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From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)

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EGO   occurs   7 times    (Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
See also...     egos
egoism
egomania
egotism

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1.
... ego-centric, as people like to call it ...   BB p.61, How It Works   Go to page 61 in the Big Book
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
Our eyes begin to open to the immense values which have come straight out of painful ego-puncturing.


Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.  The A.A. Preamble, copyright © The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission.  Permission to reprint does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous or The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.

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