From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
RIGHTEOUSNESS occurs
6 times
(
Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
1.
... righteousness.
12&12 p.67,
Step Six
Here we are not
trying to
help those we
criticize; we
are
trying to
proclaim
our
own righteousness.
2.
... righteousness can
underlie the smallest act or ...
12&12 p.94,
Step Ten
3.
... righteousness or
grandiosity, our reaction will be ...
12&12 p.45,
Step Four
If, however, our
natural disposition is
inclined to
self-
righteousness or
grandiosity,
our
reaction will be just the
opposite.
4.
... righteousness that
clung to so many 'believers' ...
12&12 p.30,
Step Two
We
gloated over the
hypocrisy,
bigotry, and
crushing self-
righteousness that
clung to so many
'
believers' even in their
Sunday best.
5.
... righteousness, the
very thing that we had ...
12&12 p.30,
Step Two
Self-
righteousness, the very
thing that we had
contemptuously condemned in others, was our
own besetting evil.
6.
... righteousness while
trying to enforce upon the ...
12&12 p.176,
Tradition Ten
Others
fell apart because of
sheer self-
righteousness while
trying to
enforce upon the
rest of
mankind some
millennium
of their
own specification.
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