From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... wrong."
12&12 p.37,
Step Three
2.
... wrong.
12&12 p.59,
Step Five
If the Creator gave us our
lives in the first place, then He must know in every detail where we have since gone
wrong.
3.
... wrong.
12&12 p.85,
Step Nine
Or we may just procrastinate, telling ourselves the time is not yet, when in reality we have already passed up many a fine chance to right a serious wrong.
4.
... wrong.
12&12 p.88,
Step Ten
For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching becomes a regular habit, until he is able to admit and accept what he finds, and until he patiently and persistently tries to correct what is wrong.
5.
... wrong.
12&12 p.94,
Step Ten
As we glance down the debit side of the day's ledger, we should carefully examine our motives in each thought or act that appears to be wrong.
6.
... wrong.
12&12 p.94,
Step Ten
There are cases where our ancient enemy, rationalization, has stepped in and has justified conduct which
was really wrong.
7.
... wrong.
12&12 p.97,
Step Eleven
But we recoiled from meditation and prayer as
obstinately as the scientist who refused to
perform a certain experiment lest it prove his pet theory wrong.
8.
... wrong.
12&12 p.147,
Tradition Four
9.
... wrong.
12&12 p.149,
Tradition Four
10.
... wrong.'
12&12 p.153,
Tradition Five
But from what you've told me about yourself and your problems and how you propose to lick them, I think I know what's wrong.'
11.
... wrong.
BB p.13,
Bill's Story
12.
... wrong?"
BB p.56,
We Agnostics
But later, alone in his room, he asked himself this question: "Is
it possible that all the religious people I have known are wrong?"
13.
... wrong.
BB p.66,
How It Works
14.
... wrong.
BB p.77,
Into Action
15.
... wrong.
BB p.131,
The Family Afterward
Even when he wanted to assert himself he could not,
for his drinking placed
him constantly in the wrong.
16.
... wrong.
BB p.135,
The Family Afterward
17.
... wrong also.
12&12 p.90,
Step Ten
18.
... wrong, and
then we approach true tolerance ...
12&12 p.92,
Step Ten
Finally, we begin to see that all people, including ourselves,
are to some extent emotionally ill as well as frequently wrong, and then we approach true tolerance and see what real love for our fellows actually means.
19.
... wrong --
dead wrong.
BB p.135,
The Family Afterward
20.
... wrong-doing as
a means of destroying the ...
BB p.80,
Into Action
21.
... wrong-doing of
others, fancied or real, had ...
BB p.66,
How It Works
22.
... wrong forms
of dependence.
12&12 p.38,
Step Three
23.
... wrong he
could not possibly make right.
BB p.80,
Into Action
24.
... wrong he
has done us.
12&12 p.78,
Step Eight
To escape looking at the
wrongs we have done another, we resentfully
focus on the wrong he has done us.
25.
... wrong, he
might make a rough survey ...
12&12 p.50,
Step Four
Using his best judgment of what has been right and what has been wrong,
he might make a rough survey of his conduct with
respect to his primary
instincts for sex, security, and society.
26.
... wrong, I
may bring the spirit of ...
12&12 p.99,
Step Eleven
"Lord, make me a channel of thy peace -- that where there is hatred, I may bring love -- that where there is wrong, I may bring the spirit of forgiveness --
that where there is discord, I may bring harmony -- that where
there is error, I may bring
truth -- that where there is doubt, I may bring faith -- that where there is despair, I may bring hope -- that where there are shadows, I may bring light -- that where there is sadness, I may bring joy.
27.
... wrong moment,
particularly when some important decision ...
BB p.21,
There Is A Solution
He has a positive genius
for getting tight at exactly the wrong moment, particularly
when some important decision must be made or engagement kept.
28.
... wrong motives.
BB p.86,
Into Action
Our thought-life will be placed on a much higher plane when our thinking is
cleared of wrong motives.
29.
... wrong promptly
admitted it."
12&12 p.88,
Step Ten
30.
... wrong promptly
admitted it.
BB p.59,
How It Works
31.
... wrong side
of every argument, but that ...
BB p.129,
The Family Afterward
Dad may feel that for years his drinking has placed him on the wrong side of every argument, but that now he has
become a superior person with God on his side.
32.
... wrong; the
voice on the subway was ...
12&12 p.138,
Tradition Two
33.
... wrong thinking
and action have hurt us ...
12&12 p.55,
Step Five
If we have swept the searchlight of Step Four back and forth over our careers, and it has revealed in stark relief those experiences we'd rather
not remember, if we have come to know how wrong thinking and action have hurt us and others, then the need to quit living by ourselves with those tormenting ghosts of yesterday gets more urgent than ever.
34.
... wrong to
make a burning issue out ...
BB p.135,
The Family Afterward
She sees she was wrong to make a burning issue out of such a matter when his more serious ailments were being rapidly cured.
35.
... wrong track.
BB p.98,
Working With Others
36.
... wrong us
and we stayed sore.
BB p.66,
How It Works
37.
... wrong was
as far as most of ...
BB p.66,
How It Works
38.
... wrong we
ought to admit it promptly.
12&12 p.108,
Step Twelve
By this time, at Step Ten, we had begun to get a basis for daily living, and we keenly realized that we
would need to continue taking personal inventory, and that when we were in the wrong we ought to admit it promptly.
39.
... wrong whatever
with becoming a lay therapist.
12&12 p.136,
Tradition Two
40.
... wrong with
us.
12&12 p.90,
Step Ten
It is a spiritual axiom
that every time we are disturbed, no matter what the cause, there
is something wrong with
us.
41.
... wrong with
us alcoholics about which plenty ...
12&12 p.48,
Step Four
But all who are in the least reasonable will agree upon one point: that there is plenty wrong with us alcoholics about which plenty will have to be done if we are to expect sobriety, progress, and
any real ability to cope with life.
42.
... wrong with
us, to see those flaws ...
12&12 p.80,
Step Eight
We can go far beyond those things which were superficially wrong with
us, to see those flaws which were basic, flaws which sometimes were
responsible for the whole pattern of our lives.
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