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... desires.
12&12 p.71,
Step Seven
Poverty will disappear, and there will be
such abundance that everybody can have all the security and personal satisfactions he desires.
2.
... desires?
12&12 p.73,
Step Seven
How can we possibly summon the resolution and
the willingness to get
rid of such overwhelming compulsions and desires?
3.
... desires and
ambitions within him must be ...
12&12 p.130,
Tradition One
He learns that the clamor
of desires and ambitions
within him must be silenced whenever these
could damage the group.
4.
... desires are
the obstacles that block our ...
12&12 p.76,
Step Seven
We have seen that character defects based upon shortsighted or unworthy desires are the obstacles that block our path toward these objectives.
5.
... desires as
the means by which we ...
12&12 p.71,
Step Seven
Instead of regarding
the satisfaction of our material desires as the means by which we could live and
function as human beings, we had taken these satisfactions to be the final end and aim of life.
6.
... desires cause
him great trouble, practically all ...
12&12 p.42,
Step Four
When thus out of joint, man's natural desires cause him great trouble, practically
all the trouble there is.
7.
... desires for
emotional security and wealth, for ...
12&12 p.114,
Step Twelve
Our desires for emotional
security and wealth, for
personal prestige and
power, for romance, and
for family satisfactions -- all these have to be tempered and redirected.
8.
... desires for
personal distinction as A.A. members ...
12&12 p.187,
Tradition Twelve
Moved by the spirit of anonymity, we try to give up our natural desires for personal distinction
as A.A. members both among fellow alcoholics and before the general public.
9.
... desires for
sex, for material and emotional ...
12&12 p.42,
Step Four
Our desires for sex, for material and emotional
security, and for an important place in society often tyrannize us.
10.
... desires for
the common good, we realize ...
12&12 p.184,
Tradition Twelve
Because A.A.'s Twelve Traditions repeatedly ask us to give up personal desires for the common good, we realize that the sacrificial spirit -- well symbolized by anonymity -- is the foundation of them all.
11.
... desires --
for the sex relation, for material ...
12&12 p.42,
Step Four
So these desires -- for the sex
relation, for material
and emotional security, and for companionship -- are perfectly necessary and
right, and surely God-given.
12.
... desires have
warped us.
12&12 p.43,
Step Four
13.
... desires is
the main object of life.
12&12 p.71,
Step Seven
Nor do we enter into debate with the many who still so passionately cling to the belief that to satisfy our basic natural desires is the main object of life.
14.
... desires, it
isn't strange that we often ...
12&12 p.65,
Step Six
Since most of us are born with an abundance of natural
desires, it isn't strange
that we often let these far exceed their intended purpose.
15.
... desires .
. . they all deflate our egos.
12&12 p.55,
Step Five
All of A.A.'s Twelve Steps ask us to go contrary to our natural desires . . . they all
deflate our egos.
16.
... desires, they
revolt, and resist us heavily.
12&12 p.53,
Step Four
When we habitually try to
manipulate others to
our own willful desires, they revolt, and resist us heavily.
17.
... desires to
stop.
BB p.34,
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18.
... desires, was
obliged to conform to group ...
12&12 p.136,
Tradition Two
One of the first members of A.A., entirely contrary to his
own desires, was obliged to conform to group opinion.
19.
... desires will
always be found which oppose ...
12&12 p.66,
Step Six
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