From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
1.
... deceived?
12&12 p.59,
Step Five
If all our lives we had more
or less fooled ourselves, how could we now
be so sure that we weren't
still self-deceived?
2.
... deceived, and
so incapable of receiving enough ...
12&12 p.32,
Step Two
Therefore we remained
self-deceived, and so incapable of receiving
enough grace to restore us to sanity.
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