From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
BEINGS occurs
9 times
(
Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
1.
... beings.
12&12 p.42,
Step Four
Without them we wouldn't be
complete human beings.
2.
... beings.
12&12 p.97,
Step Eleven
But
certainly there wasn't any
evidence of a
God who
knew or
cared about
human beings.
3.
... beings.
12&12 p.172,
Tradition Nine
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 p.124,
Step Twelve
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 p.48,
Step Four
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 p.66,
Step Six
Of
course, most
human beings don't
suffer these
defects at these
rock-
bottom levels.
7.
... beings have
nearly always been the immediate ...
12&12 p.80,
Step Eight
8.
... beings that
we are, we squabble.
12&12 p.177,
Tradition Ten
Human beings that we are, we
squabble.
9.
... beings, we
had taken these satisfactions to ...
12&12 p.71,
Step Seven
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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