From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
EGO occurs
7 times
(
Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
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1.
... ego-centric, as
people like to call it ...
BB p.61,
How It Works
Our
actor is
self-
centered --
ego-
centric, as people like to call it
nowadays.
2.
... ego deflation,
few Steps are harder to ...
12&12 p.55,
Step Five
When it
comes to
ego deflation, few
Steps are
harder to take than
Five.
3.
... ego-driven individualists.
12&12 p.146,
Tradition Four
That was
sure to be, since we are so
largely a
band of
ego-
driven individualists.
4.
... ego-feeding proposition.
12&12 p.30,
Step Two
After we
came to
A.A., we had to
recognize that this
trait had been an
ego-
feeding proposition.
5.
... ego-feeding proposition,
bad for him and bad ...
12&12 p.163,
Tradition Seven
I
realized that my
five-
dollar gift to the
slippee was an
ego-
feeding proposition,
bad for him and
bad for me.
6.
... ego has
built, through which the light ...
12&12 p.46,
Step Four
The
problem is to
help them
discover a
chink in the
walls their
ego has
built, through which the
light
of
reason can
shine.
7.
... ego-puncturing.
12&12 p.74,
Step Seven
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