From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... personality.
BB p.570(572),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
Even among those who occasionally
land back in here again, we observe a profound change in personality.
2.
... personality change
sufficient to bring about recovery ...
BB p.567(569),
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience
The terms "spiritual experience" and "spiritual awakening"
are used many times in this book which, upon careful reading, shows that the personality change sufficient to bring about
recovery from alcoholism has manifested itself among us in many different forms.
3.
... personality changes,
or religious experiences, must be ...
BB p.567(569),
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience
Yet it is true that our first printing gave many readers the impression
that these personality changes, or religious experiences, must be in
the nature of sudden and
spectacular upheavals.
4.
... personality defects
all of us have in ...
12&12 p.48,
Step Four
Now let's ponder the need for a list of the more glaring personality defects all of us have in varying degrees.
5.
... personality defects
have thus demolished their security.
12&12 p.52,
Step Four
But all alcoholics who have drunk themselves out of jobs, family, and friends will need to cross-examine themselves ruthlessly
to determine how their own
personality defects have thus demolished their security.
6.
... personality defects
of others could be cured ...
12&12 p.148,
Tradition Four
7.
... personality defects,
restitution to those harmed, helpfulness ...
BB xvi,
Foreword to Second Edition
Though he could not accept
all the tenets of the Oxford Groups, he was convinced of the need for moral inventory, confession of personality
defects, restitution
to those harmed, helpfulness to others,
and the necessity of belief in and dependence
upon God.
8.
... personality extremes,
types with which A.A. and ...
12&12 p.48,
Step Four
Of course the depressive and the power-driver are personality extremes, types with which A.A. and the whole world abound.
9.
... personality flaws
and for a discussion of ...
12&12 p.56,
Step Five
Psychiatrists and psychologists point out the deep need every human being has for practical insight and knowledge of his own personality flaws and for a discussion of them with an understanding and trustworthy person.
10.
... personality that
he makes friends with everyone.
BB p.39,
More About Alcoholism
11.
... personality traits
as these into shop, office, ...
12&12 p.81,
Step Eight
When we take such personality traits as these into
shop, office, and the society of our fellows,
they can do damage almost
as extensive as that we have caused at home.
12.
... personality traits,
if any, this group of ...
12&12 p.123,
Step Twelve
The doctors weren't trying to find how different we were from one another; they sought to find whatever personality traits, if any, this group of alcoholics had in common.
13.
... personality traits
in us injured and disturbed ...
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.
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