From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... financial.
BB p.172,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
2.
... financial and
emotional security.
12&12 p.51,
Step Four
Also of importance for
most alcoholics are the questions they must ask about their behavior respecting financial and emotional security.
3.
... financial assistance.
BB p.96,
Working With Others
4.
... financial crisis
to correcting a minor personal ...
12&12 p.103,
Step Eleven
We have seen A.A.'s ask with much earnestness and faith for
God's explicit guidance on matters ranging all the way from a shattering domestic or
financial crisis to correcting a minor personal fault, like tardiness.
5.
... financial difficulties
or a nurse for his ...
BB p.95,
Working With Others
If he is not interested in your solution, if he expects
you to act only as a banker
for his financial difficulties or a nurse
for his sprees, you may have to drop him until he changes his mind.
6.
... financial harm.
BB p.78,
Into Action
7.
Financial importance
was no longer our principal ...
12&12 p.121,
Step Twelve
8.
... financial independence
looked more important than a ...
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.
9.
... financial independence
part of its tradition, Alcoholics ...
12&12 p.165,
Tradition Seven
They pointed out that the irresponsible had become responsible, and
that by making financial independence part of its tradition, Alcoholics Anonymous
had revived an ideal that
its era had almost forgotten.
10.
... financial insecurity
constantly arouses these same feelings.
12&12 p.52,
Step Four
11.
... financial insecurity,
disgusted friends and employers, warped ...
BB p.18,
There Is A Solution
It brings misunderstanding, fierce resentment, financial insecurity, disgusted friends and employers, warped lives of blameless children, sad wives and parents -- anyone can increase the list.
12.
... financial insecurity
of every human being in ...
12&12 p.121,
Step Twelve
We forgot that most alcoholics in A.A. have an earning power considerably above average; we forgot the immense goodwill of our brother A.A.'s who were only too
eager to help us to better jobs when we deserved them; we forgot
the actual or potential
financial insecurity of
every human being in the world.
13.
... financial insecurity
worries him sick, and panic ...
12&12 p.39,
Step Three
His financial insecurity
worries him sick, and panic takes over when he thinks of all the
bridges to safety that alcohol burned behind him.
14.
... financial instability?
12&12 p.51,
Step Four
Surveying his business or employment
record, almost any alcoholic can ask questions like these: In addition to my
drinking problem, what
character defects contributed to my financial instability?
15.
... financial leaders
were my heroes.
BB p.2,
Bill's Story
16.
... financial level,
quite impossible.
12&12 p.121,
Step Twelve
And these were fears which would make a serene and useful existence, at any financial level, quite impossible.
17.
... financial or
otherwise, we owe.
12&12 p.84,
Step Nine
18.
... financial policy.
12&12 p.165,
Tradition Seven
19.
... financial principle;
that it place none of ...
BB p.575,
Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form)
XII. The Conference shall observe the spirit of A.A. tradition, taking care that it never becomes the seat of perilous wealth or power; that sufficient operating funds and reserve be its prudent financial principle; that it place none of its members in a position of
unqualified authority over others; that it reach all important decisions by
discussion, vote, and,
whenever possible, by
substantial unanimity; that its actions never be personally punitive nor an incitement to public controversy; that
it never perform acts of government, and
that, like the Society it
serves, it will always remain democratic in thought
and action.
20.
... financial recovery
is on the way for ...
BB p.127,
The Family Afterward
21.
... financial reference
service.
BB p.2,
Bill's Story
We gave up our positions and off we roared on a motorcycle,
the sidecar stuffed with
tent, blankets, a change of clothes, and three huge volumes of a financial reference service.
22.
... financial reverses.
12&12 p.114,
Step Twelve
Though the earning power of most A.A.'s is relatively high, we have
some members who never seem to get on their feet moneywise, and still others who encounter heavy financial reverses.
23.
... financial security.
BB p.105,
To Wives
24.
... financial security
-- commence to change profoundly.
12&12 p.115,
Step Twelve
After we come into A.A., if we go on growing, our attitudes
and actions toward security -- emotional security and financial security -- commence to
change profoundly.
25.
... financial security
that he wants to do ...
12&12 p.43,
Step Four
Another may develop such an obsession for financial security that he wants to do nothing but hoard money.
26.
... financial security
we must have -- or else.
12&12 p.121,
Step Twelve
27.
... financial statement.
12&12 p.136,
Tradition Two
28.
... financial success.
BB p.127,
The Family Afterward
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