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


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1.
  ... pride.  BB Bill's Story, pp.7-8
It was a devastating blow to my pride.


2.
  ... pride.  12&12 Step Four, p.47
But in A.A. we slowly learned that something had to be done about our vengeful resentments, self-pity, and unwarranted pride.


3.
  ... pride?  12&12 Step Twelve, p.112
Can we now accept and adjust to either without despair or pride?


4.
  ... pride -- all led to the bottle.  12&12 Contents (Step Ten), p.8
Anger, resentments, jealously, envy, self-pity, hurt pride -- all led to the bottle.


5.
  ... pride and fear of this sort turn ...  12&12 Step Four, p.49
But the testimony of A.A.'s who have really tried a moral inventory is that pride and fear of this sort turn out to be bogeymen, nothing else.


6.
  ... pride and go to it, illuminating every ...  BB Into Action, p.75
We pocket our pride and go to it, illuminating every twist of character, every dark cranny of the past.


7.
  ... pride and his fear beat him back ...  12&12 Step Four, p.49
Both his pride and his fear beat him back every time he tries to look within himself.


8.
  ... pride and our husbands' reputations.  BB To Wives, p.105
We have told innumerable lies to protect our pride and our husbands' reputations.


9.
  ... pride and prejudice fell from my eyes.  BB Bill's Story, p.12
Scales of pride and prejudice fell from my eyes.


10.
  ... pride and vengefulness.  12&12 Step Ten, p.91
These are emotional booby traps baited with pride and vengefulness.


11.
  ... pride became the reverse side of that ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.123
So false pride became the reverse side of that ruinous coin marked "Fear."


12.
  ... pride could be rewon.  BB The Family Afterward, p.125
Husbands and wives have sometimes been obliged to separate for a time until new perspective, new victory over hurt pride could be rewon.


13.
  ... pride -- did the same thing.  12&12 Step Ten, p.90
Other kinds of disturbances -- jealousy, envy, self-pity, or hurt pride -- did the same thing.


14.
  ... pride, frustration, self-pity, misunderstanding and fear.  BB To Wives, p.104
We have had long rendezvous with hurt pride, frustration, self-pity, misunderstanding and fear.


15.
  ... pride, greed, lust, anger, gluttony, envy, and ...  12&12 Step Four, p.48
To avoid falling into confusion over the names these defects should be called, let's take a universally recognized list of major human failings -- the Seven Deadly Sins of pride, greed, lust, anger, gluttony, envy, and sloth.


16.
  ... pride have too often done their worst.  12&12 Step Four, p.51
In these areas fear, greed, possessiveness, and pride have too often done their worst.


17.
  ... pride heads the procession.  12&12 Step Four, p.48
It is not by accident that pride heads the procession.


18.
  ... pride in his own achievements.  12&12 Step Seven, p.70
Much of the everyday talk we hear, and a great deal of what we read, highlights man's pride in his own achievements.


19.
  ... pride in reverse.  12&12 Step Four, p.45
For this is pride in reverse.


20.
  ... pride, leading to self-justification, and always spurred ...  12&12 Step Four, p.48
For pride, leading to self-justification, and always spurred by conscious or unconscious fears, is the basic breeder of most human difficulties, the chief block to true progress.


21.
  Pride lures us into making demands upon ...  12&12 Step Four, p.49
Pride lures us into making demands upon ourselves or upon others which cannot be met without perverting or misusing our God-given instincts.


22.
  ... pride might be the smoke screen under ...  12&12 Step Five, p.59
Or anger and hurt pride might be the smoke screen under which we were hiding some of our defects while we blamed others for them.


23.
  ... pride of self unconsciously blind themselves to ...  12&12 Step Four, p.46
This is because people who are driven by pride of self unconsciously blind themselves to their liabilities.


24.
  ... pride; personal sex relations; security (fear).  BB How It Works, p.65
My wife -- misunderstands and nags; likes Brown; wants the house put in her name -- pride; personal sex relations; security (fear).


25.
  Pride says, "You need not pass this ...  12&12 Step Four, p.49
Pride says, "You need not pass this way," and Fear says, "You dare not look!"


26.
  ... pride, self-pity, vanity and all the things ...  BB To Wives, p.116
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.


27.
  ... pride steps in to justify our excesses.  12&12 Step Four, p.49
When the satisfaction of our instincts for sex, security, and society becomes the sole object of our lives, then pride steps in to justify our excesses.


28.
  ... pride, the confession of shortcomings which the ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.25
Almost none of us liked the self-searching, the leveling of our pride, the confession of shortcomings which the process requires for its successful consummation.


29.
  ... pride to hinder our making a list ...  12&12 Step Eight, p.79
These were some of the ways in which fear conspired with pride to hinder our making a list of all the people we had harmed.


30.
  ... pride to the good lives we thought ...  12&12 Step Four, p.45
No doubt we shall point with pride to the good lives we thought we led before the bottle cut us down.


31.
  ... pride which keeps you from accepting what ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.181
If you think you are an atheist, an agnostic, a skeptic, or have any other form of intellectual pride which keeps you from accepting what is in this book, I feel sorry for you.


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