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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
MISERY occurs
14 times
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1.
... misery.
12&12 p.54,
Step Four
Whatever the
defects, they have finally
ambushed us into
alcoholism and
misery.
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
But it is
clear that we made our
own misery.
5.
... misery, and
a strong desire to retaliate ...
12&12 p.80,
Step Eight
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
How can they
rise out of such
misery,
bad repute and
hopelessness?
9.
... misery, but
if trouble comes, cheerfully capitalize ...
BB p.133,
The Family Afterward
10.
... misery for
them.
BB p.124,
The Family Afterward
With it you can
avert death
and
misery for them.
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
There is
scarcely any
form
of
trouble and
misery which
has not been
overcome among us.
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