readandpostrosie
09-19-2006, 10:24 AM
Step Nine: Made direct amends to such people
wherever possible, except when to do so would
injure them or others.
"The temptation to skip the more humiliating and
dreaded meetings that still remain may be great.
We will often manufacture plausible excuses for
dodging those issues entirely. Or we may just
procrastinate, telling ourselves the time is not
yet when in reality we have already passed up
many a fine chance to right a serious wrong.
Let's not talk prudence while practicing evasion."
© 1952, AAWS, Inc.; Printed 2005;
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, pg. 85
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wherever possible, except when to do so would
injure them or others.
"The temptation to skip the more humiliating and
dreaded meetings that still remain may be great.
We will often manufacture plausible excuses for
dodging those issues entirely. Or we may just
procrastinate, telling ourselves the time is not
yet when in reality we have already passed up
many a fine chance to right a serious wrong.
Let's not talk prudence while practicing evasion."
© 1952, AAWS, Inc.; Printed 2005;
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, pg. 85
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