From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... forgotten.
12&12 p.165,
Tradition Seven
They pointed out that the irresponsible had become responsible, and
that by making financial independence part of its tradition, Alcoholics Anonymous
had revived an ideal that
its era had almost forgotten.
2.
... forgotten?
BB p.140,
To Employers
3.
... forgotten, and
some still painfully festering, will ...
12&12 p.77,
Step Eight
This reopening of emotional wounds, some old, some perhaps forgotten, and some still painfully festering, will at first look like a purposeless and pointless piece of surgery.
4.
... forgotten and
the fact that you went ...
BB p.147,
To Employers
If you take it, your past will be forgotten and the fact that you went away for treatment will not be mentioned.
5.
... forgotten, damaging
emotional conflicts persist below the ...
12&12 p.79,
Step Eight
Very deep, sometimes quite forgotten, damaging emotional conflicts persist below the level of consciousness.
6.
... forgotten the
possibility that his own wishful ...
12&12 p.104,
Step Eleven
He may have forgotten the possibility that his own wishful thinking and the
human tendency to rationalize have distorted his so-called guidance.
7.
... forgotten to
send the Foundation their dollars.
12&12 p.163,
Tradition Seven
I who had boasted my generosity that morning
was treating my own club worse than the distant alcoholics who
had forgotten to send the Foundation their dollars.
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