From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... honest.
BB p.58,
How It Works
There are those, too, who suffer from grave emotional and mental disorders, but many of them
do recover if they have the capacity to be honest.
2.
... honest A.A.
to plump for their brand ...
12&12 p.158,
Tradition Six
3.
... honest analysis
of what is involved, a ...
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.
4.
... honest and
tolerant?
12&12 p.24,
Step One
5.
... honest and
upright when not drinking.
BB p.141,
To Employers
6.
... honest appraisal.
12&12 p.54,
Step Four
7.
... honest appraisal,
we found we had been ...
12&12 p.32,
Step Two
We supposed we had been serious about religious
practices when, upon
honest appraisal, we found we had been only superficial.
8.
... honest desire
to let God take us ...
BB p.70,
How It Works
If we are sorry for what we have done, and have the honest desire to let God take us to better things, we believe we will be forgiven and will have learned our lesson.
9.
... honest desire
to stop drinking.
BB xiv,
Foreword to First Edition
10.
... honest difference
of opinion.
BB p.117,
To Wives
We do not mean that you have to agree with your husband whenever there is an honest
difference of opinion.
11.
... honest doubt
and prejudice.
BB p.45,
We Agnostics
12.
... honest effort
is made "to practice these ...
12&12 p.114,
Step Twelve
Our basic troubles are
the same as everyone else's, but when an honest effort is made "to practice these principles in all our affairs," well-grounded A.A.'s seem to have the ability, by
God's grace, to take these troubles in stride and turn them into demonstrations of faith.
13.
... honest enough
to try.
BB p.28,
There Is A Solution
If what we have learned and felt and seen means anything at all, it means that all of us, whatever our race, creed, or color are the children of a living Creator with whom we may form
a relationship upon simple and understandable terms
as soon as we are willing
and honest enough to try.
14.
... honest if
he would live at all.
BB p.146,
To Employers
15.
... honest letter.
BB p.83,
Into Action
16.
... honest manual
labor on my part for ...
BB p.3,
Bill's Story
17.
... honest regret
for harms done, a genuine ...
12&12 p.95,
Step Ten
An honest regret for harms done, a genuine gratitude for blessings received, and
a willingness to try for
better things tomorrow will be the permanent assets we shall seek.
18.
... honest search
of our motives and actions.
12&12 p.79,
Step Eight
19.
... honest sharing
of our terrible burden of ...
12&12 p.62,
Step Five
This feeling of being at
one with God and man, this emerging from isolation through the open and honest sharing of our terrible burden of guilt, brings us to a resting place where we may prepare ourselves for the following Steps toward a full and meaningful sobriety.
20.
... honest, tolerant,
and just, that we ought ...
12&12 p.29,
Step Two
We were still sure that we ought to be fairly honest, tolerant, and just, that we ought to be ambitious and hardworking.
21.
... honest with
another person, it confirms that ...
12&12 p.60,
Step Five
When we are honest with another person, it confirms that we have been honest with ourselves and with
God.
22.
... honest with
himself, he must sometimes feel ...
BB xxix(xxvii),
The Doctor's Opinion
Faced with this problem,
if a doctor is honest with
himself, he must sometimes feel his own inadequacy.
23.
... honest with
no one else.
BB p.73,
Into Action
24.
... honest with
ourselves and with God.
12&12 p.60,
Step Five
When we are honest with another person, it confirms that we have been honest with ourselves and with
God.
25.
... honest with
somebody if we expect to ...
BB p.73,
Into Action
26.
... honest with
themselves.
BB p.58,
How It Works
Those who do not recover
are people who cannot or will not completely give themselves to this simple program, usually men and women who are constitutionally incapable of being honest with themselves.
27.
... honest with
these sympathetic men, we were ...
BB p.73,
Into Action
28.
... honest with
yourself about it.
BB p.32,
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