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... security.
BB
How It Works, p.65
My employer -- unreasonable, unjust, overbearing; threatens
to fire me for drinking and
padding my expense account -- self esteem (fear); security.
2.
... security.
BB
To Wives, p.105
3.
... security.
BB
The Family Afterward, p.123
4.
... security.
12&12
Step Four, p.51
Also of importance for
most alcoholics are the questions they must ask about their behavior respecting financial and
emotional security.
5.
... security.
12&12
Step Four, pp.51-52
But all alcoholics who have drunk themselves out of jobs, family, and friends will need to cross-examine themselves ruthlessly
to determine how their own
personality defects
have thus demolished their
security.
6.
... security.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.121
7.
... security always
expressed in terms of money.
12&12
Step Four, p.43
8.
... security and
a happy family life.
12&12
Step Four, p.44
9.
... security and
financial security -- commence to change ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.115
After we come into A.A., if we go on growing, our attitudes and
actions toward security -- emotional security and financial security -- commence to change profoundly.
10.
... security, and
for an important place in ...
12&12
Step Four, p.42
Our desires for sex, for material and emotional
security, and for an important place in society often tyrannize us.
11.
... security, and
for companionship -- are perfectly necessary ...
12&12
Step Four, p.42
So these desires -- for the sex relation, for material and emotional
security, and for companionship -- are perfectly necessary and
right, and surely God-given.
12.
... security and
peace of mind.
12&12
Step Eight, p.80
If we lie or cheat, we deprive others not only of
their worldly goods, but of
their emotional security
and peace of mind.
13.
... security and
personal satisfactions he desires.
12&12
Step Seven, pp.70-71
Poverty will disappear, and there will be
such abundance that everybody can have all the security and personal satisfactions he desires.
14.
... security, and
society.
12&12
Step Four, p.50
Using his best judgment of what has been right and what has been wrong, he
might make a rough survey of his conduct with respect to his primary instincts for sex, security, and society.
15.
... security, and
society becomes the sole object ...
12&12
Step Four, p.49
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.
16.
... security and
wealth, for personal prestige and ...
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.
17.
... security as
well as his standing in ...
12&12
Step Four, p.43
In such a case, this imperious urge can destroy his chances for material and emotional
security as well as his standing in the community.
18.
... security by
being dominating or dependent upon ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.116
19.
... security --
commence to change profoundly.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.115
After we come into A.A., if we go on growing, our attitudes and
actions toward security -- emotional security and financial security -- commence to change profoundly.
20.
... security --
emotional security and financial security -- commence ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.115
After we come into A.A., if we go on growing, our attitudes and
actions toward security -- emotional security and financial security -- commence to change profoundly.
21.
... security (fear).
BB
How It Works, p.65
My wife -- misunderstands and nags;
likes Brown; wants the house put in her name -- pride; personal sex relations; security (fear).
22.
... security, for
our own way, had constantly ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.115
Our demand for emotional
security, for our own way, had constantly thrown us into unworkable
relations with other people.
23.
... security, our
ambitions, our personal, or sex ...
BB
How It Works, p.65
Was it our self-esteem, our
security, our ambitions,
our personal, or sex relations, which had been interfered with?
24.
... security, prestige,
and romance.
12&12
Step Seven, p.71
For thousands of years we
have been demanding more
than our share of security, prestige, and romance.
25.
... security; self
esteem (fear).
BB
How It Works, p.65
26.
... security that
he wants to do nothing ...
12&12
Step Four, p.43
Another may develop such an obsession for financial security that he wants to do nothing but hoard money.
27.
... security we
must have -- or else.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.121
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