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... suffering.
12&12 p.74,
Step Seven
2.
... suffering.
12&12 p.75,
Step Seven
It could come quite as much from our voluntary reaching for it as it could from unremitting suffering.
3.
... suffering.
BB p.41,
More About Alcoholism
4.
... suffering.
BB p.159,
A Vision For You
They experienced a few
distressing failures, but in those cases they made an effort to bring the man's family into a spiritual way of living, thus relieving much worry and suffering.
5.
... suffering alcoholic
and which finally translates the ...
12&12 p.109,
Step Twelve
The wonderful energy it
releases and the eager action by which it carries
our message to the next
suffering alcoholic and
which finally translates the Twelve Steps into action upon all our affairs is the payoff, the magnificent
reality, of Alcoholics Anonymous.
6.
... suffering alcoholics.
BB xxiii,
Foreword to Fourth Edition
As the message of recovery has reached larger numbers of people, it has also touched the lives of a vastly greater variety of suffering alcoholics.
7.
... suffering and
great love are A.A.'s disciplinarians; ...
12&12 p.174,
Tradition Nine
8.
... suffering and
humiliation of even a week ...
BB p.24,
There Is A Solution
We are unable, at certain
times, to bring into our consciousness with sufficient force the memory of the suffering and humiliation of even a week or a month ago.
9.
... suffering and
humiliation, why is it he ...
BB p.22,
There Is A Solution
If hundreds of experiences have shown
him that one drink means another debacle with all its attendant suffering and humiliation, why is it he
takes that one drink?
10.
... suffering and
of recovery are easily passed ...
12&12 p.151,
Tradition Five
11.
... suffering as
drinkers, their common interest in ...
12&12 p.119,
Step Twelve
Their common suffering as drinkers, their common interest in A.A. and spiritual things, often enhance such unions.
12.
... suffering becomes
acute and constant.
12&12 p.53,
Step Four
As we redouble our efforts at control, and continue to fail, our suffering becomes acute and constant.
13.
... suffering from
a distortion of values.
BB p.129,
The Family Afterward
14.
... suffering from
an illness which only a ...
BB p.44,
We Agnostics
If that be the case, you may be suffering from an illness which
only a spiritual experience will conquer.
15.
... suffering from
the 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.
16.
... suffering might
be all right for saints, ...
12&12 p.74,
Step Seven
Character-building through suffering might be all
right for saints, but it certainly didn't appeal to
us.
17.
... suffering; one
having a vast potential for ...
BB p.571(573),
Appendix IV, The Lasker Award
"The American Public Health Association presents a Lasker Group Award for 1951 to Alcoholics Anonymous in recognition of its unique and highly successful approach to
that age-old public health and social problem, alcoholism ... In emphasizing alcoholism as an illness, the social stigma associated with
this condition is being
blotted out ... Historians may one day recognize Alcoholics Anonymous
to have been a great venture in social pioneering which forged a
new instrument for social action; a new therapy based on the kinship of common suffering; one having a vast potential for the myriad
other ills of mankind."
18.
... suffering to
his family by foolishly admitting ...
BB p.155,
A Vision For You
Why, he argued, should he lose the remainder of his business, only to bring still more suffering to his family by foolishly admitting his
plight to people from whom
he made his livelihood?
19.
... suffering, when
the hand of God seemed ...
12&12 p.105,
Step Eleven
He will also report that out of every season of grief or suffering, when the hand of God seemed heavy or even unjust, new lessons for living were learned, new resources of courage were uncovered,
and that finally, inescapably, the conviction came that God does "move in a mysterious way His wonders to perform."
20.
... suffering which
drinking always caused him.
BB p.36,
More About Alcoholism
Here was the threat of commitment, the loss of family and position, to say nothing of that intense mental and physical suffering which drinking always caused him.
21.
... suffering within
reach of his help.
12&12 p.133,
Tradition Two
He feels a spiritual and
ethical compulsion,
because hundreds may be
suffering within reach of his help.
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