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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
INVENTORY occurs
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1.
... inventory.
12&12 p.45,
Step Four
We will be
offended at
A.A.'s
suggested inventory.
2.
... inventory.
12&12 p.45,
Step Four
We also
clutch at another
wonderful excuse for
avoiding an
inventory.
3.
... inventory.
12&12 p.45,
Step Four
Our
present anxieties
and
troubles, we
cry, are
caused by the
behavior
of other people -- people who really
need a
moral inventory.
4.
... inventory.
12&12 p.54,
Step Four
Therefore,
thoroughness ought to be the
watchword when
taking
inventory.
5.
... inventory.
12&12 p.107,
Step Twelve
We made a
searching and
fearless moral inventory.
6.
... inventory.
BB p.64,
How It Works
Therefore, we
started upon a
personal inventory.
7.
... inventory.
BB p.72,
Into Action
We have
admitted certain defects; we have
ascertained in a
rough
way what the
trouble is; we have
put our
finger on the
weak items in our
personal inventory.
8.
... inventory.
BB p.76,
Into Action
We made it when we took inventory.
9.
... inventory all
right, but hung on to ...
BB p.73,
Into Action
They took
inventory all
right, but
hung on to some of
the
worst items in
stock.
10.
... inventory and
continue to set right any ...
BB p.84,
Into Action
This
thought brings us to
Step Ten, which
suggests we
continue to
take
personal inventory
and
continue to
set right any new
mistakes as we
go along.
11.
... inventory, and
exert ourselves to do the ...
12&12 p.49,
Step Four
Once we have a
complete willingness to take
inventory, and
exert ourselves to
do the
job thoroughly, a
wonderful light falls upon this
foggy scene.
12.
... inventory, and
that when we were in ...
12&12 p.108,
Step Twelve
By this
time, at
Step Ten, we had
begun to get a
basis for
daily living, and we
keenly realized that we would
need
to
continue taking personal inventory, and that
when we were in the
wrong we ought to
admit it
promptly.
13.
... inventory and
we are prepared for a ...
BB p.75,
Into Action
We have a
written inventory
and we are
prepared for a
long talk.
14.
... inventory and
when we were wrong promptly ...
12&12 p.88,
Step Ten
"
Continued to take
personal inventory and when
we were
wrong promptly admitted it."
15.
... inventory and
when we were wrong promptly ...
BB p.59,
How It Works
10.
Continued to take
personal inventory and when
we were
wrong promptly admitted it.
16.
... inventory are
confronted with quite another problem.
12&12 p.46,
Step Four
The
sponsors of those who
feel they
need no
inventory are
confronted with
quite another
problem.
17.
... inventory at
all; it is the very ...
12&12 p.45,
Step Four
This is not a
moral inventory
at all; it is the very
process by which the
depressive has so often been
led to the
bottle and
extinction.
18.
... inventory, but
now the time has come ...
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.
19.
... inventory can
do its work.
12&12 p.90,
Step Ten
Before we
ask what a
spot-
check inventory is, let's
look at the
kind of
setting in which such an
inventory can do
its work.
20.
... inventory, confession
of personality defects, restitution to ...
BB xvi,
Foreword to Second Edition
Though he could not
accept all the
tenets of the
Oxford Groups, he was
convinced
of the
need for
moral inventory,
confession of
personality defects,
restitution to those
harmed,
helpfulness to
others, and the
necessity of
belief in and
dependence
upon
God.
21.
... inventory enables
us to settle with the ...
12&12 p.89,
Step Ten
Our
inventory enables us to
settle with the
past.
22.
... inventory had
persuaded us that all-round forgiveness ...
12&12 p.58,
Step Five
Our
moral inventory had
persuaded us that all-
round
forgiveness was
desirable, but it was only when we
resolutely tackled Step Five that we
inwardly knew we'd be able to
receive forgiveness
and
give it, too.
23.
... inventory in
this respect we ought to ...
12&12 p.52,
Step Four
24.
... inventory is
a fact-finding and a fact-facing ...
BB p.64,
How It Works
25.
... inventory is
aimed at our daily ups ...
12&12 p.91,
Step Ten
The
quick inventory is
aimed at our
daily ups and
downs,
especially those where people or new
events throw us off
balance and
tempt us to make
mistakes.
26.
... inventory is
carefully taken, and we have ...
12&12 p.89,
Step Ten
When our
inventory is
carefully taken, and we
have made
peace with ourselves, the
conviction follows that
tomorrow's
challenges can be
met as
they
come.
27.
... inventory is
heavy only because a great ...
12&12 p.89,
Step Ten
The
emphasis on
inventory
is
heavy only because a
great many of us have
never
really
acquired the
habit
of
accurate self-
appraisal.
28.
... inventory is,
let's look at the kind ...
12&12 p.90,
Step Ten
Before we
ask what a
spot-
check inventory is, let's
look at the
kind of
setting in which such an
inventory can do
its work.
29.
... inventory is
that pride and fear of ...
12&12 p.49,
Step Four
But the
testimony of
A.A.'s
who have really
tried a
moral inventory is that
pride and
fear of this
sort turn out to be
bogeymen,
nothing else.
30.
... inventory, it
must seem to every newcomer ...
12&12 p.49,
Step Four
So when
A.A. suggests a
fearless moral inventory, it
must seem to every
newcomer that
more is being
asked of him than he can do.
31.
... inventory, most
of us have found that ...
12&12 p.43,
Step Four
Without a
searching and
fearless moral inventory, most of us have
found
that the
faith which really
works in
daily living is still out of
reach.
32.
... inventory now
that we are sober?
12&12 p.45,
Step Four
If we were
pretty nice
people all along,
except for our
drinking, what
need is there
for a
moral inventory now
that we are
sober?
33.
... inventory of
myself?"
12&12 p.50,
Step Four
How do I take inventory of myself?"
34.
... inventory of
ourselves."
12&12 p.42,
Step Four
"Made a
searching and
fearless moral inventory of ourselves."
35.
... inventory of
ourselves.
BB p.59,
How It Works
4. Made a
searching and
fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
36.
... inventory of
your grosser handicaps, you have ...
BB p.71,
How It Works
If you have already made a
decision, and an
inventory of your
grosser handicaps, you have made a
good beginning.
37.
... inventory problem
in detail, let's have a ...
12&12 p.43,
Step Four
Before
tackling the
inventory problem in
detail, let's have a
closer
look at what the
basic problem is.
38.
... inventory proceedings,
our sponsors come to the ...
12&12 p.46,
Step Four
At this
stage of the
inventory proceedings, our
sponsors come to the
rescue.
39.
... inventory, taken
alone, wouldn't be enough.
12&12 p.108,
Step Twelve
Looking at
Step Five, we
decided that an
inventory,
taken alone, wouldn't be
enough.
40.
... inventory, taken
at any time of the ...
12&12 p.89,
Step Ten
There's the
spot-
check inventory,
taken at any
time of the
day,
whenever we find ourselves
getting tangled up.
41.
... inventory taken
in the midst of such ...
12&12 p.90,
Step Ten
42.
... inventory-taking is
not always done in red ...
12&12 p.93,
Step Ten
This is a
good place to
remember that
inventory-
taking is not always done in
red
ink.
43.
... inventory usually
goes broke.
BB p.64,
How It Works
A
business which
takes no
regular inventory usually
goes broke.
44.
... inventory was
ours, not the other man's.
BB p.67,
How It Works
The
inventory was ours, not the other
man's.
45.
... inventory, we
began to suspect how much ...
12&12 p.58,
Step Five
As we took
inventory, we
began to
suspect how much
trouble self-
delusion had been
causing
us.
46.
... inventory, we
have written down a lot.
BB p.70,
How It Works
If we have been
thorough about our
personal inventory, we have
written down a
lot.
47.
... inventory, what
shall we do about it?
BB p.72,
Into Action
Having made our
personal inventory, what shall we do about it?
48.
... inventory, will
need to determine what his ...
12&12 p.48,
Step Four
Human beings are
never quite
alike, so each of
us, when
making an
inventory, will
need to
determine what his
individual character
defects are.
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