnostics, p.52
We were having trouble with personal relationships, we couldn't control our emotional natures, we were a prey to misery and depression, we couldn't make a living, we had a feeling of uselessness, we were full of fear, we were unhappy, we couldn't seem to be of real help to other people -- was not a basic solution of these bedevilments more important than whether we should see newsreels of lunar flight?


89.
  ... help to us for, as you see, ...  BB To Employers, p.148
I don't see how you can be of any help to us for, as you see, we don't have any alcoholic problem."


90.
  ... help turn up the root causes.  12&12 Step Four, pp.52-53
Questions like these, more of which will come to mind easily in each individual case, will help turn up the root causes.


91.
  ... help us be willing.  BB Into Action, p.76
If we still cling to something we will not let go, we ask God to help us be willing.


92.
  ... help us show them the same tolerance, ...  BB How It Works, p.67
We asked God to help us show them the same tolerance, pity, and patience that we would cheerfully grant a sick friend.


93.
  ... help us to better jobs when we ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.121
We forgot that most alcoholics in A.A. have an earning power considerably above average; we forgot the immense goodwill of our brother A.A.'s who were only too eager to help us to better jobs when we deserved them; we forgot the actual or potential financial insecurity of every human being in the world.


94.
  ... help us to live up to them.  BB How It Works, p.69
We asked God to mold our ideals and help us to live up to them.


95.
  ... help us to meet an occasional emergency, ...  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.


96.
  ... help, we calmly accepted our lot, then ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.122
When, with God's help, we calmly accepted our lot, then we found we could live at peace with ourselves and show others who still suffered the same fears that they could get over them, too.


97.
  ... help, we know that we have an ...  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.


98.
  ... help when no one else can.  BB Working With Others, p.89
You can help when no one else can.


99.
  ... help would be broken.  12&12 Tradition Nine, p.175
Our communications lines with those who need our help would be broken.


100.
  ... help you get over it, and if ...  BB To Employers, p.147
The firm wants to help you get over it, and if you are interested, there is a way out.


101.
  ... help you plug up this sometimes serious ...  BB To Employers, p.148
We hope our suggestions will help you plug up this sometimes serious leak.


102.
  ... help yourself?'  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?'


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