From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
HONESTY occurs
18 times
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1.
... honesty.
BB p.58,
How It Works
2.
... honesty.
BB p.65,
How It Works
3.
... honesty.
BB p.145,
To Employers
In
fact, he may say almost anything if he has
accepted our
solution
which, as you
know,
demands
rigorous honesty.
4.
... honesty about ourselves are the great gains ...
12&12 p.58,
Step Five
More
realism and therefore more
honesty about ourselves are the
great gains we make under the
influence of
Step Five.
5.
... honesty, and genuine humility.
12&12 p.59,
Step Five
Only by
discussing ourselves,
holding back
nothing, only
by being
willing to take
advice and
accept direction could we
set foot on the
road to
straight thinking,
solid honesty, and
genuine humility.
6.
... honesty and humility to establish and maintain ...
BB p.13,
Bill's Story
7.
... honesty and morality, we'd stand a better ...
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
With a
proper display of
honesty and
morality, we'd
stand a
better chance of
getting what we
really
wanted.
8.
... honesty and open mindedness are the essentials ...
BB p.568(570),
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience
9.
... honesty and tolerance, that we were beset ...
12&12 p.58,
Step Five
All of us saw, for
example, that we
lacked honesty and
tolerance, that we were
beset at
times by
attacks of
self-
pity or
delusions of
personal grandeur.
10.
... honesty confide these to God and another ...
12&12 p.108,
Step Twelve
We
knew we would have to
quit
the
deadly business of
living alone with our
conflicts, and in
honesty confide these to
God and
another
human being.
11.
... honesty; he recalled the joys of Twelfth ...
12&12 p.143,
Tradition Three
He
paid a
fine tribute to the
Fellowship; he told how his
family had been
reunited;
he
extolled the
virtue
of
honesty; he
recalled
the
joys of
Twelfth Step work; and then he
lowered the
boom.
12.
... honesty, in the sense we find it ...
BB p.73,
Into Action
But they had not
learned enough of
humility,
fearlessness and
honesty,
in the
sense we find it
necessary, until they told someone else all their
life story.
13.
... honesty might soon clean up politics.
12&12 p.156,
Tradition Six
Our
uncompromising honesty might soon
clean up
politics.
14.
... honesty that we can summon, is to ...
12&12 p.66,
Step Six
The
best we can do, with all the
honesty that we can
summon, is to
try to have it.
15.
... honesty to try repeatedly Step Six on ...
12&12 p.63,
Step Six
He
goes on to
explain that
any
person capable of
enough willingness and
honesty to
try repeatedly Step Six on all his
faults -- without
any
reservations whatever -- has
indeed come a
long way
spiritually, and
is therefore
entitled to be called a
man who is
sincerely trying to
grow in the
image and
likeness of his
own Creator.
16.
... honesty, tolerance, and true love of man ...
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
17.
... honesty, tolerance, unselfishness, peace of mind, and ...
12&12 p.107,
Step Twelve
He
finds himself in
possession of a
degree of
honesty,
tolerance,
unselfishness,
peace of
mind, and
love of which he had
thought himself quite
incapable.
18.
... honesty when normal, will do incredible things.
BB p.140,
To Employers
When
drinking, or
getting over a
bout, an
alcoholic, sometimes the
model of
honesty when
normal, will do
incredible things.
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