From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... painful.
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
2.
... painful.
BB p.121,
To Wives
3.
... painful and
humiliating.
12&12 p.47,
Step Four
First of all, we had to admit that we had many of these
defects, even though such disclosures were painful
and humiliating.
4.
... painful discussions,
they finally gave me my ...
BB p.173,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
After many painful discussions, they finally gave me my credits and I migrated to
another of the leading
universities of the country and entered as a Junior that Fall.
5.
... painful ego-puncturing.
12&12 p.74,
Step Seven
Our eyes begin to open to the immense values which have come straight out of painful ego-puncturing.
6.
... painful experience,
this prayer was his expression ...
12&12 p.99,
Step Eleven
And as he came out the other side of that painful experience, this prayer was his expression
of what he could then see, feel, and wish to become:
7.
... painful experiences,
we think we have arrived ...
12&12 p.180,
Tradition Eleven
8.
... painful past
may be of infinite value ...
BB p.124,
The Family Afterward
9.
... painful pleasure
out of it.
12&12 p.45,
Step Four
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