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1.
... problems.
12&12 p.74,
Step Seven
Until now, our
lives have been
largely devoted to
running from
pain and
problems.
2.
... problems.
12&12 p.185,
Tradition Twelve
3.
... problems.
BB p.13,
Bill's Story
My
friend promised when
these things were done I would
enter upon a new
relationship with my
Creator; that I would have the
elements of a way of
living
which
answered all my
problems.
4.
... problems.
BB p.15,
Bill's Story
My
wife and I
abandoned
ourselves with
enthusiasm to the
idea of
helping other
alcoholics to a
solution of their
problems.
5.
... problems.
BB p.26,
There Is A Solution
He
seemed quite
rational
and well-
balanced with
respect to other
problems.
6.
... problems.
BB p.42,
More About Alcoholism
"Quite as
important was the
discovery that
spiritual principles
would
solve all my
problems.
7.
... problems.
BB p.43,
More About Alcoholism
Most
alcoholics have to be
pretty badly mangled before they really
commence to
solve their
problems.
8.
... problems.
BB p.52,
We Agnostics
We
agnostics and
atheists were
sticking to
the
idea that
self-
sufficiency would
solve
our
problems.
9.
... problems.
BB p.55,
We Agnostics
Yet we had been seeing another
kind of
flight, a
spiritual liberation
from this
world, people who
rose above their
problems.
10.
... problems.
BB p.69,
How It Works
We all have
sex problems.
11.
... problems.
BB p.87,
Into Action
We usually
conclude the
period of
meditation with
a
prayer that we be
shown
all through the
day what our
next step is to be, that we be
given whatever we
need to take
care of such
problems.
12.
... problems.
BB p.160,
A Vision For You
Aside from
fellowship
and
sociability, the
prime object was to
provide a
time and place where
new people might bring their
problems.
13.
... problems.
BB p.573(575),
Appendix VI, How to Get in Touch With A.A.
This
headquarters will
give the
location of the
nearest family group and will, if you
wish,
correspond with you about your
special problems.
14.
... problems and
deficiencies.
BB p.13,
Bill's Story
15.
... problems and
explain our fellowship.
BB p.45,
We Agnostics
Many
times we
talk to a new
man and
watch his
hope rise as we
discuss his
alcoholic
problems and
explain our
fellowship.
16.
... problems, and
for the ability to help ...
12&12 p.102,
Step Eleven
Our
immediate temptation will be to
ask
for
specific solutions to
specific
problems, and for the
ability to
help other people
as we have already
thought they should be
helped.
17.
... problems and
how you propose to lick ...
12&12 p.153,
Tradition Five
But from what you've told me about
yourself and
your
problems and how you
propose to
lick them, I
think I
know what's
wrong.'
18.
... problems, and
sometimes they are distressingly acute.
12&12 p.117,
Step Twelve
But just like all other
societies, we do have
sex and
marital problems, and sometimes they are
distressingly acute.
19.
... problems, and
that I would therefore be ...
BB p.40,
More About Alcoholism
I
reasoned I was not so far
advanced as most of you
fellows, that I had been usually
successful in
licking my
other
personal problems,
and that I would therefore be
successful where
you
men failed.
20.
... problems and
the character defects which cause ...
12&12 p.55,
Step Five
A.A. experience has
taught us we cannot
live alone
with our
pressing problems
and the
character defects which
cause or
aggravate them.
21.
... problems and
to help fellow sufferers in ...
12&12 p.15,
Foreword
22.
... problems are
close to your own, then ...
12&12 p.61,
Step Five
If you have
developed a
high confidence in him, and
his
temperament and
problems are
close to your
own, then such a
choice will be
good.
23.
... problems are
not the only ones that ...
12&12 p.91,
Step Ten
Disagreeable or
unexpected problems are not
the only
ones that call for
self-
control.
24.
... problems as
He would have me.
BB p.13,
Bill's Story
I was to
sit quietly when in
doubt,
asking only for
direction and
strength
to
meet my
problems as He
would have me.
25.
... problems because
we are problem people who ...
12&12 p.125,
Step Twelve
We have been
talking about
problems because we are
problem
people who have
found a way up and out, and who
wish to
share our
knowledge of that way with all who can use it.
26.
... problems become
a part of their daily ...
BB xxviii(xxvi),
The Doctor's Opinion
If any
feel that as
psychiatrists directing a
hospital for
alcoholics we
appear
somewhat
sentimental, let them
stand with us a while on the
firing line, see the
tragedies, the
despairing wives, the
little children; let the
solving of these
problems become a
part of their
daily work, and even of their
sleeping moments, and the
most
cynical will not
wonder that we have
accepted and
encouraged
this
movement.
27.
... problems besides
alcohol will not yield to ...
12&12 p.40,
Step Three
They have
become persuaded, and
rightly
so, that many
problems besides
alcohol will not
yield to a
headlong assault powered by the
individual alone.
28.
... problems by
a simple reliance upon the ...
BB p.52,
We Agnostics
When we saw others
solve their
problems by a
simple reliance upon the
Spirit of
the
Universe, we had to
stop doubting the
power of
God.
29.
Problems descend
like an avalanche.
12&12 p.133,
Tradition Two
Problems descend like an
avalanche.
30.
... problems easier
than you can the trivial ...
BB p.118,
To Wives
You and your
husband will find that you can
dispose of
serious problems easier than you can the
trivial ones.
31.
... problems he
despaired of ever solving them, ...
BB xxix(xxvii),
The Doctor's Opinion
On the other
hand -- and
strange as this may
seem to
those who do not
understand -- once a
psychic change has
occurred, the very same
person who
seemed doomed, who had so many
problems he
despaired of ever
solving them,
suddenly
finds himself
easily able
to
control his
desire for
alcohol, the only
effort
necessary being that
required to
follow a few
simple rules.
32.
... problems, his
background, the seriousness of his ...
BB p.90,
Working With Others
Get an
idea of his
behavior, his
problems, his
background, the
seriousness of his
condition, and his
religious leanings.
33.
... problems in
the light of our experience ...
BB p.568(570),
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience
34.
... problems ...
In this atmosphere the alcoholic often ...
BB p.570(572),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
They
help others with
similar problems ... In this
atmosphere the
alcoholic often
overcomes his
excessive
concentration upon himself.
35.
... problems indefinitely."
12&12 p.69,
Step Six
Maybe I can
postpone dealing with some of my
problems indefinitely."
36.
... problems of
life.
12&12 p.114,
Step Twelve
But also like others, we often
discover a
greater challenge in the
lesser and more
continuous problems of
life.
37.
... problems of
life which we could never ...
12&12 p.113,
Step Twelve
These were
problems of
life
which we could
never face up
to.
38.
... Problems of
money, property, and authority may ...
12&12 p.190,
Tradition Six (Long)
39.
... Problems of
money, property, and authority may ...
BB p.563(565),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
40.
... problems of
money, property, and prestige divert ...
12&12 p.155,
Tradition Six
41.
... problems of
money, property and prestige divert ...
BB p.562(564),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
42.
... problems of
personal importance, power, ambition, and ...
12&12 p.122,
Step Twelve
43.
... problems of
the community might engage attention.
BB p.131,
The Family Afterward
The
problems of the
community might
engage attention.
44.
... problems on
every side and in every ...
BB xix,
Foreword to Second Edition
Soon
A.A. was
beset by these
very
problems on every
side
and in every
group.
45.
... problems or
worries.
BB p.41,
More About Alcoholism
Neither did I have any
pressing problems or
worries.
46.
... problems other
than alcohol, we shall need ...
12&12 p.68,
Step Six
If we would
gain any
real advantage in the use of this
Step on
problems other than
alcohol, we shall
need to make
a
brand new
venture into
open-
mindedness.
47.
... problems pile
up on them and become ...
BB xxviii(xxvi),
The Doctor's Opinion
These
allergic types can
never safely use
alcohol in any
form at all;
and once having
formed the
habit and
found they cannot
break it, once having
lost their
self-
confidence, their
reliance upon things
human, their
problems pile up on them and
become astonishingly difficult to
solve.
48.
... problems squarely
that God might give him ...
BB p.156,
A Vision For You
He saw that he would have to
face his
problems squarely that
God might
give him
mastery.
49.
... problems such
people may face.
BB p.121,
To Wives (Note)
The
foregoing pages
(though
addressed only to
wives)
indicate the
problems such people may
face.
50.
... problems, tell
the newcomer's family how that ...
BB p.100,
Working With Others
If you have been
successful in
solving your
own domestic problems, tell the
newcomer's
family how
that was
accomplished.
51.
... problems than
alcohol, and that some of ...
12&12 p.39,
Step Three
By now, though, the
chances are that he has
become convinced that he
has more
problems than
alcohol, and that some of these
refuse to be
solved by all
the
sheer personal determination and
courage he can
muster.
52.
... problems that
it may appear that A.A. ...
12&12 p.125,
Step Twelve
53.
... problems that
they will be persuaded to ...
BB p.29,
There Is A Solution
Our
hope is that many
alcoholic men and
women,
desperately in
need, will see these
pages, and
we
believe that it is only by
fully disclosing ourselves
and our
problems that they will be
persuaded to say, "Yes, I am one of them too; I
must have this thing."
54.
... problems that
we can begin to get ...
12&12 p.125,
Step Twelve
For it is only by
accepting and
solving our
problems that we
can
begin to get
right with
ourselves and with the
world about us, and with Him
who
presides over us all.
55.
... problems, the
absence of intolerance of any ...
BB p.160,
A Vision For You
56.
... problems this
same readiness to change our ...
BB p.52,
We Agnostics
We had to
ask ourselves why we shouldn't
apply to our
human problems this same
readiness to
change our
point of
view.
57.
... problems to
such persons.
BB p.133,
The Family Afterward
Do not
hesitate to take your
health problems to such
persons.
58.
... problems today.
BB p.417(449),
Acceptance
And
acceptance is the
answer to all my
problems today.
59.
... problems too.
BB p.116,
To Wives
If
God can
solve the
age-
old riddle of
alcoholism, He
can
solve your
problems too.
60.
... problems too;
the ensuing lack of fear, ...
BB p.116,
To Wives
When we do that, we find it
solves our
problems too; the
ensuing lack of
fear,
worry and
hurt feelings is a
wonderful
thing.
61.
... problems were
of our own making.
BB p.103,
Working With Others
After all, our
problems were of our
own making.
62.
... problems will
arise.
BB p.126,
The Family Afterward
In either
case certain family problems will
arise.
63.
... problems will
not be solved at once.
BB p.117,
To Wives
But all
problems will not be
solved at once.
64.
... problems will
still be with you.
BB p.117,
To Wives
Many of the
old problems will
still be with you.
65.
... problems with
it instead of attempting to ...
12&12 p.40,
Step Three
We had
tried to
bombard
our
problems with it instead of
attempting to bring it into
agreement with
God's
intention for us.
66.
... problems with
the comfortable assurance that he ...
12&12 p.104,
Step Eleven
With the
best of
intentions, he
tends to
force his
own will into all
sorts of
situations and
problems with the
comfortable assurance
that he is
acting under
God's
specific direction.
67.
... problems with
you, if he knows you ...
BB p.144,
To Employers
If he
feels free to
discuss his
problems with you,
if he
knows you
understand and will not be
upset by anything he
wishes to
say, he will
probably be off to a
fast start.
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