From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... crushing blow.
BB p.42,
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It was a crushing blow.
2.
... crushing juggernaut
whose final achievement is ruin.
12&12 p.37,
Step Three
3.
... crushing of
our self-sufficiency, that we began ...
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
It was only at the end of a long road, marked by successive defeats and humiliations, and the final crushing of our self-sufficiency, that we
began to feel humility as something more than a condition of groveling despair.
4.
... crushing self-righteousness
that clung to so many ...
12&12 p.30,
Step Two
We gloated over the hypocrisy, bigotry, and
crushing self-righteousness that clung to so many 'believers' even in their Sunday best.
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