From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... progress.
12&12 p.49,
Step Four
For pride, leading to self-justification, and
always spurred by conscious or unconscious fears, is the
basic breeder of most human difficulties, the
chief block to true progress.
2.
... progress.
12&12 p.68,
Step Six
3.
... progress.
12&12 p.94,
Step Ten
Someone who knew what he
was talking about once remarked that pain was the touchstone of all spiritual progress.
4.
... progress.
BB p.60,
How It Works
5.
... progress.
BB p.78,
Into Action
6.
... progress.
BB p.100,
Working With Others
7.
... progress.
BB p.127,
The Family Afterward
8.
... progress.
BB xx,
Foreword to Second Edition
9.
... progress, and
any real ability to cope ...
12&12 p.48,
Step Four
But all who are in the least reasonable will agree upon one point: that there is plenty wrong with us alcoholics about which plenty will have to be done if we are to expect sobriety, progress, and any real ability to cope with life.
10.
... progress had
you not taken action.
BB p.94,
Working With Others
Tell him you once felt as he does, but you doubt
whether you would have made
much progress had you not taken action.
11.
... progress in
A.A., it amounts to a ...
12&12 p.58,
Step Five
To those who have made progress in A.A., it amounts to a clear recognition of what and who we really are, followed by a
sincere attempt to become what we could be.
12.
... progress in
the building of character.
12&12 p.65,
Step Six
13.
... progress in
the last century than in ...
BB p.51,
We Agnostics
This world of ours has made more material progress in the last century than in all the
millenniums which went
before.
14.
... progress; it
never preceded.
BB p.127,
The Family Afterward
15.
... progress, not
for perfection.
12&12 p.91,
Step Ten
16.
... progress rather
than spiritual perfection.
BB p.60,
How It Works
17.
... progress: search
and research, again and again, ...
12&12 p.27,
Step Two
Time after time, my instructors held up to me the basic principle of all scientific progress: search and research, again and again, always with the open mind.
18.
... progress since
the last time.
12&12 p.89,
Step Ten
Then there are those occasions when alone, or in
the company of our sponsor or spiritual adviser, we make a careful review of our progress since the last time.
19.
... progress told
us there was nothing man ...
12&12 p.29,
Step Two
20.
... progress was
painfully slow.
BB p.51,
We Agnostics
21.
... progress we
are under heavy pressure and ...
12&12 p.74,
Step Seven
22.
... progress, we
saw through these fallacies.
12&12 p.115,
Step Twelve
23.
... progress will
be rapid.
BB p.134,
The Family Afterward
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