From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... misery.
12&12 p.54,
Step Four
2.
... misery.
12&12 p.67,
Step Six
Nearly anyone could submit a good list of such defects as these, and few of us
would seriously think of
giving them up, at least until they cause us excessive misery.
3.
... misery.
12&12 p.141,
Tradition Three
At last experience taught us that to take away any alcoholic's full chance was sometimes to pronounce his death sentence, and often to condemn him to endless
misery.
4.
... misery.
BB p.133,
The Family Afterward
5.
... misery, and
a strong desire to retaliate ...
12&12 p.80,
Step Eight
If our sex conduct is selfish, we may excite jealousy, misery, and a strong desire to retaliate in kind.
6.
... misery and
depression, we couldn't make a ...
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?
7.
... misery and
sobriety, and often the difference ...
BB p.561(563),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
To those now in its fold, Alcoholics Anonymous
has made the difference
between misery and sobriety, and often the difference between life and death.
8.
... misery, bad
repute and hopelessness?
BB p.153,
A Vision For You
9.
... misery, but
if trouble comes, cheerfully capitalize ...
BB p.133,
The Family Afterward
Avoid then, the deliberate manufacture of misery, but
if trouble comes, cheerfully capitalize
it as an opportunity to demonstrate His omnipotence.
10.
... misery for
them.
BB p.124,
The Family Afterward
11.
... misery of
war?
12&12 p.38,
Step Three
Would they be able to take discipline, stand up under fire, and endure the monotony and misery of war?
12.
... misery transformed
by humility into priceless assets.
12&12 p.75,
Step Seven
13.
... misery which
flows through that institution.
BB p.163,
A Vision For You
Arrangements were also
made with the chief psychiatrist of a large
public hospital to select still others from the stream of
misery which flows through that institution.
14.
... misery which
has not been overcome among ...
BB p.15,
Bill's Story
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