From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... centered and
in direct conflict with the ...
BB p.124,
The Family Afterward
2.
... centered and
truly religious people.
12&12 p.56,
Step Five
It has been validated in every century, and it characterizes the lives
of all spiritually centered and truly religious people.
3.
... centered around
doing what I wanted to ...
BB p.172,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
My whole life seemed to be centered around doing what I wanted to do, without regard for the rights, wishes, or privileges of
anyone else; a state of mind which became more and more predominant as the years passed.
4.
... centered behavior
blocked a partnership relation with ...
12&12 p.53,
Step Four
5.
... centered --
ego-centric, as people like to call ...
BB p.61,
How It Works
6.
... centered fear
-- primarily fear that we would ...
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.
7.
... centered in
the extreme, doesn't care for ...
12&12 p.24,
Step One
No, the average alcoholic, self-centered in the extreme, doesn't
care for this prospect --
unless he has to do these things in order to stay alive himself.
8.
... centered person;
and we were not above ...
BB p.116,
To Wives
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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