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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... hurt.
12&12 p.78,
Step Eight
We got a
pretty severe shock when we
realized that
we were
preparing to make a
face-to-
face admission of our
wretched conduct to those
we had
hurt.
2.
... hurt.
12&12 p.79,
Step Eight
There were
cases, too, where we had
damaged others who were still
happily unaware of being
hurt.
3.
... hurt.
12&12 p.92,
Step Ten
Of
course, people
turned
away from us,
bored or
hurt.
4.
... hurt.
BB p.18,
There Is A Solution
If a
person has
cancer all
are
sorry for him and no one is
angry or
hurt.
5.
... hurt.
BB p.62,
How It Works
Sometimes they
hurt us,
seemingly without
provocation, but we
invariably find that at some
time in the
past we have made
decisions based on
self which
later placed us in a
position to
be
hurt.
6.
... hurt?
BB p.69,
How It Works
Whom had we hurt?
7.
... hurt.
BB p.156,
A Vision For You
Stepping into his
car, he
made the
rounds of people he had
hurt.
8.
... hurt a
great deal.
BB p.125,
The Family Afterward
A few of us have had these
growing pains and they
hurt a
great deal.
9.
... hurt and
confused when the advice is ...
12&12 p.111,
Step Twelve
Then we are
hurt and
confused when the
advice is
rejected, or when it is
accepted and brings still
greater confusion.
10.
... hurt and
depressed.
12&12 p.134,
Tradition Two
The
founder and his
friends are
hurt and
depressed.
11.
... hurt and
disappointed.
12&12 p.115,
Step Twelve
But when they finally
resisted or
ran away, we were
bitterly
hurt and
disappointed.
12.
... hurt, and
how badly?
12&12 p.50,
Step Four
What people were
hurt, and how
badly?
13.
... hurt, and
in what ways.
12&12 p.77,
Step Eight
To a
degree, he has already done this when
taking moral inventory, but now the
time
has
come when he ought to
redouble his
efforts to
see how many people he has
hurt, and in what
ways.
14.
... hurt, and
left out as they witness ...
12&12 p.120,
Step Twelve
At
first many of these
feel
lonely,
hurt, and
left out as they
witness so
much
domestic happiness about them.
15.
... hurt anybody
but ourselves.
12&12 p.79,
Step Eight
We
clung to the
claim that
when
drinking we
never
hurt anybody but ourselves.
16.
... hurt by
our conduct, and are willing ...
BB p.70,
How It Works
We have
listed the people we have
hurt by our
conduct, and are
willing to
straighten
out the
past if we can.
17.
... hurt by
people who, like us, are ...
12&12 p.92,
Step Ten
It will
become more and more
evident as we go
forward
that it is
pointless to
become angry, or to get
hurt by people who, like us, are
suffering from the
pains of
growing up.
18.
... hurt feelings,
a sense of persecution, and ...
12&12 p.53,
Step Four
19.
... hurt feelings
and resentments.
BB p.117,
To Wives
20.
... hurt feelings
is a wonderful thing.
BB p.116,
To Wives
When we do that, we find it
solves our
problems too; the
ensuing
lack of
fear,
worry and
hurt feelings is a
wonderful
thing.
21.
... hurt feelings,
it was probable we couldn't ...
12&12 p.59,
Step Five
Because we were still
bothered by
fear,
self-
pity, and
hurt feelings, it was
probable
we couldn't
appraise ourselves
fairly at all.
22.
... hurt him
a bit, even though he ...
BB p.144,
To Employers
That won't
hurt him a
bit, even
though he does not go for this
remedy.
23.
... hurt me
on a full stomach.
BB p.36,
More About Alcoholism
"
Suddenly the
thought
crossed my
mind that if I
were to
put an
ounce of
whiskey in my
milk it couldn't
hurt me on a
full stomach.
24.
... hurt or
threatened.
BB p.65,
How It Works
25.
... hurt or
toward whom I felt resentment.
BB p.13,
Bill's Story
We made a
list of people I had
hurt or
toward whom I
felt resentment.
26.
... hurt pride
could be rewon.
BB p.125,
The Family Afterward
Husbands and
wives have
sometimes been
obliged to
separate for a
time until new
perspective, new
victory over
hurt pride could be
rewon.
27.
... hurt pride
-- did the same thing.
12&12 p.90,
Step Ten
Other
kinds of
disturbances --
jealousy,
envy,
self-
pity, or
hurt pride -- did the same thing.
28.
... hurt pride,
frustration, self-pity, misunderstanding and fear.
BB p.104,
To Wives
29.
... hurt pride
might be the smoke screen ...
12&12 p.59,
Step Five
Or
anger and
hurt pride might be the
smoke screen under which we were
hiding some of our
defects
while we
blamed others for them.
30.
... hurt some
more.
BB p.95,
Working With Others
This he may do after he gets hurt some more.
31.
... hurt them
and make them unhappy.
BB p.74,
Into Action
It may be one of our
own family, but we cannot
disclose anything to our
wives or our
parents which
will
hurt them and make them
unhappy.
32.
... hurt those
we love because they need ...
12&12 p.94,
Step Ten
We sometimes
hurt those we
love because they
need to be "
taught a
lesson," when we
really
want to
punish.
33.
... hurt us
and others, then the need ...
12&12 p.55,
Step Five
If we have
swept the
searchlight of
Step Four back and
forth over our
careers, and it has
revealed in
stark relief those
experiences
we'd rather not
remember, if we have
come to
know how
wrong thinking and
action have
hurt us and others,
then the
need to
quit living by ourselves with those
tormenting ghosts of
yesterday gets more
urgent
than ever.
34.
... hurt us,
seemingly without provocation, but we ...
BB p.62,
How It Works
Sometimes they
hurt us,
seemingly without
provocation, but we
invariably find that at some
time in the
past we have made
decisions based on
self which
later placed us in a
position to
be
hurt.
35.
... hurt, we
may feel diffident about going ...
BB p.76,
Into Action
As we
look over the
list of
business acquaintances and
friends we have
hurt, we may
feel diffident about
going to some of them on a
spiritual basis.
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