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From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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We have admitted certain
defects; we have ascertained in a rough way what the trouble is; we have
put our finger on the weak items in our personal inventory.
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Varieties of inventory.
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Our present anxieties
and troubles, we cry, are caused by the behavior of other people -- people who really need a moral inventory.
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This thought brings us to
Step Ten, which suggests we continue to take personal inventory and continue to set right any
new mistakes as we go along.
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Once we have a complete willingness to take inventory, and exert ourselves to do the job thoroughly, a wonderful
light falls upon this foggy scene.
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By this time, at Step Ten, we had begun to get a basis for daily living, and we keenly realized that we would
need to continue taking personal inventory, and that when we were in the wrong we ought to admit it promptly.
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This is not a moral inventory
at all; it is the very process by which the depressive has so often been
led to the bottle and extinction.
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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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Before we ask what a spot-check inventory is, let's look at the kind of setting in which such an inventory can do its work.
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... inventory, confession
of personality defects, restitution to ...
BB
Foreword to Second Edition, p.xvi
Though he could not accept
all the tenets of the Oxford
Groups, he was convinced
of the need for moral inventory, confession of personality defects, restitution to those harmed, helpfulness to others, and the necessity of
belief in and dependence
upon God.
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Our moral inventory had persuaded us that all-round
forgiveness was desirable, but it was only when we resolutely tackled Step Five that we inwardly knew we'd be able to receive forgiveness and give it,
too.
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To take inventory in this respect we ought to consider carefully all personal relationships
which bring continuous or
recurring trouble.
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The quick inventory is aimed at our daily ups and downs, especially those where people or new events throw us off balance and tempt us to make mistakes.
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When our inventory is carefully taken, and we have
made peace with ourselves, the conviction follows that tomorrow's challenges can
be met as they come.
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The emphasis on inventory is
heavy only because a great many of us have never really acquired the habit of accurate self-appraisal.
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Before we ask what a spot-check inventory is, let's look at the kind of setting in which such an inventory can do its work.
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But the testimony of A.A.'s
who have really tried a moral inventory is that pride and fear of this sort turn out
to be bogeymen, nothing
else.
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So when A.A. suggests a fearless moral inventory, it must seem to every newcomer that more is being asked of him than he can
do.
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Without a searching and
fearless moral inventory, most of us have found that
the faith which really works in daily living is still out of reach.
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If we were pretty nice people all along, except for our drinking, what
need is there for a moral inventory now that we are sober?
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Now willing to commence the search for his
own defects, he will ask, "Just how do I go about this? How do I
take inventory of myself?"
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If you have already made a decision, and an inventory of
your grosser handicaps,
you have made a good beginning.
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Before tackling the inventory problem in detail, let's have a closer look at what the basic problem is.
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There's the spot-check inventory, taken at any time of the day, whenever we find ourselves getting tangled up.
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A spot-check inventory taken in the midst of such disturbances can be of very
great help in quieting stormy emotions.
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Human beings are never quite alike, so each of us, when making an inventory, will need to determine what his individual character defects are.
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