From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... solution.
12&12 p.27,
Step Two
In this respect they are certainly a power greater than you, who have not even come close to a solution.
2.
... solution.
12&12 p.45,
Step Four
As we morbidly pursue
this melancholy activity, we may sink to such a point of despair that nothing but oblivion looks possible as a solution.
3.
... solution.
12&12 p.74,
Step Seven
4.
... solution.
BB p.17,
There Is A Solution
5.
... solution.
BB p.25,
There Is A Solution
There is a solution.
6.
... solution.
BB p.25,
There Is A Solution
7.
... solution."
BB p.43,
More About Alcoholism
8.
... solution.
BB p.91,
Working With Others
9.
... solution.
BB p.92,
Working With Others
10.
... solution.
BB p.104,
To Wives
Among us are wives, relatives and friends whose problem has been solved, as well as some who
have not yet found a happy solution.
11.
... solution?
BB xxxi(xxix),
The Doctor's Opinion
What is the solution?
12.
... solution contained
in this book, I might ...
BB p.141,
To Employers
Had they fired me first, and
had they then taken steps to
see that I was presented
with the solution contained in this book, I
might have returned to them six months later, a well man.
13.
... solution for
the pressing problem of drink ...
BB p.117,
To Wives
If you and your husband find a solution for the pressing problem of drink you are, of course, going to be very happy.
14.
... solution, if
he expects you to act ...
BB p.95,
Working With Others
If he is not interested in your solution, if he expects you to act only as a banker for his financial difficulties or a nurse
for his sprees, you may have to drop him until he changes his mind.
15.
... solution of
his alcohol problem.
12&12 p.39,
Step Three
He made a beginning, we
have seen, when he commenced to rely upon A.A. for the solution of his alcohol problem.
16.
... solution of
their problems.
BB p.15,
Bill's Story
My wife and I abandoned
ourselves with enthusiasm to the idea of
helping other alcoholics to a solution of
their problems.
17.
... solution of
these bedevilments more important than ...
BB p.52,
We Agnostics
We were having trouble with personal relationships, we couldn't control our emotional natures, we were a prey to misery and depression, we
couldn't make a living, we
had a feeling of uselessness, we were full
of fear, we were unhappy,
we couldn't seem to be of real
help to other people -- was not a basic
solution of these bedevilments more important than whether we
should see newsreels of lunar flight?
18.
... solution on
the spiritual as well as ...
BB xxvi(xxiv),
The Doctor's Opinion
Though we work out our solution on the spiritual as well as an altruistic plane, we favor hospitalization
for the alcoholic who is very jittery or befogged.
19.
... solution which,
as you know, demands rigorous ...
BB p.145,
To Employers
In fact, he may say almost anything if he has
accepted our solution
which, as you know, demands
rigorous honesty.
20.
... solution, who
is properly armed with facts ...
BB p.18,
There Is A Solution
But the ex-problem drinker who has found this
solution, who is properly
armed with facts about himself, can generally win the entire confidence of another alcoholic in a few hours.
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