From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
INVESTIGATION occurs
4 times
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1.
... investigation.
12&12 p.44,
Step Four
Instincts on
rampage
balk at
investigation.
2.
... investigation could
yield more satisfying and valuable ...
12&12 p.80,
Step Eight
Since
defective relations with other
human
beings have
nearly always
been the
immediate cause
of our
woes,
including
our
alcoholism, no
field of
investigation could
yield more
satisfying and
valuable rewards than
this one.
3.
... investigation." --
Herbert Spencer
BB p.568(570),
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience
"There is a
principle which is a
bar against all
information, which is
proof against all
arguments
and which cannot
fail to
keep
a
man in
everlasting ignorance -- that
principle is
contempt prior to
investigation." --
Herbert Spencer
4.
... investigation were
still childish, emotionally sensitive, and ...
12&12 p.123,
Step Twelve
These
distinguished men had the
nerve to say that
most of the
alcoholics under
investigation were still
childish,
emotionally
sensitive, and
grandiose.
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