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1.
To them, their
alcoholic life seems the only
normal one.
2.
3.
When I
returned to the
hotel it
struck me a
highball would be
fine before going to
bed, so I
stepped into the
bar and had
one.
4.
We cannot be
helpful to all
people, but at
least God will show
us how to
take a
kindly and
tolerant view of
each and
every one.
5.
Can He
now take them all --
every one?
6.
Maybe we are
divorced, and
have
remarried but haven't
kept up the
alimony to
number one.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
Let's
look first at the
case of the
one who
says he won't
believe -- the
belligerent one.
15.
And so it is: the
beginning of the
end of his
old life, and the
beginning of his
emergence into a
new one.
16.
He is the
bewildered one.
17.
18.
19.
And this they did
find, in
measure to
transcend all
the
defects of their
frail
craft,
every test of
uncertainty,
pain,
fear, and
despair, and
even the
death of
one.
20.
21.
"
Thank heaven I
came up with the
right answer for that
one.
22.
23.
What a
debate we had on that
one!
24.
25.
26.
27.
One A.A. group was
given five thousand dollars to do with what it would.
28.
29.
This is our
gift from
God, and
its bestowal upon others like us is the
one aim that
today animates A.A.'s all
around the
globe.
30.
31.
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.
32.
33.
34.
35.
If we are
now about to
ask forgiveness for
ourselves,
why shouldn't we
start out by
forgiving them,
one and all?
36.
A
power driver, this
one, and
brash as
any salesman could
possibly be.
37.
38.
39.
40.
Dismayed, the
elders looked at
one another, for they
knew he had
them
cold.
41.
42.
43.
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.
44.
If there were
no social instinct, if
men cared nothing for the
society of
one another, there would be
no society.
45.
46.
47.
48.
It is by
dying that
one awakens to
Eternal Life.
Amen."
49.
He
came and
got me
home and to
bed,
gave me a
few drinks that
night, and
one bottle of
beer the
next morning.
50.
My
old manner of
life was by
no means a
bad one, but I would not
exchange its best moments for the
worst I have
now.
51.
52.
53.
54.
55.
'There's
just one chap on the
third floor who might be a
possibility.
56.
57.
... one consideration
which should qualify our desire ...
12&12
Step Nine, p.86
There can only be
one consideration which should
qualify our
desire for a
complete disclosure of
the
damage we have
done.
58.
59.
I
see him
now and then and he is
as
fine a
specimen of
manhood as
one could
wish to
meet.
60.
61.
Science may
one day accomplish this, but it
hasn't
done so
yet.
62.
63.
They had
said that
though I
did
raise a
defense, it
would
one day give way before some
trivial reason for having a
drink.
64.
65.
66.
67.
68.
69.
70.
71.
72.
73.
74.
One day we were
told that he was
back in the
hospital.
75.
76.
77.
78.
79.
No A.A. Tradition had the
labor pains this
one did.
80.
81.
82.
To be
gravely affected,
one does not
necessarily
have to
drink a
long time nor take
the
quantities some of us have.
83.
It is
better, however, that
one does not
needlessly name a
person upon whom she can
vent jealousy.
84.
85.
I
saw I could not
take so
much as
one drink.
86.
87.
88.
We would not
even do the
cause
of
temperate drinking
any good, for not
one drinker in a
thousand likes to be
told anything about
alcohol by
one who
hates it.
89.
90.
The
feeling of having
shared in a
common peril is
one element in the
powerful cement which
binds us.
91.
Unwilling to be
honest
with these
sympathetic men, we were
honest with
no one else.
92.
You can
help when
no one else can.
93.
We have
believed them when
no
one else could or would.
94.
95.
Sometimes this was a
tedious process; we
hope no one else will be
prejudiced for as
long as
some of us were.
96.
97.
Following his
physical
rehabilitation, he had a
talk with me in which he
frankly
stated he
thought the
treatment a
waste of
effort,
unless I could
assure him, which
no one ever had, that in the
future he would have the "
will power" to
resist the
impulse to
drink.
98.
... one, failing
to meet life's responsibilities with ...
12&12
Step Four, p.43
99.
100.
101.
102.
For it is by
self-
forgetting that
one finds.
103.
Shouldn't we
sacrifice this
one for the
sake of the
many?"
104.
In
one form or
another we had been
living by
faith and
little else.
105.
106.
107.
There is a
complete failure of the
kind of
defense that
keeps one from
putting his
hand on a
hot stove.
108.
If he can
afford it, he may have
liquor concealed all
over his
house to be
certain no one gets his
entire supply away from him to
throw down the
wastepipe.
109.
Had they been
left to
themselves, and had they
stuck to their
one goal, they might have
found the
rest of the
answer.
110.
111.
112.
113.
It
never fails, if you
go about it with
one half the
zeal you have been in the
habit of
showing when you
were
getting another drink.
114.
115.
Each might
pray about it, having
the
other one's
happiness uppermost in
mind.
116.
117.
118.
This is the
one he
likes his
fellows to
see.
119.
Under these
compulsions
of
self-
preservation,
duty, and
love, it is not
strange that our
Society has
concluded that it has but
one high mission -- to
carry the
A.A. message to
those who don't
know there's a
way out.
120.
121.
122.
123.
124.
... one hundred
thousand(*) alcoholic men and women ...
12&12
Foreword, p.15
125.
126.
But he had
one idea that wasn't
so
salable.
127.
128.
Yet it is our
great hope that all
those who have as
yet found no
answer may
begin to
find one in the
pages of this
book and
will presently join us on the
high road to a
new freedom.
129.
130.
131.
If a
person has
cancer all
are
sorry for him and
no one is
angry or
hurt.
132.
It is by
forgiving that
one
is
forgiven.
133.
But there is
One who has all
power -- that
One is
God.
134.
135.
136.
137.
That is
true only if
one is
willing to
turn the
past to
good account.
138.
If you don't
care for the
one
I've
suggested, you'll be
sure to
discover one that
suits if only you
look and
listen.
139.
There is only
one key, and it is
called willingness.
140.
He
wants to be his
country's
number one man.
141.
142.
"This is only
one man's
opinion based on his
own experience, of
course.
143.
144.
And so can you,
though you be but
one man with this
book in your
hand.
145.
146.
147.
148.
149.
150.
He had
lost everything worthwhile in
life and was
only
living,
one might
say, to
drink.
151.
There was
always one more attempt -- and
one more failure.
152.
I had
warned him
several times that he had but
one more chance.
153.
There was
always one more attempt -- and
one more failure.
154.
155.
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.
156.
157.
So
one more was
added to the
Fellowship.
158.
159.
One morning he
took the
bull by the
horns and
set out to
tell those he
feared what his
trouble had been.
160.
161.
We
find that
no one need have
difficulty with the
spirituality of the
program.
162.
163.
164.
165.
One night in
1948, the
trustees of the
Foundation were having their
quarterly meeting.
166.
167.
168.
169.
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.
170.
If you
ask him
why he
started on that
last bender, the
chances are he
will offer you
any one of a
hundred alibis.
171.
172.
173.
174.
His
reaction may be
one of
enthusiasm.
175.
176.
177.
178.
179.
180.
181.
Then I
decided to
drive into
the
country and
see one of my
prospects for a
car.
182.
183.
184.
This
brings to
mind a
story about
one of our
friends.
185.
186.
187.
Six years ago one of our
number was a
patient there.
188.
It may be
one of our
own family, but we cannot
disclose anything to our
wives or our
parents which
will hurt them and
make them
unhappy.
189.
190.
191.
192.
It was the
obituary of
one
of the
best salesmen I
ever had.
193.
I would
sometimes hide out in
one of the
clubs of which I was a
member,
and had the
habit at
times of
registering at a
hotel
under a
fictitious name.
194.
195.
196.
At
one of the
finals I was too
drunk to
think or
write.
197.
He may be
one of the
finest fellows in the
world.
198.
199.
If you have a
drinking problem, we
hope that you may
pause in
reading one of the
forty-
two personal stories and
think: "
Yes, that
happened to me"; or,
more important, "
Yes, I've
felt like that"; or, most
important, "
Yes, I
believe this
program can
work for me too."
200.
But
one of the
friends said, "
Put him in a
private room. We'll be
down."
201.
202.
Even when we have
tried hard and
failed, we may
chalk that
up as
one of the
greatest credits of all.
203.
204.
205.
206.
207.
208.
209.
210.
211.
The
first, and
one of the most
difficult, has to do with
forgiveness.
212.
213.
214.
215.
216.
217.
In
one of their
trade associations, the
question arose of
just how this
campaign should
be
handled.
218.
Your
husband may be
willing to
talk to
one of them.
219.
220.
Yet not a
single one of them had been
hired to do
A.A.'s
Twelfth Step work.
221.
222.
Every one of them may be
promptly eliminated at
the
next election if they
try this.
223.
Even so, when
making specific requests, it
will be
well to
add to
each one of them this
qualification: "...if it be
Thy will."
224.
Our
hope is that
many alcoholic men and
women,
desperately in
need,
will see these
pages, and we
believe that it is only by
fully disclosing ourselves and our
problems
that they
will be
persuaded
to
say, "
Yes, I am
one of them too; I
must have this
thing."
225.
A
newcomer appeared at
one of these
groups,
knocked on the
door and
asked to be
let in.
226.
227.
In
one of these there is a
well-
known hospital for the
treatment
of
alcoholic and
drug addiction.
228.
229.
If you are
positive he is
one of this
type you may
feel you had
better leave.
230.
231.
232.
233.
234.
235.
How then
shall we
help our
readers determine, to their
own satisfaction,
whether they are
one of us?
236.
To us it is not
far-
fetched,
for this
kind of
thinking
has been
characteristic of
every single one of us.
237.
238.
239.
240.
241.
242.
243.
244.
245.
246.
We
say to
ourselves, "This
one ought to be
cured of his
fatal malady," or "That
one ought to be
relieved of his
emotional pain," and we
pray for these
specific things.
247.
We
say to
ourselves, "This
one ought to be
cured of his
fatal malady," or "That
one ought to be
relieved of his
emotional pain," and we
pray for these
specific things.
248.
249.
250.
251.
252.
253.
254.
255.
256.
257.
258.
But all who are in the
least reasonable will agree upon one point: that there is
plenty wrong with us
alcoholics about which
plenty will have to be
done if we are to
expect sobriety,
progress, and
any real ability to
cope with
life.
259.
260.
Suggestions about these may be
obtained from
one's
priest,
minister, or
rabbi.
261.
262.
263.
264.
265.
266.
267.
On
one proposition,
however, these
men and
women are
strikingly agreed.
268.
269.
270.
271.
272.
273.
That's
one reason we
loved alcohol too
well.
274.
275.
Since
Step One requires an
admission that
our
lives have
become unmanageable, how could
people such as these
take this
Step?
276.
277.
278.
279.
One school would
allow man no
flavor for his
fare and the
other would have us all on a
straight pepper diet.
280.
281.
282.
283.
284.
285.
286.
287.
The
doctor said: "You have the
mind of a
chronic alcoholic. I have
never seen one single case recover, where that
state of
mind existed to the
extent that it does in you."
288.
289.
This
person may
turn out to be
one's
sponsor, but not
necessarily so.
290.
291.
When the
man is
presented
with this
volume it is
best
that
no one tell him he
must abide by
its suggestions.
292.
293.
If you don't
care for the
one
I've
suggested, you'll be
sure to
discover one that
suits if only you
look and
listen.
294.
295.
296.
297.
298.
In
one western city and
its environs there are
one thousand of us and our
families.
299.
300.
301.
302.
303.
... one-time vice-president
of the American Atheist Society, ...
12&12
Step Two, p.26
304.
305.
306.
307.
308.
309.
310.
311.
312.
313.
314.
315.
No one wants to be so
proud that he is
scorned as a
braggart,
nor so
greedy that he is
labeled a
thief.
316.
It then
occurred to me that
after one was all
smelled up with
beer nobody could
tell what had been
drunk, so I
began to
fortify my
beer with
straight alcohol.
317.
318.
One was the
fear of not
sleeping, and the
other was
the
fear of
running out of
liquor.
319.
They had
seen miracles, and
one was to
come to them.
320.
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.
321.
We have
no desire to
convince anyone that there is
only
one way by which
faith can be
acquired.
322.
323.
So, in
one way or
another, we
discovered
that
faith had been
involved all the
time!
324.
Our
design for
living is not
a
one-
way street.
325.
326.
Besides, we
think, there is
no one we can
surely trust.
327.
There's the
one we
take at
day's
end, when we
review the
happenings of
the
hours just past.
328.
In
one western city and
its environs there are
one thousand of us and our
families.
329.
330.
When he
acquires willingness, he is the only
one who can
make the
decision to
exert himself.
331.
332.
But there is
One who has all
power -- that
One is
God.
333.
334.
We would not
even do the
cause
of
temperate drinking
any good, for not
one drinker in a
thousand likes to be
told anything about
alcohol by
one who
hates it.
335.
336.
337.
But it is
better to
meet God alone than with
one who might
misunderstand.
338.
Let's
look first at the
case of the
one who
says he won't
believe -- the
belligerent one.
339.
340.
Now if this is not
turning
one's
will and
life over to a
newfound Providence, then
what is it?
341.
342.
343.
No matter how
much one wishes to
try,
exactly how can he
turn his
own will and his
own life over
to the
care of
whatever God he
thinks there is?
344.
345.
346.
347.
348.
349.
350.
One: Your
husband may be only
a
heavy drinker.
351.
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organization is a
large one, your
junior executives might be
provided with this
book.
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