From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... anger?
12&12 p.90,
Step Ten
What about "justifiable" anger?
2.
... anger.
12&12 p.90,
Step Ten
3.
... anger.
BB p.66,
How It Works
4.
... anger.
BB p.135,
The Family Afterward
His wife is one of those persons who really feels there is something rather sinful about these commodities, so she nagged, and her intolerance finally threw him into a fit of anger.
5.
... anger, a
polite form of murder by ...
12&12 p.67,
Step Six
Gossip barbed with our
anger, a polite form of murder by character assassination, has its satisfactions for us, too.
6.
... anger also
can be very enjoyable.
12&12 p.67,
Step Six
7.
... anger and
fear, society breaking up into ...
12&12 p.37,
Step Three
8.
... anger and
hurt pride might be the ...
12&12 p.59,
Step Five
Or anger and hurt pride might be the smoke screen under which we were hiding some of our defects
while we blamed others for them.
9.
... anger, fear,
frustration, or misunderstanding, and permit ...
12&12 p.103,
Step Eleven
Just saying it over and over will often enable us to clear a channel choked up with anger, fear, frustration, or misunderstanding, and permit us to return to the surest help of all -- our search for God's will, not our own, in the moment of stress.
10.
... anger, fear,
jealousy, and the like.
12&12 p.88,
Step Ten
That is the emotional hangover, the direct result of yesterday's and
sometimes today's excesses of negative emotion -- anger, fear, jealousy, and the like.
11.
... anger, gluttony,
envy, and sloth.
12&12 p.48,
Step Four
To avoid falling into confusion over the names these defects should be
called, let's take a universally recognized list of major human failings -- the Seven Deadly Sins of pride, greed, lust, anger, gluttony, envy, and sloth.
12.
... anger in
others.
12&12 p.80,
Step Eight
13.
... anger, jealousy,
and revenge are likely to ...
12&12 p.44,
Step Four
If the pursuit of wealth
tramples upon people who happen to be in
the way, then anger, jealousy, and revenge are
likely to be aroused.
14.
... anger ought
to be left to those ...
12&12 p.90,
Step Ten
15.
... anger, self-pity,
and depression.
12&12 p.52,
Step Four
16.
Anger, that
occasional luxury of more balanced ...
12&12 p.90,
Step Ten
Anger, that occasional
luxury of more balanced people, could keep us on an emotional jag indefinitely.
17.
... anger we
had intended to use on ...
12&12 p.47,
Step Four
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.
18.
... anger, worry,
depression, jealousy or the like.
BB p.37,
More About Alcoholism
In some circumstances we have gone out deliberately to get drunk, feeling ourselves justified by
nervousness, anger, worry, depression, jealousy or the like.
19.
... anger, worry,
self-pity, or foolish decisions.
BB p.88,
Into Action
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