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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
TROUBLES occurs
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1.
... troubles.
12&12 p.42,
Step Four
No
human being, however
good,
is
exempt from these
troubles.
2.
... troubles.
12&12 p.84,
Step Nine
This will be a very
different occasion, and in
sharp contrast with those
hangover mornings when we
alternated between
reviling ourselves and
blaming the
family (and
everyone else) for our
troubles.
3.
... troubles.
BB p.62,
How It Works
That, we
think, is the
root
of our
troubles.
4.
... troubles.
BB p.80,
Into Action
The
chances are that we have
domestic troubles.
5.
... troubles.
BB p.125,
The Family Afterward
Everyone knows about the
others'
alcoholic troubles.
6.
... troubles are
about to be solved, then ...
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.
7.
... troubles are
the same as everyone else's, ...
12&12 p.114,
Step Twelve
Our
basic troubles are the
same as
everyone else's, but when an
honest effort is made "to
practice these
principles in all our
affairs," well-
grounded A.A.'s
seem to have the
ability, by
God's
grace, to take these
troubles in
stride and
turn them into
demonstrations of
faith.
8.
... troubles, but
not at all about yours.
BB p.119,
To Wives
He gets
stirred up about their
troubles, but not at all about yours.
9.
... troubles could
be turned into great values.
12&12 p.122,
Step Twelve
If our
circumstances happened to be
good, we no
longer dreaded a
change for the
worse, for we
had
learned that these
troubles could be
turned into
great values.
10.
... troubles in
stride and turn them into ...
12&12 p.114,
Step Twelve
Our
basic troubles are the
same as
everyone else's, but when an
honest effort is made "to
practice these
principles in all our
affairs," well-
grounded A.A.'s
seem to have the
ability, by
God's
grace, to take these
troubles in
stride and
turn them into
demonstrations of
faith.
11.
... troubles liquor
has caused you, being careful ...
BB p.91,
Working With Others
If he is in a
serious mood
dwell on the
troubles liquor has
caused you, being
careful not to
moralize
or
lecture.
12.
... troubles money
can't cure.
12&12 p.160,
Tradition Seven
Everybody knows that
active alcoholics scream that they have no
troubles money can't
cure.
13.
... troubles, now
made more acute because he ...
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.
14.
... troubles of
the race are traceable to ...
BB p.69,
How It Works
Then we have the
voices who
cry for
sex and more
sex; who
bewail the
institution of
marriage; who
think that
most of the
troubles of the
race are
traceable to
sex causes.
15.
... troubles on
our shoulders.
BB p.132,
The Family Afterward
We
try not to
indulge in
cynicism over the
state of
the
nations, nor do we
carry the
world's
troubles on our
shoulders.
16.
... troubles sometimes
begin with indifference.
12&12 p.112,
Step Twelve
Our
troubles sometimes
begin
with
indifference.
17.
... troubles, we
cry, are caused by the ...
12&12 p.45,
Step Four
Our
present anxieties
and
troubles, we
cry, are
caused by the
behavior of
other people -- people who really
need a
moral inventory.
18.
... troubles, we
think, are basically of our ...
BB p.62,
How It Works
So our
troubles, we
think,
are
basically of our
own
making.
19.
... troubles well
accepted or solved with God's ...
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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