"feeling" in the Big Book

When the thought was expressed that there might be a God personal to me this feeling was intensified.

The feeling of having shared in a common peril is one element in the powerful cement which binds us.

In some circumstances we have gone out deliberately to get drunk, feeling ourselves justified by nervousness, anger, worry, depression, jealousy or the like.

But the moment I made up my mind to go through with the process, I had the curious feeling that my alcoholic condition was relieved, as in fact it proved to be.

Yet, in other moments, we found ourselves thinking, when enchanted by a starlit night, “Who, then, made all this?’’ There was a feeling of awe and wonder, but it was fleeting and soon lost.

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?

We finally saw that faith in some kind of God was a part of our make-up, just as much as the feeling we have for a friend.

The feeling that the drink problem has disappeared will often come strongly.

We go to him in a helpful and forgiving spirit, confessing our former ill feeling and expressing our regret.

That feeling of uselessness and self-pity will disappear.

We want to leave you with the feeling that no situation is too difficult and no unhappiness too great to be overcome.

Another feeling we are very likely to entertain is one of resentment that love and loyalty could not cure our husbands of alcoholism.

When he renews interest in such things, a feeling of jealousy may arise.

Even when you understand the malady better, you may feel this feeling rising.

Can you discard the feeling that you are dealing only with habit, with stubbornness, or a weak will?

If possible express a lack of hard feeling toward him.

It is joyous intimacy with friends and a feeling that life is good.

The proceeding was shot through with much hard feeling and controversy.