From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... relation damage
other people and me?
12&12 p.50,
Step Four
When, and how, and in just what instances did my selfish
pursuit of the sex relation damage other people and me?
2.
... relation, for
material and emotional security, and ...
12&12 p.42,
Step Four
So these desires -- for the sex relation, for material and emotional
security, and for companionship -- are perfectly necessary and
right, and surely God-given.
3.
... relation to
him is such that you ...
12&12 p.61,
Step Five
Perhaps, though, your
relation to him is such that
you would care to reveal
only a part of your story.
4.
... relation to
this test -- was it selfish ...
BB p.69,
How It Works
5.
... relation to
us, it means very simply ...
12&12 p.146,
Tradition Four
But in relation to us, it means very simply that every A.A. group can manage its affairs exactly as it pleases, except when A.A. as a whole is threatened.
6.
... relation with
another person for a whole ...
12&12 p.91,
Step Ten
One unkind tirade or one willful snap judgment can ruin our relation with another person for a whole day, or maybe a whole year.
7.
... relation with
any one of those about ...
12&12 p.53,
Step Four
8.
... relation with
God as we understood Him.
BB p.47,
We Agnostics
At the start, this was all we needed to commence spiritual growth, to effect our first conscious relation with God as we understood Him.
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