From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
CENTERED occurs
7 times
(
Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
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1.
... centered and
in direct conflict with the ...
BB p.124,
The Family Afterward
We
think that such a
view is
self-
centered and in
direct conflict with the
new way of
living.
2.
... centered and
truly religious people.
12&12 p.56,
Step Five
It has been
validated in every
century, and it
characterizes the
lives
of all
spiritually centered and
truly religious people.
3.
... centered behavior
blocked a partnership relation with ...
12&12 p.53,
Step Four
This
self-
centered behavior blocked a
partnership relation
with any one of those about us.
4.
... centered --
ego-centric, as people like to call ...
BB p.61,
How It Works
Our
actor is
self-
centered --
ego-
centric, as people like to call it
nowadays.
5.
... centered fear
-- primarily fear that we would ...
12&12 p.76,
Step Seven
The
chief activator of
our
defects has been
self-
centered fear --
primarily fear that we would
lose something
we already
possessed or would
fail to get something we
demanded.
6.
... centered in
the extreme, doesn't care for ...
12&12 p.24,
Step One
No, the
average alcoholic,
self-
centered in the
extreme, doesn't
care for this
prospect --
unless he has to do these things in
order to
stay alive himself.
7.
... centered person;
and we were not above ...
BB p.116,
To Wives
We
wives found that, like
everybody else, we were
afflicted with
pride,
self-
pity,
vanity and all the things which go to make up the
self-
centered person; and we were not above
selfishness or
dishonesty.
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