From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
FORGIVE occurs
6 times
(
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1.
... forgive and
forget.
BB p.134,
The Family Afterward
They cannot
seem to
forgive
and
forget.
2.
... forgive and
try to forget.
BB p.106,
To Wives
Next day they would be
themselves again and we would
forgive and
try to
forget.
3.
... forgive others,
no matter how deeply we ...
12&12 p.58,
Step Five
Often it was while
working on this
Step with our
sponsors or
spiritual advisers that
we
first felt truly able to
forgive others, no
matter how
deeply we
felt they had
wronged us.
4.
... forgive our
derelictions.
12&12 p.65,
Step Six
If we
ask,
God will
certainly forgive our
derelictions.
5.
... forgive than
to be forgiven.
12&12 p.101,
Step Eleven
6.
... forgive when
the fault is elsewhere.
12&12 p.91,
Step Ten
In all these
situations we
need self-
restraint,
honest analysis of what is
involved, a
willingness to
admit when
the
fault is ours, and an
equal willingness to
forgive when the
fault is
elsewhere.
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