From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
1.
... aversion to
dropping money into a meeting-place ...
12&12 p.160,
Tradition Seven
It was soon apparent that
while alcoholics would
spend lavishly on Twelfth Step cases, they had a terrific
aversion to dropping money into a meeting-place hat for group purposes.
2.
... aversion to
the idea of being humble, ...
12&12 p.73,
Step Seven
To get completely away from our aversion to the idea of being humble, to gain a vision of humility as the
avenue to true freedom of the human spirit, to be willing to work for humility as something to be desired
for itself, takes most of
us a long, long time.
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