From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
SEEKING occurs
9 times
(
Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
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1.
... seeking.
12&12 p.151,
Tradition Five
2.
... seeking.
12&12 p.183,
Tradition Eleven
It is more than a
denial of
self-
seeking.
3.
... seeking and
frightened?
BB p.67,
How It Works
Where had we been
selfish,
dishonest,
self-
seeking and
frightened?
4.
... seeking, and
self-pity, we step on the ...
BB p.62,
How It Works
5.
... seeking motives.
BB p.86,
Into Action
6.
... seeking neither
to run nor to recriminate.
12&12 p.31,
Step Two
7.
... seeking relief,
they would sometimes accuse even ...
12&12 p.56,
Step Five
They will tell how they
tried to
carry the
load alone; how much
they
suffered of
irritability,
anxiety,
remorse, and
depression; and how,
unconsciously seeking relief, they would sometimes
accuse even their
best friends of the very
character defects they
themselves were
trying to
conceal.
8.
... seeking the
removal of our other shortcomings ...
12&12 p.76,
Step Seven
It is really saying to us that we now ought to be
willing to
try humility in
seeking the
removal of our other
shortcomings just as we did when we
admitted that we were
powerless over
alcohol,
and
came to
believe that a
Power greater than
ourselves could
restore us to
sanity.
9.
... seeking will
slip away.
BB p.84,
Into Action
Self-
seeking will
slip away.
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