From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... memory for
the people to whom we ...
12&12 p.81,
Step Eight
Having carefully surveyed this whole area of human relations, and having decided exactly what personality traits in us
injured and disturbed
others, we can now commence to ransack memory for the people to whom we
have given offense.
2.
... memory of
the suffering and humiliation of ...
BB p.24,
There Is A Solution
We are unable, at certain
times, to bring into our consciousness with sufficient force the memory of the suffering and humiliation of even a week or a month ago.
3.
... memory will
reach, we shall be bound ...
12&12 p.81,
Step Eight
Then, as year by year we walk back through our lives as far as memory will reach, we shall be bound to construct a long list of people who have, to
some extent or other, been
affected.
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