From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... feeling.
12&12 p.32,
Step Two
Or, going to the other extreme, we had wallowed
in emotionalism and had mistaken it for true religious feeling.
2.
... feeling and
controversy.
BB p.154,
A Vision For You
3.
... feeling and
expressing our regret.
BB p.77,
Into Action
We go to him in a helpful and
forgiving spirit, confessing our former ill feeling and expressing our regret.
4.
... feeling and
outlook.
BB p.567(569),
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience
Though it was not our intention to create such an impression, many alcoholics have nevertheless concluded that in order to
recover they must acquire an immediate and
overwhelming "God-consciousness" followed at once by a vast change in feeling and outlook.
5.
... feeling of
awe and wonder, but it ...
BB p.46,
We Agnostics
6.
... feeling of
being at one with God ...
12&12 p.62,
Step Five
This feeling of being at one with God and man, this emerging from isolation through the open and honest sharing of our terrible burden of guilt, brings us to a resting place where we may prepare ourselves for the following Steps toward a full and meaningful sobriety.
7.
... feeling of
having shared in a common ...
BB p.17,
There Is A Solution
The feeling of having shared
in a common peril is one element in the powerful cement which binds us.
8.
... feeling of
jealousy may arise.
BB p.131,
The Family Afterward
9.
... feeling of
superiority.
12&12 p.67,
Step Six
In a perverse way we can actually take satisfaction from the fact that many people annoy us, for it brings a comfortable
feeling of superiority.
10.
... feeling of
uselessness and self-pity will disappear.
BB p.84,
Into Action
11.
... feeling of
uselessness, we were full of ...
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?
12.
... feeling ourselves
justified by nervousness, anger, worry, ...
BB p.37,
More About Alcoholism
In some circumstances we have gone out deliberately to get drunk, feeling ourselves justified by
nervousness, anger, worry, depression, jealousy or the like.
13.
... feeling rising.
BB p.139,
To Employers
14.
... feeling that
life is good.
BB p.151,
A Vision For You
15.
... feeling that
my alcoholic condition was relieved, ...
BB p.42,
More About Alcoholism
But the moment I made up my mind to go through with the process, I had the curious
feeling that my alcoholic
condition was relieved, as in fact it proved to be.
16.
... feeling that
no situation is too difficult ...
BB p.104,
To Wives
We want to leave you with the
feeling that no situation is too difficult and no unhappiness too great to
be overcome.
17.
... feeling that
the drink problem has disappeared ...
BB p.75,
Into Action
18.
... feeling that
we could be forgiven, no ...
12&12 p.58,
Step Five
This vital Step was also the means by which we began to get the feeling that we could be forgiven, no matter what we had thought
or done.
19.
... feeling that
we didn't quite belong.
12&12 p.57,
Step Five
Even before our drinking got bad and people began to cut us off, nearly all of us suffered
the feeling that we didn't quite belong.
20.
... feeling that
we do not have to ...
12&12 p.124,
Step Twelve
Still more wonderful is the feeling
that we do not have to be specially distinguished among our
fellows in order to be useful and profoundly happy.
21.
... feeling that
you are dealing only with ...
BB p.140,
To Employers
Can you discard the feeling
that you are dealing only with habit, with stubbornness, or a weak
will?
22.
... feeling toward
him.
BB p.142,
To Employers
23.
... feeling was
intensified.
BB p.12,
Bill's Story
When the thought was expressed that there might be a God personal to me this feeling was intensified.
24.
... feeling we
are very likely to entertain ...
BB p.118,
To Wives
Another feeling we are very likely to entertain is one of resentment that love and loyalty could not cure our husbands of alcoholism.
25.
... feeling we
have for a friend.
BB p.55,
We Agnostics
We finally saw that faith in some kind of God was a part of our make-up, just as much as the feeling we have for a friend.
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