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

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RIGHT   occurs   100 times 49 in BB  •  51 in 12&12 Definition in Merriam-Webster Online
See also...   rights
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righteous
righteously

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1.
  ... right.  BB Bill's Story, p.3
Perhaps they were right.


2.
  ... right.  BB Bill's Story, p.9
Yes, the old boy was on fire all right.


3.
  ... right.  BB How It Works, p.61
He begins to think life doesn't treat him right.


4.
  ... right.  BB Into Action, p.80
He felt that he had done a wrong he could not possibly make right.


5.
  ... right.  BB Into Action, p.83
There may be some wrongs we can never fully right.


6.
  ... right.  BB Into Action, p.87
Be quick to see where religious people are right.


7.
  ... right. ..."  12&12 Step One, p.23
Following every spree, he would say to himself, "Maybe those A.A.'s were right. ..."


8.
  ... right.  12&12 Step Four, p.45
We firmly believe that if only they'd treat us better, we'd be all right.


9.
  ... right.  12&12 Step Four, p.49
All these failings generate fear, a soul-sickness in its own right.


10.
  ... right.  12&12 Step Ten, p.93
It's a poor day indeed when we haven't done something right.


11.
  ... right.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.108
We had to begin to make our peace, and so we listed the people we had harmed and became willing to set things right.


12.
  ... right.(*)  12&12 Step Twelve, p.118
Nevertheless, under the influence of A.A.'s Twelve Steps, these situations are often set right.(*)


13.
  ... right a serious wrong.  12&12 Step Nine, p.85
Or we may just procrastinate, telling ourselves the time is not yet, when in reality we have already passed up many a fine chance to right a serious wrong.


14.
  ... right-about-face and drink like a gentleman, our ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.31
If anyone who is showing inability to control his drinking can do the right-about-face and drink like a gentleman, our hats are off to him.


15.
  ... right action is the key to good ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.125
Understanding is the key to right principles and attitudes, and right action is the key to good living; therefore the joy of good living is the theme of A.A.'s Twelfth Step.


16.
  ... right action key to good living.  12&12 Contents (Step Twelve), p.9
Understanding is key to right attitudes, right action key to good living.


17.
  ... right after all.  BB Bill's Story, p.11
It began to look as though religious people were right after all.


18.
  ... right after all."  BB A Vision For You, p.159
I guess the old folks were right after all."


19.
  ... right all such matters to the utmost ...  BB Bill's Story, p.13
I was to right all such matters to the utmost of my ability.


20.
  ... right, and great events will come to ...  BB A Vision For You, p.164
See to it that your relationship with Him is right, and great events will come to pass for you and countless others.


21.
  ... right and I was wrong; the voice ...  12&12 Tradition Two, p.138
The group was right and I was wrong; the voice on the subway was not the voice of God.


22.
  ... right, and surely God-given.  12&12 Step Four, p.42
So these desires -- for the sex relation, for material and emotional security, and for companionship -- are perfectly necessary and right, and surely God-given.


23.
  ... right, and were quick to say that ...  12&12 Step Eleven, p.97
We liked A.A. all right, and were quick to say that it had done miracles.


24.
  ... right and what has been wrong, he ...  12&12 Step Four, p.50
Using his best judgment of what has been right and what has been wrong, he might make a rough survey of his conduct with respect to his primary instincts for sex, security, and society.


25.
  ... right and you are wrong."  12&12 Step Three, p.37
Each fragment says to the others, "We are right and you are wrong."


26.
  ... right answer for that one.  12&12 Tradition Five, p.153
"Thank heaven I came up with the right answer for that one.


27.
  ... right answer will come, if we want ...  BB How It Works, p.69
The right answer will come, if we want it.


28.
  ... right answers come after we have tried ...  BB Into Action, p.86
We are often surprised how the right answers come after we have tried this for a while.


29.
  ... right any new mistakes as we go ...  BB Into Action, p.84
This thought brings us to Step Ten, which suggests we continue to take personal inventory and continue to set right any new mistakes as we go along.


30.
  ... right around A.A.  12&12 Tradition Three, p.140
We built a fine-mesh fence right around A.A.


31.
  ... right attitude in which to proceed, we ...  12&12 Step Nine, p.83
After we have made the list of people we have harmed, have reflected carefully upon each instance, and have tried to possess ourselves of the right attitude in which to proceed, we will see that the making of direct amends divides those we should approach into several classes.


32.
  ... right attitudes, right action key to good ...  12&12 Contents (Step Twelve), p.9
Understanding is key to right attitudes, right action key to good living.


33.
  ... right away.  BB To Wives, p.120
If not, it had better be found out right away.


34.
  ... right but, by the description, none too ...  BB A Vision For You, p.156
Here was a prospect all right but, by the description, none too promising.


35.
  ... right, but hung on to some of ...  BB Into Action, p.73
They took inventory all right, but hung on to some of the worst items in stock.


36.
  ... right, but I don't see what good ...  BB A Vision For You, p.157
You fellows know your stuff all right, but I don't see what good it'll do.


37.
  ... right, but unlike a beehive, it was ...  12&12 Tradition Four, p.148
It was a beehive of activity, all right, but unlike a beehive, it was confusion compounded.


38.
  ... right -- but where do we go from ...  12&12 Step Two, p.25
Yes, you've got us over the barrel, all right -- but where do we go from here?"


39.
  Right contacts with the world outside have ...  12&12 Tradition Eight, p.169
Right contacts with the world outside have to be maintained.


40.
  ... right dependence upon God, we were still ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.121
When a job still looked like a mere means of getting money rather than an opportunity for service, when the acquisition of money for financial independence looked more important than a right dependence upon God, we were still the victims of unreasonable fears.


41.
  ... right down to fundamentals.  BB To Wives, p.120
Then you and your husband can get right down to fundamentals.


42.
  ... right down to this: No man should ...  BB To Employers, p.148
It boils right down to this: No man should be fired just because he is alcoholic.


43.
  ... right for saints, but it certainly didn't ...  12&12 Step Seven, p.74
Character-building through suffering might be all right for saints, but it certainly didn't appeal to us.


44.
  ... right, grown-up attitudes, very happy results do ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.119
With clear understanding and right, grown-up attitudes, very happy results do follow.


45.
  ... right had he to involve those dependent ...  BB Into Action, p.80
What right had he to involve those dependent upon him?


46.
  ... right," he said.  BB A Vision For You, p.158
"Maybe you're right," he said.


47.
  ... right here and now.  BB Bill's Story, p.16
We have it with us right here and now.


48.
  ... right here in this meeting that sometimes ...  12&12 Tradition Two, p.138
'Bill, haven't you often said right here in this meeting that sometimes the good is the enemy of the best?


49.
  Right here we need to fetch ourselves ...  12&12 Step Eight, p.78
Right here we need to fetch ourselves up sharply.


50.
  ... right his past wrongs, why all this ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.128
If he means to right his past wrongs, why all this concern for everyone in the world but his family?


51.
  ... right ideal, for guidance in each questionable ...  BB How It Works, p.70
To sum up about sex: We earnestly pray for the right ideal, for guidance in each questionable situation, for sanity, and for the strength to do the right thing.


52.
  ... right kind.  BB How It Works, p.69
They think we do not have enough of it, or that it isn't the right kind.


53.
  ... "right kind."  12&12 Step Four, pp.45-46
Therefore we think our indignation is justified and reasonable -- that our resentments are the "right kind."


54.
  ... right kind of man, the kind who ...  BB To Employers, p.149
The right kind of man, the kind who recovers, will not want this sort of thing.


55.
  ... right living for which no amount of ...  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.


56.
  ... right minds.  BB We Agnostics, p.57
Even so has God restored us all to our right minds.


57.
  ... right now.  12&12 Step Two, p.26
Second, to get sober and to stay sober, you don't have to swallow all of Step Two right now.


58.
  ... right objectives.  12&12 Step Eleven, p.100
Perhaps the real trouble was our almost total inability to point imagination toward the right objectives.


59.
  ... "Right of Appeal" ought to prevail, so ...  BB Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form), p.574
V. Throughout our structure, a traditional "Right of Appeal" ought to prevail, so that minority opinion will be heard and personal grievances receive careful consideration.


60.
  ... "Right of Decision."  BB Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form), p.574
III. To insure effective leadership, we should endow each element of A.A. -- the Conference, the General Service Board and its service corporations, staffs, committees, and executives -- with a traditional "Right of Decision."


61.
  ... "Right of Participation," allowing a voting representation ...  BB Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form), p.574
IV. At all responsible levels, we ought to maintain a traditional "Right of Participation," allowing a voting representation in reasonable proportion to the responsibility that each must discharge.


62.
  ... right or need to discourage A.A.'s who ...  12&12 Tradition Eight, p.171
We see that we have no right or need to discourage A.A.'s who wish to work as individuals in these wider fields.


63.
  ... right out of me."  12&12 Step Six, p.63
It was lifted right out of me."


64.
  ... right out of the Bible -- a voice ...  12&12 Tradition Two, p.137
In fact, it came right out of the Bible -- a voice kept saying to me, 'The laborer is worthy of his hire.'


65.
  ... right person.  BB Into Action, p.74
We say this because we are very anxious that we talk to the right person.


66.
  ... right principles and attitudes, and right action ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.125
Understanding is the key to right principles and attitudes, and right action is the key to good living; therefore the joy of good living is the theme of A.A.'s Twelfth Step.


67.
  Right relation to God.  12&12 Contents (Step Two), p.5
Right relation to God.


68.
  ... right relations with people who understand us; ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.117
Through it we begin to learn right relations with people who understand us; we don't have to be alone any more.


69.
  ... right size.  12&12 Step Two, p.30
They helped us to get down to our right size.


70.
  ... right size.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.122
He's willing to stay right size.


71.
  ... right the wrong.  BB Into Action, p.77
But our man is sure to be impressed with a sincere desire to set right the wrong.


72.
  ... right them if we could.  BB Into Action, p.83
We don't worry about them if we can honestly say to ourselves that we would right them if we could.


73.
  ... right then.  BB Bill's Story, p.11
My ideas about miracles were drastically revised right then.


74.
  ... right there.  BB Bill's Story, p.10
With ministers, and the world's religions, I parted right there.


75.
  ... right there our perverse streak comes to ...  BB We Agnostics, p.49
When, however, the perfectly logical assumption is suggested that underneath the material world and life as we see it, there is an All Powerful, Guiding, Creative Intelligence, right there our perverse streak comes to the surface and we laboriously set out to convince ourselves it isn't so.


76.
  Right there, Step Two gently and very ...  12&12 Step Two, p.27
Right there, Step Two gently and very gradually began to infiltrate my life.


77.
  ... right thing.  BB How It Works, p.70
To sum up about sex: We earnestly pray for the right ideal, for guidance in each questionable situation, for sanity, and for the strength to do the right thing.


78.
  ... right thing.  12&12 Step Seven, p.74
At this stage of our progress we are under heavy pressure and coercion to do the right thing.


79.
  ... right thing if you assume them.  BB Working With Others, p.97
Never avoid these responsibilities, but be sure you are doing the right thing if you assume them.


80.
  ... right thing, no matter what the personal ...  BB Into Action, p.79
Reminding ourselves that we have decided to go to any lengths to find a spiritual experience, we ask that we be given strength and direction to do the right thing, no matter what the personal consequences may be.


81.
  ... right thing when it becomes clear, cost ...  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?


82.
  ... right things of which we and others ...  12&12 Step Eleven, p.102
Having opened our channel as best we can, we try to ask for those right things of which we and others are in the greatest need.


83.
  ... right thought or action.  BB Into Action, p.87
As we go through the day we pause, when agitated or doubtful, and ask for the right thought or action.


84.
  ... right to be self-confident, that it would ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.40
I felt I had every right to be self-confident, that it would be only a matter of exercising my will power and keeping on guard.


85.
  ... right to be wrong.  12&12 Tradition Four, p.147
Every group had the right to be wrong.


86.
  ... right to be wrong.  12&12 Tradition Four, p.149
Thus it was that under Tradition Four an A.A. group had exercised its right to be wrong.


87.
  ... right to decide all by ourselves just ...  12&12 Step Three, p.37
How persistently we claim the right to decide all by ourselves just what we shall think and just how we shall act.


88.
  ... right to explain his new way of ...  12&12 Tradition Twelve, p.186
As he gained confidence, he felt it right to explain his new way of life to his employer and business associates.


89.
  ... right to go further.  BB Into Action, p.81
More than that we cannot do; we have no right to go further.


90.
  ... right to involve another person.  BB Into Action, p.81
We feel we ought to say to her that we have no right to involve another person.


91.
  ... right to know where he is and ...  BB To Wives, p.115
Your desire to protect him should not cause you to lie to people when they have a right to know where he is and what he is doing.


92.
  ... right to let him ruin your life ...  BB To Wives, p.108
Is it right to let him ruin your life and the lives of your children?


93.
  ... right to save our own skin at ...  BB Into Action, p.74
We have no right to save our own skin at another person's expense.


94.
  ... right to take this job."  12&12 Tradition Six, p.158
"Nevertheless," we pointed out, "you still have a legal right to take this job."


95.
  ... right to tell him how he must ...  BB Bill's Story, p.10
I could almost hear the sound of the preacher's voice as I sat, on still Sundays, way over there on the hillside; there was that proffered temperance pledge I never signed; my grandfather's good natured contempt of some church folk and their doings; his insistence that the spheres really had their music; but his denial of the preacher's right to tell him how he must listen; his fearlessness as he spoke of these things just before he died; these recollections welled up from the past.


96.
  ... right to think, talk, and act as ...  12&12 Tradition One, p.129
We believe there isn't a fellowship on earth which lavishes more devoted care upon its individual members; surely there is none which more jealously guards the individual's right to think, talk, and act as he wishes.


97.
  ... right track.  12&12 Step Four, p.48
Having found the shoes that fit, he ought to step into them and walk with new confidence that he is at last on the right track.


98.
  ... right track without becoming critical of them.  BB Working With Others, p.100
In this way you can set them on the right track without becoming critical of them.


99.
  ... right upon issues of our time.  12&12 Tradition Ten, p.177
Nor does it mean that the members of Alcoholics Anonymous, now restored as citizens of the world, are going to back away from their individual responsibilities to act as they see the right upon issues of our time.


100.
  ... right with ourselves and with the world ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.125
For it is only by accepting and solving our problems that we can begin to get right with ourselves and with the world about us, and with Him who presides over us all.


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