From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... realized.
BB p.39,
More About Alcoholism
2.
... realized.
BB p.106,
To Wives
3.
... realized for
a long time that some ...
BB xxvii(xxv),
The Doctor's Opinion
We doctors have realized
for a long time that some form of moral psychology was of urgent
importance to alcoholics, but its application presented
difficulties beyond
our conception.
4.
... realized it
at the time.
BB xvii,
Foreword to Second Edition
When the broker returned
to New York in the fall of 1935, the first A.A. group had actually been formed,
though no one realized it at the time.
5.
... realized it
we were out of control, ...
12&12 p.23,
Step One
By going back in our own drinking histories, we
could show that years before
we realized it we were out of control, that our drinking
even then was no mere habit,
that it was indeed the beginning of a fatal progression.
6.
... realized that
in order to save himself ...
BB xvi,
Foreword to Second Edition
7.
... realized that
it could do us incalculable ...
12&12 p.187,
Tradition Twelve
As this tide offering top public approval swept in, we realized that it could do us incalculable good or great harm.
8.
... realized that
my five-dollar gift to the ...
12&12 p.163,
Tradition Seven
I realized that my five-dollar gift to the slippee was an ego-feeding proposition, bad for him and bad for me.
9.
... realized that
the people who wronged us ...
BB p.66,
How It Works
10.
... realized that
we were preparing to make ...
12&12 p.78,
Step Eight
We got a pretty severe shock when we realized that we
were preparing to make a face-to-face admission of our wretched conduct to those
we had hurt.
11.
... realized that
we would need to continue ...
12&12 p.108,
Step Twelve
By this time, at Step Ten, we had begun to get a basis for daily living, and we keenly realized that we would need to continue taking personal inventory, and
that when we were in the wrong we ought to admit it promptly.
12.
... realized while
ours are not.
12&12 p.49,
Step Four
Unreasonable fear that
our instincts will not be satisfied drives us to covet the possessions of
others, to lust for sex and power, to become angry when our instinctive demands are
threatened, to be envious when the ambitions of others seem to
be realized while ours are not.
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