From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... "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
6.
... (fear).
BB p.65,
How It Works
Mrs. Jones -- she's a nut, she snubbed me; she committed her husband for
drinking; he's my friend; she's a gossip -- personal relationship; self esteem (fear).
7.
... (fear).
BB p.65,
How It Works
My wife -- misunderstands and nags; likes Brown; wants the house put in her name -- pride; personal sex relations; security
(fear).
8.
... fear.
BB p.68,
How It Works
9.
... fear.
BB p.84,
Into Action
10.
... fear.
BB p.104,
To Wives
11.
... fear.
BB p.116,
To Wives
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
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
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
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
27.
Fear gripped
him.
BB p.154,
A Vision For You
Fear gripped him.
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
Notice that the word "fear" is bracketed alongside the difficulties with Mr. Brown, Mrs. Jones, the employer, and the
wife.
30.
... fear, jealousy,
and the like.
12&12 p.88,
Step Ten
That is the emotional hangover, the direct result of yesterday's and
sometimes today's excesses of negative emotion -- anger, fear, jealousy, and the like.
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
making a scene should I ...
BB p.173,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
Many mornings I have gone to classes, and even though fully prepared, would turn and walk back to the fraternity house because of my jitters, not daring to enter the classroom for
fear of making a scene should I be called on
for recitation.
34.
... fear of
not sleeping, and the other ...
BB p.175,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
35.
Fear of
people and of economic insecurity ...
BB p.84,
Into Action
36.
... fear of
running out of liquor.
BB p.175,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
37.
... fear of
the alcoholic stigma, and spread ...
12&12 p.186,
Tradition Twelve
These quiet disclosures helped him
to lose his fear of the alcoholic stigma, and spread the news of A.A.'s existence in his community.
38.
... 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.
39.
... 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.
40.
... fear of
today, tomorrow or the hereafter.
BB p.63,
How It Works
As we felt new power flow in, as we enjoyed peace of mind, as we discovered we
could face life successfully, as we became conscious of His presence, we began to lose our fear of today, tomorrow or the hereafter.
41.
... 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.
42.
... fear or
intolerance may lessen your husband's ...
BB p.120,
To Wives
43.
... fear ought
to be classed with stealing.
BB p.68,
How It Works
44.
... fear pain
less, and desire humility more ...
12&12 p.75,
Step Seven
45.
... 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.
46.
... 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.
47.
... Fear says,
"You dare not look!"
12&12 p.49,
Step Four
48.
... (fear); security.
BB p.65,
How It Works
My employer -- unreasonable, unjust,
overbearing; threatens to fire me for drinking and padding my expense account -- self esteem (fear); security.
49.
... fear, self-delusion,
self-seeking, and self-pity, we step ...
BB p.62,
How It Works
Driven by a hundred forms of fear, self-delusion, self-seeking, and self-pity, we step on the toes of our fellows and they retaliate.
50.
... 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.
51.
Fear sobered
me for a bit.
BB p.8,
Bill's Story
52.
... fear, society
breaking up into warring fragments.
12&12 p.37,
Step Three
53.
... 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.
54.
... 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.
55.
... 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.
56.
... 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.
57.
... fear the
true basis of intolerance?
12&12 p.140,
Tradition Three
58.
... 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.
59.
... fear was
more important than freedom from ...
12&12 p.122,
Step Twelve
60.
... 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?
61.
... 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.
62.
... 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.
63.
... 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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