From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
OBSESSION occurs
19 times
(
Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
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1.
... 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
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
We
stand ready to do
anything which will
lift the
merciless obsession from us.
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
He had, of
course, the
familiar alcoholic obsession that few
knew of his
drinking.
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
There is the
obsession that somehow,
someday, they will
beat the
game.
15.
... obsession, their
lives unaccountably transformed, they came ...
12&12 p.28,
Step Two
16.
... obsession to
drink and enable the sufferer ...
12&12 p.15,
Foreword
17.
... obsession to
drink vanished.
12&12 p.63,
Step Six
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
His
pet obsession was that
A.A. could get along
better
without
its "
God nonsense."
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