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

nations
natural
naturally
NATURE   occurs   24 times 14 in BB  •  10 in 12&12 Definition in Merriam-Webster Online
See also...   natures
natured
naturedly
nausea

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1.
  ... nature.  12&12 Step Two, p.29
Intellect could conquer nature.


2.
  ... nature, a base necessity of procreation.  BB How It Works, p.68
One set of voices cry that sex is a lust of our lower nature, a base necessity of procreation.


3.
  ... nature and God alike abhor suicide.  12&12 Step Six, p.64
For nature and God alike abhor suicide.


4.
  ... nature and lack of self-consciousness will do ...  BB To Wives, p.115
Your new courage, good nature and lack of self-consciousness will do wonders for you socially.


5.
  ... nature and toil shall be divided among ...  12&12 Tradition Ten, p.176
We live in the imminent possibility of a fresh holocaust to determine how men shall be governed, and how the products of nature and toil shall be divided among them.


6.
  ... Nature but I resisted the thought of ...  BB Bill's Story, p.12
I could go for such conceptions as Creative Intelligence, Universal Mind or Spirit of Nature but I resisted the thought of a Czar of the Heavens, however loving His sway might be.


7.
  ... nature but little.  BB There Is A Solution, p.21
His disposition while drinking resembles his normal nature but little.


8.
  ... nature comes closest to the supernatural, namely ...  BB Appendix V, The Religious View on A.A., p.572
Edward Dowling, S.J.,(*) of the Queen's Work staff, says, "Alcoholics Anonymous is natural; it is natural at the point where nature comes closest to the supernatural, namely in humiliations and in consequent humility.


9.
  ... nature, controversial.  BB There Is A Solution, p.19
We are aware that these matters are, from their very nature, controversial.


10.
  ... nature of alcoholism.  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xvi
From this doctor, the broker had learned the grave nature of alcoholism.


11.
  ... nature of his illness.  BB To Wives, p.115
While you need not discuss your husband at length, you can quietly let your friends know the nature of his illness.


12.
  ... nature of his malady, that person could ...  12&12 Step One, p.23
It was then discovered that when one alcoholic had planted in the mind of another the true nature of his malady, that person could never be the same again.


13.
  ... nature of huge emotional displacements and rearrangements.  BB There Is A Solution, p.27
They appear to be in the nature of huge emotional displacements and rearrangements.


14.
  ... nature of our defects.  BB Into Action, p.72
This requires action on our part, which, when completed, will mean that we have admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being, the exact nature of our defects.


15.
  ... nature of our situation.  12&12 Step One, p.24
Under the lash of alcoholism, we are driven to A.A., and there we discover the fatal nature of our situation.


16.
  ... nature of our wrongs.  BB How It Works, p.59
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.


17.
  ... nature of our wrongs."  12&12 Contents (Step Five), p.6
Step Five -- "Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs."


18.
  ... nature of our wrongs."  12&12 Step Five, p.55
"Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs."


19.
  ... nature of sudden and spectacular upheavals.  BB Appendix II, Spiritual Experience, p.567
Yet it is true that our first printing gave many readers the impression that these personality changes, or religious experiences, must be in the nature of sudden and spectacular upheavals.


20.
  ... nature of the alcoholic illness, we might ...  BB To Wives, p.107
Had we fully understood the nature of the alcoholic illness, we might have behaved differently.


21.
  ... nature of the situation we shall never ...  12&12 Step Nine, p.83
There will be other cases where action ought to be deferred, and still others in which by the very nature of the situation we shall never be able to make direct personal contact at all.


22.
  ... nature to disclose her secrets.  12&12 Step Seven, p.70
With great intelligence, men of science have been forcing nature to disclose her secrets.


23.
  ... nature, which did not appeal to me ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.178
I learned that it was something of a spiritual nature, which did not appeal to me very much, but I thought it could do no harm.


24.
  ... nature, which, if practiced as a way ...  12&12 Foreword, p.15
A.A.'s Twelve Steps are a group of principles, spiritual in their nature, which, if practiced as a way of life, can expel the obsession to drink and enable the sufferer to become happily and usefully whole.


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