From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
1.
... lying emotional
handicap in either will be ...
12&12 p.119,
Step Twelve
They need to be as sure as possible that no deep-lying emotional handicap in either will be likely to rise up under later pressures to cripple them.
2.
... lying inferiorities.
12&12 p.123,
Step Twelve
3.
... lying, or
evading responsibility?
12&12 p.51,
Step Four
Did I try to cover up those feelings of inadequacy
by bluffing, cheating,
lying, or evading responsibility?
4.
... lying upon
a sunlit beach, let us ...
12&12 p.100,
Step Eleven
As though lying upon a sunlit beach, let us relax and breathe deeply of the spiritual atmosphere with which the grace of this prayer surrounds us.
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