The word "FEAR" appears 63 times in the AA Big Book and the AA 12 Steps and 12 Traditions
1.
... (fear).
BB
How It Works, p.65
2.
... (fear).
BB
How It Works, p.65
3.
... (fear).
BB
How It Works, p.65
4.
... (fear).
BB
How It Works, p.65
5.
... (fear).
BB
How It Works, p.65
My wife -- misunderstands and nags; likes Brown; wants the house put in her name -- pride; personal sex relations; security
(fear).
6.
... fear.
BB
How It Works, p.68
At once, we commence to outgrow fear.
7.
... fear.
BB
Into Action, p.84
8.
... fear.
BB
To Wives, p.104
We have had long rendezvous with hurt pride, frustration, self-pity, misunderstanding and fear.
9.
... fear.
BB
To Wives, p.116
There is another paralyzing fear.
10.
... fear.
BB
To Employers, p.145
The greatest enemies of
us alcoholics are resentment, jealousy,
envy, frustration, and
fear.
11.
... "Fear."
12&12
Step Twelve, p.123
So false pride became the reverse side of that ruinous coin marked "Fear."
... fear.
12&12
Tradition Three, p.140
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.
13.
... fear, a
soul-sickness in its own right.
12&12
Step Four, p.49
All these failings generate fear, a soul-sickness in its own right.
14.
... fear, and
despair, and even the death ...
12&12
Tradition One, p.131
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.
... fear and
direct our attention to what ...
BB
How It Works, p.68
We ask Him to remove our
fear and direct our attention to what He would have us be.
16.
... fear and
frustration fell over the group.
12&12
Tradition Four, p.149
A chill chokedamp of
fear and frustration fell over the group.
17.
... fear and
inferiority about my fitness for ...
12&12
Step Four, p.51
Did fear and inferiority about my fitness for my job destroy my confidence
and fill me with conflict?
18.
... fear and
reluctance to do this, that ...
12&12
Step Five, p.55
So intense, though, is
our fear and reluctance
to do this, that many A.A.'s at
first try to bypass Step Five.
19.
... fear and
tension -- that makes for more ...
BB
Into Action, p.73
20.
... fear, anger,
worry, self-pity, or foolish decisions.
BB
Into Action, p.88
We are then in much less danger of excitement,
fear, anger, worry, self-pity, or foolish decisions.
21.
... fear beat
him back every time he ...
12&12
Step Four, p.49
Both his pride and his fear beat him back every time he tries to look within himself.
22.
... fear conspired
with pride to hinder our ...
12&12
Step Eight, p.79
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.
23.
... fear, fear
which today has been largely ...
12&12
Tradition Eight, p.167
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.
24.
... fear, frustration,
and depression.
12&12
Step Four, p.44
We have drunk to drown feelings of fear, frustration, and depression.
25.
... fear, frustration,
or misunderstanding, and permit us ...
12&12
Step Eleven, p.103
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.
26.
... fear, greed,
possessiveness, and pride have too ...
12&12
Step Four, p.51
In these areas fear, greed, possessiveness,
and pride have too often done their worst.
27.
Fear gripped
him.
BB
A Vision For You, p.154
Fear gripped him.
28.
... fear, in
turn, generates more character defects.
12&12
Step Four, p.49
Then fear, in turn, generates more character defects.
29.
... "fear" is
bracketed alongside the difficulties with ...
BB
How It Works, p.67
Notice that the word "fear" is bracketed alongside the difficulties with Mr. Brown, Mrs. Jones, the employer, and the
wife.
30.
... fear, jealousy,
and the like.
12&12
Step Ten, p.88
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.
... fear nor
favor, we can truly thank ...
12&12
Step Ten, p.95
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.
... fear of
creditors no matter how far ...
BB
Into Action, p.78
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.
... fear of
making a scene should I ...
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.173
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.
... fear of
not sleeping, and the other ...
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.175
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 ...
BB
Into Action, p.84
Fear of people and of economic insecurity will leave us.
36.
... fear of
running out of liquor.
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.175
One was the fear of not sleeping, and the other was
the fear of running out of liquor.
37.
... fear of
the alcoholic stigma, and spread ...
12&12
Tradition Twelve, p.186
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.
... fear of
the next debauch; the mother ...
BB
To Wives, p.104
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.
... fear of
this sort turn out to ...
12&12
Step Four, p.49
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.
... fear of
today, tomorrow or the hereafter.
BB
How It Works, p.63
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.
... fear or
hate anybody, has to be ...
12&12
Step Ten, p.93
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.
... fear or
intolerance may lessen your husband's ...
BB
To Wives, p.120
The slightest sign of
fear or intolerance may
lessen your husband's chance of recovery.
... fear ought
to be classed with stealing.
BB
How It Works, p.68
44.
... fear pain
less, and desire humility more ...
12&12
Step Seven, p.75
We began to fear pain less, and desire humility more than ever.
45.
... fear --
primarily fear that we would lose ...
12&12
Step Seven, p.76
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.
46.
... fear problem,
or any other.
BB
How It Works, p.68
Some of us once had great self-confidence, but it
didn't fully solve the fear problem, or any other.
47.
... Fear says,
"You dare not look!"
12&12
Step Four, p.49
48.
... (fear); security.
BB
How It Works, p.65
My employer -- unreasonable, unjust,
overbearing; threatens to fire me for drinking and padding my expense account -- self esteem (fear); security.
49.
... fear, self-delusion,
self-seeking, and self-pity, we step ...
BB
How It Works, p.62
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.
... fear, self-pity,
and hurt feelings, it was ...
12&12
Step Five, p.59
51.
Fear sobered
me for a bit.
BB
Bill's Story, p.8
Fear sobered me for a bit.
52.
... fear, society
breaking up into warring fragments.
12&12
Step Three, p.37
53.
... fear that
he might start drinking again.
BB
Foreword to Second Edition, p.xvi
The broker had gone to Akron on a business venture which had collapsed, leaving him greatly in fear that he might
start drinking again.
54.
... fear that
large numbers of incoming people ...
12&12
Tradition Twelve, p.184
55.
... fear that
our instincts will not be ...
12&12
Step Four, p.49
56.
... fear that
we would lose something we ...
12&12
Step Seven, p.76
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.
57.
... fear the
true basis of intolerance?
12&12
Tradition Three, p.140
58.
... fear; they
only thought they had humbled ...
BB
Into Action, p.73
They only thought they had lost their egoism and fear; they only thought they had
humbled themselves.
59.
... fear was
more important than freedom from ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.122
We found that freedom from
fear was more important than freedom
from want.
60.
... fear, we
were unhappy, we couldn't seem ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.52
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?
61.
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.
62.
... fear will
always lurk in every A.A. ...
12&12
Tradition Eight, p.169
63.
... fear, worry
and hurt feelings is a ...
BB
To Wives, p.116
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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