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From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)


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... security.   12&12 p.51, Step Four
Also of importance for most alcoholics are the questions they must ask about their behavior respecting financial and emotional security.

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
Financial importance was no longer our principal aim; we now clamored for material security.


4.
... security.   BB p.65, How It Works   Go to page 65 in the Big Book
My employer -- unreasonable, unjust, overbearing; threatens to fire me for drinking and padding my expense account -- self esteem (fear); security.


5.
... security.   BB p.105, To Wives   Go to page 105 in the Big Book
There was never financial security.


6.
... security.   BB p.123, The Family Afterward   Go to page 123 in the Big Book
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.

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... security, and for companionship -- are perfectly necessary ...   12&12 p.42, Step Four
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 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
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 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.

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   Go to page 65 in the Big Book
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 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   Go to page 65 in the Big Book
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   Go to page 65 in the Big Book
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.


Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.  The A.A. Preamble, copyright © The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission.  Permission to reprint does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous or The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.

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