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

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MOTIVES   occurs   13 times 6 in BB  •  7 in 12&12 Definition in Merriam-Webster Online
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1.
  ... motives.  BB How It Works, p.70
It depends on us and on our motives.


2.
  ... motives.  BB Into Action, p.86
Before we begin, we ask God to direct our thinking, especially asking that it be divorced from self-pity, dishonest or self-seeking motives.


3.
  ... motives.  BB Into Action, p.86
Our thought-life will be placed on a much higher plane when our thinking is cleared of wrong motives.


4.
  ... motives.  12&12 Contents (Step Ten), p.8
Examination of motives.


5.
  ... motives.  12&12 Tradition Ten, pp.177-178
Bitter attacks have been directed against people suspected of mixed motives.


6.
  ... motives and actions.  12&12 Step Eight, p.79
It is an attitude which can only be changed by a deep and honest search of our motives and actions.


7.
  ... motives and God will keep you unharmed.  BB Working With Others, p.102
Keep on the firing line of life with these motives and God will keep you unharmed.


8.
  ... motives and reasons when we really didn't.  12&12 Step Ten, p.94
The temptation here is to imagine that we had good motives and reasons when we really didn't.


9.
  ... motives are good.  BB How It Works, p.60
On that basis we are almost always in collision with something or somebody, even though our motives are good.


10.
  ... motives begin to dominate them.  BB There Is A Solution, p.27
Ideas, emotions, and attitudes which were once the guiding forces of the lives of these men are suddenly cast to one side, and a completely new set of conceptions and motives begin to dominate them.


11.
  ... motives in each thought or act that ...  12&12 Step Ten, p.94
As we glance down the debit side of the day's ledger, we should carefully examine our motives in each thought or act that appears to be wrong.


12.
  ... motives were.  12&12 Step Ten, p.94
But in other instances only the closest scrutiny will reveal what our true motives were.


13.
  ... motives won't be hard to see and ...  12&12 Step Ten, p.94
In most cases our motives won't be hard to see and understand.


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