From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... concerned.
12&12 p.30,
Step Two
2.
... concerned.
BB p.163,
A Vision For You
3.
... concerned, A.A.
would go even further.
12&12 p.56,
Step Five
4.
... concerned about
that.
BB p.98,
Working With Others
5.
... concerned, and
lay our cards on the ...
12&12 p.86,
Step Nine
But if no such opportunity presents
itself, at some point we will want to summon all our courage, head straight for the person concerned, and lay our cards on the table.
6.
... concerned, are
not always so.
BB p.139,
To Employers
Drinking occasionally, and understanding your own reactions, it is possible for you to become
quite sure of many things which, so far as the alcoholic is concerned, are not always so.
7.
... concerned, except
when it would injure them ...
12&12 p.108,
Step Twelve
We followed this up in Step Nine by making direct amends to those concerned, except when it would injure them or other people.
8.
... concerned, it
has worked with us.
BB p.144,
To Employers
By no means do we offer it as the last word on this subject, but so
far as we are concerned, it has
worked with us.
9.
... concerned not
being present, we thought we ...
12&12 p.94,
Step Ten
Or, the person concerned not
being present, we thought we were helping others to understand him,
when in actuality our true motive was to feel superior by pulling him down.
10.
... concerned now
overwhelmed us, especially when we ...
12&12 p.79,
Step Eight
But the prospect of actually visiting or even writing the people concerned now overwhelmed us, especially when we remembered in what poor favor we stood with most of
them.
11.
... concerned, our
outlook underwent the same revolutionary ...
12&12 p.120,
Step Twelve
Where the possession of money and material things was concerned, our outlook underwent the same revolutionary change.
12.
... concerned, self-confidence
was no good whatever; in ...
12&12 p.22,
Step One
Then we had been told that so far as alcohol is concerned, self-confidence was no good whatever; in fact, it was a total liability.
13.
... concerned that
a couple remain apart.
BB p.99,
Working With Others
14.
... concerned, there
is nothing obligatory about it.
BB p.132,
The Family Afterward
15.
... concerned this
will be a strictly personal ...
BB p.143,
To Employers
While on the subject of confidence, can you adopt
the attitude that so far as
you are concerned this will be
a strictly personal matter, that his alcoholic
derelictions, the treatment about to be undertaken, will never be discussed without his consent?
16.
... concerned, we
had to drop the word ...
12&12 p.47,
Step Four
17.
... concerned with.
12&12 p.53,
Step Four
To these it can be suggested that a conscientious examination is likely to
reveal the very defects the objectionable questions are concerned
with.
18.
... concerned with
a drinking problem.
BB p.19,
There Is A Solution
19.
... concerned with
ourselves, our resentments, or our ...
BB p.62,
How It Works
Whatever our protestations, are not most of us concerned with ourselves, our
resentments, or our self-pity?
20.
... concerned with
personal relations.
12&12 p.77,
Step Eight
21.
... concerned with
us humans when we want ...
BB p.12,
Bill's Story
22.
... concerned with
ways to make A.A. more ...
12&12 p.178,
Tradition Ten
Let it be noted, too, that
they were almost always
concerned with ways to make A.A. more effective, how to do
the most good for the most alcoholics.
23.
... concerned would
at times wish he could ...
12&12 p.150,
Tradition Five
Every doctor concerned would at times wish he could devote himself to his chosen field rather than work only with the group.
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