From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
1.
... passionate persistence
to others which are just ...
12&12 p.73,
Step Seven
And we cling with a passionate persistence to others which are just as disturbing to our equilibrium, because we
still enjoy them too much.
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