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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
FEELS occurs
13 times
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1.
... feels.
BB p.45,
We Agnostics
2.
... feels a moral responsibility for the well-being ...
BB p.137,
To Employers
3.
... feels a spiritual and ethical compulsion, because ...
12&12 p.133,
Tradition Two
4.
... feels free to discuss his problems with ...
BB p.144,
To Employers
If he
feels free to
discuss his
problems with
you, if he
knows you
understand and will not be
upset by anything he
wishes to
say, he will
probably be off to a
fast start.
5.
... feels he has struck something better than ...
BB p.129,
The Family Afterward
Father feels he has
struck something
better than
gold.
6.
... feels he is an atheist or agnostic ...
BB p.44,
We Agnostics
7.
... feels he is doing very well.
BB p.126,
The Family Afterward
He is
striving to
recover fortune and
reputation and
feels he is
doing very well.
8.
... feels sure A.A. is the only safe ...
12&12 p.35,
Step Three
9.
... feels that for years she has made ...
12&12 p.118,
Step Twelve
She
naturally feels that
for
years she has made a far
better job of
living than he has.
10.
... feels that something more than human power ...
BB xxix(xxvii),
The Doctor's Opinion
One
feels that something more than
human power is
needed to
produce the
essential psychic change.
11.
... feels, the better.
BB p.94,
Working With Others
The more
hopeless he
feels, the
better.
12.
... feels there is something rather sinful about ...
BB p.135,
The Family Afterward
His
wife is one of those
persons who really
feels there
is something rather
sinful about these
commodities, so she
nagged, and her
intolerance finally
threw
him into a
fit of
anger.
13.
... feels very remorseful at times, especially if ...
BB p.81,
Into Action
A
man so
involved often
feels very
remorseful at
times,
especially if he
is
married to a
loyal and
courageous girl who has
literally gone through
hell for him.
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