Fear; A feeling of agitation and anxiety caused by the presence or imminence of danger. To be uneasy or apprehensive.

 

Fear felt in the form of:	Anxiousness
	Anxiety
	Uneasiness
	Apprehension
	Worry
	Doubt
	frustration
	Agitation
	Overall feeling of uneasiness.

Selfishness, self-centeredness!
That, we think, is the “root” of our troubles.
Driven by a hundred forms of fear. 
B.B. Page 62

All passages below are taken from the 12 & 12.

At heart we were all abnormally afraid.
 

The chief activator of our defects has been self-centered fear 
 

All these failings generate fear, a soul-sickness in its own right.

Then fear, in turn, generates more character defects.

We have drunk to drown feelings of fear, frustration,
and depression.

These fears are the termites that ceaselessly devour the
foundations of whatever sort of life we try to build.
 

Primarily fear that we would lose something we already
possessed or would fail to get something we demanded.
 

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.
 

We eat, drink, and grab for more of everything than we need,
fearing we shall never have enough.

These terrible fears often continued to haunt us.

We were still the victims of unreasonable fears. And these
were fears which would make a serene and useful existence,
at any financial level, quite impossible.

For pride, leading to self-justification, and always
spurred by conscious or unconscious fears, is the
basic breeder of most human difficulties,
the chief block to true progress.
 

So false pride became the reverse side of that ruinous
coin marked "Fear."
 

Both his pride and his fear beat him back every time he tries
to look within. himself.
 

Because we were still bothered by fear, self-pity, and hurt feelings,
it was probable we couldn't appraise ourselves fairly at all.
 

So intense, though, is our fear and reluctance to do this, that many
A.A.'s at first try to bypass Step Five.
 

We found that with the help of A.A.'s Twelve Steps we could
lose those fears, no matter what our material prospects were.

We found that freedom from fear was more important
than freedom from want.
 

We could live at peace with ourselves and show others who still
suffered the same fears that they could get over them, too.



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