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Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
HARM occurs
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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
3.
... harm.
12&12 p.187,
Tradition Twelve
4.
... harm.
BB p.78,
Into Action
5.
... "harm" do
people do one another, anyway?
12&12 p.80,
Step Eight
What
kinds of "
harm" do
people do one another, anyway?
6.
... harm done?
12&12 p.24,
Step One
Who
wants to
confess his
faults to another and make
restitution for
harm done?
7.
... 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.
8.
... harm him.
BB p.96,
Working With Others
Permit that and you only
harm him.
9.
... "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.
10.
... harm in
so doing.
BB p.69,
How It Works
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.
11.
... harm others,
we are quite sure to ...
BB p.70,
How It Works
If we are not
sorry, and our
conduct continues to
harm others, we are quite
sure
to
drink.
12.
... harm, provided
that we do not bring ...
BB p.69,
How It Works
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.
13.
... 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.
14.
... harm than
we have done him and, ...
BB p.77,
Into Action
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.
15.
... harm, that
drinking is necessary in his ...
BB p.109,
To Wives
He is
positive he can
handle his
liquor, that it
does him no
harm, that
drinking is
necessary in
his
business.
16.
... 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.
17.
... harm, therefore,
had we done?
12&12 p.79,
Step Eight
What
real harm, therefore, had
we done?
18.
... 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.
19.
... 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.
20.
... harm your
husband.
BB p.115,
To Wives
But you
must be on
guard not
to
embarrass or
harm your
husband.
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