From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... admitting he
has many, if not all, ...
BB p.92,
Working With Others
2.
Admitting he
may be somewhat at fault, ...
BB p.61,
How It Works
3.
... admitting he
was an alcoholic, he told ...
BB p.39,
More About Alcoholism
4.
... admitting his
faults and asking forgiveness.
BB p.79,
Into Action
5.
... admitting his
plight to people from whom ...
BB p.155,
A Vision For You
Why, he argued, should he lose the remainder of his business, only to bring still more suffering to his family by
foolishly admitting his
plight to people from whom
he made his livelihood?
6.
... admitting my
wrong.
BB p.13,
Bill's Story
7.
... admitting one's
defects to another person is, ...
12&12 p.56,
Step Five
8.
... admitting our
faults.
BB p.77,
Into Action
It may be he has done us more
harm than we have done him
and, though we may have acquired a better attitude toward him, we are
still not too keen about
admitting our faults.
9.
... admitting that
he could do nothing about ...
BB p.40,
More About Alcoholism
He was interested and conceded that he had some of the symptoms, but he was a long
way from admitting that he
could do nothing about it himself.
10.
... admitting the
things we have done, meanwhile ...
12&12 p.82,
Step Eight
We shall want to hold ourselves to the course of admitting the things we have done, meanwhile forgiving the
wrongs done us, real or fancied.
11.
... admitting these
things to ourselves.
BB p.72,
Into Action
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