From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
COMFORTABLE occurs
3 times
(
Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
1.
... comfortable and
secure.
12&12 p.36,
Step Three
Not only are we more
independent, we are even
more
comfortable and
secure.
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.
Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous
and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
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