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
4.
... security.
BB p.65,
How It Works
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
6.
... security.
BB p.123,
The Family Afterward
7.
... security always
expressed in terms of money.
12&12 p.43,
Step Four
8.
... security and
a happy family life.
12&12 p.44,
Step Four
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
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
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
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
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
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
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