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From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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But in A.A. we slowly learned that something had
to be done about our vengeful resentments, self-pity, and unwarranted pride.
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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.
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We pocket our pride and go to it, illuminating every twist of character, every dark cranny of the past.
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Husbands and wives have sometimes been obliged to
separate for a time until new perspective, new victory over hurt pride could be rewon.
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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.
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Much of the everyday talk we hear, and a great deal of what we read, highlights man's pride in his own achievements.
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For this is pride in reverse.
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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.
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Pride lures us into making demands upon ourselves or upon others which cannot be met without perverting or misusing
our God-given instincts.
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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.
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This is because people who
are driven by pride of self unconsciously blind themselves to their liabilities.
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My wife -- misunderstands and nags;
likes Brown; wants the house put in her name -- pride; personal sex relations; security (fear).
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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No doubt we shall point with pride to the good lives we thought we led before the bottle cut us down.
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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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