From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
1.
... gaining a
new perspective was unbelievably painful.
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
2.
... gaining in
humility.
12&12 p.48,
Step Four
For we had started to get perspective on ourselves, which is another way of saying that we were gaining in
humility.
3.
... gaining true
independence of the spirit.
12&12 p.36,
Step Three
Therefore dependence, as A.A. practices it, is really a
means of gaining true independence of the
spirit.
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