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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
INVOLVED occurs
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1.
... involved.
12&12 p.82,
Step Eight
We should
avoid extreme judgments, both of ourselves and of others
involved.
2.
... involved.
12&12 p.86,
Step Nine
Many a
razor-
edged question can
arise in other
departments of
life
where this same
principle is
involved.
3.
... involved.
12&12 p.170,
Tradition Eight
At
first, we couldn't see the
real issue involved.
4.
... involved.
12&12 p.171,
Tradition Eight
True, some of the
projects
to which
A.A.'s have
attached themselves have been
ill-
conceived, but that makes
not the
slightest difference with the
principle involved.
5.
... involved.
BB p.79,
Into Action
Usually, however, other people are involved.
6.
... involved.
BB p.140,
To Employers
You may be at a
loss to
understand how such a
seemingly above-
board chap could be so
involved.
7.
... involved, a
willingness to admit when the ...
12&12 p.91,
Step Ten
In all these
situations we
need self-
restraint,
honest analysis of what is
involved,
a
willingness to
admit
when the
fault is ours, and an
equal willingness to
forgive when the
fault is
elsewhere.
8.
... involved all
the time!
BB p.54,
We Agnostics
So, in one way or another, we
discovered that
faith had been
involved all
the
time!
9.
... involved entirely.
BB p.67,
How It Works
Though a
situation had not been
entirely our
fault, we
tried to
disregard the
other
person involved entirely.
10.
... involved in
avoiding excesses which will bring ...
12&12 p.66,
Step Six
Not much
spiritual effort is
involved in
avoiding excesses which
will bring us
punishment anyway.
11.
... involved often
feels very remorseful at times, ...
BB p.81,
Into Action
A
man so
involved often
feels very
remorseful at
times,
especially if he
is
married to a
loyal and
courageous girl who has
literally gone through
hell for him.
12.
... involved --
the wife who trembles in fear ...
BB p.104,
To Wives
But for every
man who
drinks
others are
involved -- the
wife who
trembles in
fear of the
next debauch; the
mother and
father who see their
son wasting away.
13.
... involved, we
have been strangely insane.
BB p.38,
More About Alcoholism
However
intelligent we may have been in other
respects, where
alcohol
has been
involved, we have been
strangely insane.
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