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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
SUFFERING occurs
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1.
... suffering.
12&12 p.74,
Step Seven
We
never wanted to
deal with the
fact of
suffering.
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
6.
... suffering alcoholics.
BB xxiii,
Foreword to Fourth Edition
7.
... suffering and
great love are A.A.'s disciplinarians; ...
12&12 p.174,
Tradition Nine
Great suffering and
great love are
A.A.'s
disciplinarians;
we
need no others.
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
These
legacies of
suffering and of
recovery are
easily passed among
alcoholics, one to the other.
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
13.
... suffering from
a distortion of values.
BB p.129,
The Family Afterward
If the
family cooperates,
dad will soon
see that he is
suffering from a
distortion of
values.
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
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
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