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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
SECURITY occurs
27 times
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1.
... security.
12&12 p.51,
Step Four
2.
... security.
12&12 p.52,
Step Four
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.
3.
... security.
12&12 p.121,
Step Twelve
4.
... security.
BB p.65,
How It Works
5.
... security.
BB p.105,
To Wives
There was
never financial security.
6.
... security.
BB p.123,
The Family Afterward
The
family of an
alcoholic longs for the
return of
happiness and
security.
7.
... security always
expressed in terms of money.
12&12 p.43,
Step Four
Nor is the
quest for
security
always
expressed in
terms of
money.
8.
... security and
a happy family life.
12&12 p.44,
Step Four
These people often
throw to the
winds every
chance for
legitimate security and a
happy family life.
9.
... security and
financial security -- commence to change ...
12&12 p.115,
Step Twelve
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 p.42,
Step Four
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 p.42,
Step Four
12.
... security and
peace of mind.
12&12 p.80,
Step Eight
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 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.
14.
... security, and
society.
12&12 p.50,
Step Four
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 p.49,
Step Four
16.
... security and
wealth, for personal prestige and ...
12&12 p.114,
Step Twelve
17.
... security as
well as his standing in ...
12&12 p.43,
Step Four
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 p.116,
Step Twelve
We were still
trying to find
emotional security by being
dominating or
dependent upon others.
19.
... security --
commence to change profoundly.
12&12 p.115,
Step Twelve
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 p.115,
Step Twelve
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 p.65,
How It Works
22.
... security, for
our own way, had constantly ...
12&12 p.115,
Step Twelve
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 p.65,
How It Works
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 p.71,
Step Seven
For
thousands of
years
we have been
demanding more than our
share of
security,
prestige, and
romance.
25.
... security; self
esteem (fear).
BB p.65,
How It Works
Mr.
Brown --
Brown may get my
job at the
office --
security;
self esteem (
fear).
26.
... security that
he wants to do nothing ...
12&12 p.43,
Step Four
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 p.121,
Step Twelve
Complete financial
security we
must have -- or
else.
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