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Even among those who occasionally land back in here again, we observe a profound change in personality.
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... personality change
sufficient to bring about recovery ...
BB
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience, p.567
The terms "spiritual experience" and "spiritual awakening" are
used many times in this book which, upon careful reading, shows that the personality change sufficient to bring about recovery from alcoholism
has manifested itself among us in many different forms.
3.
... personality changes,
or religious experiences, must be ...
BB
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience, p.567
Yet it is true that our first printing gave many readers the impression
that these personality changes, or religious experiences, must be in the
nature of sudden and spectacular upheavals.
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Now let's ponder the need for a list of the more glaring personality defects all of us have in varying degrees.
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But all alcoholics who have drunk themselves out of jobs, family, and friends will need to cross-examine themselves ruthlessly
to determine how their own
personality defects have thus demolished their security.
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... personality defects,
restitution to those harmed, helpfulness ...
BB
Foreword to Second Edition, p.xvi
Though he could not accept
all the tenets of the Oxford
Groups, he was convinced
of the need for moral inventory, confession of
personality defects, restitution to those harmed, helpfulness to others, and the necessity of
belief in and dependence
upon God.
8.
Of course the depressive
and the power-driver are
personality extremes, types with which A.A. and the whole world abound.
9.
Psychiatrists and psychologists point out the deep need every human being has for practical insight and knowledge of his own personality flaws and for a discussion of them with an understanding and trustworthy person.
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When we take such personality traits as these into shop, office, and the society of our fellows, they
can do damage almost as extensive as that we have caused at home.
12.
The doctors weren't trying to find how different we were from one another; they sought to find whatever personality traits, if any, this group of alcoholics had in common.
13.
Having carefully surveyed this whole area of human relations, and having decided exactly what personality traits in us injured and disturbed others, we can now commence to ransack memory for the people to whom
we have given offense.
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