From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... shortcomings.
12&12 p.30,
Step Two
2.
... shortcomings.
12&12 p.59,
Step Five
3.
... shortcomings."
12&12 p.70,
Step Seven
4.
... shortcomings."
12&12 p.75,
Step Seven
It marked the time when we
could commence to see the
full implication of Step Seven: "Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings."
5.
... shortcomings.
BB p.59,
How It Works
6.
... shortcomings and
admits them to the others, ...
BB p.127,
The Family Afterward
As each member of a resentful family begins to see his shortcomings and admits them to
the others, he lays a basis for helpful discussion.
7.
... shortcomings and
viewpoints and a respect for ...
BB p.19,
There Is A Solution
Most of us sense that real tolerance of other people's shortcomings and viewpoints and a respect
for their opinions are attitudes which make us more useful to others.
8.
... shortcomings as
a basis of wholesale condemnation.
BB p.50,
We Agnostics
Instead, we looked at the
human defects of these people, and sometimes used their shortcomings as a basis of wholesale condemnation.
9.
... shortcomings just
as we did when we ...
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.
10.
... shortcomings of
others or by any calamity ...
12&12 p.116,
Step Twelve
These were the new attitudes that finally brought many of us an inner strength and peace that could not be deeply
shaken by the shortcomings
of others or by any calamity not of our own making.
11.
... shortcomings such
as He could or would ...
12&12 p.108,
Step Twelve
Then, in Step Seven, we humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings such as He could or
would under the conditions of the day we asked.
12.
... shortcomings which
the process requires for its ...
BB p.25,
There Is A Solution
Almost none of us liked the self-searching, the leveling
of our pride, the confession of shortcomings
which the process requires for its successful consummation.
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