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... defects.
BB
Into Action, p.72
This requires action on
our part, which, when completed, will mean that we have admitted to
God, to ourselves, and to another human being, the exact nature of our defects.
2.
... defects.
12&12
Contents (Step Seven), p.7
3.
... defects.
12&12
Contents (Step Ten), p.8
4.
... defects.
12&12
Step Four, p.46
As soon as he begins to be more objective, the newcomer can fearlessly,
rather than fearfully, look at his own defects.
5.
... defects.
12&12
Step Four, p.49
6.
... defects.
12&12
Step Six, p.66
7.
... defects.
12&12
Step Nine, p.84
8.
... defects all
of us have in varying ...
12&12
Step Four, p.48
Now let's ponder the need for a list of the more glaring personality defects all of us have in varying
degrees.
9.
... defects and
admit them.
BB
Working With Others, p.99
10.
... defects and
had really admitted them, even ...
12&12
Step Five, p.59
How could we be certain that we had made a true catalog of our defects and had
really admitted them, even to ourselves?
11.
... defects and
take action toward their removal ...
12&12
Step Six, p.69
At the very least, we shall have to come to grips with some of our worst character defects and take action toward their removal as quickly as we can.
12.
... defects are.
12&12
Step Four, p.48
Human beings are never quite alike, so each of us, when making an inventory, will need to determine what his individual character
defects are.
13.
... defects are
probably not more numerous or ...
12&12
Step Four, p.46
They comfort the melancholy one by first showing him that his case is not strange or different, that his character defects are probably not more numerous or worse than those of anyone else in A.A.
14.
... defects as
these, and few of us ...
12&12
Step Six, p.67
Nearly anyone could submit a good list of such defects as these, and few of us would
seriously think of giving them up, at least until they cause us excessive misery.
15.
... defects at
these rock-bottom levels.
12&12
Step Six, p.66
16.
... defects based
upon shortsighted or unworthy desires ...
12&12
Step Seven, p.76
We have seen that character
defects based upon shortsighted or unworthy desires are the obstacles that block our path toward these objectives.
17.
... defects based
upon that alone, wouldn't be ...
12&12
Step Five, p.59
Hence it was most evident
that a solitary self-appraisal, and the admission of our defects based upon that alone, wouldn't be nearly enough.
18.
... defects, both
sobriety and peace of mind ...
12&12
Step Four, p.50
By now the newcomer has probably arrived at the following conclusions:
that his character defects,
representing instincts gone astray, have been the primary
cause of his drinking and
his failure at life; that unless he is now willing to work hard at the elimination of
the worst of these defects, both sobriety and peace of mind will still elude him; that all the faulty
foundation of his life will have to be torn out and built anew on bedrock.
19.
... defects, but
in some instances this will ...
12&12
Step Seven, p.73
We will want to be rid of some of these defects, but in
some instances this will appear to be an impossible
job from which we recoil.
20.
... defects contributed
to my financial instability?
12&12
Step Four, p.51
Surveying his business
or employment record, almost any alcoholic can ask questions like these: In addition to my drinking problem, what character
defects contributed to my
financial instability?
21.
... defects deep
down in us under thick ...
12&12
Step Four, pp.53-54
Because our surface record hasn't looked too bad, we have frequently been
abashed to find that this is
so simply because we have
buried these selfsame
defects deep down in us under thick layers of self-justification.
22.
... defects, even
though such disclosures were painful ...
12&12
Step Four, p.47
First of all, we had to admit
that we had many of these defects, even though such disclosures were painful
and humiliating.
23.
... defects, few
could stay sober.
12&12
Contents (Step Five), p.6
24.
... defects has
been self-centered fear -- primarily fear ...
12&12
Step Seven, p.76
The chief activator of our
defects has been self-centered fear -- primarily fear that we would
lose something we already possessed or would
fail to get something we demanded.
25.
... defects, have
discussed them with another, and ...
12&12
Step Seven, p.74
But when we have taken a square look at some of these
defects, have discussed
them with another, and have become willing to have them removed, our thinking about
humility commences to
have a wider meaning.
26.
... defects have
not been so glaring.
12&12
Step Four, p.53
Some will object to many of the questions posed, because they think their own character defects have not
been so glaring.
27.
... defects have
thus demolished their security.
12&12
Step Four, pp.51-52
But all alcoholics who have drunk themselves out of jobs, family, and friends will need to cross-examine themselves ruthlessly
to determine how their own
personality defects have
thus demolished their security.
28.
... defects, he
will ask, "Just how do ...
12&12
Step Four, p.50
Now willing to commence the search for his
own defects, he will ask, "Just how do I go about this? How do I
take inventory of myself?"
29.
... defects, if
we think we have any ...
12&12
Step Four, p.45
We shall claim that our serious character defects, if we think we have any at all, have been caused chiefly by excessive drinking.
30.
... defects may
be glaring, but the chances ...
BB
Into Action, p.83
31.
... defects of
character.
BB
How It Works, p.59
32.
... defects of
character."
12&12
Contents (Step Six), p.6
33.
... defects of
character.
12&12
Step Four, p.48
34.
... defects of
character."
12&12
Step Six, p.63
35.
... defects of
character are not going to ...
BB
Working With Others, p.100
36.
... defects of
character" -- is A.A.'s way of ...
12&12
Step Six, p.65
So Step Six -- "Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character" -- is A.A.'s way of stating the best possible attitude one can take in order to make a beginning on this lifetime
job.
37.
... defects of
character removed, because we still ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.108
At Step Six, many of us balked -- for the practical reason that we did
not wish to have all our defects
of character removed, because we still loved some of them too much.
38.
... defects of
character will be answered with ...
12&12
Step Six, p.63
Of course, the often disputed question of whether God can -- and will, under certain conditions -- remove defects of character will be answered with a prompt affirmative by almost any A.A. member.
39.
... defects of
others.
12&12
Step Eight, p.78
Moreover, it is usually a
fact that our behavior when
drinking has aggravated the defects of others.
40.
... defects of
others could be cured maybe ...
12&12
Tradition Four, p.148
41.
... defects of
their frail craft, every test ...
12&12
Tradition One, p.131
And this they did find, in measure to transcend all
the defects of their frail craft, every test of uncertainty, pain, fear, and despair, and even the death of one.
42.
... defects of
these people, and sometimes used ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.50
Instead, we looked at the
human defects of these people, and sometimes used their shortcomings as
a basis of wholesale condemnation.
43.
... defects, or,
if you wish, of our ...
12&12
Step Six, p.65
44.
... defects or
theirs.
12&12
Step Eight, p.82
45.
... defects, past
and present.
12&12
Step Four, p.46
This the sponsor promptly
proves by talking freely and easily, and without exhibitionism,
about his own defects, past and present.
46.
... defects, representing
instincts gone astray, have been ...
12&12
Step Four, p.50
By now the newcomer has probably arrived at the following conclusions:
that his character defects,
representing instincts gone astray, have been the primary
cause of his drinking and
his failure at life; that unless he is now willing to work hard at the elimination of
the worst of these defects, both sobriety and peace of mind will still elude him; that all the faulty
foundation of his life will have to be torn out and built anew on bedrock.
47.
... defects, restitution
to those harmed, helpfulness to ...
BB
Foreword to Second Edition, p.xvi
Though he could not accept
all the tenets of the Oxford
Groups, he was convinced
of the need for moral inventory, confession of
personality defects, restitution to those harmed, helpfulness to others, and the necessity of
belief in and dependence
upon God.
48.
... defects should
be called, let's take a ...
12&12
Step Four, p.48
To avoid falling into confusion over the names these defects should be called, let's take a universally recognized list of major human failings -- the Seven Deadly Sins of pride, greed, lust, anger, gluttony, envy, and sloth.
49.
... defects taken
from them.
12&12
Step Six, pp.67-68
Some people, of course, may
conclude that they are indeed ready to have all such defects taken from them.
50.
... defects that
have made us hard to ...
12&12
Step Nine, p.84
51.
... defects the
objectionable questions are concerned with.
12&12
Step Four, p.53
To these it can be suggested that a conscientious examination is likely to
reveal the very defects the objectionable questions are concerned
with.
52.
... defects, then
where do we stand?
12&12
Step Six, p.66
53.
... defects, there
will be little need to ...
BB
To Wives, p.118
If you both show a willingness to remedy your
own defects, there will be little need to criticize each other.
54.
... defects, they
have finally ambushed us into ...
12&12
Step Four, p.54
55.
... defects they
themselves were trying to conceal.
12&12
Step Five, p.56
They will tell how they tried to carry the load alone; how much they suffered of irritability, anxiety,
remorse, and depression; and how, unconsciously seeking
relief, they would sometimes accuse even their best friends of the very character defects they themselves were trying to
conceal.
56.
... defects to
another human being is humility ...
12&12
Step Five, p.58
Another great dividend we may expect from
confiding our defects to another human being is humility -- a word often misunderstood.
57.
... defects to
another human being we could ...
12&12
Step Five, p.56
Most of us would declare that without a fearless admission of our defects to another human being we could not stay sober.
58.
... defects to
another person is, of course, ...
12&12
Step Five, p.56
59.
... defects to
be lifted out of us ...
12&12
Step Six, p.65
This does not mean that we expect all our character
defects to be lifted out of us as the drive to drink was.
60.
... defects we
are still unwilling to give ...
12&12
Step Six, p.68
Looking again at those defects we are still unwilling to give up, we ought to erase the hard-and-fast lines that we have drawn.
61.
... defects; we
have ascertained in a rough ...
BB
Into Action, p.72
We have admitted certain
defects; we have ascertained in a rough way what the trouble is; we have
put our finger on the weak items in our personal inventory.
62.
... defects were
still there.
12&12
Step Five, p.58
63.
... defects which
cause or aggravate them.
12&12
Step Five, p.55
A.A. experience has taught us we cannot live alone with our pressing problems and the character
defects which cause or aggravate them.
64.
... defects while
we blamed others for them.
12&12
Step Five, p.59
Or anger and hurt pride might be the smoke screen under which we were hiding some of our defects while we blamed others for them.
65.
... defects, will
be obliged to admit that ...
12&12
Step Six, p.68
But even these people, if they
construct a list of still milder defects, will be obliged to admit that they prefer to hang on to some of
them.
66.
... defects with
another person.
BB
Into Action, p.72
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