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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
MOTIVES occurs
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1.
... motives.
12&12 p.178,
Tradition Ten
Bitter attacks have been
directed against people
suspected of
mixed motives.
2.
... motives.
BB p.70,
How It Works
It
depends on us and on our
motives.
3.
... motives.
BB p.86,
Into Action
4.
... motives.
BB p.86,
Into Action
Our
thought-
life will be
placed on a much
higher plane when our
thinking is
cleared of
wrong motives.
5.
... motives and
actions.
12&12 p.79,
Step Eight
It is an
attitude which can only be
changed by a
deep and
honest search of our
motives and
actions.
6.
... motives and
God will keep you unharmed.
BB p.102,
Working With Others
Keep on the
firing line of
life with these
motives and
God will
keep you
unharmed.
7.
... motives and
reasons when we really didn't.
12&12 p.94,
Step Ten
The
temptation here is to
imagine that we had
good motives and
reasons when we
really didn't.
8.
... motives are
good.
BB p.60,
How It Works
On that
basis we are almost always in
collision with something or somebody, even though
our
motives are
good.
9.
... motives begin
to dominate them.
BB p.27,
There Is A Solution
Ideas,
emotions, and
attitudes which were once the
guiding forces of the
lives of these
men are
suddenly cast to one
side, and a
completely new
set of
conceptions and
motives begin to
dominate them.
10.
... motives in
each thought or act that ...
12&12 p.94,
Step Ten
As we
glance down the
debit
side of the
day's
ledger, we should
carefully examine our
motives in each
thought or
act that
appears to be
wrong.
11.
... motives were.
12&12 p.94,
Step Ten
But in other
instances only the
closest scrutiny will
reveal what our
true motives were.
12.
... motives won't
be hard to see and ...
12&12 p.94,
Step Ten
In most
cases our
motives
won't be
hard to see and
understand.
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