From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... seeking.
12&12 p.151,
Tradition Five
If a group of doctors possessed a cancer cure, they might be conscience-stricken if
they failed their mission
through self-seeking.
2.
... seeking.
12&12 p.183,
Tradition Eleven
3.
... seeking and
frightened?
BB p.67,
How It Works
4.
... seeking, and
self-pity, we step on the ...
BB p.62,
How It Works
Driven by a hundred forms of fear, self-delusion, self-seeking, and self-pity, we step on the toes of our fellows and they retaliate.
5.
... seeking motives.
BB p.86,
Into Action
Before we begin, we ask God to direct our thinking, especially asking that it
be divorced from self-pity, dishonest or self-seeking motives.
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
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