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

hardness
hardware
hardworking
HARM   occurs   21 times    (Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
See also...     harms
harmed
harming
harmless

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1.
... harm.   12&12 p.85, Step Nine
The only exceptions we will make will be cases where our disclosure would cause actual harm.

2.
... harm.   12&12 p.178, Tradition Ten
Despite their din, our puny rows never did A.A. a particle of harm.

3.
... harm.   12&12 p.187, Tradition Twelve
As this tide offering top public approval swept in, we realized that it could do us incalculable good or great harm.


4.
... harm.   BB p.78, Into Action   Go to page 78 in the Big Book
Nor are we afraid of disclosing our alcoholism on the theory it may cause financial harm.


5.
... harm.   BB p.178, Doctor Bob's Nightmare   Go to page 178 in the Big Book
I learned that it was something of a spiritual nature, which did not appeal to me very much, but I thought it could do no harm.

6.
... "harm" do people do one another, anyway?   12&12 p.80, Step Eight
What kinds of "harm" do people do one another, anyway?

7.
... harm done?   12&12 p.24, Step One
Who wants to confess his faults to another and make restitution for harm done?

8.
... harm done others has not been great, ...   12&12 p.79, Step Eight
In many instances we shall find that though the harm done others has not been great, the emotional harm we have done ourselves has.


9.
... harm him.   BB p.96, Working With Others   Go to page 96 in the Big Book
Permit that and you only harm him.

10.
... "harm" in a practical way, we might ...   12&12 p.80, Step Eight
To define the word "harm" in a practical way, we might call it the result of instincts in collision, which cause physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual damage to people.


11.
... harm in so doing.   BB p.69, How It Works   Go to page 69 in the Big Book
We must be willing to make amends where we have done harm, provided that we do not bring about still more harm in so doing.


12.
... harm others, we are quite sure to ...   BB p.70, How It Works   Go to page 70 in the Big Book
If we are not sorry, and our conduct continues to harm others, we are quite sure to drink.


13.
... harm, provided that we do not bring ...   BB p.69, How It Works   Go to page 69 in the Big Book
We must be willing to make amends where we have done harm, provided that we do not bring about still more harm in so doing.

14.
... harm than good.   12&12 p.83, Step Nine
There will be those to whom we can make only partial restitution, lest complete disclosures do them or others more harm than good.


15.
... harm than we have done him and, ...   BB p.77, Into Action   Go to page 77 in the Big Book
It may be he has done us more harm than we have done him and, though we may have acquired a better attitude toward him, we are still not too keen about admitting our faults.


16.
... harm, that drinking is necessary in his ...   BB p.109, To Wives   Go to page 109 in the Big Book
He is positive he can handle his liquor, that it does him no harm, that drinking is necessary in his business.

17.
... harm the one to whom we are ...   12&12 p.86, Step Nine
That will arise in the occasional situation where to make a full revelation would seriously harm the one to whom we are making amends.

18.
... harm, therefore, had we done?   12&12 p.79, Step Eight
What real harm, therefore, had we done?

19.
... harm us, never mind how twisted or ...   12&12 p.139, Tradition Three
We aren't a bit afraid you'll harm us, never mind how twisted or violent you may be.

20.
... harm we have done ourselves has.   12&12 p.79, Step Eight
In many instances we shall find that though the harm done others has not been great, the emotional harm we have done ourselves has.


21.
... harm your husband.   BB p.115, To Wives   Go to page 115 in the Big Book
But you must be on guard not to embarrass or harm your husband.


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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