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


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... forced feeding on humble pie, it now ...   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.
... forced to become the mother of an ...   12&12 p.118, Step Twelve
Very gradually, and usually without any realization of the fact, the wife is forced to become the mother of an erring boy.

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... forced to learn something about humility.   12&12 p.72, Step Seven
It was only by repeated humiliations that we were forced to learn something about humility.


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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