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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
SOLVED occurs
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1.
... solved.
12&12 p.57,
Step Five
We
thought the
isolation problem had
been
solved.
2.
... solved, as
well as some who have ...
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.
3.
... solved at
once.
BB p.117,
To Wives
But all
problems will not be
solved at once.
4.
... solved by
all the sheer personal determination ...
12&12 p.39,
Step Three
By now, though, the
chances are that he has
become convinced that he
has more
problems than
alcohol, and that some of these
refuse to be
solved by all the
sheer personal determination and
courage he can
muster.
5.
... solved the
drink problem.
BB p.17,
There Is A Solution
They have
solved the
drink problem.
6.
... solved their
alcohol problem.
12&12 p.27,
Step Two
Here's a very
large group of
people who have
solved their
alcohol problem.
7.
... solved, then
not so pleasantly as they ...
BB p.126,
The Family Afterward
The
family will be
affected also,
pleasantly at
first, as
they
feel their
money troubles are about to be
solved, then not so
pleasantly
as they find themselves
neglected.
8.
... solved, there
was nothing left for us ...
BB p.25,
There Is A Solution
When, therefore, we were
approached by those in
whom the
problem had been
solved, there was
nothing left for us but to
pick up the
simple kit of
spiritual tools laid at our
feet.
9.
... solved, to
feel that he will now ...
BB p.118,
To Wives
It is the most
natural thing in the
world, once his
liquor problem is
solved, to
feel that he will now
measure
up to that
cherished vision.
10.
... solved, too.
12&12 p.39,
Step Three
He
relies upon the
assurance that his many
troubles, now made more
acute because he cannot use
alcohol to
kill the
pain, can be
solved, too.
11.
... solved with
God's help, the knowledge that ...
12&12 p.124,
Step Twelve
Service,
gladly rendered,
obligations
squarely met,
troubles well
accepted or
solved with
God's
help, the
knowledge that at
home or in the
world outside we are
partners in
a
common effort, the
well-
understood fact
that in
God's
sight all
human beings are
important, the
proof that
love freely given surely brings a
full return, the
certainty that we are no
longer isolated and alone
in
self-
constructed prisons, the
surety that we
need no
longer be
square pegs in
round holes but can
fit and
belong in
God's
scheme of things -- these
are the
permanent and
legitimate satisfactions of
right
living for which no
amount
of
pomp and
circumstance, no
heap of
material possessions, could
possibly be
substitutes.
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and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
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