From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... difficulties.
12&12 p.61,
Step Five
We shall want to speak with someone who is experienced, who not only has stayed dry but has been able to surmount other serious difficulties.
2.
... difficulties.
BB p.94,
Working With Others
Make it plain he is under no obligation to you, that you hope only that he will try to help other alcoholics when he
escapes his own difficulties.
3.
... difficulties.(*)
BB p.121,
To Wives
That is why we are anxious
that you understand, and that you avoid these unnecessary
difficulties.(*)
4.
... difficulties beyond
our conception.
BB xxvii(xxv),
The Doctor's Opinion
We doctors have realized for a long time that some form of moral psychology was of urgent importance to alcoholics, but its application presented
difficulties beyond our conception.
5.
... difficulties don't
fall under such a category ...
12&12 p.64,
Step Six
6.
... difficulties had
better be postponed, when possible, ...
12&12 p.91,
Step Ten
The consideration of long-standing difficulties had better be postponed, when possible, to times deliberately set aside for that purpose.
7.
... difficulties, he
would return to us convinced.
12&12 p.23,
Step One
After a few such experiences, often years before the onset of extreme difficulties, he would
return to us convinced.
8.
... difficulties is
worth any amount of criticism.
BB p.100,
Working With Others
9.
... difficulties may
develop.
12&12 p.119,
Step Twelve
It is only where "boy meets girl on A.A. campus," and love follows at first sight, that difficulties may develop.
10.
... difficulties of
life.
12&12 p.16,
Foreword
Many people, nonalcoholics, report
that as a result of the practice of A.A.'s Twelve Steps, they have been
able to meet other difficulties of life.
11.
... difficulties of
our adolescent period were being ...
BB xix,
Foreword to Second Edition
While the internal difficulties of our adolescent
period were being ironed out, public acceptance of A.A. grew by leaps and bounds.
12.
... difficulties of
trying to deal rightly with ...
12&12 p.59,
Step Five
13.
... difficulties or
a nurse for his sprees, ...
BB p.95,
Working With Others
If he is not interested in your solution, if he expects
you to act only as a banker
for his financial difficulties or a nurse for his sprees, you may have to drop
him until he changes his
mind.
14.
... difficulties, or
perhaps that boy we thought ...
12&12 p.113,
Step Twelve
Maybe there are serious domestic or romantic
difficulties, or perhaps
that boy we thought God was looking after becomes a military casualty.
15.
Difficulties, perhaps,
like our own.
12&12 p.61,
Step Five
16.
... difficulties presented
themselves.
BB p.156,
A Vision For You
17.
... difficulties, that
victory over them may bear ...
BB p.63,
How It Works
Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy Power, Thy Love, and Thy Way of life.
18.
... difficulties that
we can.
12&12 p.80,
Step Eight
While the purpose of making restitution to others is paramount, it is
equally necessary that
we extricate from an examination of our personal relations every bit of information about ourselves and our fundamental difficulties
that we can.
19.
... difficulties that
would have made nine out ...
BB p.138,
To Employers
I pointed out that I had had
nothing to drink whatever for three years, and this in the face of
difficulties that would have made nine out of ten men drink their heads off.
20.
... difficulties, the
chief block to true progress.
12&12 p.49,
Step Four
For pride, leading to self-justification, and
always spurred by conscious or unconscious fears, is the
basic breeder of most human difficulties, the chief block to true progress.
21.
... difficulties with
Mr. Brown, Mrs. Jones, the ...
BB p.67,
How It Works
Notice that the word "fear" is bracketed alongside the difficulties
with Mr. Brown, Mrs. Jones, the employer, and the wife.
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