“This brought a rush of 800 frantic inquiries into the little New York office which meanwhile had been established. Each inquiry was painstakingly answered” (Foreword to the Second Edition, Big Book)
“If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are halfway through.” (Chapter Six, Big Book)
“Step Four is our vigorous and painstaking effort to discover what these liabilities in each of us have been, and are.” (Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions)
The three areas where I have to take pains: (1) Step Four
(2) Step Nine (3) Step Twelve.
Relationship with myself, relationship with others,
relationship with God. What else is there?