From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
BITTER occurs
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1.
... bitter.
12&12 p.123,
Step Twelve
In
fitful successes we
boasted of
greater feats to be done; in
defeat we
were
bitter.
2.
Bitter attacks
have been directed against people ...
12&12 p.177,
Tradition Ten
Bitter attacks have been
directed against people
suspected of
mixed motives.
3.
... bitter end,
blotting out the consciousness of ...
BB p.25,
There Is A Solution
We were in a
position where
life was
becoming impossible, and if we had
passed into the
region from
which there is no
return through
human aid, we had but
two alternatives: One was
to go on to the
bitter end,
blotting out the
consciousness of our
intolerable situation
as
best we could; and the other, to
accept spiritual help.
4.
... bitter experience.
BB p.39,
More About Alcoholism
This is a
point we
wish to
emphasize and
re-
emphasize, to
smash home upon our
alcoholic readers as it has been
revealed to us out of
bitter
experience.
5.
... bitter morass
of self-pity.
BB p.8,
Bill's Story
No
words can tell of the
loneliness and
despair I
found in that
bitter morass of
self-
pity.
6.
... bitter resentment.
BB p.105,
To Wives
We have been
driven to
maudlin sympathy, to
bitter resentment.
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