From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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BB p.37,
More About Alcoholism
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BB p.109,
To Wives
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its chief application to situations ...
12&12 p.90,
Step Ten
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... check inventory
is, let's look at the ...
12&12 p.90,
Step Ten
Before we ask what a spot-check inventory is, let's look at the kind of setting in which such an inventory can do its work.
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taken at any time of ...
12&12 p.89,
Step Ten
There's the spot-check inventory, taken at any time of the day, whenever we find ourselves getting tangled up.
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... check inventory
taken in the midst of ...
12&12 p.90,
Step Ten
A spot-check inventory taken in the midst of such disturbances can be of very great help in quieting stormy emotions.
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... check ourselves
by remembering that we are ...
12&12 p.92,
Step Ten
As an insurance against "big-shot-ism" we can often check ourselves by remembering that we are today sober only by the grace of God and that any success we may be having is
far more His success than ours.
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