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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... disturbed.
BB p.118,
To Wives
I'm
sorry I got
disturbed.
2.
... disturbed and
skeptical.
12&12 p.148,
Tradition Four
These few were
disturbed and
skeptical.
3.
... disturbed by
all the seeming evidence to ...
12&12 p.105,
Step Eleven
The
moment we
catch even a
glimpse of
God's will, the
moment we
begin to see
truth,
justice, and
love as the
real and
eternal things in
life, we are
no
longer deeply disturbed by all the
seeming evidence to the
contrary
that
surrounds us in
purely human affairs.
4.
... disturbed him
about the question of alcoholism.
BB p.94,
Working With Others
Maybe you have
disturbed him about the
question of
alcoholism.
5.
... disturbed, it
is because I find some ...
BB p.417(449),
Acceptance
When I am
disturbed, it is because I find some
person, place, thing or
situation -- some
fact of my
life --
unacceptable
to me, and I can find no
serenity until I
accept that
person, place,
thing or
situation as being
exactly the way it is
supposed to be at this
moment.
6.
... disturbed my
wife.
BB p.2,
Bill's Story
Though my
drinking was not
yet continuous, it
disturbed my
wife.
7.
... disturbed, no
matter what the cause, there ...
12&12 p.90,
Step Ten
It is a
spiritual axiom
that every
time we are
disturbed, no
matter what the
cause, there is something
wrong
with us.
8.
... disturbed others,
we can now commence to ...
12&12 p.81,
Step Eight
Having
carefully surveyed this
whole area of
human relations, and having
decided exactly what
personality traits in us
injured and
disturbed
others, we can now
commence to
ransack memory for the
people to whom we have
given offense.
9.
... disturbed, our
first need was to quiet ...
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.
10.
... disturbed us,
they, like ourselves, were sick ...
BB p.67,
How It Works
Though we did not like their
symptoms and the way
these
disturbed us, they, like ourselves, were
sick too.
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