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

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SEEK   occurs   12 times    (Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
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1.
... seek.   12&12 p.95, Step Ten
An honest regret for harms done, a genuine gratitude for blessings received, and a willingness to try for better things tomorrow will be the permanent assets we shall seek.


2.
... seek.   BB p.16, Bill's Story   Go to page 15 in the Big Book
We meet frequently so that newcomers may find the fellowship they seek.


3.
... seek.   BB p.46, We Agnostics   Go to page 46 in the Big Book
To us, the Realm of Spirit is broad, roomy, all inclusive; never exclusive or forbidding to those who earnestly seek.

4.
... seek all those wonders still unseen.   12&12 p.100, Step Eleven
Let us look now upon the sea and ponder what its mystery is; and let us lift our eyes to the far horizon, beyond which we shall seek all those wonders still unseen.

5.
... seek and do God's will, was missing.   12&12 p.72, Step Seven
That basic ingredient of all humility, a desire to seek and do God's will, was missing.

6.
... seek fame and honor in order to ...   12&12 p.124, Step Twelve
We no longer seek fame and honor in order to be praised.


7.
... seek Him.   BB p.46, We Agnostics   Go to page 46 in the Big Book
We found that God does not make too hard terms with those who seek Him.

8.
... seek rather to comfort than to be ...   12&12 p.99, Step Eleven
Lord, grant that I may seek rather to comfort than to be comforted -- to understand, than to be understood -- to love, than to be loved.


9.
... seek someone else to console him -- not ...   BB p.111, To Wives   Go to page 111 in the Big Book
He may seek someone else to console him -- not always another man.

10.
... seek; the great men and women of ...   12&12 p.99, Step Eleven
We won't have far to seek; the great men and women of all religions have left us a wonderful supply.

11.
... seek them out.   12&12 p.120, Step Twelve
Yes -- whenever they try hard to seek them out.

12.
... seek to bolster egotism, and so frustrate ...   12&12 p.36, Step Three
This, of course, is the process by which instinct and logic always seek to bolster egotism, and so frustrate spiritual development.


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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