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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... "Fear."
12&12 p.123,
Step Twelve
2.
... fear.
12&12 p.140,
Tradition Three
If all those
rules had been in
effect everywhere,
nobody could have
possibly
joined A.A. at all, so
great was the
sum of our
anxiety and
fear.
3.
... (fear).
BB p.65,
How It Works
4.
... (fear).
BB p.65,
How It Works
5.
... (fear).
BB p.65,
How It Works
Mr.
Brown --
Brown may get my
job at the
office --
security;
self esteem (
fear).
6.
... (fear).
BB p.65,
How It Works
7.
... (fear).
BB p.65,
How It Works
8.
... fear.
BB p.68,
How It Works
At once, we
commence to
outgrow fear.
9.
... fear.
BB p.84,
Into Action
10.
... fear.
BB p.104,
To Wives
11.
... fear.
BB p.116,
To Wives
There is another
paralyzing fear.
12.
... fear.
BB p.145,
To Employers
13.
... fear, a soul-sickness in its own right.
12&12 p.49,
Step Four
14.
... fear, and despair, and even the death ...
12&12 p.131,
Tradition One
And this they did find, in
measure to
transcend all the
defects
of their
frail craft, every
test of
uncertainty,
pain,
fear, and
despair, and even the
death
of one.
15.
... fear and direct our attention to what ...
BB p.68,
How It Works
We
ask Him to
remove our
fear and
direct our
attention to what He would have us be.
16.
... fear and frustration fell over the group.
12&12 p.149,
Tradition Four
17.
... fear and inferiority about my fitness for ...
12&12 p.51,
Step Four
Did
fear and
inferiority about my
fitness for my
job destroy my
confidence
and
fill me with
conflict?
18.
... fear and reluctance to do this, that ...
12&12 p.55,
Step Five
So
intense, though, is our
fear and
reluctance to do
this, that many
A.A.'s at
first
try to
bypass Step Five.
19.
... fear and tension -- that makes for more ...
BB p.73,
Into Action
He is under
constant fear
and
tension -- that makes for more
drinking.
20.
... fear, anger, worry, self-pity, or foolish decisions.
BB p.88,
Into Action
21.
... fear beat him back every time he ...
12&12 p.49,
Step Four
Both his
pride and his
fear
beat him back every
time he
tries to
look within himself.
22.
... fear conspired with pride to hinder our ...
12&12 p.79,
Step Eight
These were some of the
ways in which
fear conspired with
pride to
hinder our
making a
list of all the people
we had
harmed.
23.
... fear, fear which today has been largely ...
12&12 p.167,
Tradition Eight
But when we had
declared that our
Fellowship couldn't
hire service workers nor could
any
A.A. member carry our
knowledge into
other
fields, we were
taking the
counsel of
fear,
fear which
today has been
largely dispelled in the
light of
experience.
24.
... fear, frustration, and depression.
12&12 p.44,
Step Four
25.
... fear, frustration, or misunderstanding, and permit us ...
12&12 p.103,
Step Eleven
Just saying it over and over will often
enable us
to
clear a
channel choked up with
anger,
fear,
frustration, or
misunderstanding, and
permit us to
return to the
surest help of all -- our
search for
God's will, not our
own, in the
moment of
stress.
26.
... fear, greed, possessiveness, and pride have too ...
12&12 p.51,
Step Four
In these
areas fear,
greed,
possessiveness,
and
pride have too often done their
worst.
27.
Fear gripped him.
BB p.154,
A Vision For You
28.
... fear, in turn, generates more character defects.
12&12 p.49,
Step Four
29.
... "fear" is bracketed alongside the difficulties with ...
BB p.67,
How It Works
30.
... fear, jealousy, and the like.
12&12 p.88,
Step Ten
31.
... fear nor favor, we can truly thank ...
12&12 p.95,
Step Ten
Having so
considered our
day, not
omitting to take
due note of things well done, and
having
searched our
hearts with neither
fear nor
favor, we can
truly thank God for the
blessings we have
received and
sleep in
good conscience.
32.
... fear of creditors no matter how far ...
BB p.78,
Into Action
We
must lose our
fear of
creditors no
matter how far we have to go, for we are
liable to
drink if we are
afraid to
face them.
33.
Fear of people and of economic insecurity ...
BB p.84,
Into Action
Fear of people and of
economic insecurity
will
leave us.
34.
... fear of the alcoholic stigma, and spread ...
12&12 p.186,
Tradition Twelve
35.
... fear of the next debauch; the mother ...
BB p.104,
To Wives
But for every
man who
drinks
others are
involved -- the
wife who
trembles in
fear of the
next debauch; the
mother and
father who see their
son wasting away.
36.
... fear of this sort turn out to ...
12&12 p.49,
Step Four
But the
testimony of
A.A.'s
who have really
tried a
moral inventory is that
pride and
fear of this
sort turn out to be
bogeymen,
nothing else.
37.
... fear of today, tomorrow or the hereafter.
BB p.63,
How It Works
38.
... fear or hate anybody, has to be ...
12&12 p.93,
Step Ten
The
idea that we can be
possessively loving of
a few, can
ignore the many, and can
continue to
fear or
hate anybody, has to be
abandoned, if only a
little at a
time.
39.
... fear or intolerance may lessen your husband's ...
BB p.120,
To Wives
40.
... fear ought to be classed with stealing.
BB p.68,
How It Works
Sometimes we
think fear ought
to be
classed with
stealing.
41.
... fear pain less, and desire humility more ...
12&12 p.75,
Step Seven
We
began to
fear pain less, and
desire humility more than
ever.
42.
... fear -- primarily fear that we would lose ...
12&12 p.76,
Step Seven
The
chief activator of
our
defects has been
self-
centered fear --
primarily fear that we would
lose something we
already
possessed or would
fail to get something we
demanded.
43.
... fear problem, or any other.
BB p.68,
How It Works
Some of us once had
great self-
confidence, but it
didn't
fully solve the
fear problem, or any other.
44.
... Fear says, "You dare not look!"
12&12 p.49,
Step Four
Pride says, "You
need not
pass this way," and
Fear says,
"You
dare not
look!"
45.
... (fear); security.
BB p.65,
How It Works
46.
... fear, self-delusion, self-seeking, and self-pity, we step ...
BB p.62,
How It Works
47.
... fear, self-pity, and hurt feelings, it was ...
12&12 p.59,
Step Five
Because we were still
bothered by
fear,
self-
pity, and
hurt feelings, it was
probable
we couldn't
appraise ourselves
fairly at all.
48.
Fear sobered me for a bit.
BB p.8,
Bill's Story
Fear sobered me for a
bit.
49.
... fear, society breaking up into warring fragments.
12&12 p.37,
Step Three
50.
... fear that he might start drinking again.
BB xvi,
Foreword to Second Edition
The
broker had
gone to
Akron on a
business venture which had
collapsed,
leaving him
greatly in
fear that he might
start drinking again.
51.
... fear that large numbers of incoming people ...
12&12 p.184,
Tradition Twelve
Between these
lines, it is
easy to
read our
fear that
large numbers of
incoming people
might
break our
anonymity wide open.
52.
... fear that our instincts will not be ...
12&12 p.49,
Step Four
Unreasonable fear that
our
instincts will not be
satisfied drives us to
covet the
possessions of
others, to
lust for
sex and
power, to
become angry when our
instinctive demands are
threatened, to be
envious when the
ambitions of others
seem to
be
realized while ours are not.
53.
... fear that we would lose something we ...
12&12 p.76,
Step Seven
The
chief activator of
our
defects has been
self-
centered fear --
primarily fear that we would
lose something we
already
possessed or would
fail to get something we
demanded.
54.
... fear the true basis of intolerance?
12&12 p.140,
Tradition Three
After all, isn't
fear the
true
basis of
intolerance?
55.
... fear; they only thought they had humbled ...
BB p.73,
Into Action
They only
thought they had
lost their
egoism and
fear; they only
thought they had
humbled themselves.
56.
... fear was more important than freedom from ...
12&12 p.122,
Step Twelve
We
found that
freedom from
fear was more
important
than
freedom from
want.
57.
... fear, we were unhappy, we couldn't seem ...
BB p.52,
We Agnostics
We were having
trouble with
personal relationships, we couldn't
control our
emotional natures, we were a
prey to
misery and
depression, we
couldn't make a
living, we had a
feeling of
uselessness,
we were
full of
fear, we were
unhappy, we couldn't
seem
to be of
real help to other
people -- was not a
basic solution of these
bedevilments more
important than whether we should see
newsreels of
lunar flight?
58.
... fear which today has been largely dispelled ...
12&12 p.167,
Tradition Eight
But when we had
declared that our
Fellowship couldn't
hire service workers nor could
any
A.A. member carry our
knowledge into
other
fields, we were
taking the
counsel of
fear,
fear which
today has been
largely dispelled in the
light of
experience.
59.
... fear will always lurk in every A.A. ...
12&12 p.168,
Tradition Eight
Perhaps the
fear will always
lurk in every
A.A. heart that one
day our
name will be
exploited by
somebody for
real cash.
60.
... fear, worry and hurt feelings is a ...
BB p.116,
To Wives
When we do that, we find it
solves our
problems too; the
ensuing
lack of
fear,
worry and
hurt feelings is a
wonderful
thing.
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