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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
LOVED occurs
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1.
... loved.
12&12 p.99,
Step Eleven
Lord,
grant that I may
seek rather to
comfort than to
be
comforted -- to
understand, than to be
understood -- to
love, than
to be
loved.
2.
... loved A.A. group the higher power, would ...
12&12 p.109,
Step Twelve
From
great numbers of such
experiences, we could
predict that the
doubter
who still
claimed that he hadn't got the "
spiritual angle," and who
still
considered his well-
loved A.A. group the
higher power, would
presently love God and call Him by
name.
3.
... loved alcohol too well.
12&12 p.57,
Step Five
That's one
reason we
loved
alcohol too well.
4.
... loved but a few; that we have ...
12&12 p.92,
Step Ten
Most of us
must admit that we
have
loved but a few; that we have been quite
indifferent to the many so
long as
none of them
gave us
trouble; and as for
the
remainder -- well, we have really
disliked or
hated them.
5.
... loved clergyman who happens to be one ...
12&12 p.63,
Step Six
6.
... loved most to push us aside or ...
12&12 p.115,
Step Twelve
This often
caused the people we had
loved most to
push us
aside or perhaps
desert us
entirely.
7.
... loved ones -- these things terrified and distracted ...
BB p.106,
To Wives
8.
Loved ones, upon whom we heartily depended, ...
12&12 p.31,
Step Two
Loved ones, upon whom we
heartily depended, were
taken from us by so-called
acts of
God.
9.
... loved ones would be themselves once more.
BB p.105,
To Wives
Some of us
veered from
extreme to
extreme, ever
hoping that one
day our
loved ones would be themselves once
more.
10.
... loved personal triumphs more than we have ...
12&12 p.91,
Step Ten
For no people have ever
loved personal triumphs more
than we have
loved them; we
drank of
success as of a
wine which could
never fail to make us
feel elated.
11.
... loved some of them too much.
12&12 p.108,
Step Twelve
At
Step Six, many of us
balked -- for the
practical reason that we
did not
wish to have all our
defects of
character removed, because we still
loved some of them too much.
12.
... loved something or somebody?
BB p.54,
We Agnostics
Who of us had not loved something or somebody?
13.
... loved their wives and children be so ...
BB p.107,
To Wives
How could
men who
loved their
wives and
children be so
unthinking, so
callous, so
cruel?
14.
... loved them; we drank of success as ...
12&12 p.91,
Step Ten
For no people have ever
loved personal triumphs more
than we have
loved them; we
drank of
success as of a
wine which could
never fail to make us
feel elated.
15.
... loved to have people call us precocious.
12&12 p.29,
Step Two
We
loved to have people call us
precocious.
16.
... loved to shout the damaging fact that ...
12&12 p.30,
Step Two
How we
loved to
shout the
damaging fact that
millions of the '
good men of
religion' were still
killing one another off in the
name of
God.
17.
... loved us.
12&12 p.116,
Step Twelve
For
alcoholism had been a
lonely business, even
though we had been
surrounded by people who
loved us.
18.
... loved," we will be following the intent ...
12&12 p.103,
Step Eleven
At these
critical moments, if we
remind
ourselves that "it is
better to
comfort than to be
comforted, to
understand than to be
understood, to
love than to
be
loved," we will be
following the
intent of
Step Eleven.
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