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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
The
bleeding deacon is
one who is just as
surely convinced that the
group
cannot get along without him, who
constantly connives for
reelection
to
office, and who
continues to be
consumed
with
self-
pity.
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
No
words can tell of the
loneliness and
despair I
found in that
bitter morass of
self-
pity.
4.
... pity?
BB p.62,
How It Works
Whatever our
protestations, are not most of
us
concerned with ourselves, our
resentments, or our
self-
pity?
5.
... pity, and
depression.
12&12 p.52,
Step Four
6.
... pity, and
hurt feelings, it was probable ...
12&12 p.59,
Step Five
Because we were still
bothered by
fear,
self-
pity, and
hurt feelings, it was
probable
we couldn't
appraise ourselves
fairly at all.
7.
... pity, and
patience that we would cheerfully ...
BB p.67,
How It Works
We
asked God to
help us
show them the same
tolerance,
pity, and
patience that we would
cheerfully grant a
sick friend.
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
But in
A.A. we
slowly learned that something had to be done about our
vengeful resentments,
self-
pity, and
unwarranted pride.
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
What
happens when we
wallow in
depression,
self-
pity oozing from every
pore, and
inflict that upon those about us?
14.
... pity or
delusions of personal grandeur.
12&12 p.58,
Step Five
All of us saw, for
example, that we
lacked honesty and
tolerance, that we were
beset at
times by
attacks of
self-
pity or
delusions of
personal grandeur.
15.
... pity, or
foolish decisions.
BB p.88,
Into Action
16.
... pity, or
hurt pride -- did the same ...
12&12 p.90,
Step Ten
Other
kinds of
disturbances --
jealousy,
envy,
self-
pity, or
hurt pride -- did the same
thing.
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
We
wives found that, like
everybody else, we were
afflicted with
pride,
self-
pity,
vanity and all the things which go to make up the
self-
centered person; and we were not above
selfishness or
dishonesty.
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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