From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... sufficiency.
12&12 p.37,
Step Three
Should his own image in the mirror be too awful to contemplate (and it usually is), he might first
take a look at the results normal people are getting from self-sufficiency.
2.
... sufficiency and
all will to resist its ...
12&12 p.21,
Step One
Alcohol, now become the rapacious creditor, bleeds us of all
self-sufficiency and all will to resist its demands.
3.
... sufficiency is
not paying off.
12&12 p.37,
Step Three
4.
... sufficiency, prejudice,
and defiance often prove more ...
12&12 p.28,
Step Two
The roadblocks of indifference, fancied
self-sufficiency, prejudice, and defiance
often prove more solid and formidable for these people than any erected by the unconvinced agnostic
or even the militant atheist.
5.
... sufficiency, that
we began to feel humility ...
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.
6.
... sufficiency who
have cut themselves off, those ...
12&12 p.28,
Step Two
There will be those who have
drifted into indifference, those filled with self-sufficiency who have cut themselves off, those who
have become prejudiced
against religion, and
those who are downright
defiant because God has failed to fulfill their demands.
7.
... sufficiency" worked
with them, we began to ...
BB p.52,
We Agnostics
When others showed us that
"God-sufficiency" worked with them, we began to
feel like those who had insisted the
Wrights would never fly.
8.
... sufficiency would
solve our problems.
BB p.52,
We Agnostics
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