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1.
  ... spiritual.  BB Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, pp.563-564
We think, therefore, that any considerable property of genuine use to A.A. should be separately incorporated and managed, thus dividing the material from the spiritual.


2.
  ... spiritual.  12&12 Tradition Six (Long), p.190
We think, therefore, that any considerable property of genuine use to A.A. should be separately incorporated and managed, thus dividing the material from the spiritual.


3.
  ... spiritual about A.A. too, and Catholic participation ...  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."


4.
  ... spiritual about an art museum or a ...  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.


5.
  ... spiritual activities if he expects to survive.  BB To Wives, p.120
Your husband will see at once that he must redouble his spiritual activities if he expects to survive.


6.
  ... spiritual activities, they should let him have ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.129
Though the family does not fully agree with dad's spiritual activities, they should let him have his head.


7.
  ... spiritual advance!  12&12 Tradition Six, p.156
Why, we thought, our Society of Alcoholics Anonymous might prove to be the spearhead of a new spiritual advance!


8.
  ... spiritual advice, judges no one's conduct, issues ...  12&12 Tradition Two, p.134
The committee gives no spiritual advice, judges no one's conduct, issues no orders.


9.
  ... spiritual adviser.  BB How It Works, p.63
We found it very desirable to take this spiritual step with an understanding person, such as our wife, best friend, or spiritual adviser.


10.
  ... spiritual adviser, earnestly asking God's help and ...  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?


11.
  ... spiritual adviser, we make a careful review ...  12&12 Step Ten, p.89
Then there are those occasions when alone, or in the company of our sponsor or spiritual adviser, we make a careful review of our progress since the last time.


12.
  ... spiritual advisers that we first felt truly ...  12&12 Step Five, p.58
Often it was while working on this Step with our sponsors or spiritual advisers that we first felt truly able to forgive others, no matter how deeply we felt they had wronged us.


13.
  ... spiritual advisers the guidance they feel they ...  12&12 Step Five, p.60
It is worth noting that people of very high spiritual development almost always insist on checking with friends or spiritual advisers the guidance they feel they have received from God.


14.
  ... spiritual after all, they say.  BB The Family Afterward, p.128
Dad is not so spiritual after all, they say.


15.
  ... spiritual aim.  BB Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.563
6. Problems of money, property, and authority may easily divert us from our primary spiritual aim.


16.
  ... spiritual aim.  12&12 Tradition Six (Long), p.190
Six -- Problems of money, property, and authority may easily divert us from our primary spiritual aim.


17.
  ... spiritual and ethical compulsion, because hundreds may ...  12&12 Tradition Two, p.133
He feels a spiritual and ethical compulsion, because hundreds may be suffering within reach of his help.


18.
  ... spiritual and moral perfection; we want to ...  12&12 Step Six, p.68
Therefore, it seems plain that few of us can quickly or easily become ready to aim at spiritual and moral perfection; we want to settle for only as much perfection as will get us by in life, according, of course, to our various and sundry ideas of what will get us by.


19.
  ... "spiritual angle," and who still considered his ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.109
From great numbers of such experiences, we could predict that the doubter who still claimed that he hadn't got the "spiritual angle," and who still considered his well-loved A.A. group the higher power, would presently love God and call Him by name.


20.
  ... spiritual answer and program of action which ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.42
"Then they outlined the spiritual answer and program of action which a hundred of them had followed successfully.


21.
  ... spiritual approach.  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.180
But this was a man who had experienced many years of frightful drinking, who had had most all the drunkard's experiences known to man, but who had been cured by the very means I had been trying to employ, that is to say the spiritual approach.


22.
  ... spiritual approach, encourage him to follow his ...  BB Working With Others, p.95
If he thinks he can do the job in some other way, or prefers some other spiritual approach, encourage him to follow his own conscience.


23.
  ... spiritual approach in such cases as yours.  BB More About Alcoholism, p.43
Though not a religious person, I have profound respect for the spiritual approach in such cases as yours.


24.
  ... spiritual approaches, how frequently did we all ...  BB We Agnostics, p.47
When people presented us with spiritual approaches, how frequently did we all say, "I wish I had what that man has.


25.
  ... spiritual as well as an altruistic plane, ...  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxvi
Though we work out our solution on the spiritual as well as an altruistic plane, we favor hospitalization for the alcoholic who is very jittery or befogged.


26.
  ... spiritual as well as moral.  BB We Agnostics, p.45
That means we have written a book which we believe to be spiritual as well as moral.


27.
  ... spiritual atmosphere with which the grace of ...  12&12 Step Eleven, p.100
As though lying upon a sunlit beach, let us relax and breathe deeply of the spiritual atmosphere with which the grace of this prayer surrounds us.


28.
  ... spiritual awakening?  12&12 Contents (Step Twelve), p.8
What is spiritual awakening?


29.
  ... 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.


30.
  ... spiritual awakening about which finally there was ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.109
So, practicing these Steps, we had a spiritual awakening about which finally there was no question.


31.
  ... "spiritual awakening" are used many times in ...  BB Appendix II, Spiritual Experience, p.567
The terms "spiritual experience" and "spiritual awakening" are used many times in this book which, upon careful reading, shows that the personality change sufficient to bring about recovery from alcoholism has manifested itself among us in many different forms.


32.
  ... spiritual awakening as the result of these ...  BB How It Works, p.60
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.


33.
  ... spiritual awakening as the result of these ...  12&12 Contents (Step Twelve), p.8
Step Twelve -- "Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs."


34.
  ... spiritual awakening as the result of these ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.106
"Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs."


35.
  ... spiritual awakening as there are people who ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.106
Maybe there are as many definitions of spiritual awakening as there are people who have had them.


36.
  ... spiritual awakening, the most important meaning of ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.106
When a man or a woman has a spiritual awakening, the most important meaning of it is that he has now become able to do, feel, and believe that which he could not do before on his unaided strength and resources alone.


37.
  ... 'spiritual awakening'?" they ask.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.106
"What do you mean when you talk about a 'spiritual awakening'?" they ask.


38.
  ... spiritual axiom that every time we are ...  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.


39.
  ... spiritual bankruptcy.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.107
Beginning with Step Four, we commenced to search out the things in ourselves which had brought us to physical, moral, and spiritual bankruptcy.


40.
  ... spiritual basis.  BB Into Action, p.76
As we look over the list of business acquaintances and friends we have hurt, we may feel diffident about going to some of them on a spiritual basis.


41.
  ... spiritual basis.  BB A Vision For You, p.162
Understanding our work, he can do this with an eye to selecting those who are willing and able to recover on a spiritual basis.


42.
  ... spiritual basis are not always easy alternatives ...  BB We Agnostics, p.44
To be doomed to an alcoholic death or to live on a spiritual basis are not always easy alternatives to face.


43.
  ... spiritual basis, he will also be doing ...  BB To Wives, p.118
If your husband is trying to live on a spiritual basis, he will also be doing everything in his power to avoid disagreement or contention.


44.
  ... spiritual basis of life -- or else.  BB We Agnostics, p.44
But after a while we had to face the fact that we must find a spiritual basis of life -- or else.


45.
  ... spiritual basis or not, the alcoholic member ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.135
Whether the family goes on a spiritual basis or not, the alcoholic member has to if he would recover.


46.
  ... spiritual beliefs and practices when we might ...  BB We Agnostics, p.49
We used to amuse ourselves by cynically dissecting spiritual beliefs and practices when we might have observed that many spiritually-minded persons of all races, colors, and creeds were demonstrating a degree of stability, happiness and usefulness which we should have sought ourselves.


47.
  ... spiritual beliefs, but now we begin to ...  BB Into Action, p.75
We may have had certain spiritual beliefs, but now we begin to have a spiritual experience.


48.
  ... spiritual climate in which A.A. was born, ...  12&12 Tradition Ten, p.177
That is the spiritual climate in which A.A. was born, and by God's grace has nevertheless flourished.


49.
  ... spiritual concepts.  BB Appendix II, Spiritual Experience, p.568
Most emphatically we wish to say that any alcoholic capable of honestly facing his problems in the light of our experience can recover, provided he does not close his mind to all spiritual concepts.


50.
  ... spiritual condition.  BB Into Action, p.85
That is how we react so long as we keep in fit spiritual condition.


51.
  ... spiritual condition.  BB Into Action, p.85
What we really have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition.


52.
  ... spiritual condition was.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.122
It did not matter too much what our material condition was, but it did matter what our spiritual condition was.


53.
  ... spiritual convictions or not, they may do ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.130
One more suggestion: Whether the family has spiritual convictions or not, they may do well to examine the principles by which the alcoholic member is trying to live.


54.
  ... spiritual damage to people.  12&12 Step Eight, p.80
To define the word "harm" in a practical way, we might call it the result of instincts in collision, which cause physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual damage to people.


55.
  ... spiritual deficiency -- he will know of it.  BB To Wives, p.120
You need not remind him of his spiritual deficiency -- he will know of it.


56.
  ... spiritual demonstration.  BB Working With Others, p.98
He should concentrate on his own spiritual demonstration.


57.
  ... spiritual development.  BB The Family Afterward, pp.129-130
Though some of his manifestations are alarming and disagreeable, we think dad will be on a firmer foundation than the man who is placing business or professional success ahead of spiritual development.


58.
  ... spiritual development.  12&12 Step Three, p.36
This, of course, is the process by which instinct and logic always seek to bolster egotism, and so frustrate spiritual development.


59.
  ... spiritual development.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.114
Our answer is in still more spiritual development.


60.
  ... spiritual development almost always insist on checking ...  12&12 Step Five, p.60
It is worth noting that people of very high spiritual development almost always insist on checking with friends or spiritual advisers the guidance they feel they have received from God.


61.
  ... spiritual discoveries.  BB Into Action, p.77
He is going to be more interested in a demonstration of good will than in our talk of spiritual discoveries.


62.
  ... spiritual disease, for we have been not ...  BB How It Works, p.64
From it stem all forms of spiritual disease, for we have been not only mentally and physically ill, we have been spiritually sick.


63.
  ... spiritual effort is involved in avoiding excesses ...  12&12 Step Six, p.66
Not much spiritual effort is involved in avoiding excesses which will bring us punishment anyway.


64.
  ... spiritual entity having but one primary purpose ...  BB Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.563
5. Each Alcoholics Anonymous group ought to be a spiritual entity having but one primary purpose -- that of carrying its message to the alcoholic who still suffers.


65.
  ... spiritual entity having but one primary purpose ...  12&12 Tradition Five (Long), p.190
Five -- Each Alcoholics Anonymous group ought to be a spiritual entity having but one primary purpose -- that of carrying its message to the alcoholic who still suffers.


66.
  ... spiritual experience.  BB There Is A Solution, p.27
This hope, however, was destroyed by the doctor's telling him that while his religious convictions were very good, in his case they did not spell the necessary vital spiritual experience.


67.
  ... spiritual experience.  BB There Is A Solution, pp.28-29
Surprisingly enough, we find such convictions no great obstacle to a spiritual experience.


68.
  ... spiritual experience.  BB We Agnostics, p.56
One night, when confined in a hospital, he was approached by an alcoholic who had known a spiritual experience.


69.
  ... "Spiritual Experience."  BB We Agnostics (Note), p.47
(*) Please be sure to read Appendix II on "Spiritual Experience."


70.
  ... spiritual experience.  BB Into Action, p.75
We may have had certain spiritual beliefs, but now we begin to have a spiritual experience.


71.
  ... spiritual experience.  BB To Wives, pp.118-119
Your husband will be the first to say it was your devotion and care which brought him to the point where he could have a spiritual experience.


72.
  ... spiritual experience.  BB The Family Afterward, p.128
Assume on the other hand that father has, at the outset, a stirring spiritual experience.


73.
  ... spiritual experience.  BB A Vision For You, p.158
He had begun to have a spiritual experience.


74.
  ... spiritual experience.  BB Appendix II, Spiritual Experience, p.568
Most of us think this awareness of a Power greater than ourselves is the essence of spiritual experience.


75.
  ... spiritual experience and a life of sane ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.130
We have found nothing incompatible between a powerful spiritual experience and a life of sane and happy usefulness.


76.
  ... "spiritual experience" and "spiritual awakening" are used ...  BB Appendix II, Spiritual Experience, p.567
The terms "spiritual experience" and "spiritual awakening" are used many times in this book which, upon careful reading, shows that the personality change sufficient to bring about recovery from alcoholism has manifested itself among us in many different forms.


77.
  ... spiritual experience and told him about the ...  BB A Vision For You, p.157
The two friends spoke of their spiritual experience and told him about the course of action they carried out.


78.
  ... spiritual experience, following a meeting with an ...  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xv
Six months earlier, the broker had been relieved of his drink obsession by a sudden spiritual experience, following a meeting with an alcoholic friend who had been in contact with the Oxford Groups of that day.


79.
  ... spiritual experience, he conceded, was absolutely necessary, ...  BB A Vision For You, p.155
A spiritual experience, he conceded, was absolutely necessary, but the price seemed high upon the basis suggested.


80.
  ... "Spiritual Experience"; in the second edition, the ...  BB Preface, p.xi
The second printing of the first edition added the appendix "Spiritual Experience"; in the second edition, the appendices on A.A. Tradition, the "medical view" and "religious view" of A.A., the Lasker Award and information on how to contact A.A. were added, and the appendix on the Alcoholic Foundation was discontinued.


81.
  ... spiritual experience of the A.A. pioneers captured ...  12&12 Introduction, p.14
We hope that the collective spiritual experience of the A.A. pioneers captured in these pages continues to help alcoholics and friends of A.A. understand the principles of our program.


82.
  ... spiritual experience, the alcoholic will find he ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.131
Being possessed of a spiritual experience, the alcoholic will find he has much in common with these people, though he may differ with them on many matters.


83.
  ... spiritual experience they forgave each other and ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.124
In the first flush of spiritual experience they forgave each other and drew closer together.


84.
  ... spiritual experience, this business of resentment is ...  BB How It Works, p.66
But with the alcoholic, whose hope is the maintenance and growth of a spiritual experience, this business of resentment is infinitely grave.


85.
  ... spiritual experience, we ask that we be ...  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.


86.
  ... spiritual experience will conquer.  BB We Agnostics, p.44
If that be the case, you may be suffering from an illness which only a spiritual experience will conquer.


87.
  ... spiritual experiences.  BB There Is A Solution, p.27
Here and there, once in a while, alcoholics have had what are called vital spiritual experiences.


88.
  ... spiritual experiences(*) which have revolutionized our whole ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.25
The great fact is just this, and nothing less: That we have had deep and effective spiritual experiences(*) which have revolutionized our whole attitude toward life, toward our fellows and toward God's universe.


89.
  ... spiritual expressions which you find in this ...  BB We Agnostics, p.47
This applies, too, to other spiritual expressions which you find in this book.


90.
  ... spiritual feature freely.  BB Working With Others, p.93
Stress the spiritual feature freely.


91.
  ... spiritual feature on our first approach.  BB Into Action, p.76
To some people we need not, and probably should not emphasize the spiritual feature on our first approach.


92.
  ... spiritual fences.  BB The Family Afterward, p.135
He had to painfully admit that and mend his spiritual fences.


93.
  ... spiritual foundation of all our Traditions, ever ...  BB Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.562
Twelve -- Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our Traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.


94.
  ... spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever ...  12&12 Contents (Tradition Twelve), p.13
Tradition Twelve -- "Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities."


95.
  ... spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever ...  12&12 Tradition Twelve, p.184
"Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities."


96.
  ... spiritual from the material.  12&12 Contents (Tradition Seven), p.11
Necessity of separating the spiritual from the material.


97.
  ... spiritual from the material."  12&12 Tradition Seven, p.161
We shall have to separate the spiritual from the material."


98.
  ... spiritual ground before you start and that ...  BB Working With Others, p.102
But be sure you are on solid spiritual ground before you start and that your motive in going is thoroughly good.


99.
  ... spiritual growth.  12&12 Contents (Step Six), p.6
Step Six necessary to spiritual growth.


100.
  ... spiritual growth first.  12&12 Contents (Step Twelve), p.9
Placing spiritual growth first.


101.
  ... spiritual growth first -- then and only then ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.114
But when we are willing to place spiritual growth first -- then and only then do we have a real chance.


102.
  ... spiritual growth is lopsided, that for an ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.129
He will perceive that his spiritual growth is lopsided, that for an average man like himself, a spiritual life which does not include his family obligations may not be so perfect after all.


103.
  ... spiritual growth, to effect our first conscious ...  BB We Agnostics, p.47
At the start, this was all we needed to commence spiritual growth, to effect our first conscious relation with God as we understood Him.


104.
  ... spiritual health and self-respect to hundreds of ...  BB Appendix V, The Religious View on A.A., p.572
This self-insurance has resulted in the restoration of physical, mental and spiritual health and self-respect to hundreds of men and women who would be hopelessly down and out without its unique but effective therapy."


105.
  ... spiritual help.  BB There Is A Solution, p.25
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.


106.
  ... spiritual help.  BB There Is A Solution, p.27
Some of our alcoholic readers may think they can do without spiritual help.


107.
  ... spiritual heritage as futile disputes over property, ...  BB Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.564
Experience has often warned us that nothing can so surely destroy our spiritual heritage as futile disputes over property, money, and authority.


108.
  ... spiritual heritage as futile disputes over property, ...  12&12 Tradition Seven (Long), p.191
Experience has often warned us that nothing can so surely destroy our spiritual heritage as futile disputes over property, money, and authority.


109.
  ... spiritual hilltop; simply lay out the kit ...  BB Working With Others, p.95
Never talk down to an alcoholic from any moral or spiritual hilltop; simply lay out the kit of spiritual tools for his inspection.


110.
  ... spiritual ideas of the Society were codified ...  12&12 Foreword, p.17
In it alcoholism was described from the alcoholic's point of view, the spiritual ideas of the Society were codified for the first time in the Twelve Steps, and the application of these Steps to the alcoholic's dilemma was made clear.


111.
  ... spiritual in their nature, which, if practiced ...  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.


112.
  ... spiritual infancy will quickly disappear.  BB The Family Afterward, p.129
In the midst of an understanding and sympathetic family, these vagaries of dad's spiritual infancy will quickly disappear.


113.
  ... spiritual intoxication.  BB The Family Afterward, p.128
We have indulged in spiritual intoxication.


114.
  ... spiritual justification for so doing.  BB The Family Afterward, p.129
Instead of treating the family as he should, he may retreat further into himself and feel he has spiritual justification for so doing.


115.
  ... spiritual liberation from this world, people who ...  BB We Agnostics, p.55
Yet we had been seeing another kind of flight, a spiritual liberation from this world, people who rose above their problems.


116.
  ... spiritual life.  BB More About Alcoholism, p.35
All went well for a time, but he failed to enlarge his spiritual life.


117.
  ... spiritual life is not a theory.  BB Into Action, p.83
The spiritual life is not a theory.


118.
  ... spiritual life through work and self-sacrifice for ...  BB Bill's Story, pp.14-15
For if an alcoholic failed to perfect and enlarge his spiritual life through work and self-sacrifice for others, he could not survive the certain trials and low spots ahead.


119.
  ... spiritual life which does not include his ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.129
He will perceive that his spiritual growth is lopsided, that for an average man like himself, a spiritual life which does not include his family obligations may not be so perfect after all.


120.
  ... spiritual lines.  BB How It Works, p.60
The point is, that we are willing to grow along spiritual lines.


121.
  ... spiritual make-believe have eventually seen the childishness ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.130
Those of us who have spent much time in the world of spiritual make-believe have eventually seen the childishness of it.


122.
  ... spiritual malady is overcome, we straighten out ...  BB How It Works, p.64
When the spiritual malady is overcome, we straighten out mentally and physically.


123.
  ... spiritual matters.  BB Into Action, p.83
We should not talk incessantly to them about spiritual matters.


124.
  ... spiritual matters as we had tried to ...  BB We Agnostics, p.48
Faced with alcoholic destruction, we soon became as open minded on spiritual matters as we had tried to be on other questions.


125.
  ... spiritual matters, especially when we mention God, ...  BB We Agnostics, p.45
But his face falls when we speak of spiritual matters, especially when we mention God, for we have re-opened a subject which our man thought he had neatly evaded or entirely ignored.


126.
  ... spiritual matters is dangerous.  12&12 Step Five, p.60
Going it alone in spiritual matters is dangerous.


127.
  ... spiritual matters morning, noon and night.  BB The Family Afterward, p.128
There is talk about spiritual matters morning, noon and night.


128.
  ... spiritual means to resolve his alcoholic dilemma ...  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xvi
This physician had repeatedly tried spiritual means to resolve his alcoholic dilemma but had failed.


129.
  ... spiritual, mental, and emotional levels is a ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.119
The prospective partners need to be solid A.A.'s and long enough acquainted to know that their compatibility at spiritual, mental, and emotional levels is a fact and not wishful thinking.


130.
  ... spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.117
Nearly every sound human being experiences, at some time in life, a compelling desire to find a mate of the opposite sex with whom the fullest possible union can be made -- spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical.


131.
  ... spiritual mode of living is a most ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.133
We are convinced that a spiritual mode of living is a most powerful health restorative.


132.
  ... spiritual nature, which did not appeal to ...  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.


133.
  ... spiritual objective before we try to move ...  12&12 Step Eleven, p.100
Well, meditation is like that, too; it helps to envision our spiritual objective before we try to move toward it.


134.
  ... spiritual or was it medical?  12&12 Tradition Six, p.156
Was A.A. spiritual or was it medical?


135.
  ... 'spiritual' out of my mouth than he ...  12&12 Tradition Five, pp.152-153
I'd no sooner got the word 'spiritual' out of my mouth than he pounced.


136.
  ... spiritual perfection.  BB How It Works, p.60
We claim spiritual progress rather than spiritual perfection.


137.
  ... spiritual plane.  BB To Wives, p.116
We have elsewhere remarked how much better life is when lived on a spiritual plane.


138.
  ... spiritual power, beauty, and love of which ...  12&12 Step Eleven, p.100
Let us become willing to partake and be strengthened and lifted up by the sheer spiritual power, beauty, and love of which these magnificent words are the carriers.


139.
  ... spiritual principle had its first major test.  12&12 Step Three, p.38
When World War II broke out, this spiritual principle had its first major test.


140.
  ... spiritual principles.  BB Working With Others, p.93
The main thing is that he be willing to believe in a Power greater than himself and that he live by spiritual principles.


141.
  ... spiritual principles.  BB Working With Others, p.93
When dealing with such a person, you had better use everyday language to describe spiritual principles.


142.
  ... spiritual principles.  12&12 Tradition One, p.130
His life actually depends upon obedience to spiritual principles.


143.
  ... spiritual principles.  12&12 Tradition Nine, p.174
His drunkenness and dissolution are not penalties inflicted by people in authority; they result from his personal disobedience to spiritual principles.


144.
  ... spiritual principles, first because we must, and ...  12&12 Tradition Nine, p.174
So we of A.A. do obey spiritual principles, first because we must, and ultimately because we love the kind of life such obedience brings.


145.
  ... spiritual principles in such cases was not ...  BB A Vision For You, p.156
The use of spiritual principles in such cases was not so well understood as it is now.


146.
  ... spiritual principles in their lives, we began ...  BB To Wives, p.116
As our husbands began to apply spiritual principles in their lives, we began to see the desirability of doing so too.


147.
  ... spiritual principles. The group must survive or ...  12&12 Contents (Tradition One), p.9
Tradition One -- "Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon A.A. unity." Without unity, A.A. dies. Individual liberty, yet great unity. Key to paradox: each A.A.'s life depends on obedience to spiritual principles. The group must survive or the individual will not. Common welfare comes first. How best to live and work together as groups.


148.
  ... spiritual principles, there is a much better ...  BB Working With Others, p.97
Should they accept and practice spiritual principles, there is a much better chance that the head of the family will recover.


149.
  ... spiritual principles to work in every department ...  BB To Wives, p.116
Now we try to put spiritual principles to work in every department of our lives.


150.
  ... spiritual principles unless we accepted many things ...  BB We Agnostics, p.47
That was great news to us, for we had assumed we could not make use of spiritual principles unless we accepted many things on faith which seemed difficult to believe.


151.
  ... spiritual principles we think we ought not ...  BB Into Action, p.83
Unless one's family expresses a desire to live upon spiritual principles we think we ought not to urge them.


152.
  ... spiritual principles would solve all my problems.  BB More About Alcoholism, p.42
"Quite as important was the discovery that spiritual principles would solve all my problems.


153.
  ... spiritual program.  BB The Family Afterward, p.126
They criticize, pointing out how he is falling down on his spiritual program.


154.
  ... spiritual program, making a better practical use ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.130
Nothing will help the man who is off on a spiritual tangent so much as the wife who adopts a sane spiritual program, making a better practical use of it.


155.
  ... spiritual program of action and rest on ...  BB Into Action, p.85
It is easy to let up on the spiritual program of action and rest on our laurels.


156.
  ... spiritual progress.  BB Working With Others, p.100
Both you and the new man must walk day by day in the path of spiritual progress.


157.
  ... spiritual progress.  12&12 Step Ten, p.93
Someone who knew what he was talking about once remarked that pain was the touchstone of all spiritual progress.


158.
  ... spiritual progress; it never preceded.  BB The Family Afterward, p.127
For us, material well-being always followed spiritual progress; it never preceded.


159.
  ... spiritual progress rather than spiritual perfection.  BB How It Works, p.60
We claim spiritual progress rather than spiritual perfection.


160.
  ... spiritual progress, we saw through these fallacies.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.115
As we made spiritual progress, we saw through these fallacies.


161.
  ... spiritual quality which today keynotes A.A. life ...  12&12 Tradition Twelve, p.187
It is an all-pervading spiritual quality which today keynotes A.A. life everywhere.


162.
  ... spiritual release, but liked to tell ourselves ...  BB We Agnostics, p.55
We had seen spiritual release, but liked to tell ourselves it wasn't true.


163.
  ... spiritual remedy, ask him to look at ...  BB To Wives, p.112
If you think he will be shy of a spiritual remedy, ask him to look at the chapter on alcoholism.


164.
  ... spiritual remedy for his malady with a ...  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xvi
But when the broker gave him Dr. Silkworth's description of alcoholism and its hopelessness, the physician began to pursue the spiritual remedy for his malady with a willingness he had never before been able to muster.


165.
  ... spiritual remedy for his problem.  BB More About Alcoholism, p.39
Fred would not believe himself an alcoholic, much less accept a spiritual remedy for his problem.


166.
  ... spiritual side of life a fair hearing.  BB We Agnostics, p.50
We never gave the spiritual side of life a fair hearing.


167.
  ... spiritual side of our program.  12&12 Tradition Five, p.152
"Then, hesitantly, I ventured to talk about the spiritual side of our program.


168.
  ... spiritual significance.  BB Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, pp.565-566
12. And finally, we of Alcoholics Anonymous believe that the principle of anonymity has an immense spiritual significance.


169.
  ... spiritual significance.  12&12 Tradition Twelve (Long), p.192
Twelve -- And finally, we of Alcoholics Anonymous believe that the principle of anonymity has an immense spiritual significance.


170.
  ... 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.


171.
  ... spiritual step with an understanding person, such ...  BB How It Works, p.63
We found it very desirable to take this spiritual step with an understanding person, such as our wife, best friend, or spiritual adviser.


172.
  ... spiritual structure can be built.(*)  BB We Agnostics, p.47
It has been repeatedly proven among us that upon this simple cornerstone a wonderfully effective spiritual structure can be built.(*)


173.
  ... spiritual stuff makes sense.  BB A Vision For You, p.159
After a bit, he said, "The way you fellows put this spiritual stuff makes sense.


174.
  Spiritual substance of anonymity is sacrifice.  12&12 Contents (Tradition Twelve), p.13
Spiritual substance of anonymity is sacrifice.


175.
  ... spiritual substance of anonymity is sacrifice.  12&12 Tradition Twelve, p.184
The spiritual substance of anonymity is sacrifice.


176.
  ... spiritual tangent so much as the wife ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.130
Nothing will help the man who is off on a spiritual tangent so much as the wife who adopts a sane spiritual program, making a better practical use of it.


177.
  ... spiritual terms deter you from honestly asking ...  BB We Agnostics, p.47
Do not let any prejudice you may have against spiritual terms deter you from honestly asking yourself what they mean to you.


178.
  ... spiritual things made us bristle with antagonism.  BB We Agnostics, p.48
Many of us have been so touchy that even casual reference to spiritual things made us bristle with antagonism.


179.
  ... spiritual things, often enhance such unions.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.119
Their common suffering as drinkers, their common interest in A.A. and spiritual things, often enhance such unions.


180.
  ... spiritual tools for his inspection.  BB Working With Others, p.95
Never talk down to an alcoholic from any moral or spiritual hilltop; simply lay out the kit of spiritual tools for his inspection.


181.
  ... spiritual tools laid at our feet.  BB There Is A Solution, p.25
When, therefore, we were approached by those in whom the problem had been solved, there was nothing left for us but to pick up the simple kit of spiritual tools laid at our feet.


182.
  ... spiritual understanding.  BB The Family Afterward, p.127
If they sense these things, they will not take so seriously his periods of crankiness, depression, or apathy, which will disappear when there is tolerance, love, and spiritual understanding.


183.
  ... spiritual values had to come first, and ...  12&12 Step Seven, p.71
We had lacked the perspective to see that character-building and spiritual values had to come first, and that material satisfactions were not the purpose of living.


184.
  ... spiritual way of life.  BB A Vision For You, pp.159-160
In addition to these casual get-togethers, it became customary to set apart one night a week for a meeting to be attended by anyone or everyone interested in a spiritual way of life.


185.
  ... spiritual way of life their road will ...  BB To Wives, p.114
If such women adopt a spiritual way of life their road will be smoother.


186.
  ... spiritual way of living, thus relieving much ...  BB A Vision For You, p.159
They experienced a few distressing failures, but in those cases they made an effort to bring the man's family into a spiritual way of living, thus relieving much worry and suffering.


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