The word "FEAR" appears 63 times in the AA Big Book and the AA 12 Steps and 12 Traditions
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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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At once, we commence to outgrow fear.
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We have had long rendezvous with hurt pride, frustration, self-pity, misunderstanding and fear.
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There is another paralyzing fear.
10.
The greatest enemies of
us alcoholics are resentment, jealousy,
envy, frustration, and
fear.
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So false pride became the reverse side of that ruinous coin marked "Fear."
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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All these failings generate fear, a soul-sickness in its own right.
14.
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.
15.
We ask Him to remove our
fear and direct our attention to what He would have us be.
16.
A chill chokedamp of
fear and frustration fell over the group.
17.
Did fear and inferiority about my fitness for my job destroy my confidence
and fill me with conflict?
18.
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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We are then in much less danger of excitement,
fear, anger, worry, self-pity, or foolish decisions.
21.
Both his pride and his fear beat him back every time he tries to look within himself.
22.
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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We have drunk to drown feelings of fear, frustration, and depression.
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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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In these areas fear, greed, possessiveness,
and pride have too often done their worst.
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Fear gripped him.
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Then fear, in turn, generates more character defects.
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Notice that the word "fear" is bracketed alongside the difficulties with Mr. Brown, Mrs. Jones, the employer, and the
wife.
30.
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.
31.
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.
32.
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.
33.
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.
34.
One was the fear of not sleeping, and the other was
the fear of running out of liquor.
35.
Fear of people and of economic insecurity will leave us.
36.
One was the fear of not sleeping, and the other was
the fear of running out of liquor.
37.
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.
38.
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.
39.
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.
40.
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.
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.
42.
The slightest sign of
fear or intolerance may
lessen your husband's chance of recovery.
44.
We began to fear pain less, and desire humility more than ever.
45.
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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Fear sobered me for a bit.
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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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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.
59.
We found that freedom from
fear was more important than freedom
from want.
60.
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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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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