"feel" in the Big Book

W ar fever ran high in the New England town to which we new, young officers from Plattsburg were assigned, and we were flattered when the first citizens took us to their homes, making us feel heroic.

We commenced to make many fast friends and a fellowship has grown up among us of which it is a wonderful thing to feel a part.

Most of us feel we need look no further for Utopia.

We feel that elimination of our drinking is but a beginning.

They sound like the philosophy of the man who, having a headache, beats himself on the head with a hammer so that he can’t feel the ache.

But try and get them to see it!* As we look back, we feel we had gone on drinking many years beyond the point where we could quit on our will power.

Simply because it is impossible to explain what we see, feel, direct, and use, without a reasonable assumption as a starting point.

ficiency’’ worked with them, we began to feel like those who had insisted the Wrights would never fly.

We agnostically inclined would not feel satisfied with a proposal which does not lend itself to reasonable approach and interpretation.

We begin to feel the nearness of our Creator.

We feel we are on the Broad Highway, walking hand in hand with the Spirit of the Universe.

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.

The husband begins to feel lonely, sorry for himself.

We feel we ought to say to her that we have no right to involve another person.

We feel a man is unthinking when he says that sobriety is enough.

We feel as though we had been placed in a position of neutrality—safe and protected.

He will feel he can deal with you without being nagged by his family.

We feel that each family, in the light of their own circumstances, ought to decide for themselves.

As wives of Alcoholics Anonymous, we would like you to feel that we understand as perhaps few can.

If you are positive he is one of this type you may feel you had better leave.

His friends feel closer over a highball.

You will no longer be self-conscious or feel that you must apologize as though your husband were a weak character.

It is the most natural thing in the world, once his liquor problem is solved, to feel that he will now measure up to that cherished vision.

You feel he should now be yours.

Make him feel absolutely free to come and go as he likes.

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.

They are all disappointed, and often let him feel it.

Dad may feel that for years his drinking has placed him on the wrong side of every argument, but that now he has become a superior person with God on his side.

Instead of treating the family as he should, he may retreat further into himself and feel he has spiritual justification for so doing.

The family may feel they hold a mortgage on dad, so big that no equity should be left for outsiders.

Even when you understand the malady better, you may feel this feeling rising.

It is better for him to feel fully responsible.

But you should feel under no obligation to keep him on, for your obligation has been well discharged already.

At the same time you will feel no reluctance to rid yourself of those who cannot or will not stop.

Even if you feel your organization has no alcoholic problem, it might pay to take another look down the line.

Feel better.