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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
HUMILIATIONS occurs
3 times
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1.
... humiliations and
in consequent humility.
BB p.572(574),
Appendix V, The Religious View on A.A.
2.
... humiliations, and
the final crushing of our ...
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.
3.
... humiliations that
we were forced to learn ...
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
It was only by
repeated humiliations that we were
forced
to
learn something about
humility.
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