From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... solved.
12&12 p.57,
Step Five
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
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
6.
... solved their
alcohol problem.
12&12 p.27,
Step Two
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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