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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
Though some of us
resisted, we
found no
great difficulty in
casting aside such
feelings.
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
Still another
difficulty is that you may
become jealous of the
attention he
bestows on
other people,
especially alcoholics.
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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