From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... pains.
12&12 p.18,
Foreword
2.
... pains and
they hurt a great deal.
BB p.124,
The Family Afterward
3.
... pains and
trials.
12&12 p.31,
Step Two
4.
... pains now
beset the group.
12&12 p.133,
Tradition Two
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
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
Sacks of letters on every conceivable A.A. problem ranging from a lonely-heart Eskimo to the growing pains of thousands of groups must be answered by people who know.
10.
... pains of
trying and the certain penalties ...
12&12 p.74,
Step Seven
11.
... pains this
one did.
12&12 p.160,
Tradition Seven
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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