From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... unconsciously blind
themselves to their liabilities.
12&12 p.46,
Step Four
This is because people
who are driven by pride of
self unconsciously blind themselves to their
liabilities.
2.
... unconsciously seeking
relief, they would sometimes accuse ...
12&12 p.56,
Step Five
They will tell how they tried to carry the load alone; how much they suffered of irritability, anxiety,
remorse, and depression; and how, unconsciously seeking relief, they would sometimes accuse even their best friends of the very character defects they themselves were trying to
conceal.
3.
... unconsciously trying
to see what he can ...
BB p.122,
The Family Afterward
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