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

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THEMSELVES   occurs   60 times 28 in BB  •  32 in 12&12 Definition in Merriam-Webster Online
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1.
  ... themselves.  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxvi
You may rely absolutely on anything they say about themselves.


2.
  ... themselves.  BB How It Works, p.58
Those who do not recover are people who cannot or will not completely give themselves to this simple program, usually men and women who are constitutionally incapable of being honest with themselves.


3.
  ... themselves.  BB Into Action, p.73
They only thought they had lost their egoism and fear; they only thought they had humbled themselves.


4.
  ... themselves.  BB Working With Others, p.103
We feel that each family, in the light of their own circumstances, ought to decide for themselves.


5.
  ... themselves?  BB To Wives, p.107
And even if they did not love their families, how could they be so blind about themselves?


6.
  ... themselves.  BB To Wives, p.114
The wives and children of such men suffer horribly, but not more than the men themselves.


7.
  ... themselves.  BB A Vision For You, p.156
Plenty of difficulties presented themselves.


8.
  ... themselves.  BB Appendix II, Spiritual Experience, pp.567-568
With few exceptions our members find that they have tapped an unsuspected inner resource which they presently identify with their own conception of a Power greater than themselves.


9.
  ... themselves.  12&12 Step Six, p.66
Such is the power of our instincts to overreach themselves.


10.
  ... themselves again and we would forgive and ...  BB To Wives, p.106
Next day they would be themselves again and we would forgive and try to forget.


11.
  ... themselves all over the world.  12&12 Tradition Eight, p.169
Eight tons of books and literature per month do not package and channel themselves all over the world.


12.
  ... themselves an A.A. group, provided that, as ...  BB Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.563
Any two or three alcoholics gathered together for sobriety may call themselves an A.A. group, provided that, as a group, they have no other affiliation.


13.
  ... themselves an A.A. group provided that as ...  12&12 Tradition Four, pp.146-147
So confident of this had we become that the original statement of A.A. tradition carried this significant sentence: "Any two or three alcoholics gathered together for sobriety may call themselves an A.A. group provided that as a group they have no other affiliation."


14.
  ... themselves an A.A. group, provided that, as ...  12&12 Tradition Three (Long), p.189
Any two or three alcoholics gathered together for sobriety may call themselves an A.A. group, provided that, as a group, they have no other affiliation.


15.
  ... themselves, and had they stuck to their ...  12&12 Tradition Ten, p.178
Had they been left to themselves, and had they stuck to their one goal, they might have found the rest of the answer.


16.
  ... themselves, and have discovered the joy of ...  BB A Vision For You, p.163
When a few men in this city have found themselves, and have discovered the joy of helping others to face life again, there will be no stopping until everyone in that town has had his opportunity to recover -- if he can and will.


17.
  ... themselves, and still more in the Power ...  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxvii
They believe in themselves, and still more in the Power which pulls chronic alcoholics back from the gates of death.


18.
  ... themselves and their best results can be ...  BB Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A., p.569
Dr. G. Kirby Collier, psychiatrist: "I have felt that A.A. is a group unto themselves and their best results can be had under their own guidance, as a result of their philosophy.


19.
  ... themselves and were able to justify the ...  12&12 Step Five, p.60
Lacking both practice and humility, they had deluded themselves and were able to justify the most arrant nonsense on the ground that this was what God had told them.


20.
  ... themselves are organized.  12&12 Tradition Nine, p.172
Then, in seeming contradiction, we proceed to create special service boards and committees which in themselves are organized.


21.
  ... themselves as helpless as those who had ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.33
Several of our crowd, men of thirty or less, had been drinking only a few years, but they found themselves as helpless as those who had been drinking twenty years.


22.
  ... themselves as messiahs representing A.A. before the ...  12&12 Tradition Twelve, p.187
We simply couldn't afford to take the chance of letting self-appointed members present themselves as messiahs representing A.A. before the whole public.


23.
  ... themselves as 'self-insurance.'  BB Appendix V, The Religious View on A.A., p.572
The A.A. plan is described by the members themselves as 'self-insurance.'


24.
  ... themselves before microphones and cameras.  12&12 Tradition Twelve, p.185
Others hurried to place themselves before microphones and cameras.


25.
  ... themselves certain facts about their lives.  BB Into Action, p.72
Time after time newcomers have tried to keep to themselves certain facts about their lives.


26.
  ... themselves cut off from God's help and ...  12&12 Step Eleven, p.105
All this should be very encouraging news for those who recoil from prayer because they don't believe in it, or because they feel themselves cut off from God's help and direction.


27.
  ... themselves exceptions to the rule, therefore nonalcoholic.  BB More About Alcoholism, p.31
By every form of self-deception and experimentation, they will try to prove themselves exceptions to the rule, therefore nonalcoholic.


28.
  ... themselves for others.  BB A Vision For You, p.159
It was transcended by the happiness they found in giving themselves for others.


29.
  ... themselves have been ill-conceived, but that makes ...  12&12 Tradition Eight, p.171
True, some of the projects to which A.A.'s have attached themselves have been ill-conceived, but that makes not the slightest difference with the principle involved.


30.
  ... themselves, if they are to re-create their ...  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxviii
In nearly all cases, their ideals must be grounded in a power greater than themselves, if they are to re-create their lives.


31.
  ... themselves into thousands.  12&12 Tradition Three, p.142
Since this was a very early group, those scores have since multiplied themselves into thousands.


32.
  ... themselves is the underlying cause of their ...  12&12 Step Four, p.44
Alcoholics especially should be able to see that instinct run wild in themselves is the underlying cause of their destructive drinking.


33.
  ... themselves, mother and children demand that he ...  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.


34.
  ... themselves neglected.  BB The Family Afterward, p.126
The family will be affected also, pleasantly at first, as they feel their money troubles are about to be solved, then not so pleasantly as they find themselves neglected.


35.
  ... themselves off, those who have become prejudiced ...  12&12 Step Two, p.28
There will be those who have drifted into indifference, those filled with self-sufficiency who have cut themselves off, those who have become prejudiced against religion, and those who are downright defiant because God has failed to fulfill their demands.


36.
  ... themselves once more.  BB To Wives, p.105
Some of us veered from extreme to extreme, ever hoping that one day our loved ones would be themselves once more.


37.
  ... themselves ought to be fully supported by ...  BB Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.564
7. The A.A. groups themselves ought to be fully supported by the voluntary contributions of their own members.


38.
  ... themselves ought to be fully supported by ...  12&12 Tradition Seven (Long), p.190
Seven -- The A.A. groups themselves ought to be fully supported by the voluntary contributions of their own members.


39.
  ... themselves out of jobs, family, and friends ...  12&12 Step Four, p.51
But all alcoholics who have drunk themselves out of jobs, family, and friends will need to cross-examine themselves ruthlessly to determine how their own personality defects have thus demolished their security.


40.
  ... themselves "problem drinkers," but cannot endure the ...  12&12 Step Two, p.33
Some will be willing to term themselves "problem drinkers," but cannot endure the suggestion that they are in fact mentally ill.


41.
  ... themselves ruthlessly to determine how their own ...  12&12 Step Four, pp.51-52
But all alcoholics who have drunk themselves out of jobs, family, and friends will need to cross-examine themselves ruthlessly to determine how their own personality defects have thus demolished their security.


42.
  ... themselves saved from death, but still floating ...  12&12 Tradition One, p.131
Like us, they had suddenly found themselves saved from death, but still floating upon a perilous sea.


43.
  ... themselves seemed more intelligent than that.  BB We Agnostics, p.54
The electrons themselves seemed more intelligent than that.


44.
  ... themselves solely to the relief of cancer.  12&12 Tradition Five, p.150
But once these men had hit upon a cure, once it became apparent that only by their united effort could this be accomplished, then all of them would feel bound to devote themselves solely to the relief of cancer.


45.
  ... themselves that really got us down.  12&12 Step Two, p.30
But it was the morality of the religionists themselves that really got us down.


46.
  ... themselves that the pain will be lessened ...  12&12 Step Eight, pp.77-78
But if a willing start is made, then the great advantages of doing this will so quickly reveal themselves that the pain will be lessened as one obstacle after another melts away.


47.
  ... themselves, that their fellows may enjoy sound ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.133
Most of them give freely of themselves, that their fellows may enjoy sound minds and bodies.


48.
  ... themselves that they destroy their lives, they ...  12&12 Step Six, p.64
When men and women pour so much alcohol into themselves that they destroy their lives, they commit a most unnatural act.


49.
  ... themselves, the rest of us were able ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.109
Looking at those who were only beginning and still doubted themselves, the rest of us were able to see the change setting in.


50.
  ... themselves to any number of ideas, people, ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.120
In partnership with others -- women and men -- they can devote themselves to any number of ideas, people, and constructive projects.


51.
  ... themselves to attempting to rule their fellows.  12&12 Step Four, p.43
We have also seen men and women who go power-mad, who devote themselves to attempting to rule their fellows.


52.
  ... themselves to be secure in their persons, ...  12&12 Step Four, p.42
If men and women didn't exert themselves to be secure in their persons, made no effort to harvest food or construct shelter, there would be no survival.


53.
  ... themselves, to take a certain attitude toward ...  BB We Agnostics, p.50
They flatly declare that since they have come to believe in a Power greater than themselves, to take a certain attitude toward that Power, and to do certain simple things, there has been a revolutionary change in their way of living and thinking.


54.
  ... themselves to their liabilities.  12&12 Step Four, p.46
This is because people who are driven by pride of self unconsciously blind themselves to their liabilities.


55.
  ... themselves to this simple program, usually men ...  BB How It Works, p.58
Those who do not recover are people who cannot or will not completely give themselves to this simple program, usually men and women who are constitutionally incapable of being honest with themselves.


56.
  ... themselves to this sole aim.  12&12 Tradition Ten, p.178
The early members foresaw that they should dedicate themselves to this sole aim.


57.
  ... themselves to us as friends.  12&12 Tradition Eleven, pp.181-182
On almost every newsfront, the men and women of the press have attached themselves to us as friends.


58.
  ... themselves -- two emotions quite as unhealthy as ...  12&12 Step Four, p.44
Demands made upon other people for too much attention, protection, and love can only invite domination or revulsion in the protectors themselves -- two emotions quite as unhealthy as the demands which evoked them.


59.
  ... themselves were trying to conceal.  12&12 Step Five, p.56
They will tell how they tried to carry the load alone; how much they suffered of irritability, anxiety, remorse, and depression; and how, unconsciously seeking relief, they would sometimes accuse even their best friends of the very character defects they themselves were trying to conceal.


60.
  ... themselves with as individuals.  BB There Is A Solution, p.28
We think it no concern of ours what religious bodies our members identify themselves with as individuals.


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