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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
SOLUTION occurs
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1.
... solution.
12&12 p.27,
Step Two
In this
respect they are
certainly a
power greater than you, who have not even
come close to a
solution.
2.
... solution.
12&12 p.45,
Step Four
3.
... solution.
12&12 p.74,
Step Seven
Escape via the
bottle was always our
solution.
4.
... solution.
BB p.17,
There Is A Solution
The
tremendous fact for
every one of us is that we have
discovered a
common solution.
5.
... solution.
BB p.25,
There Is A Solution
There is a solution.
6.
... solution.
BB p.25,
There Is A Solution
If you are as
seriously alcoholic as we were, we
believe there is no
middle-of-the-
road solution.
7.
... solution."
BB p.43,
More About Alcoholism
For most
cases, there is
virtually no other
solution."
8.
... solution.
BB p.91,
Working With Others
Let the
doctor, if he will, tell him he has
something in the way of a
solution.
9.
... solution.
BB p.92,
Working With Others
But you may
talk to him about the
hopelessness of
alcoholism because you
offer a
solution.
10.
... solution.
BB p.104,
To Wives
Among us are
wives,
relatives and
friends
whose
problem has been
solved, as well as some who have not
yet found a
happy solution.
11.
... solution?
BB xxxi(xxix),
The Doctor's Opinion
What is the solution?
12.
... solution contained
in this book, I might ...
BB p.141,
To Employers
Had they
fired me
first, and
had they then
taken steps to
see that I was
presented with the
solution contained in this
book, I might have
returned to them
six months later, a well
man.
13.
... solution for
the pressing problem of drink ...
BB p.117,
To Wives
If you and your
husband find a
solution for the
pressing problem of
drink you are, of
course,
going to be very
happy.
14.
... solution, if
he expects you to act ...
BB p.95,
Working With Others
If he is not
interested in your
solution, if he
expects you to
act only as a
banker for his
financial difficulties or a
nurse
for his
sprees, you may have to
drop him until he
changes his
mind.
15.
... solution of
his alcohol problem.
12&12 p.39,
Step Three
He made a
beginning, we have seen, when he
commenced to
rely upon
A.A. for the
solution of his
alcohol problem.
16.
... solution of
their 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.
17.
... solution of
these bedevilments more important than ...
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?
18.
... solution on
the spiritual as well as ...
BB xxvi(xxiv),
The Doctor's Opinion
Though we
work out our
solution on the
spiritual as
well as an
altruistic plane, we
favor hospitalization for the
alcoholic who is very
jittery or
befogged.
19.
... solution which,
as you know, demands rigorous ...
BB p.145,
To Employers
In
fact, he may say almost anything if he has
accepted our
solution which,
as you
know,
demands rigorous honesty.
20.
... solution, who
is properly armed with facts ...
BB p.18,
There Is A Solution
But the
ex-
problem drinker who has
found this
solution, who is
properly
armed with
facts about
himself, can
generally win
the
entire confidence
of another
alcoholic in a few
hours.
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