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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
SOUGHT occurs
13 times
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1.
... sought.
BB p.60,
How It Works
(c) That
God could and would if He were
sought.
2.
... sought employment
ourselves as destitution faced us ...
BB p.106,
To Wives
We finally
sought employment ourselves as
destitution faced us and
our
families.
3.
... sought escape.
BB p.6,
Bill's Story
There were
flights from
city to
country and back, as
my
wife and I
sought escape.
4.
... sought for
humility as something we really ...
12&12 p.75,
Step Seven
A
great turning point in our
lives came when we
sought for
humility as something we really
wanted, rather than as something we
must have.
5.
... sought Him.
BB p.57,
We Agnostics
But He has
come to all who have
honestly sought Him.
6.
... sought ourselves.
BB p.49,
We Agnostics
7.
... sought out
sordid places, hoping to find ...
BB p.151,
A Vision For You
8.
... sought sympathy.
BB p.105,
To Wives
9.
... sought the
same escape with all the ...
BB p.28,
There Is A Solution
We, in our
turn,
sought the
same
escape with all the
desperation of
drowning men.
10.
"Sought through
prayer and meditation to improve ...
12&12 p.96,
Step Eleven
"
Sought through
prayer and
meditation to
improve
our
conscious contact
with
God as we
understood
Him,
praying only for
knowledge of His will for us and the
power to
carry that out."
11.
... Sought through
prayer and meditation to improve ...
BB p.59,
How It Works
11.
Sought through
prayer and
meditation to
improve our
conscious
contact with
God as we
understood Him,
praying
only for
knowledge of His will for us and the
power to
carry that out.
12.
... sought to
be one in a family, ...
12&12 p.53,
Step Four
We have not once
sought to be one in a
family, to be a
friend among
friends, to be a
worker
among
workers, to be a
useful member of
society.
13.
... sought to
find whatever personality traits, if ...
12&12 p.123,
Step Twelve
The
doctors weren't
trying to find how
different we were from one another; they
sought to find whatever
personality traits, if
any, this
group of
alcoholics had in
common.
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