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

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LOST   occurs   37 times 24 in BB  •  13 in 12&12 Definition in Merriam-Webster Online
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1.
  ... lost.  BB Bill's Story, p.13
I admitted for the first time that of myself I was nothing; that without Him I was lost.


2.
  ... lost.  BB We Agnostics, p.46
There was a feeling of awe and wonder, but it was fleeting and soon lost.


3.
  ... lost.  12&12 Tradition Four, p.147
The A.A. group would have to stick to its course or be hopelessly lost.


4.
  ... lost a peace.  12&12 Step Four, p.47
We had to drink because our nation had won a war or lost a peace.


5.
  ... lost all and is locked up.  BB How It Works, pp.61-62
He is like the retired business man who lolls in the Florida sunshine in the winter complaining of the sad state of the nation; the minister who sighs over the sins of the twentieth century; politicians and reformers who are sure all would be Utopia if the rest of the world would only behave; the outlaw safe cracker who thinks society has wronged him; and the alcoholic who has lost all and is locked up.


6.
  ... lost all perspective, and therefore all genuine ...  12&12 Step Four, p.45
Here, of course, we have lost all perspective, and therefore all genuine humility.


7.
  ... lost and frightened and purposeless.  12&12 Step Eleven, p.105
We are no longer lost and frightened and purposeless.


8.
  ... lost anyhow.  BB Into Action, p.80
He saw that he had to place the outcome in God's hands or he would soon start drinking again, and all would be lost anyhow.


9.
  ... lost both home and business.  BB To Employers, p.143
We all had to place recovery above everything, for without recovery we would have lost both home and business.


10.
  ... lost control.  BB There Is A Solution, p.23
He has lost control.


11.
  ... lost everything in life through drinking and ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.38
We have not lost everything in life through drinking and we certainly do not intend to.


12.
  ... lost everything worthwhile in life and was ...  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxxi
He had lost everything worthwhile in life and was only living, one might say, to drink.


13.
  ... lost faith.  12&12 Step Two, p.29
Finally, when all our score cards read 'zero,' and we saw that one more strike would put us out of the game forever, we had to look for our lost faith.


14.
  Lost faith found in A.A.  12&12 Contents (Step Two), p.5
Lost faith found in A.A.


15.
  ... lost in the dust of our chase ...  12&12 Step Seven, p.72
But whenever we had to choose between character and comfort, the character-building was lost in the dust of our chase after what we thought was happiness.


16.
  ... lost it.  12&12 Step Two, p.28
Consider next the plight of those who once had faith, but have lost it.


17.
  ... lost it as the result of a ...  BB Bill's Story, p.4
I found a job; then lost it as the result of a brawl with a taxi driver.


18.
  ... lost money -- but some became very rich.  BB Bill's Story, p.2
Many people lost money -- but some became very rich.


19.
  ... lost money in stocks through ignorance of ...  BB Bill's Story, p.2
I had developed a theory that most people lost money in stocks through ignorance of markets.


20.
  ... Lost Nearly All"), eight stories were retained; ...  BB Preface, p.xii
In Part III ("They Lost Nearly All"), eight stories were retained; five new ones were added.


21.
  ... lost nothing.  12&12 Tradition Eight, p.171
Everybody gains, and we have lost nothing.


22.
  ... lost only a half day's work during ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.173
I lost only a half day's work during these three years.


23.
  ... lost or rejected faith than to those ...  12&12 Step Two, p.28
Sometimes A.A. comes harder to those who have lost or rejected faith than to those who never had any faith at all, for they think they have tried faith and found it wanting.


24.
  ... lost out because God deserted us.  12&12 Step Two, p.31
More often, though, we had met up with some major calamity, and to our way of thinking lost out because God deserted us.


25.
  ... lost the ability to control our drinking.  BB More About Alcoholism, p.30
We alcoholics are men and women who have lost the ability to control our drinking.


26.
  ... lost the faith that moves mountains, without ...  BB Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A., p.569
If we do not do so, we shall stand convicted of emotional sterility and of having lost the faith that moves mountains, without which medicine can do little.


27.
  ... lost the power of choice in drink.  BB There Is A Solution, p.24
The fact is that most alcoholics, for reasons yet obscure, have lost the power of choice in drink.


28.
  ... lost the power to choose whether he ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.34
Whether such a person can quit upon a nonspiritual basis depends upon the extent to which he has already lost the power to choose whether he will drink or not.


29.
  ... lost the race by only a narrow ...  BB A Vision For You, p.158
He lost the race by only a narrow margin.


30.
  ... lost their effectiveness in helping alcoholics.  12&12 Tradition Ten, p.178
When the Washingtonians became temperance crusaders, within a very few years they had completely lost their effectiveness in helping alcoholics.


31.
  ... lost their egoism and fear; they only ...  BB Into Action, p.73
They only thought they had lost their egoism and fear; they only thought they had humbled themselves.


32.
  ... lost their legs; they never grow new ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.30
We are like men who have lost their legs; they never grow new ones.


33.
  ... lost their self-confidence, their reliance upon things ...  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxviii
These allergic types can never safely use alcohol in any form at all; and once having formed the habit and found they cannot break it, once having lost their self-confidence, their reliance upon things human, their problems pile up on them and become astonishingly difficult to solve.


34.
  ... lost through drinking.  BB More About Alcoholism, p.35
His family was re-assembled, and he began to work as a salesman for the business he had lost through drinking.


35.
  ... lost time.  BB The Family Afterward, p.126
He is straining every nerve to make up for lost time.


36.
  ... lost to the comfort of any conviction ...  12&12 Step Two, p.28
He thinks himself lost to the comfort of any conviction at all.


37.
  ... lost to this world because I did ...  BB To Employers, p.137
Here were three exceptional men lost to this world because I did not understand alcoholism as I do now.


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