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From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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Mrs. Jones -- she's a nut, she snubbed me; she committed her husband for
drinking; he's my friend;
she's a gossip -- personal
relationship; self esteem (fear).
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My wife -- misunderstands and nags;
likes Brown; wants the house put in her name -- pride; personal sex relations; security (fear).
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If all those rules had been in
effect everywhere, nobody could have possibly joined A.A. at all, so great was the sum of our anxiety and fear.
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And this they did find, in measure to transcend all
the defects of their frail
craft, every test of uncertainty, pain, fear, and despair, and even the death of one.
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Did fear and inferiority
about my fitness for my job destroy my confidence and
fill me with conflict?
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So intense, though, is our
fear and reluctance to do
this, that many A.A.'s at first try to bypass Step Five.
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These were some of the ways in which fear conspired with pride to hinder our making a list of all the people we had harmed.
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But when we had declared that our Fellowship couldn't hire service workers nor could any A.A. member carry our knowledge into other fields, we were taking the counsel of fear, fear which today has been largely dispelled in the light of experience.
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Just saying it over and over will often enable us to clear a channel choked up with anger, fear, frustration, or misunderstanding, and permit us to return to the surest help of all -- our search for God's will, not our own, in the moment of stress.
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Fear gripped him.
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Notice that the word "fear" is bracketed alongside the difficulties with Mr. Brown, Mrs. Jones, the employer, and the
wife.
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That is the emotional hangover, the direct result of yesterday's and sometimes today's excesses of negative emotion -- anger, fear, jealousy, and the like.
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Having so considered our day, not omitting to take due note
of things well done, and having searched our
hearts with neither fear nor favor,
we can truly thank God for the blessings we have
received and sleep in good conscience.
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We must lose our fear of creditors no matter how far we have to go, for we are liable to drink if we are afraid to face them.
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Fear of exploitation.
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Many mornings I have gone to classes, and even though fully prepared, would turn and walk back to the fraternity house because of my jitters, not daring to enter the classroom for fear of making a scene should I be called on for
recitation.
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These quiet disclosures
helped him to lose his fear of the alcoholic stigma, and spread the news of A.A.'s existence in his community.
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But for every man who drinks others are involved -- the wife who trembles in fear of the next debauch; the mother and father who see their son wasting away.
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But the testimony of A.A.'s
who have really tried a moral inventory is that pride and fear of this sort turn out
to be bogeymen, nothing
else.
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As we felt new power flow in, as we enjoyed peace of mind, as we discovered we
could face life successfully, as we became conscious of His presence, we began to lose our fear of today, tomorrow or the hereafter.
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The idea that we can be possessively loving of a
few, can ignore the many, and can continue to fear or hate anybody, has to be abandoned, if only a little
at a time.
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The chief activator of our
defects has been self-centered fear -- primarily fear that we would
lose something we already possessed or would
fail to get something we demanded.
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Some of us once had great self-confidence, but it
didn't fully solve the fear problem, or any other.
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My employer -- unreasonable, unjust, overbearing; threatens
to fire me for drinking and
padding my expense account -- self esteem (fear); security.
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Driven by a hundred forms of fear, self-delusion, self-seeking, and self-pity, we step on the toes of our fellows and they retaliate.
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Because we were still bothered by fear, self-pity, and hurt feelings, it was probable we couldn't appraise ourselves fairly at all.
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The broker had gone to Akron on a business venture which had collapsed, leaving him greatly in fear that he might start drinking again.
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Between these lines, it is
easy to read our fear that large numbers of incoming people might break our anonymity wide open.
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Unreasonable fear that
our instincts will not be
satisfied drives us to covet the possessions of others, to lust for sex and power, to become angry when our instinctive demands are
threatened, to be envious when the ambitions
of others seem to be realized while ours are not.
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The chief activator of our
defects has been self-centered fear -- primarily fear that we would
lose something we already possessed or would
fail to get something we demanded.
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They only thought they had lost their egoism and fear; they only thought they had humbled themselves.
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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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But when we had declared that our Fellowship couldn't hire service workers nor could any A.A. member carry our knowledge into other fields, we were taking the counsel of fear, fear which today has been largely dispelled in the light of experience.
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Perhaps the fear will always lurk in every A.A. heart that one day our name will be exploited by somebody for
real cash.
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When we do that, we find it solves our problems too; the
ensuing lack of fear, worry and hurt feelings is a wonderful thing.
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