From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... loved.
12&12 p.99,
Step Eleven
Lord, grant that I may seek rather to comfort than to
be comforted -- to understand, than to be understood -- to love, than
to be loved.
2.
... loved A.A.
group the higher power, would ...
12&12 p.109,
Step Twelve
From great numbers of such
experiences, we could predict that the doubter
who still claimed that he hadn't got the "spiritual angle," and who
still considered his well-loved A.A. group the higher power, would presently love God and call Him by name.
3.
... loved alcohol
too well.
12&12 p.57,
Step Five
4.
... loved but
a few; that we have ...
12&12 p.92,
Step Ten
Most of us must admit that we
have loved but a few; that we have been quite indifferent to the many so long as none of them gave us trouble; and as for
the remainder -- well, we have really disliked or hated them.
5.
... loved clergyman
who happens to be one ...
12&12 p.63,
Step Six
6.
... loved most
to push us aside or ...
12&12 p.115,
Step Twelve
7.
... loved ones
-- these things terrified and distracted ...
BB p.106,
To Wives
The alarming physical
and mental symptoms, the
deepening pall of remorse, depression and
inferiority that settled down on our loved ones -- these things terrified and distracted us.
8.
Loved ones,
upon whom we heartily depended, ...
12&12 p.31,
Step Two
9.
... loved ones
would be themselves once more.
BB p.105,
To Wives
Some of us veered from extreme to extreme, ever hoping that one day our loved ones would be themselves once
more.
10.
... loved personal
triumphs more than we have ...
12&12 p.91,
Step Ten
For no people have ever loved personal triumphs more
than we have loved them; we drank of success as of a wine which could never fail to make us feel elated.
11.
... loved some
of them too much.
12&12 p.108,
Step Twelve
At Step Six, many of us balked -- for the practical reason that we
did not wish to have all our defects of character removed, because we still loved some of them too much.
12.
... loved something
or somebody?
BB p.54,
We Agnostics
Who of us had not loved something or somebody?
13.
... loved their
wives and children be so ...
BB p.107,
To Wives
14.
... loved them;
we drank of success as ...
12&12 p.91,
Step Ten
For no people have ever loved personal triumphs more
than we have loved them; we drank of success as of a wine which could never fail to make us feel elated.
15.
... loved to
have people call us precocious.
12&12 p.29,
Step Two
We loved to have people call us precocious.
16.
... loved to
shout the damaging fact that ...
12&12 p.30,
Step Two
How we loved to shout the damaging fact that millions of the 'good men of religion' were still killing one another off in the name of God.
17.
... loved us.
12&12 p.116,
Step Twelve
For alcoholism had been a lonely business, even
though we had been surrounded by people who
loved us.
18.
... loved," we
will be following the intent ...
12&12 p.103,
Step Eleven
At these critical moments, if we remind
ourselves that "it is better to comfort than to be comforted, to understand than to be understood, to love than to
be loved," we will be following the intent of Step Eleven.
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