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1.
... satisfactions --
all these have to be tempered ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.114
Our
desires for
emotional security and
wealth, for
personal prestige and
power, for
romance, and for
family satisfactions -- all these have to be
tempered and
redirected.
2.
... satisfactions for
us, too.
12&12
Step Six, p.67
Gossip barbed with our
anger, a
polite form of
murder by
character assassination, has
its
satisfactions for us, too.
3.
... satisfactions he
desires.
12&12
Step Seven, pp.70-71
4.
... satisfactions of
dealing with the realities of ...
12&12
Step Eleven, p.96
5.
... satisfactions of
right living for which no ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.124
Service,
gladly rendered,
obligations squarely met,
troubles well accepted or
solved with
God's
help, the
knowledge that at
home or in
the
world outside we are
partners in a
common effort, the
well-
understood fact that in
God's
sight all
human beings are
important, the
proof that
love freely given surely brings a
full return, the
certainty that
we are
no longer isolated and
alone in
self-
constructed prisons, the
surety that we
need no longer be
square pegs in
round holes but can
fit and
belong in
God's
scheme of
things -- these are
the
permanent and
legitimate satisfactions of
right living for which
no amount of
pomp and
circumstance,
no heap of
material possessions,
could
possibly be
substitutes.
6.
... satisfactions of
similar worth and durability?
12&12
Step Twelve, p.120
If they cannot have this
kind of
happiness, can
A.A. offer them
satisfactions of
similar worth and
durability?
7.
... satisfactions or
pleasures than are possible or ...
12&12
Step Six, p.65
When they
drive us
blindly,
or we
willfully demand
that they
supply us with
more
satisfactions or
pleasures
than are
possible or
due us,
that is the
point at which we
depart from the
degree of
perfection that
God wishes for us
here on
earth.
8.
... satisfactions to
be the final end and ...
12&12
Step Seven, p.71
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.
... satisfactions were
not the purpose of living.
12&12
Step Seven, p.71
We had
lacked the
perspective to
see that
character-
building and
spiritual values had to
come first, and that
material satisfactions were not
the
purpose of
living.
10.
... satisfactions when
the brighter, more glittering achievements ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.112
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