The 164 and More book is sold on this website at the Publisher List Price of $20.00 plus postage.
The book may also be sold by Intergroup/Central Offices or recovery book stores at List Price
or slightly higher. But beware of others that sell the book marked up 400% or more.
For the same money, you could buy 4 books and use 3 as sponsee gifts.
From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
Click the page number or the book cover icon
to view that page in the literature.1.
Under these conditions we
can employ our mental faculties with assurance,
for after all God gave us brains to use.
2.
3.
As matters grow worse, he begins to use a combination of high-powered sedative and liquor to quiet his nerves so he can go to work.
4.
5.
These allergic types can never safely use alcohol in any form at all; and once having formed the habit and found they cannot break it, once having lost their self-confidence, their reliance upon things human, their problems pile up on them and become astonishingly difficult to solve.
6.
He relies upon the assurance that his many troubles, now made more acute because he cannot use alcohol to kill the pain, can be solved, too.
7.
Or "What's the use anyhow?"
8.
There is no use arousing any prejudice he may have against certain theological terms and conceptions about which he may already be confused.
9.
10.
We know this because we see monotony, pain, and even calamity turned to good use by those who keep on trying to practice A.A.'s Twelve Steps.
11.
But when we approach Step Ten we commence to put our A.A. way
of living to practical
use, day by day, in fair weather or foul.
12.
13.
When dealing with such a person, you had better use everyday language to describe spiritual principles.
14.
Suppose we tell you some of
the obstacles a family will meet; suppose we suggest how they
may be avoided -- even converted to good use for others.
15.
Some day we hope that Alcoholics Anonymous will help the public to a better realization of the gravity of the alcoholic problem, but we shall be of little use if our attitude is one of bitterness or hostility.
16.
We have been talking about problems because we are problem people who have found a way up
and out, and who wish to share our knowledge of that
way with all who can use it.
17.
Neither is reason, as most
of us use it, entirely dependable, though it emanate from our best minds.
18.
19.
At the end of it, my reports
to Wall Street procured me a position
there and the use of a large expense account.
20.
After your man has gone along without drinking for a few months, you may be able to make use of his services with other employees who are giving you the alcoholic run-around -- provided, of course, they are
willing to have a third party in the picture.
21.
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.
22.
The persistent use of meditation and prayer, we
found, did open the channel so that where there had been a trickle, there now was a river which led to sure power and safe guidance from God as we were increasingly
better able to understand Him.
23.
Provided anonymity was
maintained on these platforms, and reporters
present were cautioned
against the use of names or pictures, the result was fine.
24.
25.
Should you wish them above all
else, and be willing to make use of our experience, we are sure they
will come.
26.
Those of us who have come to make regular use of prayer would no more do without it than we would refuse air, food, or sunshine.
27.
28.
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.
29.
One of the many doctors who had the opportunity of reading
this book in manuscript form told us that the use of sweets was often helpful, of course depending upon a doctor's advice.
30.
31.
32.
There is something spiritual about an art museum or a symphony, and the
Catholic Church approves of our use of them.
33.
If we would gain any real advantage in the use of this Step on problems other than alcohol, we shall need to make a brand new venture into open-mindedness.
34.
35.
We had to see that when we harbored grudges and planned revenge for such defeats, we were really beating ourselves with the club of anger we had intended to use on others.
36.
The association wanted
to use our member's full name in all its advertising; he was to be
described both as its director of publicity and as a member of
Alcoholics Anonymous.
37.
38.
39.
40.
In former days, the moment an A.A. hired out to such enterprises, he was immediately tempted to
use the name Alcoholics Anonymous for
publicity or money-raising purposes.
41.
42.
They rush from crisis to crisis and from member to member, pleading; but it's no use, the revolution is on.
43.
Instead, the Washingtonians permitted politicians
and reformers, both alcoholic and nonalcoholic, to use the society for their own purposes.
44.
45.
46.
47.
48.
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.
49.
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.
50.
51.
On the next page, A.A.'s "12 Traditions" are seen in their
so-called "short form" the form in general use today.
52.
Simply because it is impossible to explain what
we see, feel, direct, and use, without a reasonable assumption as a starting
point.
53.
The 164 and More™ Book, eBook, and Web Site
are all CONCORDANCES which display passages from the Big Book
Alcoholics Anonymous, the
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions,
and the A.A. Grapevine (A.A. Preamble only).
Sorting and rendering passages in the proprietary format of the
164 and More concordance does not in any way imply
affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous World Services
Inc., or the A.A. Grapevine, Inc. Further A.A.W.S. Inc. and the A.A.
Grapevine Inc. have no objection to the use of this material in the
164 and More concordance.
Copyright © 2005-2023, Recovery Press LLC; All Rights Reserved.