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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
PITY occurs
20 times
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1.
... pity.
12&12 p.135,
Tradition Two
2.
... pity.
12&12 p.162,
Tradition Seven
Remembering some of my
own, my
heart filled with
pity.
3.
... pity.
BB p.8,
Bill's Story
4.
... pity?
BB p.62,
How It Works
5.
... pity, and
depression.
12&12 p.52,
Step Four
6.
... pity, and
hurt feelings, it was probable ...
12&12 p.59,
Step Five
7.
... pity, and
patience that we would cheerfully ...
BB p.67,
How It Works
8.
... pity and
resentment.
BB p.15,
Bill's Story
I was not too
well at the
time, and was
plagued by
waves of
self-
pity and
resentment.
9.
... pity, and
unwarranted pride.
12&12 p.47,
Step Four
10.
... pity, dishonest
or self-seeking motives.
BB p.86,
Into Action
11.
... pity made
them killjoys.
BB p.105,
To Wives
If, on the
other hand, they
took nothing, their
self-
pity made them
killjoys.
12.
... pity, misunderstanding
and fear.
BB p.104,
To Wives
13.
... pity oozing
from every pore, and inflict ...
12&12 p.81,
Step Eight
14.
... pity or
delusions of personal grandeur.
12&12 p.58,
Step Five
15.
... pity, or
foolish decisions.
BB p.88,
Into Action
16.
... pity, or
hurt pride -- did the same ...
12&12 p.90,
Step Ten
17.
... pity, self-justification
or resentful criticism.
BB p.127,
The Family Afterward
18.
... pity, vanity
and all the things which ...
BB p.116,
To Wives
19.
... pity, we
step on the toes of ...
BB p.62,
How It Works
20.
... pity will
disappear.
BB p.84,
Into Action
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