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Sometimes they hurt us, seemingly without provocation, but we invariably find that at some
time in the past we have made decisions based on self which later placed us in a position to be hurt.
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Whom had we hurt?
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We got a pretty severe shock when we realized that we were preparing to make a face-to-face admission of our wretched
conduct to those we had
hurt.
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Then we are hurt and confused when the advice is
rejected, or when it is accepted and brings still greater confusion.
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To a degree, he has already
done this when taking moral inventory, but now the time has come when he ought to redouble his efforts to see how many people he has hurt, and in what
ways.
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At first many of these feel lonely, hurt, and left out as they witness so much domestic happiness about them.
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We have listed the people we
have hurt by our conduct, and
are willing to straighten out the past if we can.
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It will become more and more evident as we go forward that it is pointless to become angry, or to get hurt by people who, like us, are suffering from
the pains of growing up.
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When we do that, we find it solves our problems too; the
ensuing lack of fear, worry and hurt feelings is a wonderful thing.
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Because we were still bothered by fear, self-pity, and hurt feelings, it was probable we couldn't appraise ourselves fairly at all.
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"Suddenly the thought crossed my mind that if I were
to put an ounce of whiskey in my milk it couldn't
hurt me on a full stomach.
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In most cases it was found
that our self-esteem, our pocketbooks, our ambitions, our personal relationships (including sex) were hurt or threatened.
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Husbands and wives have sometimes been obliged to
separate for a time until new perspective, new victory over hurt pride could be rewon.
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Or anger and hurt pride might be the smoke screen under which we were hiding some of our defects while we blamed others for them.
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It may be one of our own family, but we cannot disclose anything to our wives or our parents which will hurt them and make them unhappy.
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We sometimes hurt those we love because they need to be "taught a lesson," when we really want to punish.
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If we have swept the searchlight of Step Four back and forth over our careers, and it has revealed
in stark relief those experiences we'd rather not remember, if we
have come to know how wrong thinking and action have hurt us and others, then the need to quit living by ourselves with those tormenting ghosts of yesterday gets more urgent than ever.
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Sometimes they hurt us, seemingly without provocation, but we invariably find that at some
time in the past we have made decisions based on self which later placed us in a position to be hurt.
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As we look over the list of business acquaintances and friends we have hurt, we may feel diffident about going to some of them on a spiritual basis.
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