From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... direct amends
divides those we should approach ...
12&12 p.83,
Step Nine
After we have made the list of people we have harmed, have reflected carefully upon each instance, and have tried to possess ourselves of the right attitude in which to proceed, we will see that the making of direct amends divides those we should approach into several classes.
2.
... direct amends
from the day we join ...
12&12 p.83,
Step Nine
3.
... direct amends
to such people wherever possible, ...
12&12 p.83,
Step Nine
"Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do
so would injure them or others."
4.
... direct amends
to such people wherever possible, ...
BB p.59,
How It Works
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do
so would injure them or others.
5.
... direct amends
to those concerned, except when ...
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.
6.
... direct, and
use, without a reasonable assumption ...
BB p.48,
We Agnostics
Simply because it is impossible to explain
what we see, feel, direct, and use, without a reasonable assumption as a starting point.
7.
... direct comment
and counsel on our situation, ...
12&12 p.60,
Step Five
The benefit of talking
to another person is that
we can get his direct comment and counsel on our
situation, and there can be no doubt in our minds what that advice is.
8.
... direct conflict
with the new way of ...
BB p.124,
The Family Afterward
9.
... direct contact
as possible.
12&12 p.109,
Step Twelve
In Step Eleven we saw that if a Higher Power had restored us to sanity and had enabled us to
live with some peace of mind in a sorely troubled world, then such a Higher Power was worth knowing better, by as direct contact as possible.
10.
... direct guidance
we may receive while we ...
12&12 p.60,
Step Five
While the comment or advice of others may be by no means infallible, it is likely
to be far more specific than any direct guidance we may receive while we are still so inexperienced
in establishing contact with a Power greater than ourselves.
11.
... direct linkage
among self-examination, meditation, and prayer.
12&12 p.98,
Step Eleven
12.
... direct or
govern is the essence of ...
12&12 p.172,
Tradition Nine
13.
... direct our
attention to what He would ...
BB p.68,
How It Works
14.
... direct our
thinking, especially asking that it ...
BB p.86,
Into Action
Before we begin, we ask God to direct our thinking, especially asking that it
be divorced from self-pity, dishonest or self-seeking motives.
15.
... direct personal
contact at all.
12&12 p.83,
Step Nine
There will be other cases where action ought to be deferred, and still others in which by the
very nature of the situation we shall never be able to make direct personal contact at all.
16.
... direct result
of unfortunate birth and uncontrollable ...
12&12 p.97,
Step Eleven
What about all those unhappy lives which were the
direct result of unfortunate birth and uncontrollable circumstances?
17.
... direct result
of yesterday's and sometimes today's ...
12&12 p.88,
Step Ten
That is the emotional hangover, the direct result of yesterday's and
sometimes today's excesses of negative emotion -- anger, fear, jealousy, and the like.
18.
... direct some
of your thought to the ...
BB p.119,
To Wives
19.
... direct the
group.
12&12 p.134,
Tradition Two
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