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From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)

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FEARS   occurs   14 times    (Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
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1.
... fears.   12&12 p.121, Step Twelve
When a job still looked like a mere means of getting money rather than an opportunity for service, when the acquisition of money for financial independence looked more important than a right dependence upon God, we were still the victims of unreasonable fears.

2.
... fears.   12&12 p.184, Tradition Twelve
But in the beginning, anonymity was not born of confidence; it was the child of our early fears.

3.
... fears are the termites that ceaselessly devour ...   12&12 p.49, Step Four
These fears are the termites that ceaselessly devour the foundations of whatever sort of life we try to build.

4.
... fears, despite advice from the Foundation that ...   12&12 p.148, Tradition Four
By his eloquence he allayed all fears, despite advice from the Foundation that it could issue no charter, and that ventures which mixed an A.A. group with medication and education had come to sticky ends elsewhere.


5.
... fears fall from us.   BB p.75, Into Action   Go to page 75 in the Big Book
Our fears fall from us.

6.
... fears have subsided.   12&12 p.171, Tradition Eight
It is significant, now that almost no A.A. in our Fellowship breaks anonymity at the public level, that nearly all these fears have subsided.

7.
... fears, is the basic breeder of most ...   12&12 p.49, Step Four
For pride, leading to self-justification, and always spurred by conscious or unconscious fears, is the basic breeder of most human difficulties, the chief block to true progress.

8.
... fears, no matter what our material prospects ...   12&12 p.121, Step Twelve
But as time passed we found that with the help of A.A.'s Twelve Steps we could lose those fears, no matter what our material prospects were.

9.
... fears often continued to haunt us.   12&12 p.121, Step Twelve
Even when we were well reestablished in our business, these terrible fears often continued to haunt us.

10.
... fears or anxieties into making a life ...   12&12 p.123, Step Twelve
We have seen that we were prodded by unreasonable fears or anxieties into making a life business of winning fame, money, and what we thought was leadership.

11.
... fears that they could get over them, ...   12&12 p.122, Step Twelve
When, with God's help, we calmly accepted our lot, then we found we could live at peace with ourselves and show others who still suffered the same fears that they could get over them, too.


12.
... fears thoroughly.   BB p.68, How It Works   Go to page 68 in the Big Book
We reviewed our fears thoroughly.

13.
... fears were to prove groundless?   12&12 p.140, Tradition Three
How could we then guess that all those fears were to prove groundless?

14.
... fears which would make a serene and ...   12&12 p.121, Step Twelve
And these were fears which would make a serene and useful existence, at any financial level, quite impossible.


Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.  The A.A. Preamble, copyright © The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission.  Permission to reprint does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous or The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.

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