The Recovery Zone 
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Humility

Humble: Marked by modesty in behavior, attitude, or spirit;
not arrogant or Prideful.

All passages below are taken from the 12 & 12. 

That humility was the main key to sobriety.
 

Our crippling handicap had been our lack of humility.

We supposed we had humility when really we hadn't.

Until he so humbles himself, his sobriety--if any--will be precarious.

 *Dangerously lacking in security or stability
 

Therefore, our first practical move toward humility must
consist of recognizing our deficiencies.
 

The attainment of greater humility is the foundation principle
of each of A.A.'s Twelve Steps. For without some degree
of humility, no alcoholic can stay sober at all.
 

True humility and an open mind can lead us to faith
 

It was faith that worked under all conditions. We soon concluded that whatever price in humility we must pay, we would pay."
 

That basic ingredient of all humility, a desire to seek
and do God's will

It is a step in the development of that kind of humility that
makes it possible for us to receive God's help.
 

Everywhere we saw failure and misery transformed by
humility into priceless assets.
 

We heard story after story of
how humility had brought strength out of weakness.
 

By their example they showed us that humility and intellect
could be compatible, provided we placed humility first.
 

It brought a measure of humility, which we soon discovered
to be a healer of pain.
 

humility had formerly stood for a forced feeding on humble pie,
it now begins to mean the nourishing ingredient which
can give us serenity.
 

A great turning point in our lives came when we sought
for humility as something we really wanted

To be willing to work for humility as something to be
desired for itself.
 

To gain a vision of humility as the avenue to
true freedom of the human spirit.

humility as a way of life.
 

It is really saying to us that we now ought to be willing to
try humility in seeking the removal of our other shortcomings
 

Anonymity is real humility at work
 

We are sure that humility, expressed by anonymity, is the
greatest safeguard that Alcoholics Anonymous can ever have.
 

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