Pride, Self-Pity, Arrogance, Selfishness,
Self-Centredness, Greed, Impatience,
Intolerance, Jealousy, Sloth,
Dishonesty, Lust, Envy, Gluttony.
Pride: Effect on personal worth situation,
effects self respect & honour. Excessive
self-esteem & conceit. A good test of this is
the question: “If they knew my resentment
would I be embarrassed?” Would my
pride be hurt?
Self-Pity: Act or state of pitying oneself
especially in an exaggerated or self-
indulgent manner.
Arrogance: Having or showing an
exaggerated opinion of ones own
importance, merit or ability. Conceited or
overbearingly proud. Self-judging is also a
form of arrogance.
Selfishness: Chiefly concerned with ones
own interest or advantage, especially to
the total exclusion of others.
Self-Centredness: Totally pre-occupied
with ones own concerns. “If it were
someone else would I care as much?”
Greed: The desire for more than ones fair
share of wealth or power.
Handy word list for feelings:
Impatience: Easily irritated at delay or
Embarrassed, Depressed, Confused,
intolerant of delay or impede.
Helpless, Disappointed, Alone,
Intolerance: Lacking respect for practices Hostile, Ashamed, Scared, Stupid,
& beliefs other than ones own. Hurt, Annoyed, Angry, Sad, Upset,
Judgemental. Undervalued, Belittled,Frustrated,
Guilty, Sulky, Pathetic, Lost, Bad,
Jealousy: Suspicious or fearful of being
Inferior, Disgusting, Powerless,
displaced by a rival. To do with affections
Useless, Humiliated, Frightened,
and emotions.
Crushed, Deprived, Rejected,
Sloth: Reluctance to work or exert Victimised.
oneself. Not implementing a solution
oneself. (Working but not really working,
easily distracted.)
Dishonesty: Have I done what I am
accusing them of? Hi-jacking something
or using it as an excuse to feel inferior or
annoyed.
Lust: Strong desire for sexual
gratification.
Envy: Material power. Feeling grudging
or somewhat admiring discontent around
possessions, achievements or qualities of
another. Desire to have for oneself, the
items or qualities possessed by another.
(Giving up my serenity to another.)
Gluttony: Act or practice of eating or
drinking to excess. Abnormal use of food
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THE PROMISES
If we are painstaking about this
phase of our development, we will
be amazed before we are halfway
through. We are going to know a
new freedom and a new
happiness. We will not regret the
past nor wish to shut the door on
it. We will comprehend the word
serenity and we will know peace.
No matter how far down the scale
we have gone, we will see how
our experience can benefit others.
That feeling of uselessness and
self-pity will disappear. We will
lose interest in selfish things and
gain interest in our fellows. Self-
seeking will slip away. Our whole
attitude and outlook on life will
change. Fear of people and of
economic insecurity will leave us.
We will intuitively know how to
handle situations which used to
baffle us. We will suddenly realise
that God is doing for us what we
could not do for ourselves.
Are these extravagant promises?
We think not. They are being
fulfilled among us—sometimes
quickly, sometimes slowly. They
will always materialize if we work
for them.
The Twelve Steps
1. We admitted we were powerless over
alcohol - that our lives had become
unmanageable.
FOUR
ARMED
2. Came to believe that a Power greater
than ourselves could restore us to
sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and
our lives over to the care of God as
we understood Him.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral
inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves and to
another human being the exact nature
of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have God
remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked Him to remove our
shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had
harmed, and became willing to make
amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people
wherever possible, except when to do
so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory
and when we were wrong promptly
admitted it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation
to improve our conscious contact with
God as we understood Him, praying
only for knowledge of His will for us † THE WAY OUT ¢
and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as
the result of these steps, we tried to There is a solution.
carry this message to alcoholics and
to practice these principles in all our
affairs.