From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
SATISFACTIONS occurs
10 times
(
Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
1.
... satisfactions -- all these have to be tempered ...
12&12 p.114,
Step Twelve
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 p.67,
Step Six
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 p.71,
Step Seven
Poverty will
disappear, and there will be such
abundance that
everybody can have all the
security and
personal
satisfactions he
desires.
4.
... satisfactions of dealing with the realities of ...
12&12 p.96,
Step Eleven
We
A.A.'s are
active folk,
enjoying the
satisfactions of
dealing with the
realities of
life,
usually for the
first time in
our
lives, and
strenuously trying to
help the
next alcoholic who
comes along.
5.
... satisfactions of right living for which no ...
12&12 p.124,
Step Twelve
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 p.120,
Step Twelve
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 p.65,
Step Six
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 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.
... satisfactions were not the purpose of living.
12&12 p.71,
Step Seven
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 p.112,
Step Twelve
Can we
steadfastly content ourselves with the
humbler,
yet sometimes more
durable,
satisfactions when
the
brighter, more
glittering achievements are
denied
us?
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and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
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