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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
TROUBLE occurs
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1.
... trouble.
12&12 p.52,
Step Four
2.
... trouble?
BB p.61,
How It Works
What is his
basic trouble?
3.
... trouble.
BB p.68,
How It Works
It
seems to
cause more
trouble.
4.
... 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.
5.
... trouble and
frustration.
BB p.56,
We Agnostics
For
years thereafter he was
dogged by
trouble and
frustration.
6.
... trouble and
misery which has not been ...
BB p.15,
Bill's Story
There is
scarcely any
form
of
trouble and
misery which
has not been
overcome among us.
7.
... trouble, and
this would really do it!"
12&12 p.159,
Tradition Six
I
certainly won't be the
guy to
land A.A. in
big-
time trouble, and this would
really do it!"
8.
... trouble anyone
with his other difficulty.
12&12 p.142,
Tradition Three
Never did he
trouble anyone
with his other
difficulty.
9.
... trouble comes,
cheerfully capitalize it as an ...
BB p.133,
The Family Afterward
10.
... 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.
11.
... trouble had
been the misuse of willpower.
12&12 p.40,
Step Three
Our
whole trouble had been
the
misuse of
willpower.
12.
... trouble he'll
brew.
12&12 p.142,
Tradition Three
If we
allow him in, only
God
knows what
trouble he'll
brew.
13.
... trouble if
we do, for alcohol is ...
BB p.85,
Into Action
We are
headed for
trouble if
we do, for
alcohol is a
subtle foe.
14.
... trouble in
giving up liquor entirely if ...
BB p.20,
There Is A Solution
15.
... trouble is
that this kind of thinking ...
12&12 p.36,
Step Three
The
trouble is that this
kind
of
thinking takes no
real account of the
facts.
16.
... 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.
17.
... trouble later,
he is likely to say ...
BB p.95,
Working With Others
If he has
trouble later, he
is
likely to say you
rushed him.
18.
... 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.
19.
... 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.
20.
... 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.
21.
... trouble self-delusion
had been causing us.
12&12 p.58,
Step Five
As we took
inventory, we
began to
suspect how much
trouble self-
delusion had been
causing
us.
22.
... trouble than
holding back on Step Five.
12&12 p.56,
Step Five
Few
muddled attitudes
have
caused us more
trouble
than
holding back on
Step
Five.
23.
... 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.
24.
... 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.
25.
... trouble too.
BB p.79,
Into Action
That's a
common form of
trouble too.
26.
... 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.
27.
... trouble was
not that we used our ...
12&12 p.100,
Step Eleven
Perhaps our
trouble was not that we used our
imagination.
28.
... trouble was
our almost total inability to ...
12&12 p.100,
Step Eleven
29.
... 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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