Say What?
If a person has a grateful heart, they will never do this.
What is “drink?” (“A grateful heart will never drink.”)
The “recovery section” of the Big Book ends a Vision and has this many pages.
What is 164?
When we take stock of our lives, we employ this virtue through the whole process.
What is "honesty?" (BB p. 64)
What is "power?" (BB p. 45)
As we work our Steps, these feelings will disappear.
What are "feelings of uselessness and self-pity?" (Promise #6 - That feeling of uselessness and self-pity will disappear.)
The ability of an AA member to connect with and help a newcomer depends not upon their “learning, eloquence or any special individual skills”, but upon this.
What is “having found a key to sobriety?” (12&12 p. 151 - Tradition 5)
If we experience something unpleasant and wait long enough, we are assured of this.
What is “this too shall will pass?” (This too shall pass).
If you are not taking yourself so seriously, you may find yourself thinking about this number.
What is 62? (Rule 62 - 12 & 12 p 149)
This is the "number one" offender that destroys more alcoholics than anything else.
What is "resentment?" (BB p. 64)
My conception of my high power need must make sense to this person.
Who is "me?" (BB p. 46)
Fear of this insecurity will leave us.
What is "people or economic?" (Promise #10 - Fear of people and of economic insecurity will leave us)
Without this, most of us have found the faith which really works in daily living is still out of reach.
What is "a fearless and searching moral inventory?" (12&12 p. 43 - Step 4)
f something is working, for goodness sake, don’t do this!
What is “fix it?” (“If something works, don’t fix it.”)
The first group of alcoholics to recover - which number this many - considered using their number in the title of the Big Book.
What is 100? (BB Forward to the Second Edition).
When we harbor resentments, we shut ourselves off from this.
What is "the sunlight of the Spirit?" (BB p. 66)
These attributes characterize "The Realm of the Spirit".
What are "Broad, roomy, all inclusive; never exclusive or forbidding?" (BB p. 46)
When the spiritual malady is overcome, we straighten out in these two areas as well.
What are "mentally and physically?" (P. 64)
Before this tradition was adopted, out of for how "decent people would view them", certain AA groups "only catered to pure and respectable alcoholics!"
What is "Tradition 3?" (12&12 p.140 - Tradition 3 - "The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking.")
This works well in keeping a garden growing, and also in handling our most difficult problems.
What is “turn it over?”
The Steps are a “simple kit of spiritual tools”, which when used, has the power to transport an alcoholic into this dimension of existence.
What is the 4th? (BB p. 25)
This is "our course" for "mastering" resentments held against people and things which dominate us?
What is "to realize the people who wronged us were perhaps spiritually sick?" (BB p.67)
In terms of a Higher Power, this is all that is required to be emphatically assured the a person is on their way to recovery.
What is "to believe or be willing to believe? (BB p.47)
(As soon as a man can say that he does believe, or is willing to believe, we emphatically assure him that he is on his way. It has been repeatedly proven among us that upon this simple cornerstone a wonderfully effective spiritual structure can be built.)
This is the answer to all my problems today.
What is "acceptance?" (BB p. 417)
The Acceptance Passage - "And acceptance is the answer to all my problems today. When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing, or situation—some fact of my life
unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing ..."
Alcoholics defy their natural desire for self preservation, and seem bent on this.
What is "self destruction?" (12&12 p. 64 - Step 6)
Step Zero is to “stop up” a certain container.
What is “put the plug in the jug?”
Though we look for progress not perfection, this Step is the only Step that must be practiced with absolute perfection.
What is Step 1? (BB p. 68)
When dealing with unreasonable fears, this is "perhaps the better way."
What is "we trust infinite God rather than our finite selves." (BB p. 68)
Deep down in every man, woman, and child is this fundamental idea.
If you have a resentment that won't go away, do this for the other person for two weeks to find relief.
What is "pray for them?" (BB p. 552)
He said, in effect: “If you have a resentment you
want to be free of, if you will pray for the person orthe thing that you resent, you will be free. If you will ask in prayer for everything you want for yourself to be given to them, you will be free. Ask for their
health, their prosperity, their happiness, and you will
be free.... Do it every day for two weeks..."
This kind of inventory is done in the moment!
What is a "spot-check inventory?" (12&12 p. 90 - Step 10)