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From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)


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1.
... demands.   12&12 p.21, Step One
Alcohol, now become the rapacious creditor, bleeds us of all self-sufficiency and all will to resist its demands.

2.
... demands.   12&12 p.28, Step Two
There will be those who have drifted into indifference, those filled with self-sufficiency who have cut themselves off, those who have become prejudiced against religion, and those who are downright defiant because God has failed to fulfill their demands.

3.
... demands?   12&12 p.52, Step Four
Did these perplexities beset me because of selfishness or unreasonable demands?

4.
... demands.   12&12 p.53, Step Four
If we lean too heavily on people, they will sooner or later fail us, for they are human, too, and cannot possibly meet our incessant demands.

5.
... demands.   12&12 p.76, Step Seven
Therefore, no peace was to be had unless we could find a means of reducing these demands.

6.
... demands are threatened, to be envious when ...   12&12 p.49, Step Four
Unreasonable fear that our instincts will not be satisfied drives us to covet the possessions of others, to lust for sex and power, to become angry when our instinctive demands are threatened, to be envious when the ambitions of others seem to be realized while ours are not.

7.
... demands for attention become unreasonable.   12&12 p.115, Step Twelve
We had refused to learn the very hard lesson that overdependence upon people is unsuccessful because all people are fallible, and even the best of them will sometimes let us down, especially when our demands for attention become unreasonable.

8.
... demands for repayment.   12&12 p.116, Step Twelve
We saw that we would need to give constantly of ourselves without demands for repayment.

9.
... demands had been the cause.   12&12 p.115, Step Twelve
We blamed them, being quite unable to see that our unreasonable demands had been the cause.

10.
Demands made upon other people for too ...   12&12 p.44, Step Four
Demands made upon other people for too much attention, protection, and love can only invite domination or revulsion in the protectors themselves -- two emotions quite as unhealthy as the demands which evoked them.

11.
... demands nothing.   12&12 p.109, Step Twelve
This is indeed the kind of giving that actually demands nothing.


12.
... demands rigorous honesty.   BB p.58, How It Works   Go to page 58 in the Big Book
They are naturally incapable of grasping and developing a manner of living which demands rigorous honesty.


13.
... demands rigorous honesty.   BB p.145, To Employers   Go to page 145 in the Big Book
In fact, he may say almost anything if he has accepted our solution which, as you know, demands rigorous honesty.


14.
... demands that the others concede to him, ...   BB p.122, The Family Afterward   Go to page 122 in the Big Book
We find the more one member of the family demands that the others concede to him, the more resentful they become.

15.
... demands upon God to give it to ...   12&12 p.104, Step Eleven
We discover that we do receive guidance for our lives to just about the extent that we stop making demands upon God to give it to us on order and on our terms.

16.
... demands upon ourselves or upon others which ...   12&12 p.49, Step Four
Pride lures us into making demands upon ourselves or upon others which cannot be met without perverting or misusing our God-given instincts.

17.
... demands upon ourselves, upon others, and upon ...   12&12 p.76, Step Seven
We now clearly see that we have been making unreasonable demands upon ourselves, upon others, and upon God.

18.
... demands upon those we love.   12&12 p.93, Step Ten
We can try to stop making unreasonable demands upon those we love.

19.
... demands, we were in a state of ...   12&12 p.76, Step Seven
Living upon a basis of unsatisfied demands, we were in a state of continual disturbance and frustration.

20.
... demands which evoked them.   12&12 p.44, Step Four
Demands made upon other people for too much attention, protection, and love can only invite domination or revulsion in the protectors themselves -- two emotions quite as unhealthy as the demands which evoked them.


Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.  The A.A. Preamble, copyright © The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission.  Permission to reprint does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous or The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.

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