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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
DIFFICULTIES occurs
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1.
... 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
5.
... difficulties don't
fall under such a category ...
12&12 p.64,
Step Six
But most of our other
difficulties don't
fall under such a
category at
all.
6.
... difficulties had
better be postponed, when possible, ...
12&12 p.91,
Step Ten
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
The
story of how you and your
wife settled your
difficulties is
worth any
amount of
criticism.
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
At this
stage, the
difficulties of
trying to
deal rightly with
God by ourselves are
twofold.
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
Difficulties, perhaps, like our
own.
16.
... difficulties presented
themselves.
BB p.156,
A Vision For You
Plenty of
difficulties presented themselves.
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
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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