From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
1.
... comfortable and
secure.
12&12 p.36,
Step Three
2.
... comfortable assurance
that he is acting under ...
12&12 p.104,
Step Eleven
With the best of intentions, he tends to force his own will into all sorts of situations and problems
with the comfortable assurance that he is acting under God's specific direction.
3.
... comfortable feeling
of superiority.
12&12 p.67,
Step Six
In a perverse way we can actually take satisfaction from the fact that many people annoy us, for it brings a comfortable feeling of superiority.
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