From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... search and
research, again and again, always ...
12&12 p.27,
Step Two
Time after time, my instructors held up to me the basic principle of all scientific progress:
search and research, again and again, always with the open mind.
2.
... search diligently
within yourself, then, if you ...
BB p.55,
We Agnostics
If our testimony helps
sweep away prejudice, enables you to
think honestly, encourages you to search diligently within yourself, then, if you wish,
you can join us on the Broad
Highway.
3.
... search fearlessly,
but He was there.
BB p.55,
We Agnostics
4.
... search for
an easier way -- which usually ...
12&12 p.55,
Step Five
We search for an easier way -- which usually consists of the general
and fairly painless admission that when drinking we were sometimes bad actors.
5.
... search for
God's will, not our own, ...
12&12 p.103,
Step Eleven
Just saying it over and over will often enable us to clear a channel choked up with anger, fear, frustration, or misunderstanding, and permit us to return to the surest help of all -- our search for God's will, not our own, in the moment of stress.
6.
... search for
his own defects, he will ...
12&12 p.50,
Step Four
7.
... search for
peace and harmony, what was ...
12&12 p.130,
Tradition One
If strong people were stalemated in the search
for peace and harmony,
what was to become of our erratic band of alcoholics?
8.
... search of
our motives and actions.
12&12 p.79,
Step Eight
9.
... search our
acquaintance for a close-mouthed, understanding ...
BB p.74,
Into Action
If we cannot or would rather not do this, we search our acquaintance for
a close-mouthed, understanding friend.
10.
Search out
another alcoholic and try again.
BB p.96,
Working With Others
11.
... search out
the things in ourselves which ...
12&12 p.107,
Step Twelve
Beginning with Step Four, we commenced to search out the things in ourselves which
had brought us to physical, moral, and spiritual bankruptcy.
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