From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... looking after
becomes a military casualty.
12&12 p.113,
Step Twelve
Maybe there are serious domestic or romantic difficulties, or perhaps that boy we thought God was looking after becomes a military casualty.
2.
Looking again
at those defects we are ...
12&12 p.68,
Step Six
Looking again at those defects we are still unwilling to give up, we ought to erase the hard-and-fast lines that we have drawn.
3.
... Looking at
both past and present, what ...
12&12 p.52,
Step Four
Questioning directed to this end might run like this: Looking at both past and present, what sex situations have caused me anxiety, bitterness, frustration, or depression?
4.
... looking at
some of our own shortcomings.
12&12 p.30,
Step Two
5.
Looking at
Step Five, we decided that ...
12&12 p.107,
Step Twelve
6.
... looking at
the wrongs we have done ...
12&12 p.78,
Step Eight
To escape looking at the wrongs we have done another, we resentfully
focus on the wrong he has done us.
7.
Looking at
this avalanche of mail one ...
12&12 p.162,
Tradition Seven
Looking at this avalanche
of mail one morning at the office, I paced up and down ranting how irresponsible and tightwad my fellow members were.
8.
Looking at
those who were only beginning ...
12&12 p.109,
Step Twelve
Looking at those who were
only beginning and still
doubted themselves,
the rest of us were able to see the change setting in.
9.
Looking back,
I find that I took ...
12&12 p.26,
Step Two
10.
Looking back
over his life, he can ...
12&12 p.50,
Step Four
Looking back over his life, he can readily get under way by consideration of questions such as these:
11.
... looking for
an honest A.A. to plump ...
12&12 p.158,
Tradition Six
12.
... looking for
attributes we shall never have, ...
12&12 p.67,
Step Six
Else why would we consume such great amounts of time wishing for what we have
not, rather than working
for it, or angrily looking
for attributes we shall
never have, instead of adjusting to the fact, and
accepting it?
13.
... looking for
results rather than methods?
BB p.144,
To Employers
14.
... looking over
factories and managements, but my ...
BB p.2,
Bill's Story
I failed to persuade my
broker friends to send me out looking over factories and managements, but my wife
and I decided to go anyway.
15.
... looking through
it, we shall see a ...
12&12 p.34,
Step Three
Once unlocked by willingness, the door opens almost of itself, and looking through it, we shall see a pathway beside which is an inscription.
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