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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
DIFFICULTY occurs
13 times
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1.
... difficulty.
12&12 p.142,
Tradition Three
Never did he
trouble anyone with his
other difficulty.
2.
... difficulty.
BB p.15,
Bill's Story
The
joy of
living we
really have,
even under pressure and
difficulty.
3.
... difficulty arises
with agnostics.
BB p.45,
We Agnostics
Here difficulty arises with
agnostics.
4.
... difficulty in
casting aside such feelings.
BB p.48,
We Agnostics
5.
... difficulty in
realizing how hopeless they actually ...
12&12 p.22,
Step One
Even these "
last-
gaspers"
often had
difficulty in
realizing how
hopeless they
actually
were.
6.
... difficulty is
that few alcoholics have enough ...
BB p.32,
More About Alcoholism
But the
difficulty is that
few
alcoholics have
enough
desire to
stop while there is
yet time.
7.
... difficulty is
that you may become jealous ...
BB p.119,
To Wives
8.
... difficulty is
this: what comes to us ...
12&12 p.60,
Step Five
The
second difficulty is
this: what
comes to us
alone
may be
garbled by our
own rationalization and
wishful thinking.
9.
... difficulty lasted
long.
BB p.134,
The Family Afterward
We do not
know of
many cases where this
difficulty lasted long.
10.
... difficulty or
defect?
12&12 p.64,
Step Six
Having been
granted a
perfect release from
alcoholism,
why then
shouldn't we be
able to
achieve by the
same means a
perfect release from
every other difficulty or
defect?
11.
... difficulty, re-reading
chapters two and three, where ...
BB p.140,
To Employers
12.
... difficulty, that
he obviously knows what he ...
BB p.18,
There Is A Solution
That the
man who is
making
the
approach has had the
same difficulty, that he
obviously knows what he is
talking about, that his
whole deportment shouts at the
new prospect that he is a
man with
a
real answer, that he has
no attitude of
Holier Than
Thou,
nothing whatever except the
sincere desire to be
helpful; that
there are
no fees to
pay,
no axes
to
grind,
no people to
please,
no lectures to be
endured -- these are the
conditions we have
found
most
effective.
13.
... difficulty with
the spirituality of the program.
BB p.568(570),
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience
We
find that
no one need have
difficulty with the
spirituality of the
program.
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