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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
DESIRES occurs
19 times
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1.
... desires.
12&12 p.71,
Step Seven
Poverty will
disappear, and there will be such
abundance that
everybody can have all the
security and
personal satisfactions he
desires.
2.
... desires?
12&12 p.73,
Step Seven
3.
... desires and
ambitions within him must be ...
12&12 p.130,
Tradition One
He
learns that the
clamor
of
desires and
ambitions
within him
must be
silenced whenever these
could
damage the
group.
4.
... desires are
the obstacles that block our ...
12&12 p.76,
Step Seven
5.
... desires as
the means by which we ...
12&12 p.71,
Step Seven
Instead of
regarding the
satisfaction of our
material desires as the
means by which we could
live and
function as
human beings, we had
taken these
satisfactions to be the
final end and
aim of
life.
6.
... desires cause
him great trouble, practically all ...
12&12 p.42,
Step Four
When thus out of
joint,
man's
natural desires cause him
great trouble,
practically
all the
trouble there is.
7.
... desires for
emotional security and wealth, for ...
12&12 p.114,
Step Twelve
8.
... desires for
personal distinction as A.A. members ...
12&12 p.187,
Tradition Twelve
9.
... desires for
sex, for material and emotional ...
12&12 p.42,
Step Four
Our
desires for
sex, for
material and
emotional
security, and for an
important place in
society often
tyrannize
us.
10.
... desires for
the common good, we realize ...
12&12 p.184,
Tradition Twelve
11.
... desires --
for the sex relation, for material ...
12&12 p.42,
Step Four
12.
... desires have
warped us.
12&12 p.43,
Step Four
We
want to find
exactly
how, when, and where our
natural desires have
warped us.
13.
... desires is
the main object of life.
12&12 p.71,
Step Seven
Nor do we
enter into
debate
with the many who still so
passionately cling to the
belief that to
satisfy our
basic natural desires is the
main object of
life.
14.
... desires, it
isn't strange that we often ...
12&12 p.65,
Step Six
Since most of us are
born with an
abundance of
natural
desires, it isn't
strange
that we often let these far
exceed their
intended purpose.
15.
... desires .
. . they all deflate our egos.
12&12 p.55,
Step Five
All of
A.A.'s
Twelve Steps ask us to go
contrary to our
natural
desires . . . they all
deflate our
egos.
16.
... desires, they
revolt, and resist us heavily.
12&12 p.53,
Step Four
When we
habitually try to
manipulate others to our
own willful desires, they
revolt, and
resist us
heavily.
17.
... desires to
stop.
BB p.34,
More About Alcoholism
We are
assuming, of
course, that the
reader desires to
stop.
18.
... desires, was
obliged to conform to group ...
12&12 p.136,
Tradition Two
19.
... desires will
always be found which oppose ...
12&12 p.66,
Step Six
No
matter how far we have
progressed,
desires will
always be
found which
oppose the
grace of
God.
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