The Recovery Zone 
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Pride / Ego

All passages below are taken from the 12 & 12 . 

For pride, leading to self-justification, and always spurred by conscious or unconscious fears, is the basic breeder of most human difficulties, the chief block to true progress.

 

Both his pride and his fear beat him back every time he
tries to look within. himself.

Our egomania digs two disastrous pitfalls
 

Our eyes begin to open to the immense values which have come straight out of painful ego-puncturing.
 

Thus blinded by prideful self confidence
 

So false pride became the reverse side of that ruinous
coin marked "Fear."

 That was sure to be, since we are so largely a band of ego-driven
individualists. Children of chaos
 

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