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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... pains.
12&12 p.18,
Foreword
This
startling expansion brought with it very
severe growing pains.
2.
... pains and
they hurt a great deal.
BB p.124,
The Family Afterward
A few of us have had these
growing pains and they
hurt a
great deal.
3.
... pains and
trials.
12&12 p.31,
Step Two
We saw them
meet and
transcend their other
pains
and
trials.
4.
... pains now
beset the group.
12&12 p.133,
Tradition Two
Growing pains now
beset the
group.
5.
... pains of
drinking had to come before ...
12&12 p.94,
Step Ten
How
heartily we
A.A.'s can
agree with him, for we
know
that the
pains of
drinking
had to
come before
sobriety, and
emotional
turmoil before
serenity.
6.
... pains of
failure are converted into assets.
12&12 p.93,
Step Ten
Under these
conditions, the
pains of
failure are
converted into
assets.
7.
... pains of
growing up.
12&12 p.92,
Step Ten
It will
become more and more
evident as we go
forward
that it is
pointless to
become angry, or to get
hurt by people who, like us, are
suffering from the
pains of
growing up.
8.
... pains of
growing up, and nothing but ...
12&12 p.111,
Step Twelve
But in the
longer run we
clearly realize that these
are only the
pains of
growing up, and
nothing but
good can
come from them if we
turn more and more to the
entire Twelve Steps for the
answers.
9.
... pains of
thousands of groups must be ...
12&12 p.168,
Tradition Eight
10.
... pains of
trying and the certain penalties ...
12&12 p.74,
Step Seven
We are
obliged to
choose
between the
pains of
trying
and the
certain penalties of
failing to
do so.
11.
... pains this
one did.
12&12 p.160,
Tradition Seven
Tradition had the
labor
pains this one did.
12.
... pains to
tell why we think our ...
BB p.53,
We Agnostics
Hence we are at
pains to tell why we
think our
present faith is
reasonable, why
we
think it more
sane and
logical to
believe than not
to
believe, why we say our
former thinking was
soft and
mushy when we
threw up our
hands in
doubt and said, "We don't
know."
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