Word Analysis
"themselves" in the Big Book
19
occurrences in 18 passages
By Chapter
Ch. 2: There Is a Solution1
Ch. 3: More About Alcoholism2
Ch. 4: We Agnostics2
Ch. 5: How It Works2
Ch. 6: Into Action2
Ch. 7: Working with Others1
Ch. 8: To Wives4
Ch. 9: The Family Afterward3
Ch. 11: A Vision for You2
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Chapter 2: There Is a Solution(1 passage)
We think it no concern of ours what religious bodies our members identify themselves with as individuals.
Chapter 2: There Is a Solution · Page 28Read in PDF →
Chapter 3: More About Alcoholism(2 passages)
By every form of self-deception and experimentation, they will try to prove themselves exceptions to the rule, therefore nonalcoholic.
Chapter 3: More About Alcoholism · Page 31Read in PDF →
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.
Chapter 3: More About Alcoholism · Page 33Read in PDF →
Chapter 4: We Agnostics(2 passages)
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.
Chapter 4: We Agnostics · Page 50Read in PDF →
The electrons themselves seemed more intelligent than that.
Chapter 4: We Agnostics · Page 54Read in PDF →
Chapter 5: How It Works(1 passage)
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.
Chapter 5: How It Works · Page 58Read in PDF →
Chapter 6: Into Action(2 passages)
Time after time newcomers have tried to keep to themselves certain facts about their lives.
Chapter 6: Into Action · Page 72Read in PDF →
They only thought they had lost their egoism and fear; they only thought they had humbled themselves.
Chapter 6: Into Action · Page 73Read in PDF →
Chapter 7: Working with Others(1 passage)
We feel that each family, in the light of their own circumstances, ought to decide for themselves.
Chapter 7: Working with Others · Page 103Read in PDF →
Chapter 8: To Wives(4 passages)
Some of us veered from extreme to extreme, ever hoping that one day our loved ones would be themselves once more.
Chapter 8: To Wives · Page 105Read in PDF →
Next day they would be themselves again and we would forgive and try to forget.
Chapter 8: To Wives · Page 106Read in PDF →
And even if they did not love their families, how could they be so blind about themselves?
Chapter 8: To Wives · Page 107Read in PDF →
The wives and children of such men suffer horribly, but not more than the men themselves.
Chapter 8: To Wives · Page 114Read in PDF →
Chapter 9: The Family Afterward(3 passages)
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.
Chapter 9: The Family Afterward · Page 126Read in PDF →
Instead of developing new channels of activity for themselves, mother and children demand that he stay home and make up the deficiency.
Chapter 9: The Family Afterward · Page 131Read in PDF →
Most of them give freely of themselves, that their fellows may enjoy sound minds and bodies.
Chapter 9: The Family Afterward · Page 133Read in PDF →
Chapter 11: A Vision for You(2 passages)
Plenty of difficulties presented themselves.
Chapter 11: A Vision for You · Page 156Read in PDF →
It was transcended by the happiness they found in giving themselves for others.
Chapter 11: A Vision for You · Page 159Read in PDF →