From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... 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
3.
... pity.
BB p.8,
Bill's Story
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
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
Before we begin, we ask God to direct our thinking, especially asking that it
be divorced from self-pity, dishonest or self-seeking motives.
11.
... pity made
them killjoys.
BB p.105,
To Wives
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
17.
... pity, self-justification
or resentful criticism.
BB p.127,
The Family Afterward
These family talks will be constructive if
they can be carried on without heated argument, self-pity, self-justification or resentful criticism.
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
Driven by a hundred forms of fear, self-delusion, self-seeking, and self-pity, we step on the toes of our fellows and they retaliate.
20.
... pity will
disappear.
BB p.84,
Into Action
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