From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... complete.
12&12 p.21,
Step One
2.
... complete.
BB p.123,
The Family Afterward
Though old buildings will eventually be replaced
by finer ones, the new structures will take years to complete.
3.
... complete a
jag!
BB p.9,
Bill's Story
4.
... complete abandon.
BB p.59,
How It Works
5.
... complete and
literal way, all A.A.'s have ...
12&12 p.64,
Step Six
So in a very complete and literal way, all A.A.'s have "become entirely ready" to have God remove the mania for alcohol from their
lives.
6.
... complete candor
of our conflicts, and had ...
12&12 p.57,
Step Five
Until we had talked with
complete candor of our conflicts, and had listened to someone else do the same thing, we still didn't belong.
7.
... complete defeat?
12&12 p.21,
Step One
8.
... complete defeat.
BB p.11,
Bill's Story
9.
... complete defeat
is the main taproot from ...
12&12 p.22,
Step One
The principle that we shall find no enduring strength until we first admit complete defeat is the main taproot from which our whole Society has sprung and flowered.
10.
... complete disclosure
of the damage we have ...
12&12 p.86,
Step Nine
There can only be one consideration which should qualify our desire for a
complete disclosure of
the damage we have done.
11.
... complete disclosures
do them or others more ...
12&12 p.83,
Step Nine
There will be those to whom
we can make only partial restitution, lest complete disclosures do them
or others more harm than good.
12.
... complete failure
of the kind of defense ...
BB p.24,
There Is A Solution
There is a complete failure
of the kind of defense that
keeps one from putting his hand on a hot stove.
13.
Complete financial
security we must have -- or ...
12&12 p.121,
Step Twelve
14.
... complete frankness
with those who have been ...
12&12 p.85,
Step Nine
As soon as we begin to feel confident in our new way of life and have begun, by our behavior and example, to
convince those about us
that we are indeed changing for the better, it
is usually safe to talk in complete frankness with those who
have been seriously affected, even those who may be only a little
or not at all aware of what we have done to them.
15.
... complete human
beings.
12&12 p.42,
Step Four
16.
... complete, it
caused us to play the ...
12&12 p.116,
Step Twelve
But when self-will had driven everybody away and our isolation had
become complete, it caused us to play the big shot in cheap barrooms and then fare forth alone on the street to depend upon the charity of passersby.
17.
... complete liberation
of our thinking.
BB p.52,
We Agnostics
18.
... complete my
course, so I packed my ...
BB p.173,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
This went from bad to worse until sophomore spring when, after a prolonged period of drinking, I made up my mind that I could not complete my
course, so I packed my grip and went South to spend a month on a large farm owned by a friend of mine.
19.
... complete readiness
to go through with it ...
BB p.74,
Into Action
If that is so, this step may be postponed, only, however, if we hold ourselves in complete readiness to go through with it at the first opportunity.
20.
... complete readiness
with which we throw away ...
BB p.52,
We Agnostics
Is not our age characterized by the ease with which we discard old ideas for new, by the complete readiness with which we throw away the theory or gadget which does
not work for something new which does?
21.
... complete stranger
may prove the best bet.
12&12 p.61,
Step Five
22.
... complete trust
upon a motor to keep ...
12&12 p.36,
Step Three
Ask the polio sufferer confined to an
iron lung who depends with complete trust upon a motor to keep the breath of life in him.
23.
... complete willingness
I might build what I ...
BB p.12,
Bill's Story
24.
... complete willingness
to make amends as fast ...
12&12 p.87,
Step Nine
But all of them do require a complete willingness to make amends as fast and as far as may be possible in a given set of conditions.
25.
... complete willingness
to move forward.
12&12 p.54,
Step Four
26.
... complete willingness
to take inventory, and exert ...
12&12 p.49,
Step Four
Once we have a complete willingness to take inventory, and exert ourselves to do the job thoroughly, a wonderful light falls upon this foggy scene.
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