Alcoholics Anonymous Step 4.

^59:11 4. Made a searching and fearless inventory of ourselves.

The instructions, for the Fourth Step Resentment List are found in the chapter How It Works, page 64, sentence 15 through page 67, sentence 19.

^64:19In dealing with resentments, we set them on paper. ²⁰We listed people, institutions or principles with whom we were angry.

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Alcoholics Anonymous Step 4.

^59:11 4. Made a searching and fearless inventory of ourselves.

The instructions, for the Fourth Step Resentment List are found in the chapter How It Works, page 64, sentence 15 through page 67, sentence 19.

^{64: 21}We asked ourselves why we were angry. ²²In most cases it was found that our self-esteem, our pocketbooks, our ambitions, our personal relationships, (including sex) were hurt or threatened. ^65:1So we were sore. ²We were "burned up."

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Alcoholics Anonymous Step 4.

^59:11 4. Made a searching and fearless inventory of ourselves.

The instructions, for the Fourth Step Resentment List are found in the chapter How It Works, page 64, sentence 15 through page 67, sentence 19.

^65:3On our grudge list we set opposite each name our injuries. ⁴Was it our self-esteem, our security, our am­bitions, our personal, or sex relations, which had been interfered with? 

Alcoholics Anonymous Step 4.

^59:11 4. Made a searching and fearless inventory of ourselves.

The instructions, for the Fourth Step Resentment List are found in the chapter How It Works, page 64, sentence 15 through page 67, sentence 19.

^67:2We asked God to help us show them the same tolerance, pity, and patience that we would cheerfully grant a sick friend. ³When a person offended we said to ourselves "This is a sick man. ⁴How can I be helpful to him? ⁵God save me from being angry. ⁶Thy will be done."

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Alcoholics Anonymous Step 4.

^59:11 4. Made a searching and fearless inventory of ourselves.

The instructions, for the Fourth Step Resentment List are found in the chapter How It Works, page 64, sentence 15 through page 67, sentence 19.

^67:11Referring to our list again. ¹²Putting out of our minds the wrongs others had done, we resolutely looked for our own mistakes. ¹³Where had we been selfish, dishonest, self-seeking and frightened? ¹⁴Though a situation had not been entirely our fault, we tried to disregard the other person involved entirely. ¹⁵Where were we to blame? ¹⁶The inventory was ours, not the other man's. ¹⁷When we saw our faults we listed them. ¹⁸We placed them before us in black and white. ¹⁹We admitted our wrongs honestly and were willing to set these matters, straight. 

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