From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
GROVELING occurs
one time
(
Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
1.
... groveling despair.
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
It was only at the
end of a
long road,
marked by
successive defeats and
humiliations, and the
final crushing of our
self-
sufficiency, that we
began to
feel humility as something more than a
condition of
groveling despair.
Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous
and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
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The A.A. Preamble, copyright ©
The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission.
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