From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... constructive.
12&12 p.93,
Step Ten
2.
... constructive action.
BB p.93,
Working With Others
3.
... constructive if
they can be carried on ...
BB p.127,
The Family Afterward
These family talks will be constructive if they can
be carried on without heated argument, self-pity, self-justification or resentful criticism.
4.
... constructive imagination;
all sound achievement rests upon ...
12&12 p.100,
Step Eleven
5.
... constructive imagination,
we might proceed like this:
12&12 p.101,
Step Eleven
When, by such simple devices, we have placed ourselves in a mood in which
we can focus undisturbed on constructive imagination, we
might proceed like this:
6.
... constructive projects.
12&12 p.120,
Step Twelve
In partnership with others -- women and men -- they can devote themselves to any number of ideas, people, and constructive projects.
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