From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... accurate and
really exhaustive survey of our ...
12&12 p.79,
Step Eight
Though in some cases we
cannot make restitution
at all, and in some cases action ought to be deferred, we should nevertheless make an
accurate and really exhaustive survey of our
past life as it has affected other people.
2.
... accurate and
unsparing survey of the human ...
12&12 p.77,
Step Eight
Every A.A. has found that he can make little headway in this new adventure of living until he first backtracks and really makes an accurate and unsparing survey of the human wreckage he has left in his
wake.
3.
... accurate cross
section of America, and in ...
BB xx,
Foreword to Second Edition
Alcohol being no respecter of persons, we are an accurate cross section of America, and in distant lands, the same democratic evening-up process is now going on.
4.
... accurate self-appraisal.
12&12 p.89,
Step Ten
The emphasis on inventory is heavy only because a great many of us have never really acquired the habit of accurate self-appraisal.
5.
... accurate self-survey.
12&12 p.61,
Step Five
The real tests of the situation are your own willingness to confide
and your full confidence
in the one with whom you share
your first accurate self-survey.
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