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Defects and Repairs
More than most people, the alcoholic leads a double life. He is very much the actor. To the outer world he presents his stage character. This is the one he likes his fellows to see. He wants to enjoy a certain reputation, but knows in his heart he doesn’t deserve it.
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Guilt is really the reserve side of the coin of pride. Guilt aims at self-destruction, and pride aims at the destruction of others.
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“The moral inventory is a cool examination of the damages that occurred to us during life and a sincere effort to look at them in a true perspective. This has the effect of taking the ground glass out of us, the emotional substance that still cuts and inhibits.”
~ 1. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, P. 73
~ 2. GRAPEVINE, JUNE 1961
~ 3. LETTER, 1957
© 1967 by Alcoholics Anonymous ® World Services, Inc
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Wow what an awesome reading i identify with all.3 parts makes me question am.i being genuine and honest with mysl3f and others really learned from 2nd reading Pride and guit both cut us down and hollow me out and how sharing my honest moral inventory takes the power out my defects allows God to be the biggest power in my life
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