From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... obsession.
12&12 p.25,
Step Two
Having reduced us to a state of absolute helplessness, you now declare that none but a Higher Power can remove our obsession.
2.
... obsession.
12&12 p.32,
Step Two
The fact was we really
hadn't cleaned house so
that the grace of God could enter us and expel the obsession.
3.
... obsession.
12&12 p.64,
Step Six
It is plain for everybody to see that each sober A.A. member has been granted a release from this
very obstinate and potentially fatal obsession.
4.
... obsession.
12&12 p.64,
Step Six
As they are humbled by the terrific beating administered by alcohol, the grace of God can enter them and expel their obsession.
5.
... obsession by
a sudden spiritual experience, following ...
BB xv,
Foreword to Second Edition
Six months earlier, the broker had been
relieved of his drink
obsession by a sudden spiritual experience,
following a meeting
with an alcoholic friend who had been in contact with the Oxford Groups of that day.
6.
... obsession could
be banished, then there must ...
12&12 p.76,
Step Seven
If that degree of humility could enable us to
find the grace by which such a deadly obsession could be banished,
then there must be hope of the
same result respecting any other problem we could possibly have.
7.
... obsession for
destructive drinking that only an ...
12&12 p.21,
Step One
It is truly awful to admit that, glass in hand, we have warped our minds into such an obsession for destructive drinking that only an act of
Providence can remove
it from us.
8.
... obsession for
financial security that he wants ...
12&12 p.43,
Step Four
Another may develop such an obsession for financial security that
he wants to do nothing but
hoard money.
9.
... obsession from
us.
12&12 p.24,
Step One
10.
... obsession of
every abnormal drinker.
BB p.30,
More About Alcoholism
The idea that somehow, someday he will control and enjoy his drinking is the great obsession of every abnormal drinker.
11.
... obsession so
subtly powerful that no amount ...
12&12 p.22,
Step One
Our sponsors declared
that we were the victims of a mental obsession so subtly powerful that no amount of human willpower could break it.
12.
... obsession that
few knew of his drinking.
BB p.155,
A Vision For You
13.
... obsession that
some new miracle of control ...
BB p.151,
A Vision For You
There was an insistent yearning to enjoy life as we once did and a heartbreaking obsession
that some new miracle of control would enable us to
do it.
14.
... obsession that
somehow, someday, they will beat ...
BB p.23,
There Is A Solution
15.
... obsession, their
lives unaccountably transformed, they came ...
12&12 p.28,
Step Two
Relieved of the alcohol
obsession, their lives unaccountably transformed, they came to
believe in a Higher Power, and most of them began
to talk of God."
16.
... obsession to
drink and enable the sufferer ...
12&12 p.15,
Foreword
A.A.'s Twelve Steps are a group of principles, spiritual
in their nature, which, if practiced as a way of life, can expel the obsession to drink and enable the sufferer to become happily and usefully whole.
17.
... obsession to
drink vanished.
12&12 p.63,
Step Six
But when I became willing
to clean house and then asked a Higher Power, God as I understood Him, to give me
release, my obsession to drink vanished.
18.
... obsession until
we first admitted that we ...
12&12 p.107,
Step Twelve
Step One showed us an amazing paradox: We found that we
were totally unable to be
rid of the alcohol obsession until we first admitted that we were
powerless over it.
19.
... obsession was
that A.A. could get along ...
12&12 p.143,
Tradition Three
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