Home Page

Search "164 and More"
 
The Book "164 and More"
 
About Recovery Press

From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)


Click    to display the full page from the Big Book

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   Go to page 64 in the Big Book
Therefore, we started upon a personal inventory.


7.
... inventory.   BB p.72, Into Action   Go to page 72 in the Big Book
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   Go to page 76 in the Big Book
We made it when we took inventory.


9.
... inventory all right, but hung on to ...   BB p.73, Into Action   Go to page 73 in the Big Book
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   Go to page 84 in the Big Book
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   Go to page 75 in the Big Book
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   Go to page 59 in the Big Book
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   Display entire 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
To take inventory in this respect we ought to consider carefully all personal relationships which bring continuous or recurring trouble.


24.
... inventory is a fact-finding and a fact-facing ...   BB p.64, How It Works   Go to page 64 in the Big Book
Taking a commercial inventory is a fact-finding and a fact-facing process.

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   Go to page 59 in the Big Book
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.


36.
... inventory of your grosser handicaps, you have ...   BB p.71, How It Works   Go to page 71 in the Big Book
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
A spot-check inventory taken in the midst of such disturbances can be of very great help in quieting stormy emotions.

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   Go to page 64 in the Big Book
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   Go to page 67 in the Big Book
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   Go to page 70 in the Big Book
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   Go to page 72 in the Big Book
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.


Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.  The A.A. Preamble, copyright © The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission.  Permission to reprint does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous or The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.

Top of Screen  Top