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

someday
somehow
someone
SOMETHING   occurs   84 times 32 in BB  •  52 in 12&12 Definition in Merriam-Webster Online
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somewhat
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1.
  ... something.  12&12 Tradition Seven, p.161
Meeting places cost something.


2.
  ... something about A.A. on television...."  12&12 Tradition Eleven, p.180
One voice says, "I read a piece in the newspapers..."; another, "We heard a radio program..."; and still another, "We saw a moving picture..." or "We saw something about A.A. on television...."


3.
  ... something about alcoholism.  BB To Employers, p.147
I have been learning something about alcoholism.


4.
  ... something about all these things?  12&12 Step Twelve, p.112
Can we find a new joy of living in trying to do something about all these things?


5.
  ... something about his eyes.  BB Bill's Story, p.9
There was something about his eyes.


6.
  ... something about humility.  12&12 Step Seven, p.72
It was only by repeated humiliations that we were forced to learn something about humility.


7.
  ... something about it.  BB Into Action, p.81
Whatever the situation, we usually have to do something about it.


8.
  ... something about your case.  12&12 Step Five, p.61
Besides, your sponsor already has the advantage of knowing something about your case.


9.
  ... something appropriate to A.A.'s pioneering days.  12&12 Tradition Eleven, p.182
With perfectly good intent, these folks declared that the principle of anonymity was horse-and-buggy stuff, something appropriate to A.A.'s pioneering days.


10.
  ... something at last.  BB A Vision For You, p.152
Life will mean something at last.


11.
  ... something at work in a human heart ...  BB Bill's Story, p.11
Here was something at work in a human heart which had done the impossible.


12.
  ... something besides liquor.  BB Into Action, p.81
He commences to look around in the night clubs, or their equivalent, for something besides liquor.


13.
  ... something better.  12&12 Step Three, pp.37-38
Each of us has had his own near-fatal encounter with the juggernaut of self-will, and has suffered enough under its weight to be willing to look for something better.


14.
  ... something better than gold.  BB The Family Afterward, p.129
Father feels he has struck something better than gold.


15.
  ... something brand new in life.  BB A Vision For You, p.159
These men had found something brand new in life.


16.
  ... something by for old age?  12&12 Step Twelve, p.121
How could we ever take care of those awful debts, possess a decent home, educate the kids, and set something by for old age?


17.
  ... something called a spiritual awakening.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.106
Our Twelfth Step also says that as a result of practicing all the Steps, we have each found something called a spiritual awakening.


18.
  ... something deep inside us kept rebelling against ...  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.
  ... something desirable in itself, something we would ...  12&12 Step Seven, p.72
Seldom did we look at character-building as something desirable in itself, something we would like to strive for whether our instinctual needs were met or not.


20.
  ... something different about her husband already.  BB A Vision For You, p.158
His wife came, scarcely daring to be hopeful, though she thought she saw something different about her husband already.


21.
  ... Something else.  12&12 Step Three, p.39
Surely he must now depend upon Somebody or Something else.


22.
  ... something else of great moment is apt ...  12&12 Step Five, p.62
And when humility and serenity are so combined, something else of great moment is apt to occur.


23.
  ... something else that was to become an ...  12&12 Tradition Four, p.149
Then he did something else that was to become an A.A. classic.


24.
  ... something especially necessary to us alcoholics.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.116
This new outlook was, we learned, something especially necessary to us alcoholics.


25.
  ... something for nothing.  12&12 Step Two, p.32
In both cases, we had been asking something for nothing.


26.
  ... something for you, so why don't you ...  12&12 Tradition Five, p.152
But working with him may do something for you, so why don't you have a go at it?'


27.
  ... something had to be done about our ...  12&12 Step Four, p.47
But in A.A. we slowly learned that something had to be done about our vengeful resentments, self-pity, and unwarranted pride.


28.
  Something had to be done about them.  12&12 Step Five, p.58
Something had to be done about them.


29.
  ... something happens, both in the bodily and ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.22
We are equally positive that once he takes any alcohol whatever into his system, something happens, both in the bodily and mental sense, which makes it virtually impossible for him to stop.


30.
  ... "Something has happened to you I don't ...  BB Bill's Story, p.14
Finally he shook his head saying, "Something has happened to you I don't understand.


31.
  ... something I did not have, from which ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.178
I sensed they had something I did not have, from which I might readily profit.


32.
  ... something in common with all the others.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.106
But certainly each genuine one has something in common with all the others.


33.
  ... something in the eyes of the men, ...  BB A Vision For You, p.160
The expression on the faces of the women, that indefinable something in the eyes of the men, the stimulating and electric atmosphere of the place, conspired to let him know that here was haven at last.


34.
  ... something in the way of a solution.  BB Working With Others, p.91
Let the doctor, if he will, tell him he has something in the way of a solution.


35.
  Something keeps repeating to me, 'What would ...  12&12 Tradition Three, p.142
Something keeps repeating to me, 'What would the Master do?'"


36.
  ... something like Einstein's theory of relativity or ...  12&12 Step Three, p.35
Maybe this all sounds mysterious and remote, something like Einstein's theory of relativity or a proposition in nuclear physics.


37.
  ... something like half of us thought we ...  BB We Agnostics, p.44
But cheer up, something like half of us thought we were atheists or agnostics.


38.
  ... something like real peace of mind.  12&12 Step Seven, p.74
We enjoy moments in which there is something like real peace of mind.


39.
  ... something like that day the boiler burst ...  12&12 Tradition Four, p.149
Then came the inevitable explosion -- something like that day the boiler burst in Wombley's Clapboard Factory.


40.
  ... something like their true purpose and direction.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.124
But today, in well-matured A.A.'s, these distorted drives have been restored to something like their true purpose and direction.


41.
  ... something like this:  BB To Employers, p.141
Suppose an approach is made something like this:


42.
  ... something like this: "My Creator, I am ...  BB Into Action, p.76
When ready, we say something like this: "My Creator, I am now willing that you should have all of me, good and bad.


43.
  ... something more than a condition of groveling ...  12&12 Step Seven, p.72
It was only at the end of a long road, marked by successive defeats and humiliations, and the final crushing of our self-sufficiency, that we began to feel humility as something more than a condition of groveling despair.


44.
  ... something more than human power is needed ...  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxix
One feels that something more than human power is needed to produce the essential psychic change.


45.
  ... something more than the source of good ...  12&12 Tradition Eleven, p.181
To them, we are something more than the source of good stories.


46.
  ... something much better in order to keep ...  12&12 Step Ten, p.92
Although these attitudes are common enough, we A.A.'s find we need something much better in order to keep our balance.


47.
  Something new indeed has been added.  12&12 Step Seven, p.74
Something new indeed has been added.


48.
  ... something new which does?  BB We Agnostics, p.52
Is not our age characterized by the ease with which we discard old ideas for new, by the complete readiness with which we throw away the theory or gadget which does not work for something new which does?


49.
  ... something not really necessary.  12&12 Step Eleven, p.96
So it isn't surprising that we often tend to slight serious meditation and prayer as something not really necessary.


50.
  ... something of a spiritual nature, which did ...  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.


51.
  ... something of alcoholism.  BB We Agnostics, p.44
In the preceding chapters you have learned something of alcoholism.


52.
  ... something of far greater importance than the ...  12&12 Tradition Ten, p.177
We conceive the survival and spread of Alcoholics Anonymous to be something of far greater importance than the weight we could collectively throw back of any other cause.


53.
  ... something of the sort may come up ...  BB To Employers, p.146
He may wish to do a lot for other alcoholics and something of the sort may come up during business hours.


54.
  ... something one needed to get on with ...  12&12 Step Seven, pp.71-72
True, most of us thought good character was desirable, but obviously good character was something one needed to get on with the business of being self-satisfied.


55.
  ... something or somebody?  BB We Agnostics, p.54
Who of us had not loved something or somebody?


56.
  ... Something or Somebody else, what will become ...  12&12 Step Three, p.36
If I keep on turning my life and my will over to the care of Something or Somebody else, what will become of me?


57.
  ... something or somebody, even though our motives ...  BB How It Works, p.60
On that basis we are almost always in collision with something or somebody, even though our motives are good.


58.
  ... something or somebody would capsize the boat ...  12&12 Tradition Three, p.139
Everybody was scared witless that something or somebody would capsize the boat and dump us all back into the drink.


59.
  ... something ourselves, but to give the reassurance ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.110
We sit in A.A. meetings and listen, not only to receive something ourselves, but to give the reassurance and support which our presence can bring.


60.
  ... something rare in the world -- a society ...  12&12 Tradition Eleven, p.182
Here was something rare in the world -- a society which said it wished to publicize its principles and its work, but not its individual members.


61.
  ... something rather sinful about these commodities, so ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.135
His wife is one of those persons who really feels there is something rather sinful about these commodities, so she nagged, and her intolerance finally threw him into a fit of anger.


62.
  ... something really impossible.  12&12 Step Two, p.25
But now, still smarting from that admission, he is faced with something really impossible.


63.
  ... something right.  12&12 Step Ten, p.93
It's a poor day indeed when we haven't done something right.


64.
  ... something spiritual about A.A. too, and Catholic ...  BB Appendix V, The Religious View on A.A., p.572
There is something spiritual about A.A. too, and Catholic participation in it almost invariably results in poor Catholics becoming better Catholics."


65.
  ... something spiritual about an art museum or ...  BB Appendix V, The Religious View on A.A., p.572
There is something spiritual about an art museum or a symphony, and the Catholic Church approves of our use of them.


66.
  ... something that might help us to meet ...  12&12 Step Eleven, p.96
To be sure, we feel it is something that might help us to meet an occasional emergency, but at first many of us are apt to regard it as a somewhat mysterious skill of clergymen, from which we may hope to get a secondhand benefit.


67.
  ... something the matter with his spiritual status.  BB Working With Others, p.101
An alcoholic who cannot meet them, still has an alcoholic mind; there is something the matter with his spiritual status.


68.
  ... something to be desired for itself, takes ...  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.


69.
  ... something to be endured or mastered.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.107
He has been set on a path which tells him he is really going somewhere, that life is not a dead end, not something to be endured or mastered.


70.
  ... something to ourselves which should be discussed ...  BB Into Action, p.86
Have we kept something to ourselves which should be discussed with another person at once?


71.
  ... something to those who have not, and ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.124
We think each family which has been relieved owes something to those who have not, and when the occasion requires, each member of it should be only too willing to bring former mistakes, no matter how grievous, out of their hiding places.


72.
  ... something unique in Alcoholics Anonymous.  12&12 Tradition Nine, p.174
But all these observers have overlooked something unique in Alcoholics Anonymous.


73.
  ... something unusual or set apart.  12&12 Step Ten, p.90
And at length our inventories become a regular part of everyday living, rather than something unusual or set apart.


74.
  ... something we already possessed or would fail ...  12&12 Step Seven, p.76
The chief activator of our defects has been self-centered fear -- primarily fear that we would lose something we already possessed or would fail to get something we demanded.


75.
  ... something we are supposed to be willing ...  12&12 Step Six, p.65
That is something we are supposed to be willing to work toward ourselves.


76.
  ... something we demanded.  12&12 Step Seven, p.76
The chief activator of our defects has been self-centered fear -- primarily fear that we would lose something we already possessed or would fail to get something we demanded.


77.
  ... something we must have.  12&12 Step Seven, p.75
A great turning point in our lives came when we sought for humility as something we really wanted, rather than as something we must have.


78.
  ... something we really wanted, rather than as ...  12&12 Step Seven, p.75
A great turning point in our lives came when we sought for humility as something we really wanted, rather than as something we must have.


79.
  ... something we will not let go, we ...  BB Into Action, p.76
If we still cling to something we will not let go, we ask God to help us be willing.


80.
  ... something we would like to strive for ...  12&12 Step Seven, p.72
Seldom did we look at character-building as something desirable in itself, something we would like to strive for whether our instinctual needs were met or not.


81.
  ... something which can always be further developed.  12&12 Step Eleven, p.101
Meditation is something which can always be further developed.


82.
  ... something which each one of us works ...  12&12 Step Eleven, p.101
Aided by such instruction and example as we can find, it is essentially an individual adventure, something which each one of us works out in his own way.


83.
  ... something wrong with us.  12&12 Step Ten, p.90
It is a spiritual axiom that every time we are disturbed, no matter what the cause, there is something wrong with us.


84.
  ... something you haven't got.  BB A Vision For You, p.164
But obviously you cannot transmit something you haven't got.


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