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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... 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
The
proceeding was
shot
through with much
hard feeling
and
controversy.
3.
... feeling and
expressing our regret.
BB p.77,
Into Action
4.
... feeling and
outlook.
BB p.567(569),
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience
5.
... feeling of
awe and wonder, but it ...
BB p.46,
We Agnostics
There was a
feeling of
awe and
wonder, but it was
fleeting and soon
lost.
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
When he
renews interest
in such things, a
feeling of
jealousy may
arise.
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
That
feeling of
uselessness and
self-
pity will
disappear.
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
13.
... feeling rising.
BB p.139,
To Employers
Even when you
understand the
malady better, you may
feel this
feeling rising.
14.
... feeling that
life is good.
BB p.151,
A Vision For You
It is
joyous intimacy
with
friends and a
feeling
that
life is
good.
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
The
feeling that the
drink problem has
disappeared
will often
come strongly.
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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