From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... caused at
home.
12&12 p.81,
Step Eight
When we take such personality traits as
these into shop, office, and
the society of our fellows, they can do damage
almost as extensive as
that we have caused at home.
2.
... caused by
the action of alcohol on ...
BB p.140,
To Employers
Can it be appreciated that he has been a victim of crooked thinking, directly caused by the action of alcohol on his brain?
3.
... caused by
the behavior of other people ...
12&12 p.45,
Step Four
Our present anxieties
and troubles, we cry, are
caused by the behavior of
other people -- people who really need a moral inventory.
4.
... caused by
the behavior of others, why ...
12&12 p.52,
Step Four
Or, if my disturbance was seemingly caused by the behavior of others, why do I lack the ability to accept conditions I cannot change?
5.
... caused chiefly
by excessive drinking.
12&12 p.45,
Step Four
We shall claim that our serious character defects, if we think we have
any at all, have been caused chiefly by excessive drinking.
6.
... caused him.
BB p.36,
More About Alcoholism
Here was the threat of commitment, the loss of family and position, to say nothing of that intense mental and physical suffering which
drinking always caused him.
7.
... caused it.
12&12 p.47,
Step Four
We learned that if we were seriously disturbed,
our first need was to quiet that disturbance,
regardless of who or what we thought caused it.
8.
... caused many
a rebellious alcoholic to conclude ...
12&12 p.38,
Step Three
This very form of faulty dependence has
caused many a rebellious alcoholic
to conclude that dependence of any sort must be intolerably damaging.
9.
... caused me
anxiety, bitterness, frustration, or depression?
12&12 p.52,
Step Four
Questioning directed to this end might run like this: Looking at both past and present, what sex situations have caused me anxiety, bitterness, frustration, or depression?
10.
... caused others
and ourselves.
12&12 p.43,
Step Four
11.
... caused our
failure.
BB p.64,
How It Works
12.
... caused the
people we had loved most ...
12&12 p.115,
Step Twelve
13.
... caused us
more trouble than holding back ...
12&12 p.56,
Step Five
14.
... caused us
to play the big shot ...
12&12 p.116,
Step Twelve
But when self-will had driven everybody away and our isolation had
become complete, it
caused us to play the big shot in cheap barrooms and then fare forth alone on the street to depend upon the charity of passersby.
15.
... caused you,
being careful not to moralize ...
BB p.91,
Working With Others
If he is in a serious mood
dwell on the troubles liquor has caused you, being careful not to moralize or lecture.
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