TOWARD in Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous, 12 Steps and 12 Traditions

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... toward a full and meaningful sobriety. 12&12 p.62, Step Five

This feeling of being at one with God and man, this emerging from isolation through the open and honest sharing of our terrible burden of guilt, brings us to a resting place where we may prepare ourselves for the following Steps toward a full and meaningful sobriety.

... toward all? BB p.86, Into Action

Were we kind and loving toward all?

... toward all men, even our enemies, for ... BB p.70, How It Works

We have begun to learn tolerance, patience and good will toward all men, even our enemies, for we look on them as sick people.

... toward an undreamed-of future. BB p.119, To Wives

After all, your family is reunited, alcohol is no longer a problem and you and your husband are working together toward an undreamed-of future.

... toward God. 12&12 p.75, Step Seven

During this process of learning more about humility, the most profound result of all was the change in our attitude toward God.

... toward God. 12&12 p.76, Step Seven

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.

... toward God's universe. BB p.25, There Is A Solution

The great fact is just this, and nothing less: That we have had deep and effective spiritual experiences(*) which have revolutionized our whole attitude toward life, toward our fellows and toward God's universe.

... toward God's will for us. 12&12 p.69, Step Six

This is the exact point at which we abandon limited objectives, and move toward God's will for us.

... toward him. BB p.142, To Employers

If possible express a lack of hard feeling toward him.

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... toward him, we are still not too ... BB p.77, Into Action

It may be he has done us more harm than we have done him and, though we may have acquired a better attitude toward him, we are still not too keen about admitting our faults.

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... toward him which God will show you ... BB p.117, To Wives

We urge you to try our program, for nothing will be so helpful to your husband as the radically changed attitude toward him which God will show you how to have.

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... toward humility must consist of recognizing our ... 12&12 p.58, Step Five

Therefore, our first practical move toward humility must consist of recognizing our deficiencies.

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... toward it. 12&12 p.100, Step Eleven

Well, meditation is like that, too; it helps to envision our spiritual objective before we try to move toward it.

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... toward it. BB p.69, How It Works

Whatever our ideal turns out to be, we must be willing to grow toward it.

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... toward liberation and strength. 12&12 p.21, Step One

We perceive that only through utter defeat are we able to take our first steps toward liberation and strength.

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... toward liberation from its paralyzing grip. 12&12 p.73, Step Seven

Every newcomer in Alcoholics Anonymous is told, and soon realizes for himself, that his humble admission of powerlessness over alcohol is his first step toward liberation from its paralyzing grip.

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... toward life, toward our fellows and toward ... BB p.25, There Is A Solution

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... toward liquor has been given us without ... BB p.85, Into Action

We will see that our new attitude toward liquor has been given us without any thought or effort on our part.

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... toward others and toward God. 12&12 p.76, Step Seven

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.

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... toward our fellow alcoholics who are still ... 12&12 p.106, Step Twelve

Here we turn outward toward our fellow alcoholics who are still in distress.

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... toward our fellows and toward God's universe. BB p.25, There Is A Solution

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... toward our instincts need to undergo drastic ... 12&12 p.114, Step Twelve

And as we grow spiritually, we find that our old attitudes toward our instincts need to undergo drastic revisions.

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... toward ourselves. 12&12 p.65, Step Six

That is something we are supposed to be willing to work toward ourselves.

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... toward perfection. 12&12 p.69, Step Six

It is suggested that we ought to become entirely willing to aim toward perfection.

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... toward perfection, and be ready to walk ... 12&12 p.68, Step Six

We shall need to raise our eyes toward perfection, and be ready to walk in that direction.

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... toward perfection, but I'm certainly not going ... 12&12 p.69, Step Six

Sure, I'll head toward perfection, but I'm certainly not going to hurry any.

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... toward security -- emotional security and financial security ... 12&12 p.115, Step Twelve

After we come into A.A., if we go on growing, our attitudes and actions toward security -- emotional security and financial security -- commence to change profoundly.

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... toward that Power, and to do certain ... BB p.50, We Agnostics

They flatly declare that since they have come to believe in a Power greater than themselves, to take a certain attitude toward that Power, and to do certain simple things, there has been a revolutionary change in their way of living and thinking.

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... toward the desired shore of faith. BB p.53, We Agnostics

Some of us had already walked far over the Bridge of Reason toward the desired shore of faith.

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... toward the right objectives. 12&12 p.100, Step Eleven

Perhaps the real trouble was our almost total inability to point imagination toward the right objectives.

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... toward their correction. 12&12 p.43, Step Four

By discovering what our emotional deformities are, we can move toward their correction.

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... toward their removal as quickly as we ... 12&12 p.69, Step Six

At the very least, we shall have to come to grips with some of our worst character defects and take action toward their removal as quickly as we can.

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... toward these objectives. 12&12 p.76, Step Seven

We have seen that character defects based upon shortsighted or unworthy desires are the obstacles that block our path toward these objectives.

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... toward us. 12&12 p.115, Step Twelve

We couldn't imagine people acting that way toward us.

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... toward which we look, and the measuring ... 12&12 p.68, Step Six

They are goals toward which we look, and the measuring sticks by which we estimate our progress.

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... toward whom I felt resentment. BB p.13, Bill's Story

We made a list of people I had hurt or toward whom I felt resentment.

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