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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
SATISFACTION occurs
13 times
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1.
... satisfaction.
12&12 p.67,
Step Six
From this
defect we
must surely get a
warped yet definite satisfaction.
2.
... satisfaction and
happiness out of this world ...
BB p.61,
How It Works
Is he not a
victim of the
delusion that he can
wrest
satisfaction and
happiness out of this
world
if he only
manages well?
3.
... satisfaction from
the fact that many people ...
12&12 p.67,
Step Six
In a
perverse way we can
actually take
satisfaction
from the
fact that many people
annoy us, for it brings a
comfortable feeling of
superiority.
4.
... satisfaction has
been deeper and no joy ...
12&12 p.110,
Step Twelve
Practically every
A.A. member declares that no
satisfaction has been
deeper
and no
joy greater than in a
Twelfth Step job well done.
5.
... satisfaction I
reflected there was enough gin ...
BB p.8,
Bill's Story
With a
certain satisfaction
I
reflected there was
enough gin concealed about the
house
to
carry me through that
night and the
next day.
6.
... satisfaction of
instincts cannot be the sole ...
12&12 p.114,
Step Twelve
We have
learned that the
satisfaction of
instincts
cannot be the
sole end and
aim of our
lives.
7.
... satisfaction of
our instincts for sex, security, ...
12&12 p.49,
Step Four
When the
satisfaction of our
instincts for
sex,
security, and
society becomes the
sole object of our
lives, then
pride steps in to
justify our
excesses.
8.
... satisfaction of
our material desires as the ...
12&12 p.71,
Step Seven
Instead of
regarding the
satisfaction of our
material desires as the
means by which
we could
live and
function
as
human beings, we had
taken these
satisfactions to be the
final end and
aim of
life.
9.
... satisfaction, our
drinking went out of hand ...
12&12 p.47,
Step Four
We
thought "
conditions"
drove us to
drink, and when we
tried to
correct these
conditions
and
found that we couldn't to our
entire satisfaction, our
drinking went out of
hand and
we
became alcoholics.
10.
... satisfaction to
record that in the following ...
12&12 p.23,
Step One
It is a
tremendous satisfaction to
record that in the
following years this
changed.
11.
... satisfaction, we
then look at Step Six.
BB p.76,
Into Action
If we can
answer to our
satisfaction, we then
look at
Step Six.
12.
... satisfaction when
I was asked to contribute ...
BB xxvii(xxv),
The Doctor's Opinion
There was, therefore, a
sense of
real satisfaction when I was
asked to
contribute a few
words on a
subject which
is
covered in such
masterly detail in these
pages.
13.
... satisfaction, whether
they are one of us?
BB p.34,
More About Alcoholism
How then shall we
help our
readers determine, to
their
own satisfaction, whether
they are one of us?
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