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From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)


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1.
  ... humility.  BB Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.566
It reminds us that we are to place principles before personalities; that we are actually to practice a genuine humility.


2.
  ... humility.  BB Appendix V, The Religious View on A.A., p.572
Edward Dowling, S.J.,(*) of the Queen's Work staff, says, "Alcoholics Anonymous is natural; it is natural at the point where nature comes closest to the supernatural, namely in humiliations and in consequent humility.


3.
  ... humility?  12&12 Contents (Step Seven), p.7
What is humility?


4.
  ... humility.  12&12 Contents (Step Seven), p.7
Failure and misery transformed by humility.


5.
  ... humility.  12&12 Contents (Tradition Twelve), p.13
Anonymity is real humility.


6.
  ... humility.  12&12 Step Four, p.45
Here, of course, we have lost all perspective, and therefore all genuine humility.


7.
  ... humility.  12&12 Step Four, p.48
For we had started to get perspective on ourselves, which is another way of saying that we were gaining in humility.


8.
  ... humility.  12&12 Step Five, p.58
But while this was a humiliating experience, it didn't necessarily mean that we had yet acquired much actual humility.


9.
  ... humility.  12&12 Step Five, p.59
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.


10.
  ... humility.  12&12 Step Seven, p.71
In all these strivings, so many of them well-intentioned, our crippling handicap had been our lack of humility.


11.
  ... humility.  12&12 Step Seven, p.72
It was only by repeated humiliations that we were forced to learn something about humility.


12.
  ... humility.  12&12 Step Seven, p.75
We saw we needn't always be bludgeoned and beaten into humility.


13.
  ... humility.  12&12 Step Seven, p.76
The whole emphasis of Step Seven is on humility.


14.
  ... humility.  12&12 Tradition Four, p.149
Even the chief architect, standing in the ruins of his dream, could laugh at himself -- and that is the very acme of humility.


15.
  ... humility.  12&12 Tradition Five, p.153
I'll bet, too, that you could give me a letter-perfect definition of humility.


16.
  ... humility.  12&12 Tradition Twelve (Long), p.192
It reminds us that we are to place principles before personalities; that we are actually to practice a genuine humility.


17.
  ... humility, a desire to seek and do ...  12&12 Step Seven, p.72
That basic ingredient of all humility, a desire to seek and do God's will, was missing.


18.
  ... humility -- a word often misunderstood.  12&12 Step Five, p.58
Another great dividend we may expect from confiding our defects to another human being is humility -- a word often misunderstood.


19.
  ... humility and an open mind can lead ...  12&12 Step Two, p.33
True humility and an open mind can lead us to faith, and every A.A. meeting is an assurance that God will restore us to sanity if we rightly relate ourselves to Him.


20.
  ... humility and intellect could be compatible, provided ...  12&12 Step Two, p.30
By their example they showed us that humility and intellect could be compatible, provided we placed humility first.


21.
  ... humility and serenity are so combined, something ...  12&12 Step Five, p.62
And when humility and serenity are so combined, something else of great moment is apt to occur.


22.
  ... humility as a desirable personal virtue, but ...  12&12 Step Seven, p.74
We may still have no very high opinion of humility as a desirable personal virtue, but we do recognize it as a necessary aid to our survival.


23.
  ... humility as a necessity.  12&12 Step Seven, p.73
So it is that we first see humility as a necessity.


24.
  ... humility as a way of life.  12&12 Step Seven, p.70
Many people haven't even a nodding acquaintance with humility as a way of life.


25.
  Humility, as a word and as an ...  12&12 Step Seven, p.70
Humility, as a word and as an ideal, has a very bad time of it in our world.


26.
  ... humility as our guide, to move out ...  12&12 Step Seven, p.76
The Seventh Step is where we make the change in our attitude which permits us, with humility as our guide, to move out from ourselves toward others and toward God.


27.
  ... humility as something more than a condition ...  12&12 Step Seven, p.72
It was only at the end of a long road, marked by successive defeats and humiliations, and the final crushing of our self-sufficiency, that we began to feel humility as something more than a condition of groveling despair.


28.
  ... humility as something to be desired for ...  12&12 Step Seven, p.73
To get completely away from our aversion to the idea of being humble, to gain a vision of humility as the avenue to true freedom of the human spirit, to be willing to work for humility as something to be desired for itself, takes most of us a long, long time.


29.
  ... humility as something we really wanted, rather ...  12&12 Step Seven, p.75
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.


30.
  ... humility as the avenue to true freedom ...  12&12 Step Seven, p.73
To get completely away from our aversion to the idea of being humble, to gain a vision of humility as the avenue to true freedom of the human spirit, to be willing to work for humility as something to be desired for itself, takes most of us a long, long time.


31.
  ... humility at work.  12&12 Tradition Twelve, p.187
These experiences taught us that anonymity is real humility at work.


32.
  ... humility commences to have a wider meaning.  12&12 Step Seven, p.74
But when we have taken a square look at some of these defects, have discussed them with another, and have become willing to have them removed, our thinking about humility commences to have a wider meaning.


33.
  ... humility could enable us to find the ...  12&12 Step Seven, p.76
If that degree of humility could enable us to find the grace by which such a deadly obsession could be banished, then there must be hope of the same result respecting any other problem we could possibly have.


34.
  ... humility, expressed by anonymity, is the greatest ...  12&12 Tradition Twelve, p.187
We are sure that humility, expressed by anonymity, is the greatest safeguard that Alcoholics Anonymous can ever have.


35.
  ... humility, fearlessness and honesty, in the sense ...  BB Into Action, p.73
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.


36.
  ... humility first.  12&12 Step Two, p.30
By their example they showed us that humility and intellect could be compatible, provided we placed humility first.


37.
  ... humility; gain honesty and realism about ourselves.  12&12 Contents (Step Five), p.6
Lose sense of isolation, receive forgiveness and give it; learn humility; gain honesty and realism about ourselves.


38.
  ... humility had brought strength out of weakness.  12&12 Step Seven, p.75
We heard story after story of how humility had brought strength out of weakness.


39.
  ... humility had formerly stood for a forced ...  12&12 Step Seven, p.74
Where humility had formerly stood for a forced feeding on humble pie, it now begins to mean the nourishing ingredient which can give us serenity.


40.
  ... humility in seeking the removal of our ...  12&12 Step Seven, p.76
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.


41.
  ... humility into priceless assets.  12&12 Step Seven, p.75
Everywhere we saw failure and misery transformed by humility into priceless assets.


42.
  ... humility is and what the practice of ...  12&12 Step Seven, p.70
Since this Step so specifically concerns itself with humility, we should pause here to consider what humility is and what the practice of it can mean to us.


43.
  ... humility is the foundation principle of each ...  12&12 Step Seven, p.70
Indeed, the attainment of greater humility is the foundation principle of each of A.A.'s Twelve Steps.


44.
  ... humility more than ever.  12&12 Step Seven, p.75
We began to fear pain less, and desire humility more than ever.


45.
  ... humility must consist of recognizing our deficiencies.  12&12 Step Five, p.58
Therefore, our first practical move toward humility must consist of recognizing our deficiencies.


46.
  ... humility, no alcoholic can stay sober at ...  12&12 Step Seven, p.70
For without some degree of humility, no alcoholic can stay sober at all.


47.
  ... humility starts another revolutionary change in our ...  12&12 Step Seven, p.74
This improved perception of humility starts another revolutionary change in our outlook.


48.
  ... humility that makes it possible for us ...  12&12 Step Eleven, p.98
It is a step in the development of that kind of humility that makes it possible for us to receive God's help.


49.
  ... humility, the most profound result of all ...  12&12 Step Seven, p.75
During this process of learning more about humility, the most profound result of all was the change in our attitude toward God.


50.
  ... humility, they had deluded themselves and were ...  12&12 Step Five, p.60
Lacking both practice and humility, they had deluded themselves and were able to justify the most arrant nonsense on the ground that this was what God had told them.


51.
  ... humility to establish and maintain the new ...  BB Bill's Story, p.13
Belief in the power of God, plus enough willingness, honesty and humility to establish and maintain the new order of things, were the essential requirements.


52.
  ... humility to sobriety.  12&12 Contents (Step One), p.5
Relation of humility to sobriety.


53.
  ... humility was the main key to sobriety.  12&12 Tradition Five, p.153
But as he calmed down, he began to listen while I tried to show him that humility was the main key to sobriety.


54.
  ... humility we must pay, we would pay."  12&12 Step Two, p.31
We soon concluded that whatever price in humility we must pay, we would pay."


55.
  ... humility, we should pause here to consider ...  12&12 Step Seven, p.70
Since this Step so specifically concerns itself with humility, we should pause here to consider what humility is and what the practice of it can mean to us.


56.
  ... humility when really we hadn't.  12&12 Step Two, p.32
We supposed we had humility when really we hadn't.


57.
  ... humility, which we soon discovered to be ...  12&12 Step Seven, p.75
It brought a measure of humility, which we soon discovered to be a healer of pain.


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