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

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IDEA   occurs   48 times 30 in BB  •  18 in 12&12 Definition in Merriam-Webster Online
See also...   ideas
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1.
  ... idea.  BB Bill's Story, p.7
I knew, and almost welcomed the idea.


2.
  ... idea.  BB Bill's Story, p.12
I didn't like the idea.


3.
  ... idea.  BB Bill's Story, p.12
My friend suggested what then seemed a novel idea.


4.
  ... idea.  12&12 Step Eleven, p.99
As beginners in meditation, we might now reread this prayer several times very slowly, savoring every word and trying to take in the deep meaning of each phrase and idea.


5.
  ... idea.  12&12 Tradition Four, p.147
Believe it or not, wealthy townsfolk bought the idea.


6.
  ... idea a minute on how to improve ...  12&12 Tradition Three, p.143
He had at least an idea a minute on how to improve A.A.


7.
  ... idea and a practical program of action.  BB Bill's Story, p.9
They had told of a simple religious idea and a practical program of action.


8.
  ... idea, and that was sobriety.  12&12 Tradition Five, p.154
Years later, this tough Irish customer liked to say, "My sponsor sold me one idea, and that was sobriety.


9.
  ... idea did.  BB We Agnostics, p.52
But the God idea did.


10.
  ... idea entirely.  BB We Agnostics, p.45
With that rejection we imagined we had abandoned the God idea entirely.


11.
  ... idea how irrational they are, or seeing ...  12&12 Step Two, pp.32-33
Few indeed are the practicing alcoholics who have any idea how irrational they are, or seeing their irrationality, can bear to face it.


12.
  ... idea how prevalent this problem is.  BB To Employers, p.149
We believe that managers of large enterprises often have little idea how prevalent this problem is.


13.
  ... idea if we continue to keep a ...  12&12 Tradition Two, p.133
They say to one another, "Perhaps it would be a good idea if we continue to keep a firm hand on A.A. in this town.


14.
  ... idea into the consciousness of every man ...  BB Working With Others, p.98
Burn the idea into the consciousness of every man that he can get well regardless of anyone.


15.
  ... idea is good, but it isn't good ...  12&12 Tradition Two, p.138
Sure, Charlie's idea is good, but it isn't good enough.


16.
  ... idea misunderstood; the word itself is often ...  12&12 Step Seven, p.70
Not only is the idea misunderstood; the word itself is often intensely disliked.


17.
  ... idea of being humble, to gain a ...  12&12 Step Seven, p.73
To get completely away from our aversion to the idea of being humble, to gain a vision of humility as the avenue to true freedom of the human spirit, to be willing to work for humility as something to be desired for itself, takes most of us a long, long time.


18.
  ... idea of bowing before any God.  12&12 Step Eleven, p.96
We well remember how something deep inside us kept rebelling against the idea of bowing before any God.


19.
  ... idea of dependence at the level of ...  12&12 Step Three, p.36
Let's examine for a moment this idea of dependence at the level of everyday living.


20.
  ... idea of God.  BB We Agnostics, p.55
Actually we were fooling ourselves, for deep down in every man, woman, and child, is the fundamental idea of God.


21.
  ... idea of helping drunks by spirituality, I ...  12&12 Tradition Two, p.136
Three years ago, when my head doctor, Silkworth, began to tell me of the idea of helping drunks by spirituality, I thought it was crackpot stuff, but I've changed my mind.


22.
  ... idea of helping other alcoholics to a ...  BB Bill's Story, p.15
My wife and I abandoned ourselves with enthusiasm to the idea of helping other alcoholics to a solution of their problems.


23.
  ... idea of Him with which someone had ...  BB We Agnostics, p.45
To others, the word "God" brought up a particular idea of Him with which someone had tried to impress them during childhood.


24.
  ... idea of his behavior, his problems, his ...  BB Working With Others, p.90
Get an idea of his behavior, his problems, his background, the seriousness of his condition, and his religious leanings.


25.
  ... idea of how we approach and aid ...  BB A Vision For You, p.153
In the chapter "Working With Others" you gathered an idea of how we approach and aid others to health.


26.
  ... idea of how you ought to proceed.  BB Working With Others, p.91
You will thus get a better idea of how you ought to proceed.


27.
  ... idea of personal powerlessness.  12&12 Step One, p.21
Every natural instinct cries out against the idea of personal powerlessness.


28.
  ... idea of what has actually happened in ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.29
These give a fair cross section of our membership and a clear-cut idea of what has actually happened in their lives.


29.
  ... idea of what life is all about.  BB We Agnostics, p.49
People of faith have a logical idea of what life is all about.


30.
  ... idea out of his head.  BB More About Alcoholism, p.38
He tries every known means to get the jay-walking idea out of his head.


31.
  ... idea that future happiness can be based ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.123
The family may be possessed by the idea that future happiness can be based only upon forgetfulness of the past.


32.
  ... idea that God has accomplished the miracle ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.128
While grateful that he drinks no more, they may not like the idea that God has accomplished the miracle where they failed.


33.
  ... idea that he can still control his ...  BB Working With Others, p.92
If he sticks to the idea that he can still control his drinking, tell him that possibly he can -- if he is not too alcoholic.


34.
  ... idea that he could take whiskey if ...  BB More About Alcoholism, pp.36-37
Yet all reasons for not drinking were easily pushed aside in favor of the foolish idea that he could take whiskey if only he mixed it with milk!


35.
  ... idea that it would be far better ...  12&12 Tradition Eleven, p.181
Obviously, A.A. had to be publicized somehow, so we resorted to the idea that it would be far better to let our friends do this for us.


36.
  ... idea that people are trying to pull ...  BB To Employers, p.145
Sometimes we alcoholics have an idea that people are trying to pull us down.


37.
  ... idea that self-sufficiency would solve our problems.  BB We Agnostics, p.52
We agnostics and atheists were sticking to the idea that self-sufficiency would solve our problems.


38.
  ... idea that somehow, someday he will control ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.30
The idea that somehow, someday he will control and enjoy his drinking is the great obsession of every abnormal drinker.


39.
  ... idea that the Higher Power was a ...  12&12 Step Seven, p.75
We began to get over the idea that the Higher Power was a sort of bush-league pinch hitter, to be called upon only in an emergency.


40.
  ... idea that this time we shall handle ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.24
If these thoughts occur, they are hazy and readily supplanted with the old threadbare idea that this time we shall handle ourselves like other people.


41.
  ... idea that wasn't so salable.  12&12 Tradition Three, p.143
But he had one idea that wasn't so salable.


42.
  ... idea that we can be possessively loving ...  12&12 Step Ten, pp.92-93
The idea that we can be possessively loving of a few, can ignore the many, and can continue to fear or hate anybody, has to be abandoned, if only a little at a time.


43.
  ... idea that we needed vast sums of ...  12&12 Tradition Seven, p.161
As A.A. emerged from its infancy into adolescence, we swung from the idea that we needed vast sums of money to the notion that A.A. shouldn't have any.


44.
  ... idea that we were too good to ...  BB To Wives, p.116
But it was a silly idea that we were too good to need God.


45.
  ... idea that you are a nag or ...  BB To Wives, p.111
If he gets the idea that you are a nag or a killjoy, your chance of accomplishing anything useful may be zero.


46.
  ... idea, voicing it without reservation.  BB How It Works, p.63
The wording was, of course, quite optional so long as we expressed the idea, voicing it without reservation.


47.
  ... idea why he took that first drink ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.23
And the truth, strange to say, is usually that he has no more idea why he took that first drink than you have.


48.
  ... idea won out.  BB More About Alcoholism, p.37
The insane idea won out.


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