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


1.
... feeding on humble pie, it now begins ...   12&12 p.74, Step Seven
Where humility had formerly stood for a forced feeding on humble pie, it now begins to mean the nourishing ingredient which can give us serenity.

2.
... 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.

3.
... 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.


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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