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

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STAY   occurs   32 times 14 in BB  •  17 in 12&12  •  1 in GV Definition in Merriam-Webster Online
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1.
  ... stay alive.  12&12 Step Six, p.64
He did not design man to destroy himself by alcohol, but He did give man instincts to help him to stay alive.


2.
  ... stay alive himself.  12&12 Step One, p.24
No, the average alcoholic, self-centered in the extreme, doesn't care for this prospect -- unless he has to do these things in order to stay alive himself.


3.
  ... stay away, whichever seems best.  BB Working With Others, p.102
Go or stay away, whichever seems best.


4.
  ... stay dry anything like a year.  BB More About Alcoholism, p.34
We think few, to whom this book will appeal, can stay dry anything like a year.


5.
  ... stay home and make up the deficiency.  BB The Family Afterward, p.131
Instead of developing new channels of activity for themselves, mother and children demand that he stay home and make up the deficiency.


6.
  ... stay lazy.  12&12 Step Four, p.49
And with genuine alarm at the prospect of work, we stay lazy.


7.
  ... stay, let him steer the conversation in ...  BB Working With Others, p.95
If you do stay, let him steer the conversation in any direction he likes.


8.
  ... stay married; it is how to be ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.117
Our main problem is not how we are to stay married; it is how to be more happily married by eliminating the severe emotional twists that have so often stemmed from alcoholism.


9.
  ... stay on the water wagon?  BB There Is A Solution, p.22
Why can't he stay on the water wagon?


10.
  ... stay on the water wagon even when ...  BB To Wives, p.109
Two: Your husband is showing lack of control, for he is unable to stay on the water wagon even when he wants to.


11.
  ... stay out of this controversy.  BB How It Works, p.69
We want to stay out of this controversy.


12.
  ... stay over fifteen minutes.  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.179
Wishing to be polite, though I felt very badly, I said, "Let's make the call," and extracted from my wife a promise that we would not stay over fifteen minutes.


13.
  ... stay poor.  12&12 Tradition Seven, p.165
They declared for the principle that A.A. must always stay poor.


14.
  ... stay put, if only people would do ...  BB How It Works, pp.60-61
If his arrangements would only stay put, if only people would do as he wished, the show would be great.


15.
  ... stay right size.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.122
He's willing to stay right size.


16.
  ... stay sober.  12&12 Contents (Step Five), p.6
Without fearless admission of defects, few could stay sober.


17.
  ... stay sober.  12&12 Step Five, pp.56-57
Most of us would declare that without a fearless admission of our defects to another human being we could not stay sober.


18.
  ... stay sober.  12&12 Tradition Three, p.143
Distressingly enough, Ed proceeded to stay sober.


19.
  ... stay sober and help other alcoholics.  BB Foreword to Fourth Edition, p.xxiv
In any meeting, anywhere, A.A.'s share experience, strength, and hope with each other, in order to stay sober and help other alcoholics.


20.
  ... stay sober and help other alcoholics to ...  Grapevine Preamble
Our primary purpose is to stay sober and help other alcoholics to achieve sobriety.


21.
  ... stay sober and keep emotional balance under ...  12&12 Contents (Step Ten), p.8
Can we stay sober and keep emotional balance under all conditions?


22.
  ... stay sober at all.  12&12 Step Seven, p.70
For without some degree of humility, no alcoholic can stay sober at all.


23.
  ... stay sober at all; others will relapse ...  12&12 Step Five, p.56
Some people are unable to stay sober at all; others will relapse periodically until they really clean house.


24.
  ... stay sober during the day, at least ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.177
My phobia for sleeplessness demanded that I get drunk every night, but in order to get more liquor for the next night, I had to stay sober during the day, at least up to four o'clock.


25.
  ... stay sober enough to earn money, I ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, pp.175-176
Not being a man of means, I knew that if I did not stay sober enough to earn money, I would run out of liquor.


26.
  ... stay sober, it can be understood why ...  12&12 Tradition Seven, p.160
When you add to this the habitual supposition that people ought to give money to alcoholics trying to stay sober, it can be understood why we thought we deserved a pile of folding money.


27.
  ... stay sober, keep in emotional balance, and ...  12&12 Step Ten, p.88
Then comes the acid test: can we stay sober, keep in emotional balance, and live to good purpose under all conditions?


28.
  ... stay sober, or even alive, unless he ...  12&12 Tradition Two, pp.132-133
Alone now, he reflects that he may not be able to stay sober, or even alive, unless he passes on to other alcoholics what was so freely given him.


29.
  ... stay sober; unless I accept life completely ...  BB Acceptance, p.417
Until I could accept my alcoholism, I could not stay sober; unless I accept life completely on life's terms, I cannot be happy.


30.
  ... stay sober, you don't have to swallow ...  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.


31.
  ... stay whole and so survive?"  BB Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.561
The "12 Traditions" of Alcoholics Anonymous are, we A.A.'s believe, the best answers that our experience has yet given to those ever-urgent questions, "How can A.A. best function?" and, "How can A.A. best stay whole and so survive?"


32.
  ... stay whole, or A.A. dies.  12&12 Tradition One, p.129
We stay whole, or A.A. dies.


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