From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... trouble.
12&12 p.52,
Step Four
To take inventory in this
respect we ought to consider carefully all
personal relationships which bring continuous or recurring trouble.
2.
... trouble?
BB p.61,
How It Works
What is his basic trouble?
3.
... trouble.
BB p.68,
How It Works
4.
... trouble.
BB p.174,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
5.
... trouble.
BB p.174,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
6.
... trouble; and
as for the remainder -- well, ...
12&12 p.92,
Step Ten
Most of us must admit that we
have loved but a few; that we
have been quite indifferent to the many so
long as none of them gave us trouble; and as for the
remainder -- well, we
have really disliked or
hated them.
7.
... trouble and
frustration.
BB p.56,
We Agnostics
8.
... trouble and
misery which has not been ...
BB p.15,
Bill's Story
9.
... trouble, and
this would really do it!"
12&12 p.159,
Tradition Six
10.
... trouble anyone
with his other difficulty.
12&12 p.142,
Tradition Three
11.
... trouble comes,
cheerfully capitalize it as an ...
BB p.133,
The Family Afterward
Avoid then, the deliberate manufacture of misery,
but if trouble comes, cheerfully capitalize
it as an opportunity to demonstrate His omnipotence.
12.
... trouble had
been.
BB p.156,
A Vision For You
One morning he took the bull by the horns and set out to tell those he feared what his trouble had been.
13.
... trouble had
been the misuse of willpower.
12&12 p.40,
Step Three
14.
... trouble he'll
brew.
12&12 p.142,
Tradition Three
15.
... trouble if
we do, for alcohol is ...
BB p.85,
Into Action
16.
... trouble in
giving up liquor entirely if ...
BB p.20,
There Is A Solution
17.
... trouble is
that this kind of thinking ...
12&12 p.36,
Step Three
18.
... trouble is;
we have put our finger ...
BB p.72,
Into Action
We have admitted certain defects; we have ascertained in a rough way what the trouble is; we have
put our finger on the weak items in our personal inventory.
19.
... trouble later,
he is likely to say ...
BB p.95,
Working With Others
20.
... trouble of
others find we are soon ...
BB p.132,
The Family Afterward
But those of us who have tried to shoulder the entire burden and trouble of others find we are soon overcome by them.
21.
... trouble, practically
all the trouble there is.
12&12 p.42,
Step Four
When thus out of joint, man's natural desires cause him great trouble, practically all the
trouble there is.
22.
... trouble refusing
drinks, and began to wonder ...
BB p.40,
More About Alcoholism
I had no trouble refusing drinks, and began to wonder if I had not
been making too hard work of a simple matter.
23.
... trouble self-delusion
had been causing us.
12&12 p.58,
Step Five
24.
... trouble than
holding back on Step Five.
12&12 p.56,
Step Five
25.
... trouble there
is.
12&12 p.42,
Step Four
When thus out of joint, man's natural desires cause him great trouble, practically all the
trouble there is.
26.
... trouble this
strange alcoholic might bring.
12&12 p.142,
Tradition Three
We are much more afraid of what people might
say than the trouble this strange alcoholic might
bring.
27.
... trouble too.
BB p.79,
Into Action
28.
... trouble, unless
the family watches for these ...
BB p.131,
The Family Afterward
This means trouble, unless the family watches for these tendencies in each other and comes to a friendly agreement about
them.
29.
... trouble was
not that we used our ...
12&12 p.100,
Step Eleven
30.
... trouble was
our almost total inability to ...
12&12 p.100,
Step Eleven
Perhaps the real trouble was our almost total inability to point imagination toward the right objectives.
31.
... trouble with
personal relationships, we couldn't control ...
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?
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