From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
1.
... disturbance and
frustration.
12&12 p.76,
Step Seven
Living upon a basis of unsatisfied demands, we were in a state
of continual disturbance
and frustration.
2.
... disturbance happens
to be great, we will ...
12&12 p.103,
Step Eleven
If at these points our emotional disturbance happens to be great, we will more surely keep our balance, provided we remember, and repeat to ourselves, a particular prayer or phrase that has appealed to
us in our reading or meditation.
3.
... disturbance or
indecision, we can pause, ask ...
12&12 p.41,
Step Three
In all times of emotional disturbance or indecision, we can pause,
ask for quiet, and in the stillness simply say: "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and
wisdom to know the difference. Thy will, not mine, be done."
4.
... disturbance, regardless
of who or what we ...
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.
5.
... disturbance was
seemingly caused by the behavior ...
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?
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