From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
1.
... emphasis of
Step Seven is on humility.
12&12 p.76,
Step Seven
2.
... emphasis on
inventory is heavy only because ...
12&12 p.89,
Step Ten
The emphasis on inventory
is heavy only because a great many of us have never really acquired the habit of accurate self-appraisal.
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