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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
SHORTCOMINGS occurs
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1.
... shortcomings.
12&12 p.30,
Step Two
Moreover, we could
avoid looking at some of our
own
shortcomings.
2.
... shortcomings.
12&12 p.59,
Step Five
Too much
guilt and
remorse
might
cause us to
dramatize and
exaggerate our
shortcomings.
3.
... shortcomings."
12&12 p.70,
Step Seven
"
Humbly asked Him to
remove our
shortcomings."
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
7.
Humbly asked Him to
remove our
shortcomings.
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
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