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... humility.
12&12 p.45,
Step Four
2.
... humility.
12&12 p.48,
Step Four
For we had started to get perspective on ourselves, which is another way of saying that we were gaining
in humility.
3.
... humility.
12&12 p.58,
Step Five
But while this was a humiliating experience, it didn't necessarily mean that we
had yet acquired much actual humility.
4.
... humility.
12&12 p.59,
Step Five
Only by discussing ourselves, holding back nothing, only by being willing to take advice and accept direction could we
set foot on the road to straight thinking, solid honesty, and genuine humility.
5.
... humility.
12&12 p.71,
Step Seven
In all these strivings, so many of them well-intentioned, our crippling handicap had
been our lack of humility.
6.
... humility.
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
7.
... humility.
12&12 p.75,
Step Seven
8.
... humility.
12&12 p.76,
Step Seven
9.
... humility.
12&12 p.149,
Tradition Four
Even the chief architect, standing in
the ruins of his dream,
could laugh at himself --
and that is the very acme of
humility.
10.
... humility.
12&12 p.153,
Tradition Five
11.
... humility.
12&12 p.192,
Tradition Twelve (Long)
It reminds us that we are to place principles before personalities;
that we are actually to practice a genuine humility.
12.
... humility.
BB p.566(568),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
It reminds us that we are to place principles before personalities;
that we are actually to practice a genuine humility.
13.
... humility.
BB p.572(574),
Appendix V, The Religious View on A.A.
Edward Dowling, S.J.,(*) of the Queen's Work staff, says, "Alcoholics Anonymous is natural; it
is natural at the point
where nature comes closest to the supernatural, namely in
humiliations and in consequent humility.
14.
... humility, a
desire to seek and do ...
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
15.
... humility --
a word often misunderstood.
12&12 p.58,
Step Five
Another great dividend we may expect from
confiding our defects
to another human being is humility -- a word often misunderstood.
16.
... humility and
an open mind can lead ...
12&12 p.33,
Step Two
True humility and an open mind can lead us to faith, and every A.A. meeting is an assurance
that God will restore us to sanity if we
rightly relate ourselves to Him.
17.
... humility and
intellect could be compatible, provided ...
12&12 p.30,
Step Two
By their example they showed us that humility and intellect could be compatible, provided we
placed humility first.
18.
... humility and
serenity are so combined, something ...
12&12 p.62,
Step Five
19.
... humility as
a desirable personal virtue, but ...
12&12 p.74,
Step Seven
We may still have no very high opinion of humility as a desirable personal virtue, but we do recognize it as a necessary aid to our survival.
20.
... humility as
a necessity.
12&12 p.73,
Step Seven
21.
... humility as
a way of life.
12&12 p.70,
Step Seven
22.
Humility, as
a word and as an ...
12&12 p.70,
Step Seven
23.
... humility as
our guide, to move out ...
12&12 p.76,
Step Seven
The Seventh Step is where
we make the change in our attitude which permits us,
with humility as our guide,
to move out from ourselves toward others and toward God.
24.
... humility as
something more than a condition ...
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
It was only at the end of a long road, marked by successive defeats and humiliations, and the final crushing of our self-sufficiency, that we
began to feel humility as something more than a condition of groveling despair.
25.
... humility as
something to be desired for ...
12&12 p.73,
Step Seven
To get completely away from our aversion to the
idea of being humble, to gain a vision of humility as the avenue to true freedom of the human spirit, to be willing to work for humility as something to be desired
for itself, takes most of
us a long, long time.
26.
... humility as
something we really wanted, rather ...
12&12 p.75,
Step Seven
A great turning point in our lives came when we sought for humility as something we really wanted, rather than as something
we must have.
27.
... humility as
the avenue to true freedom ...
12&12 p.73,
Step Seven
To get completely away from our aversion to the
idea of being humble, to gain a vision of humility as the avenue to true freedom of the human spirit, to be willing to work for humility as something to be desired
for itself, takes most of
us a long, long time.
28.
... humility at
work.
12&12 p.187,
Tradition Twelve
29.
... humility commences
to have a wider meaning.
12&12 p.74,
Step Seven
But when we have taken a square look at some of these defects, have discussed
them with another, and have become willing to have them
removed, our thinking
about humility commences
to have a wider meaning.
30.
... humility could
enable us to find the ...
12&12 p.76,
Step Seven
If that degree of humility
could enable us to find the
grace by which such a deadly obsession could be
banished, then there must
be hope of the same result respecting any other problem we could possibly
have.
31.
... humility, expressed
by anonymity, is the greatest ...
12&12 p.187,
Tradition Twelve
We are sure that humility, expressed by anonymity,
is the greatest safeguard that Alcoholics Anonymous
can ever have.
32.
... humility, fearlessness
and honesty, in the sense ...
BB p.73,
Into Action
But they had not learned enough of humility, fearlessness and honesty, in the sense we find it necessary, until they told someone else all their life story.
33.
... humility first.
12&12 p.30,
Step Two
By their example they showed us that humility and intellect could be compatible, provided we
placed humility first.
34.
... humility had
brought strength out of weakness.
12&12 p.75,
Step Seven
35.
... humility had
formerly stood for a forced ...
12&12 p.74,
Step Seven
Where humility had formerly stood for a forced feeding on humble pie, it now begins to mean the nourishing ingredient which can give
us serenity.
36.
... humility in
seeking the removal of our ...
12&12 p.76,
Step Seven
It is really saying to us
that we now ought to be willing to try humility in seeking the removal of our other shortcomings just as we
did when we admitted that we were powerless over alcohol, and came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves
could restore us to sanity.
37.
... humility into
priceless assets.
12&12 p.75,
Step Seven
38.
... humility is
and what the practice of ...
12&12 p.70,
Step Seven
Since this Step so specifically concerns
itself with humility, we
should pause here to consider what humility is and
what the practice of it can mean to us.
39.
... humility is
the foundation principle of each ...
12&12 p.70,
Step Seven
Indeed, the attainment
of greater humility is the
foundation principle of each of A.A.'s Twelve Steps.
40.
... humility more
than ever.
12&12 p.75,
Step Seven
41.
... humility must
consist of recognizing our deficiencies.
12&12 p.58,
Step Five
42.
... humility, no
alcoholic can stay sober at ...
12&12 p.70,
Step Seven
43.
... humility starts
another revolutionary change in our ...
12&12 p.74,
Step Seven
44.
... humility that
makes it possible for us ...
12&12 p.98,
Step Eleven
It is a step in the development of that kind
of humility that makes it possible for us to receive
God's help.
45.
... humility, the
most profound result of all ...
12&12 p.75,
Step Seven
During this process of learning more about humility, the most profound result of all was the change
in our attitude toward
God.
46.
... humility, they
had deluded themselves and were ...
12&12 p.60,
Step Five
Lacking both practice and humility, they
had deluded themselves and were able to
justify the most arrant
nonsense on the ground
that this was what God had told
them.
47.
... humility to
establish and maintain the new ...
BB p.13,
Bill's Story
Belief in the power of God, plus enough willingness, honesty and humility to establish and maintain
the new order of things, were the essential
requirements.
48.
... humility was
the main key to sobriety.
12&12 p.153,
Tradition Five
But as he calmed down, he began to listen while I tried to show him that humility was the main key to sobriety.
49.
... humility we
must pay, we would pay."
12&12 p.31,
Step Two
50.
... humility, we
should pause here to consider ...
12&12 p.70,
Step Seven
Since this Step so specifically concerns
itself with humility, we
should pause here to consider what humility is and
what the practice of it can mean to us.
51.
... humility when
really we hadn't.
12&12 p.32,
Step Two
52.
... humility, which
we soon discovered to be ...
12&12 p.75,
Step Seven
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