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... beings.
12&12
Step Four, p.42
2.
... beings.
12&12
Step Eleven, p.97
3.
... beings.
12&12
Tradition Nine, p.172
Therefore, every nation, in fact every form of society, has to be a government administered by human
beings.
4.
... beings are
important, the proof that love ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.124
Service, gladly rendered, obligations squarely met, troubles well accepted or solved with God's help, the knowledge that at home or in
the world outside we are partners in a common effort, the well-understood fact that in God's sight all human beings are important, the proof that love freely given surely brings a full return, the certainty that
we are no longer isolated and alone in self-constructed prisons, the surety that we need no longer be square pegs in round holes but can fit and belong in God's scheme of things -- these are
the permanent and legitimate satisfactions of right living for which no amount of pomp and circumstance, no heap of material possessions, could possibly be substitutes.
5.
... beings are
never quite alike, so each ...
12&12
Step Four, p.48
Human beings are never quite alike, so each of us, when making an inventory, will need to determine what his individual character defects are.
6.
... beings don't
suffer these defects at these ...
12&12
Step Six, p.66
7.
... beings have
nearly always been the immediate ...
12&12
Step Eight, p.80
Since defective relations with other human beings have nearly always been the immediate cause of our woes, including our alcoholism, no field of investigation
could yield more satisfying and valuable
rewards than this one.
8.
... beings that
we are, we squabble.
12&12
Tradition Ten, p.177
9.
... beings, we
had taken these satisfactions to ...
12&12
Step Seven, p.71
Instead of regarding the
satisfaction of our material desires as the means by which we could live and
function as human beings, we had taken these satisfactions to be the final end and aim of life.
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