From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
1.
... defeats and
humiliations, and the final crushing ...
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.
2.
... defeats, we
were really beating ourselves with ...
12&12 p.47,
Step Four
We had to see that when we harbored grudges and planned revenge for such defeats, we were really beating ourselves with the club of
anger we had intended to
use on others.
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