From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
1.
... activator of
our defects has been self-centered ...
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.
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